What you want is 100% doable and can work without drawbacks. You need to work on the VM to act as an incoming and outgoing gateway.
You've been provided with a link from Wietse. That is the starting point. As he mentioned, Spam must be filtered on that VM, since your home machine will not see the original client IP and many tests will fail. If you will use a CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu for the VM, you can find many tutorials how to configure postfix, amavis, spamassassin and clamav, on top of the postfix configuration for gateway. I don't know if I'm allowed, I can provide a .tar for Debian and Ubuntu <=13.04 that will do everything for you. Marius. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of hiren panchasara Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 10:28 PM To: Rick Zeman Cc: Postfix users Subject: Re: postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Rick Zeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:36 AM, hiren panchasara > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is how it should work, afaik: >> Sending: Initiates from my home box and go out via VM. >> Receiving: VM receives it and forwards to home box. >> >> (I've also tried sending through my home machine on port 587 but the >> home comcast IP is blacklisted) > > There's really no good reason to not send via Comcast's authenticated > relay unless you need the ability to pore through logs to be assured > of delivery. That way, Comcast won't notice you sending to a > non-Comcast destination and you won't get busted for running an > illegal MTA. I lost you at "illegal". cheers, Hiren
