As I have trouble with sending emails to Gmail (I wrote about it in a
different thread), I try to configure Postfix to send mail to Gmail via a
different mail server as a relay. However, for reasons too long to explain
here, I would like Postfix to refer to that server via hostname that I
defined in /etc/hosts file and not via actual DNS hostname.
My first attempt, with using the following line in the transport map:
gmail.com smtp:[aws]
where "aws" is the host name defined in /etc/hosts, resulted in failure
to send email, with the following error message from Postfix:
<......@gmail.com>: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
name=aws type=AAAA: Host found but no data record of requested type
I found in the documentation that I have to add the parameter
"smtp_host_lookup=native" to main.cf to make Postfix use system configured
name resolution instead of trying to resolve names by itself. So I did it,
reloaded Postfix and got the following error:
<......@gmail.com>: unable to look up host aws: No address associated with
hostname
So I tried to change the name both in the transport map and in /etc/hosts
file from "aws" to "aws.local" to make it look more like a domain name :).
This time I got the following:
<......@gmail.com>: unable to look up host aws.local: Name or service not
known
What am I doing wrong?
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Regards,
Jaroslaw Rafa
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