Postfix question (mailman)

[Stephan Schöffel]

I fixed the relay thing by simply putting relayhost = mx1... into main.cf

But now I'm facing a new problem. Is there a way to configure the fqdn 
which ist used in the sender address? I set the following line in 
/etc/postfix/main.cf

myhostname = lists.myhostname.de

Yet it seems as postfix looks up its own domain name via dns entry and 
therefore attaches the domainname delivered by the dns to emails. 
Unfortunately the dns entry differs from lists.myhostname.de.

Stephan


Erik Christiansen schrieb:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:16:40AM +0100, Stephan Schöffel wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just set up mailman and postfix following this howto:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mailman
>>     
>
> Hmm, that doesn't appear to use a relayhost, if a 20 second glance is
> any guide.
>
>   
>> Now I need postfix to send outbound mails to a different server using it 
>> as a relay and not to the emails' domains' respective smtp servers (as 
>> it tries to right now). Can someone point me to the right configuration 
>> or manual?
>>     
>
> I found that:
>
> sudo postconf -ev relayhost=[your.isp.mail.host.goes_here]
>
> did it for me. If you enjoy chasing apparently arbitrary silent delivery
> failures, then try omitting the square brackets. [1] I found help in the
> BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README (see below).
>
> Have you tried:
>
> $ $ postconf readme_directory
> readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
>
> $ postconf html_directory
> html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html
>
> If they're not there, then:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install postfix-doc
>
> There is overwhelming expertise on the postfix mailing list, if this one
> doesn't suffice. (I'm still migrating my brain from sendmail) There,
> though, no advice is offered until you've posted the output of
> "postconf -n".
>
> Before posting to the postfix ML, there's no harm in lurking for a day,
> to get used to the "Voice From Mount Olympus" contrast to this list.
> Wietse Venema is the author of postfix, and doesn't muck about. If his
> answer is seven words long, that's all you need to know. Sometimes the
> answer is no more than the name of which file in
> /usr/share/doc/postfix/html to read.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Erik
>
> [1] The install script for the postfix package had done:
>
> setting relayhost: mail.internode.on.net
>
> which is wrong.
>
>   


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