Re: [Fwd: Mail server]

I tried setting an MX record, to no avail.  My main.cf is set up pretty 
much exactly as they suggest.  The box is already being pointed by the 
dns record anyway.

Anyone know of a (free) relay service that will relay to port 2500 for 
me?  I know 25 isn't blocked but if i can get it to a different port I 
could just map that port to a different box and it wouldn't know the 
difference.

On Mar 2, 2004, at 12:11 AM, Olhado wrote:

>
> I'm not as familiar with postfix (which is what it sounds like you are
> running), but I think you want to start in /etc/postfix/main.cf (if
> it's not there, try "locate main.cf" from prompt).
>
> Supposedly, most configuration can be done from there, as this
> document suggests:
>
> http://www.postfix.org/basic.html
>
> Also, you may need to set up an MX record for your domain, especially
> if the box is not already being pointed to by the dns record (i.e. web
> stuff and etc will be hosted elsewhere, and you just want to use this
> machine to serve mail).  Note also that if port 25 is blocked by your
> ISP (http://www.cablemodemhelp.com/portscan.htm will tell you what's
> open/closed - but note the warnings about using it behind someone's
> firewall, i.e. corp nets, edu's, etc.), you may need to set up or
> purchase a relay service to forward mail to a diff port.
>
> I would start by just seeing if it can mail to other users on the
> system.  Does mail from bob-//[email protected] get delivered to slob@localhost?
> And so on.
>
> Anyhoo, let us know how it turns out!
>
> -o
>
>
> * dvanhorn <[email protected]> [2004-03-01 10:56:10 -0500]:
>
>> CC nick in replies if you would. -- David
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Mail server
>> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:48:14 -0500
>> From: Nicholas Bonfatti <[email protected]>
>> To: dvanhorn <[email protected]>
>>
>> Hey, do you think you could help me set up a mail server for my 
>> family?
>> Right now I have bonfatti.org and I've got debian running on a spare
>> server.
>>
>> I'm just unsure where to start configuring it. Really, all I need is
>> mail aliasing, and I guess you do that through a virtual file that
>> looks like this
>>
>>
>> @bonfatti.org
>>
>> [email protected]	[email protected]
>> [email protected]	[email protected]
>>
>>
>> etc.   and then run postmap /etc/postfix/virtual  and put
>> virtual_domains= hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
>>
>> I tried doing that on my roommates gentoo box but for some reason it
>> wasn't accepting them to the domain even though i added bonfatti.org 
>> to
>> his mydestination
>>
>> Are you familiar with stuff like that?
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