On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 17:11, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > Okay, I'm still scratching my head here. > > Scenario: Having a Postfix server in the cloud to act as the primary > MX, but actually forwarding the emails to my company's email server > behind the firewall. > > For the purposes of my scenario, here are the relevant (but mangled) settings: > > *) Domain is "example.com" > *) Postfix server is "mailer.example.com" with the IP 55.66.77.88 > *) Company email server is accessible via 11.22.33.44:5225 > *) Firewall only allows incoming traffic to 11.22.33.44:5225 from 55.66.77.88 > *) I want to set MX for "example.com" to "mailer.example.com" > > I saw the "relay_domains" and "relayhost" settings, oh good. But then > I ran smack-drab to the following "NOTE": > > # NOTE: Postfix will not automatically forward mail for domains that > # list this system as their primary or backup MX host. See the > # permit_mx_backup restriction description in postconf(5). > > So, if I set "relay_domains = example.com" and "relayhost = > [11.22.33.44]:5225", yet have "mailer.example.com" as the primary MX > for the domain "example.com", the emails won't be relayed to > 11.22.33.44:5225, right? > > Can anyone help me configure Postfix to actually do what I want, e.g., > to *still* relay emails destined to @example.com to the address > 11.22.33.44:5225? >
I found this: http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#backup is that the configuration I should use? Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ • LOPSA Member #15248 • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
