You can also follow the steps I provided to allow mail to appear to come from a different domain (so long as you can verify ownership).
________________________________ From: Douglas Pickett <[email protected]> To: David Cook <[email protected]>; Henry Coleman <[email protected]>; TAUG Technical <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 11:51:06 AM Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Postfix with Rogers David, Henry, I tried the suggestions that David made for postfix, but I found I was still getting messages rejected by Rogers. With what David suggested, and a little more digging, it is now working for me on my test system. Here's what worked for me (which only requires that you have a rogers.com email account) on a Trixbox with Postfix 2.3. I'd already made the changes on the Trixbox through it's usual interface to select Postfix as the MTA, and enter the username/password stuff. As suggested by David, you'll need to create an entry into the sasl_password file like: smtp.broadband.rogers.com:25 [email protected]:XXXXXXXXXX It is my understanding that smtp.broadband.rogers.com should be valid regardless of location (well, as long as you're using Rogers as your ISP). I've also changed my email address and password, for obvious reasons. Most of my main.cf is the default, and consistent with David's example - here's the customized bits at the end: relayhost = smtp.broadband.rogers.com:25 ignore_mx_lookup_error = yes smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_password smtp_sasl_security_options = smtp_use_tls = yes smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic The key additions that I had to make over what David suggested are the "ignore_mx_lookup_error = yes" and the "smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic". The ignore_mx_lookup_error is needed because the MX record for Rogers is a little screwy - I got a message "warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for smtp-rog.mail.yahoo.com:". This message also occured with the relayhost value that David suggested. This basically allows Postfix to use the A record value, rather than the MX record that it doesn't like. This got me to the point where Rogers would accept the mail connection, but would then reject the email because it didn't like the "From". The mail was being sent using the hostname of the box - in my case "trixbox1.localdomain" - so something from root would end up as having a sender of [email protected]. This doesn't resolve when the mail servers at Rogers/Yahoo try to look it up, so it was rejected. That is where "smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic" come in - this was based upon suggestions from http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html Adding that line to main.cf, and putting the following line in the generic file: @trixbox1.localdomain [email protected] means that the "From" address now becomes my email account. After making the change, the SOHO doc advises to execute the command "postmap /etc/postfix/generic" When I send email as root, and look at the received message source, you'll see: From: "root" <[email protected]> Depending on your email client, you'll see the sender as "root", but Rogers and Blackberry will see the "From" as something that exists. After you've made all those changes, to make sure that postfix is using them, I like to do a "sh /etc/init.d/postfix stop" and then a "sh /etc/init.d/postfix start". I'm never sure which options are read only at startup time, and which are dynamic, so this is a safe move. For others to use this example, you'll need to put your information into the sasl_password file, and update the entry in the "generic" file to reflect the name of your system (see what the "hostname" command returns on your system). Regards, Doug. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Cook" <[email protected]> To: "'Henry Coleman'" <[email protected]>; "'TAUG Technical'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:03 PM Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Postfix with Rogers > Ok, here is a postfix one..... > > > > > > Hey, > > > > here is a copy of my main.cf. You'll have to replace the relayhost with > > the phub for your area, and add the allowed networks into the mynetworks > > field. > > > > You also have to add your info to /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd. > > > > Good luck! > > > > > > sasl_passwd: > > > > smtp.flfrd.phub.net.cable.rogers.com Rogers_Username:Rogers_Password > > > > > > main.cf: > > > > # see /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, fuller > > # version of this file. > > > > # Do not change these directory settings - they are critical to Postfix > > # operation. > > command_directory = /usr/sbin > > daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix > > program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix > > setgid_group = postdrop > > > > # appending .domain is the MUA's job. > > append_dot_mydomain = no > > > > smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) > > biff = no > > > > # Uncomment the next line to generate delayed mail warnings > > #delay_warning_time = 4h > > > > myhostname = erika > > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases > > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases > > myorigin = /etc/mailname > > mydestination = erika.megatokyo.home, erika, localhost.localdomain, > > localhost > > relayhost = smtp.flfrd.phub.net.cable.rogers.com > > mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8,192.168.2.0/24 > > #mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" > > mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN > > mailbox_size_limit = 0 > > recipient_delimiter = > > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > > smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous > > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd > > > > > > > > - dbc. > > > > From: Henry Coleman [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: February-03-10 8:32 PM > To: TAUG Technical > Subject: [on-asterisk] Postfix with Rogers > > > > Hi all, before I lose all my hair, can anybody help me get my email up and > running on an asterisk (Freepbx) system ? > > > > I removed Sendmail and replaced it with Postfix because it's easier to > configure. > > (Email is a mystery to me). > > Rogers is blocking the SMTP port (25) so I can't directly SMTP using their > server. > > Do I need to use a relay and can I use my existing email account hosted > with > Google? > > The Asterisk box uses a Dynamic domain address (i.e.mydomain.dyndns.biz) > > > > All I need to do is send email with the attached vmail files why is it so > difficult to configure? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Henry Coleman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
