On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote:
- I've been trying to get postfix to work on a server that I'm running, but
- after much twiddling and much lingering about I can't seem to get to download
- the mail from the server, I've posted mails about this on this list before,
- but didn't get any answers that worked for me.
Postfix is a MTA and does not download mail from a server. For that
you need something like fetchmail. From there postfix will handle
local delivery. As long as you are not receiving mail directly
fetchmail plius the default postfix configuration is adequate.
If you are receiving mail directly -- you have your own domain, MX
record, etc -- you will have to make a couple of changes. Assuming
you are not doing anything fancy with virtual domains, your domain is
domain.net, and your MX record is mail.domain.net then in main.cf:
myhostname = mail.domain.net
mydomain = domain.net
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain
That's about it for a basic setup. Be sure to change the aliases
file appropriately and run postfix reload.
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--Stephen Carville
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