On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:31:07PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 10/22/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:33:52AM +1000, Greg Schafer wrote: > >> Ken Moffat wrote: > >> Use your ISP's mail server as a smarthost. It'll keep you sane. > > > Translated into postfix, that is 'relayhost = ' ? I've been doing > >that for months, ever since the bounces from running my outgoing > >mail server got too many. > > I would have never gotten this figured out myself. It's from the Book > of Postfix (recommended by Archaic) which is excellent. > > Set myorigin so that a domain name will be attached to outgoing > messages that lack one. > > myorigin = $myhostname
That is the default behaviour, according to main.cf So. I ought to be appending localhost.localdomain - that might be part of the problem, but I don't think there is any way to turn off appending *some* domain name in postfix. > > And then the smarthost is definitely the way to go, as Greg says. > > # Relay outgoing mail through isp > # [] means to cache the dns lookup, i.e. don't do it every time > relayhost = [my.isp.com] Agreed > > I prefer to authenticate to my ISP. In fact, I don't think they'll > send my mail if I don't. Depends on your isp. I think mine just need you to be on one of their broadband lines (the mac address has to be registered). Meanwhile, since I upgraded postfix my normal mail now shows 'To: blfs-support' or wherever in the mailbox listing in mutt (instead of showing my name). Strangely, if I use my other profile in mutt to post as [EMAIL PROTECTED], it shows 'Ken Moffat' in the listing. My two profiles haven't changed in months, everything used to just show 'Ken Moffat', and the only differences between them are (i.) the content of my_hdr From: and (ii.) the content of the status line to show which profile is in use. This really is a house of cards. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
