Melanie,
Take time and visit the postfix website and go through the documentation.
Check the MX record for your domain to ascertain your real email server.
Alex
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Melanie Pfefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> hi,
>
> I checked the header of the emails coming from nagios. I also check the
> headers of the emails I send from the machine itself when I telnet to
> postfix.
>
> indeed the email goes to my old mail server then to the new mail server.
>
> I checked the file /etc/postfix/transport and it was all commented but I
> added as you suggested
>
> mycompany.com smtp:smtp:ip_adddress_of_my_new_exchange
>
> I restarted postfix.
>
> but the header of any test message still goes to the old mail server...
>
> any idea please?
>
> --- On Fri, 25/4/08, Ilya Meylikhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: Ilya Meylikhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] smtp server that nagios uses
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Date: Friday, 25 April, 2008, 3:44 PM
> > You can change the /etc/postfix/transport to accommodate
> > your needs. This
> > file tells postfix which server to use for relaying. The
> > format of this file
> > is:
> > domain.com smtp:ip_adddress_of_your_exchange
> > where domain.com - the domain name you want to send mail to
> > (perhaps you
> > will use here your domain).
> > After you will change this file don't forget to make
> > postmap
> > /etc/postfix/transport and then restart postfix.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of Melanie
> > Pfefer
> > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:37 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] smtp server that nagios uses
> >
> > the machine where nagios is installed uses postfix as smtp.
> > I know this
> > might be off-topic, but any idea where to look so that I
> > verify to which
> > server postfix relays the email?
> >
> > actually we upgraded our exchange mail server and we want
> > to shutdown the
> > old one. My worries is that nagios (now I understand it is
> > postfix) still
> > points to the the old mail server
> >
> > PS: How to determine which mail server my DNS uses?
> >
> > thx
> >
> >
> >
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