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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Dave
Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 9:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I thought I had a send-only Postfix server, but I see someone
connected to it!
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM, mouss <[email protected]> wrote:
Dave a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Bjørn Ruberg
<[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> An even easier alternative is to let Postfix listen to
localhost
> OK, I did this too. (In addition to setting inet_interfaces =
127.0.0.1
> in main.cf <http://main.cf>.)
This may cause problems because the IP will also be used for
smtp_bind_address, which means smtp will use it as the source
IP when
talking to other mail servers.
better not play with inet_interfaces and edit master.cf instead.
Thanks for the tip. As far as I know, however, my Postfix only needs to
talk to my gmail-provided smtp server. I just tested, and I can indeed still
send email (which is relayed via gmail) even with the above change in place.
I don't want anyone connecting to my Postfix server and I don't want it
to send any email from any other machine and I only want it to relay email via
gmail smtp. Given all that, is there any reason to undo the inet_interfaces
change I made?
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Personally, I wonder why you're using Postfix at all if you're just sending and
receiving mail via Gmail. Postfix is a full-blown MTA, so it seems like a lot
of overkill for mail you could collect via IMAP/POP using the mail client of
your preference.
