On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:34:50PM -0500, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > On 11/16/2010 2:03 PM, Chris G wrote: > >Er, it's Postfix isn't it? :-) Or have I misunderstood completely > >(quite likely!). > > > >When I 'telnet mws.zbmc.eu 25' from the client it does connect to > >mws.zbmc.eu (192.168.1.4) and mws.zbmc.eu reports the connection to be > >coming from 192.168.1.2 which is dps.zbmc.eu. > > > > OK.. according to your first post: > > relayhost = mws.zbmc.eu > > What happens when you do "host -t MX mws.zmbc.eu" or "dig -t MX > mws.zmbc.eu"? Does it respond with mws.zmbc.eu? > > According to http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relayhost, the > form above says "look up with MX records first in DNS, then USE A > records" > If you wish to bypass MX records, use: > > relayhost = [mws.zbmc.eu] > That's one answer of course, thanks, for the moment I have changed my local DNS server so that it returns a LAN address for zbmc.eu as well as mws.zbmc.eu. If that causes other issues (I don't think it will) then I'll use the above [] syntax.
-- Chris Green
