On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Viktor Dukhovni
<postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 05:25:10PM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
>
>> >No, that also turns off SMTP for "LAN" clients.
>>
>> Then...... Put your LAN IP there :D.
>
> - Typically there is no LAN IP vs WAN IP for a machine that is not
>   dual-homed (e.g. a router).  So let's not righteously proclaim
>   unusable advice.
>
>   There are local SMTP clients and remote SMTP clients.  To block
>   TCP connections from remote clients one needs network firewall
>   rules (since TCP connections are managed by the O/S TCP IP stack
>   if the SYN packets get through all intermediate devices).  Such
>   rules live either in a separate router or firewall device, or in
>   host firewall rules such as iptables.  Help with iptables
>   configuration is not a Postfix topic.
>
>> About your firewall failing, either your firewall admin lies
>> (have you tested yourself?)
>
> - There are no Postfix issues here.  The OP is looking for help
> with iptables.

No, I posted here to ask about the postfix config.  There are other places
I would ask about iptables.  I was suspecting something misconfigured,
which still might be the case.

Thanks for addressing the other advise about 127.0.0.1, etc.

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