Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?

2011-10-15 Thread kashani
On 10/14/2011 10:00 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Also less overthinking and more testing solves most of this stuff quicker. I prefer to arm myself with enough knowledge before deploying -- even in a testing setup -- to reduce any 'WTF?!' moments :-) Research is good, but you'll learn way more

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?

2011-10-14 Thread kashani
On 10/13/2011 3:11 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: # NOTE: Postfix will not automatically forward mail for domains that # list this system as their primary or backup MX host. See the # permit_mx_backup restriction description in postconf(5). The point of this is to say, If some dude points DNS at

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?

2011-10-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 15, 2011 8:16 AM, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 10/13/2011 3:11 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: # NOTE: Postfix will not automatically forward mail for domains that # list this system as their primary or backup MX host. See the # permit_mx_backup restriction description in

[gentoo-user] Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?

2011-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, I'm still scratching my head here. Scenario: Having a Postfix server in the cloud to act as the primary MX, but actually forwarding the emails to my company's email server behind the firewall. For the purposes of my scenario, here are the relevant (but mangled) settings: *) Domain is