ok, turns out I am getting bounced messages... snippet below:
Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:
r...@rt.#.com r...@rt.imctv.com
Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)
Technical details of temporary failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests
We're tightly controlling port 25 on our site here, so using the local
method for sending email is a no go. I read something about installing
mailgate on the smtp server here, but that has some people... nervous
My boss seems to think it should be a matter of switching a line or two to
set a
You should be able to set up postfix using the parameter 'relayhost' for
relaying, you can specify a different port if needed. This would allow
you to still use the sendmail commands to send. This is assuming you can
still receive on port 25 for MX deliveries. Otherwise you may have no
choice
ahh, nevermind, I got it...
Set($SMTPServer, '##');
Set($SMTPFrom , 'r...@rt.#.com');
but now, my question has evolved slightly.. email seems to be successfully
sent out, but I get the email saying reply to this address if you have
questions, etc... I reply to it, and nothing
Assuming the SMTPFrom setting isn't overriding the reply addresses
specified in the queue config queue@ queue-comment@ etc. You may need to
rebuild the alias hash with the newaliases command. Are you getting any
bounces from your smtp?
Chris Hall wrote:
ahh, nevermind, I got it...
Ideally it would be on the RT server itself. The SMTP relaying and MTA
are technically separate. You can do just local deliveries on the RT
server which accepts port 25 smtp traffic but think of it as the final
relay destination. You would also have to set up the MTA to recognize
the hostname
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote:
well.. none yet. I think I see where I've mis-stepped. the modifications
to /etc/aliases needs to be ON the SMTP server, not the RT server, is that
correct? and if so, that means I need to install the rt-mailgate on the
