Barking at shovels

:( I followed the instructions but my ISP's smtp server bounces my messages telling me that "relaying mail to foo.wherever is not allowed"

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks
Steve

'smtp.yourisp.com' is a placeholder for whatever outgoing smtp server your ISP wants you to use -- they should have told you somewhere. If they have relaying mail blocked on that server, then I dunno. We're out of my depth, sorry.

Could u pls. give me instructions on how to configure postfix. It will be helpful for my career.

Thanks in Advance.

Thanks. Took me a while to figure out that my ISP had blocked this port, I was scratching my head for a while wondering why my mails were all timing out..

This fixed it though. :)

Thanks for this info. This solved my problem. Turns out, php requires a smtp on the local system, and I had a program in php that only used the php mail() function, so I had to setup postfix to relay to my ISP's mail server when they blocked port 25.

http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/c241.html#AEN244

Actually it wasn't my ISP that was blocking me but rather several mail servers (noteably Netscape/AOL) do not allowed mail in from hosts with IP addresses listed as being dynamic.

So now at least mail can float around on Shaw's mail servers rather then on mine (and in theory get delivered). Thanks for the good info.

THANK YOU!!!

Great - it works for me....

Thanks dude!

Kinda defeats the purpose of running a Mail server on your machine. If you can relay thru your ISP's SMTP server, then you can always do this via a GUI app...

Obviously I must be missing something...

Yes, you're missing something.

I do lots of things that generate mail programmatically. Accepting mail from other programs and passing it along is what MTAs are for -- this way, I have only one place (postfix) that has to care that I have restrictions from my ISP, and everything else can just hand off to postfix.

Mailreaders (MUAs) that think they need to know anything about how your ISP handles mail are a silly leftover from toy operating systems.

is there any way to configure postfix to use the ISP smtp relay only when sending directly fails?

my isp does not block port 25 but i sometimes get blocked due to anti-spam software that does not accept mail but from large ISPs. thanks,

aleem

Hi, after I setup relayhost my client can't download the Mail.

I Have one more problem. If I send Mail at postfix it is OK. but receiver do not get the mail.what is wrong with configuration?

I've got a stumper for you:

I need to relay from my local postfix smtp server to my ISP's server - sounds simple right? It's already mentioned up above, right? Well, it is in part...

My ISP's SMTP server is authenticated. How do I set up Postfix to automatically authenticate when relaying to my ISP's SMTP server?

Thanks!

James Addison
http://www.pjsoft.ca