From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:00:47 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGUcD_i1gVhEhYbFC_JopamzP611o1qY8QH8KD-UXMgQfQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E98DE2E.6050301@badapple.net>
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On Oct 15, 2011 8:16 AM, "kashani" <kashani-list@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 postconf(5).
>
>
> The point of this is to say, "If some dude points DNS at your
server and/or configures their mail server to send mail to yours, it's not
going to relay mail for them. You have to actually configure the domains to
be relayed."
>
> Since you're planning to configure the domain you should be fine.
>
Ah, thanks! That's a very succinct yet clearest explanation! :-)
>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 :-)
Rgds,
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 10:11 [gentoo-user] Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host? Pandu Poluan
2011-10-13 10:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-10-13 17:56 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-14 1:02 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-15 1:13 ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2011-10-15 5:00 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-10-15 20:41 ` kashani
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