Help with Postfix

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 25 17:13:27 UTC 2004


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, JoeHill wrote:

>
> I've got my mail server mostly set up on the Debian box, but I'm having one
> problem, the server will not relay mail from my desktop box, refusing the
> connection. Obviously I am happy Debian configures Postfix to *not* be an open
> relay by default...
>
> I went through some Postfix howto's on the web and the very heavily commented
> config file on my Mandrake box, but I can't figure out which parameter to change
> so that this Debian server accepts smtp transactions.
>
> I tried adding the IP of my desktop to 'mydestination', but still no go.

That MUST be the server's address or you'll loop. All the server's 
addresses if it has more than 1.

> I'm thinkin' it's more likely the 'mynetworks' parameter that controls access,
> but I'm not sure what to put there so that hosts on the local LAN can use the
> server.

Put the local network and netmask

Peter
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