On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 06:32 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 02:03, Colin Brace wrote: > > I recently switched ISPs and the current one blocks outgoing traffic > > on port 25. That is to say, all outgoing traffic on that port must be > > routed through their SMTP server. > > > > (I am not happy about it, but I have to live with it for the time being.) > > > > By default, postfix under Fedora supplies > > "username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" as sender. Unfortunately, the ISP's > > SMTP server rejects messages sent this way; it wants a FQDN. > > > > So, I modify these parameters in /etc/postfix/main.cf: > > > > myhostname = ariel.lim.nl > > mydomain = lim.nl > > myorigin = $mydomain > > > > Then run # postfix reload > > > > But system mail still get sent out as coming from > > "colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" and get rejected. > > > > What is going wrong here? I have not enabled any of the > > masquerade_domains stuff. > > > > I'm running FC6/postfix-2.3.3-2 > > > I had a similar problem in FC6, for local mail. Try adding the line > > masquerade_domains = |ariel.lim.nl > > That's a 'pipe' before the fqdn. > > Anne That's a different way of doing it (not one I've used myself, mind you, I've never had to use masquerading anywhere..) 2 questions: - How is the mail injected into the system? Via mail/sendmail (command line) or directly via SMTP (good ol' 25/tcp) - What does postconf -n say? What about the append_dot_mydomain / append_at_myorigin values? (The latter are especially useful if you're injecting "unqualified" usernames (ie "colin" or "root") in via CLI mail/sendmail. Michael. -- Michael Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in Brisbane, Australia "Be master of your mind, not mastered by mind"
