Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 16.04.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> The two config files (master.cf and main.cf) are difficult to follow, >> and the documentation is poor. > > For a homeserver or "single use" MTA: > > 1. leave master.cf alone > 2. Define these in main.cf > > - myhostname > - mydomain > - myorigin > - mydestination > - mynetworks_style > - relay_domains > - home_mailbox > > Maybe you'll have to take a look into aliases, too. > That's all. > > There's plenty of documentation and examples out there. > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/postfix > http://yhager.com/content/simple-outgoing-mail-server-archlinux > > It doesn't get any easier... Thanks for your response, which I found quite useful. I actually have postfix working OK, as far as I can tell, with amavisd, clamav, spamassassin and dovecot. [I actually started just running postfix + dovecot, but had problems adding spamassassin, which in my case was vital. I was advised that the "correct" way to deal with this was to run amavisd.] I found I could only set myorigin and mydestination by experiment; I didn't understand the descriptions in main.cf. Your choice of documentation is a little odd; I would hesitate to follow documentation for another OS. I found I had to make several changes when going from CentOS-5 to CentOS-6. But I'm interested in any comments you (or anyone else) has on my setup. I give my "diffs" from the given main.cf below. I didn't set mynetworks_style because I didn't understand the advice in main.cf: ------------------- # By default (mynetworks_style = subnet), Postfix "trusts" SMTP # clients in the same IP subnetworks as the local machine. # On Linux, this does works correctly only with interfaces specified # with the "ifconfig" command. ------------------- It seems curious to set a default which is said not to work properly. What do you set it to, as a matter of interest? Here are my diffs [line numbers deleted] ------------------- [tim@alfred postfix]$ diff main.cf main.cf.orig < myhostname = alfred.gayleard.eu < mydomain = gayleard.eu < myorigin = $mydomain < inet_interfaces = all > inet_interfaces = localhost > mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost < mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain < mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 < relay_domains = < relayhost = out.alice.it < home_mailbox = Maildir/ < # added by TGM < content_filter=amavisfeed:[127.0.0.1]:10024 < < smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes < smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/password < smtp_sasl_security_options = ------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
