[TriLUG] Re: relaying outgoing mail through external SMTP server with Postfix

James Manning jmm at sublogic.com
Thu Jun 26 22:56:51 EDT 2003


> [Chris Merrill]
> Ok...so I added some entries to my transport file, to be relayed thru
> RR's servers.  Then I did "sudo postmap transport".  Just to be safe,
> I restarted postfix.
> 
> So how do I verify that it actually worked?

my mail.log shows me when postfix relays outbound to my smarthost

% sudo grep relay=smtp.earth /var/log/mail.log|tail -1
Jun 26 16:08:28 debian postfix/smtp[32492]: ED5D140165: to=<trilug at trilug.org>, relay=smtp.earthlink.net[207.217.121.212], delay=2, status=sent (250 OK id=19Vd8s-0005oW-00)

like that
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