[TriLUG] Postfix Relay issues

Neil L. Little nllittle at embarqmail.com
Mon Oct 8 21:31:58 EDT 2007


Yes, the relay recipients were added to /etc/postfix/relay_recipients
 From the message it appears that Post fix thinks that these are local 
addresses. However, my understanding of all this is not complete.

CUL,
Neil Little, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!

Douglas Ward wrote:
> Have you tried adding the recipient to /etc/postfix/relay_recipients?
> Usually when I get this message it's because postfix doesn't see it on the
> relay list.
>
> On 10/8/07, Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> This is the first time that I have ever installed Postfix. This is on a
>> server to relay notification mail being generated from a Cisco Box to
>> our hosted email server.
>> I have used the Howtos and readme files on the Postfix.org and
>> Ubuntuforums.org sites to assist me in setting up postfix as a relay.
>> Local mail that I generate locally on the server is completing and being
>> sent to the hosted email server just fine.
>>
>> It's the email that generated by the Cisco box to be relayed to our
>> hosted email server that is giving me the problem.
>> When I generate an email message from the cisco box I get the following
>> postfix log message:
>> (I have munged the IP address and domain names)
>>
>> 10/08/2007 12:25:50 PM gsdokeos postfix/smtpd[18301] NOQUEUE: reject:
>> RCPT from 166.XX.XX.XX.quickclick.ctc.net[166.XX.XX.XX]: 550 5.1.1
>> <dmssuser at AA-XXXX.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in
>> local recipient table; from=<nllittle at AA-XXXX.com>
>> to=<dmssuser at AA-XXXX.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<dms.AA-XXXX.com>
>>
>> All of these email addresses exist on the hosted email server and I want
>> them to be relayed through Postfix to the hosted email server.
>> Here is main.cf and parameter values:
>>
>> # See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete
>> version
>>
>>
>> # Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
>> # line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
>> # is /etc/mailname.
>> #myorigin = /etc/mailname
>>
>> smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
>> biff = no
>>
>> # appending .domain is the MUA's job.
>> append_dot_mydomain = no
>>
>> # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
>> #delay_warning_time = 4h
>>
>> # TLS parameters
>> smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
>> smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
>> smtpd_use_tls=yes
>> smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
>> smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache
>>
>> # See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
>> # information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.
>>
>> myhostname = gsdokeos
>> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
>> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
>> mydestination = AA-XXXX.com, lms.AA-XXXX.com, gsdokeos, localhost
>> relayhost =
>> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 166.XX.XX.XX/29
>> mailbox_size_limit = 0
>> recipient_delimiter = +
>> inet_interfaces = all
>> myorigin = /etc/mailname (contents: gsdokeos)
>> inet_protocols = all
>> relay_domains = $mydestination
>> canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical
>> permit_mynetworks = $mynetworks
>> relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients
>> local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
>>
>> I appreciate anyone who can enlighten me
>>
>> CUL,
>> Neil Little, WA4AZL
>> JARS Forever!!
>>
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