[aklug] Re: Postfix and acs

On 04/07/2012 12:12 PM, Damien Hull wrote:
> Here's my two cents....
>
> 1. ACS may not allow you to "relay" mail through their server.
> 2. I think ACS blocks a few ports so users can't setup servers.
>
> It's been my observation that most people think email is a simple
> service. You install an email server and it should send email, right?
> Wrong! You have to make sure several things are working.
>
> 1. DNS - you have a domain and mx record
> 2. Your email server is properly configured
> 3. Backup or secondary mail server with secondary MX records...

Sure, if you're running a full blown mail server and have a domain and
control the DNS for it. I do exactly that at work. And, you're right,
it's not an out of the box operation, but I'm comfortable with that side
of it. I've never set up a home based mail server before. I was
probably over thinking the issue. Folks post that for this sort of
situation to use one's ISP to relay the mail via port 587 which is what
I was trying to accomplish. SASL may or may not be the way to do that,
I probably need to read up on it more.

> It is possible to setup an email server without a real domain name.
> However, you can't send email through another server unless they allow
> you to do so.
>
> Try this....
> 1. configure Postfix to send email - no relay option

It already did that, but only locally.

> 2. configure roots mail to send everything to your ACS email account

That was the rub - the ACS servers don't accept mail from a bogus
host.domain.

But I got it sorted using the generic file per the Sean pointed me to.

Thanks for the reply...

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