[SGVLUG] Postfix Rejections

Rae Yip rae.yip at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 15:52:26 PDT 2009


What are mydestination, mynetworks, and smtpd_recipient_restrictions
set to in the output of postconf?

I've never used access and relay_recipients before, but I'm not sure
they'll work unless your basic postfix config is set up first.

-Rae.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hola, SGV cronies,
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> I've been trying to get a Postfix installation running for some time now.  I have a stock CentOS installation.
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> However, when I try to send mail to my domain, the mail keeps getting bounced.  A brief glance at /var/log/maillog show me:
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> Mar 18 15:09:13 localhost postfix/smtpd[32333]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from n56.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com[98.136.44.52]: 554 5.7.1 <admin at XXXXXX.TLD>: Relay access denied; from=<solomonchasos at yahoo.com> to=<admin at XXXXXX.TLD> proto=SMTP helo=<n56.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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> [domains x'd out for security reasons]
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> I've done the following:
> - made sure port 25 is wide open.
> - added "admin at XXXXXX.TLD OK" to /etc/postfix/relay_recipients
> - added "yahoo.com OK" to /etc/postfix/access
> - added ".yahoo.com OK" to /etc/postfix/access
> - ran postmap against /etc/postfix/access and /etc/postfix/relay_recipients
> - restart Postfix
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> ...and the mail server is still rejecting Yahoo, just like that hot supermodel at the bar last night-... but that's another story for another time.  Ironically, I can send email connecting from another machine on the local subnet.
>
> What have I left out?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Solomon
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