Clayton wrote:
Running a mailserver on a dynamic IP-address is difficult at best, but I guess it could work if your dyndns stuff is working.
Nothing like starting on the harder side of things :-) In theory, that is what DynDNS is supposed to "help" with. They provide a fixed point for the mail to be received and relay it to me.
Okay, so I assumy the MX for your domain points to dyndns' mailserver(s)?
Hmmm.. maybe this is why the alias is not working? How is the database updated?
run 'newaliases'.
Also... in the mail headers I'm seeing, wherever the server name is mentioned: hostname.domainname.com
eg: linux-tily.mydomain.com
where I want it to read just mydomain.com... or would like it to.
Then you need to check postfix's main.cf - what are your settings of myhostname mydomain mydestination Maybe post the output from 'postconf -n'.
External mail - are you using your ISPs mailserver to relay through or are you sending directly? I.e. have you set relayhost in your postfix config? Do you see the mail being delivered? (check your log).
I do not want to use my ISPs mailserver (various reasons, including all their support info is in German, and my German skills are pathetic at best)... so I'm hoping to use my own setup/server.
Okay. You wouldn't/shouldn't need much help from your ISP though - it's pretty normal for a dial-up customer to relay through the ISPs smarthost. Never mind, running your own will work too, although the dynamic address does make it dodgy.
I've set my relayhost to my own domain... and checked the logs again. Hmmmm... I think this has put me on to the problem... now (after setting my relayhost), I'm seeing a nice helpful bounce error:
Remote-MTA: dns; mx1.mailhop.org Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Sender verify failed
So... I need to sort out that part... which I should be able to do... I hope (the remote MTA is the one DynDNS provides).
Ah, so you're relaying through that? 'relayhost' should point to the server you wish to relay through, i.e. always send your outbound mail to. However, I suspect the DynDNS people will ask from some sort of authentication - do you have those details? /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org