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Re: [LUG] Postfix

 

Chris/Simon

Thanks. I put the brackets in, restarted postfix and not had any 
complaints all week.

Sounds like it might be sorted.

Martin

Chris Smith wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:
>   
>> My guess is that you have the smart host config wrong in Postfix.
>>
>> Probably "relayhost=mailhost.zen.co.uk" when it should be
>> "relayhost=[mailhost.zen.co.uk]" although why only sometimes I'm not
>> sure. For that we'd need the output of "postconf -n" and probably better
>> asked on the Postfix users list, if the above doesn't answer the question.
>>     
>
> The brackets tell Postfix not to do an MX lookup on the record. If you
> want to connect to the specified host wrap it in brackets otherwise
> Postfix will connect to an MX server for the domain you specify. In this
> case you want the brackets. :)
>
> Chris

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