[plug] Postfix experience

[Daniel Pearson]

Thanks Matt,
Your help over the past week or so has been greatly appreciated, and Ryan --
thankyou too, you've also been an invaluable resource.

Cheers,
Daniel Pearson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Kemner" <zombie at penguincare.com.au>
To: "Perth LUG" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Postfix experience


> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, quoth Daniel Pearson:
>
> > For you PLUG'ers out there that have used postfix, has anyone had
experience
> > from using it as sending mail, with fetchmail to pull the mail off the
> > ISP -- to then going to a live setup, with your own domain and having
> > postfix do the whole box n' dice (with qpopper as the pop3 daemon)?
>
> All you need to do is edit main.cf and make sure your domain name is
> listed in "mydestination" (and then reload postfix)
>
> Then ensure the lowest numbered MX record for your domain points to your
> IP address (and make sure there are no firewalls blocking port 25)
>
> You can run this concurrently with a fetchmail setup so you don't lose any
> email during the changeover.
>
>  - Matt
>
>
>