Mail Relay through ISP by Postfix

Hi

I'm trying to setup my Postfix to relay my mails through my ISP.

I found one instruction at
http://www.k2.on.lk/fourm/viewtopic.php?t=30

but it is too vague for me to follow. Anywau, I've done my best guess
configuring my Postfix. Now,

- how can I proof if my configuration is correct?
- I sent a test mail via sendmail, but I didn't received it at the other
end, how can I debug the mail sending process? Any way to see the whole
smtp negotiation process?
- Is there better doc to show me how to setup / debug the Postfix
relaying through ISP?

thanks a lot

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:07:34 -0400, * Tong * wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to setup my Postfix to relay my mails through my ISP.

should be an easy relayhost setting.

> I found one instruction at
> http://www.k2.on.lk/fourm/viewtopic.php?t=30
>
> but it is too vague for me to follow. Anywau, I've done my best guess
> configuring my Postfix. Now,

http://www.postfix.org may help.

>
> - how can I proof if my configuration is correct?

I sent mail to myself on my node,

mail -s "user test" bittwister < /dev/null

to prove alias was set right I sent
root a mail message logged in as root.

mail -s "user test" root < /dev/null
and verified it showed up in bittwister's mail box.

Then sent mail to my ISP email account.

> - I sent a test mail via sendmail, but I didn't received it at the other
> end, how can I debug the mail sending process? Any way to see the whole
> smtp negotiation process?

I looked in /var/log/mail/* files to see errors.

For my settings, you can put
mail.cf+alias in the first box, asterisk linux asterisk in the
newsgroup box and bit twister in the author box at
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:07:34 -0400, * Tong * wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm trying to setup my Postfix to relay my mails through my ISP.

All you need is this in your main.cf:

relayhost = your-isp-smtp-server.com

Dan

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:30:02 -0500, Bit Twister wrote:

> For my settings, you can put
> mail.cf+alias in the first box, asterisk linux asterisk in the newsgroup
> box and bit twister in the author box at
> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

Thanks Bit Twister.

It took me a while to decipher the above paragraph.

When I did the actual search, the only hit that came back is this thread.
Have you double checked it?

This is my actual search:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q...=2006&safe=off

Thanks

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:20:23 +0800, Dan N wrote:

>> I'm trying to setup my Postfix to relay my mails through my ISP.
>
> All you need is this in your main.cf:
>
> relayhost = your-isp-smtp-server.com

That's it? Your ISP doesn't need SMTP SSL authentication?

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:47:43 -0400, * Tong * wrote:

> That's it? Your ISP doesn't need SMTP SSL authentication?

Not generally. Mine doesn't.

Dan

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:44:54 -0400, * Tong * wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:30:02 -0500, Bit Twister wrote:
>
>> For my settings, you can put
>> mail.cf+alias in the first box, asterisk linux asterisk in the newsgroup
>> box and bit twister in the author box at
>> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
>
> Thanks Bit Twister.
>
> It took me a while to decipher the above paragraph.
>
> When I did the actual search, the only hit that came back is this thread.
> Have you double checked it?

Frap, My mistake, should have been main.cf not mail.cf

Run the search again with main.cf+relayhost, *linux* and bit twister.

here is a starter article. Just use the message id box.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
(E-Mail Removed)lid <==== in the message id box.