Postfix as a mail relay (getting relay access denied)
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Postfix as a mail relay (getting relay access denied)
I want to send email from my mobile phone using my linux servers postfix MTA to relay messages that I send to my linux box. I am using sasl and authdaemon for imap security.
Right now I can connect to the imap and download my messages and I can send messages to local users on the system. BUT I can't send a message from my phone (or any other imap client that is configured to use my linux box as the smtp server) through my MTA, and out to the internet. I get the message:
554 <name@example.com>: Relay access denied.
I've read how to make it so that certain hosts can be allowed to relay but can't I have it so that when my user can relay mail for that user to anywhere?
To make relay auth, you also need the package cyrus-sasl-plain.
Tomorrow I go glue mine "main.cf", I passed for this problem exactly, and delayed to arrange.
Since a user has to be authenticated to send mail through the server I was thinking that I could make all ip addresses trusted. I want to set mynetworks to something that would do this.
Neither class, subnet, or host will make everything trusted so I was trying to specify a specific ip address and then make the netmask mask the whole thing, but I didn't have any luck with this. I still got the message "relay access denied"
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