<div dir="ltr"><div>Instead of configuring postfix to accept real incoming mail, you might want to use fetchmail instead. In that setup, all of your email goes to a mailbox on your real mail server, then fetchmail checks the mailbox every few minutes for new messages, retrieves them, then delivers them locally to trac.<br>
<br></div>IMO, this kind of setup is much preferred since you don't need to have messages coming directly to/from a subdomain like "<a href="http://trac.example.com">trac.example.com</a>" and you don't need to worry about mail server redundancy, spam/virus scanning, etc... All of that is handled on your real mail server, and trac just acts as a client to it.<br>
<div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div>❧ Brian Mathis</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Adrya Stembridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adrya.stembridge@gmail.com" target="_blank">adrya.stembridge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I'm attempting to set up my trac installation to accept replies via email. This is the first time configuring a machine to receive mail, and I have a noobish question. <div><br></div><div>In postfix/main.conf I am asked to provide "myhostname", which the examples show as '<a href="http://mail.example.com" target="_blank">mail.example.com</a>'. The next config item is "mydomain", which the examples show as '<a href="http://example.com" target="_blank">example.com</a>'. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't expect much inbound mail traffic. Is it necessary to have a subdomain for mail to be received? If not, is there any gotchas with having identical values for "myhostname" and "mydomain"?</div>
<div><br></div><div>PS: I'm actually able to establish a connection to my server both locally and remote using "telnet <a href="http://example.com" target="_blank">example.com</a> 143" even though my "myhostname" value is '<a href="http://mail.example.com" target="_blank">mail.example.com</a>'. The connection fails with "telnet <a href="http://mail.example.com" target="_blank">mail.example.com</a> 143" since that subdomain is not configured in DNS. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div></div>
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