[ale] Bind postfix to one address

[James Taylor]

That got it.
Thanks,
-jt



James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com







>>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:27 AM, in message
<01ec01c6de5b$a1166ef0$13010105 at P3750>, "Keith Bastin" <kbastin at mindspring.com>
wrote: 
> Hello James, Good to hear from you again.
> 
> The postfix config file  /etc/postfix/main.cf has an entry for
> inet_interfaces. "all" is the syntax to listen on all interfaces,
> default is the lopback address 127.0.0.1 and you can either give it a
> string of ipaddresses to listen on or ethernet devices (keep in mind
> that with kernel 2.6 and later default ethernet device names may be
> assigned differently on reboot as they are labeled when initialized);
> You can also use a host name
> 
> Samples:
> inet_interfaces=all
> inet_interfaces=eth0,eth1
> inet_interfaces=38.9.127.1,10.0.1.23
> inet_interfaces=mail.tux.com
> 
> Take Care!
> Keith
> 
> ----- Original Message-----
> From: ale- bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale- bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> James Taylor
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:28 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Bind postfix to one address
> 
> 
> I'm trying to do something which I'm hoping is within the functionality
> of postfix.
> 
> I have multiple addresses bound to a NIC.
> 
> I have postfix running as the store and forward part of a spam filter.
> On the same box I have my primary smtp gateway. 
> 
> I want postfix to bind exclusively to one address be able to forward
> smtp traffic to my primary gateway, which is bound to another address on
> the same box.
> 
> I know how to bind my primary exclusively to an address, but I haven't
> been able to figure out how to do the same with postfix. I assume this
> can be done.  I was doing on my old server with a different mta/smtp
> agent.
> 
> What I've seen so far seems to indicate an smtp_bind_address entry in
> main.cf, but I don't know where it goes and what the syntax is....
> assuming that's the right solution..
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
> 
> - jt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> James Taylor
> The East Cobb Group, Inc.
> 678- 697- 9420
> 	
> http://www.eastcobbgroup.com
> 
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