Postfix Setup Instructions

[RizSher]

Postfix Setup Instructions to allow Email Notification of Voicemail etc

Followed the instructions in the nerdvittles guide to setup email, however, always get the following message when I try to send a mail thru the * box:

"The original message was received at Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:08:51 GMT
from rizsher.home.net [127.0.0.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email protected]>
(reason: 550 DY-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. We generally do not acc
ept emai...l/network admins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and s
upport)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mx3.hotmail.com.:
>>> MAIL From:<[email protected]> SIZE=553
<<< 550 DY-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. We generally do not accept email
from dynamic IP's as they are not typically used to deliver unauthenticated SMTP e-mail to an Internet m
ail server. http://www.spamhaus.org maintains lists of dynamic and residential IP addresses. If you are n
ot an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network ad
mins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and support
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
"

Any ideas?

 

[jroper]

Hi

The clue is in the message: -

"We generally do not accept email from dynamic IP's as they are not typically used to deliver unauthenticated SMTP e-mail to an Internet mail server"

Maybe set your system to deliver your mail via another SMTP server.

see this post on how you may do this:-
http://nerdvittles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=143

Joe

 

[RizSher]

I ended up installing PostFix, then got into trouble as my ISP requires SMTP Authentication for outgoing mails. Here is what I did:

Replaced SendMail with Postfix by:

# rpm -e --nodeps sendmail
# yum -y install postfix

Then modified /etc/postfix/main.cf to add the following:

relayhost = my.outgoing.smtp.server

and, right at the bottom of the file,

smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options =
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
myorigin = Put.Domain.YouWant

Then, create sasl_passwd by

# nano /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

and add an entry like so:

my.outgoing.smtp.server   username:password

[my.outgoing.smtp.server is the same entry as the one added to relayhost in main.cf]

make sasl_passwd root only:

# chown root:root /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd && chmod 600 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

Create the hash file:

# postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

Make the hash file world readable:

# chmod 644 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

Reload the Postfix config:

# /etc/init.d/postfix reload

At this point, I was able to send email from the command prompt, and also voicemail to email, and subsequently, FreePBX notification of updates all started working.

 

[cramerjd]

my.outgoing.smtp.server usernameassword

What is the username password setting, it got messed up with a smiley

is it usernameassword, username@password, just usernamepassword, ??????

 

[cramerjd]

Figured it out by posting it

it is username : password but with no spaces and p make smiley)

 

[phinphan]

Thanks for these instructions. I was able to get my voicemails using my exchange server and that saved me the trouble of routing them out of the office. Followed your instructions to the T and the only problem I had was that when I went to restart Postfix it hadn't started. I went to Webmin and started it and made sure it will autostart with the system. Thanks again. The whole thing soups to nuts was about 5 minutes.

 

[jroper]

Hi

A tip for getting stuff to autostart on boot is to type setup at the command line.

Follow your nose to the services, and select the ones you want to start on boot.

Joe