postfix on FreeBSD

Jim Trigg jtrigg at spamcop.net
Wed Mar 9 13:30:18 PST 2005


On Wed, March 9, 2005 3:39 pm, Bart Silverstrim said:
> I saw the errors and googled for it, but it just led to the man pages
> and site web pages for the postfix project (which I read); what was
> throwing me was the fact that it wasn't an open relay before and it
> didn't have the directive previously.  I think it was using reasonable
> defaults before and my adding that line to my main.cf overrode them
> causing it to burp the error messages.

Exactly correct -- if you *don't specify* smtpd_recipient_restrictions, it
defaults to "permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination", but as soon as
you specify something, you need to explicitly include that.

Jim



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