Greg Hackney wrote:
> Chris B wrote:
>
>
>> The following setting in my main.conf is wrong:
>> relayhost = SMTP:[mail.asciiking.com]:2025
>
>
> The correct syntax is:
>
> relayhost = mail.asciiking.com:2025 (if you want to use MX and "A" DNS
> records for mail.asciiking.com)
>
> relayhost = [mail.asciiking.com]:2025 (if you want to use only "A" DNS
> records for mail.asciiking.com)

One of the books I read said that using the square brackets was
important with a "We'll explain why later in the book," for my
information at that point. I think that was "Postfix : the definitive
guide." If the book had been a chewed up and spit out version of "man
postfix" or "postfix.org" that would have been an improvement. It was
more like a "printed in Taiwan" software manual than anything else.

> In modern versions of Postfix, you can leave the relayhost unset, and
> specify
> the default relayhost at the very end of your "transport" file, such as:
>
> * smtp:[mail.asciiking.com]:2025
>
>
> Note: Case is significant. It must be "smtp" and not "SMTP".

Thank you. That did it, clearing up the other list of warnings, etc.
that I had as well.

I'm finally getting through to the server, but I'm getting a "550
Administrative prohibition (in reply to end of data command)", so it's
pretty clear that I don't have my authentication ducks in a row. I've
already had issues with the host about a similar issue from my mail
client. Their docs read:

Manual Settings
Mail Server Username: cbabcock+asciiking.com
Incoming Mail Server: mail.asciiking.com
Outgoing Mail Server: mail.asciiking.com (server requires authentication)
Supported Incoming Mail Protocols: POP3, POP3S (SSL/TLS), IMAP, IMAPS
(SSL/TLS)
Supported Outgoing Mail Protocols: SMTP, SMTPS (SSL/TLS)

According to a telnet session with the port, only plain and login
authorization are supported.

When outgoing mail for my desktop client, Thunderbird, stopped one day,
the reply to my support ticket was, "Turn off authentication and switch
ports." Their idea of spam control is to turn off smtp for the day after
400 messages.

Well, enough venting... this is the bigger part of my main.conf:

# User configurable parameters

inet_interfaces = localhost
mynetworks_style = host
delay_warning_time = 4h
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name ($mail_version) (Mandriva Linux)
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450
smtp-filter_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
lmtp-filter_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
smtpd_sasl_path = /etc/postfix/sasl:/usr/lib64/sasl2
recipient_delimiter = +
owner_request_special = no
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
mydomain = asciiking.com
myorigin = $mydomain
relayhost = [mail.asciiking.com]:2025
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic

I've checked the server, username and password combo in sasl_passwd and
stored the map values in a hash file. The username has a "+", but that
could be changed to @ or % if needed. Specify the port number as part of
the server address doesn't seem to change the results. The contents
"mail.asciiking.com:2025 user+asciiking.com:password" produce the 550
error just as well as "mail.asciiking.com user+asciiking.com:password".

Chris