On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:19:09 -0600 Larry Martell larry.martell@gmail.com wrote:
I really don't know the answer to that question. The scenario is that they run a django based web app, and they wanted me to add a password recovery feature to it. When I did that, and it tried to send the recovery link to the user, it failed with 'SMTPServerDisconnected.' I thought, of course, there is no SMTP server running, so I set upon getting postfix running. As I said in my initial post, I've never done that before. I'm a developer, not an admin ;-)
Ok. You might try to use a smarthost, that's the outgoing smtp server of your company.
/etc/postfix/main.cf should look like this myorigin=yourdomain.com relayhost=smtp.of.yourdomain.com #inet_interfaces=loopback-only local_transport=error: disabled
And then service postfix reload
If you need authentification (e.g. username + password) append the following additional lines into main.cf
smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes smtp_sasl_security_options=noanonymous # see #smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter=plain #debug_peer_list=smtp.of.yourdomain.com #debug_peer_level=3 #smtp_use_tls=yes smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/relay_password
Write the following line in /etc/postfix/relay_password smtp.of.yourdomain.com username:password
Create the database with
postmap /etc/postfix/relay_password
the debug options might help you if there is some trouble sending mail (log file). Always check the postfix queue with
postqueue -p
and your mailserver log
/var/log/maillog
Note: For authentication you probably need the cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-* packages.
HTH, Brgds