natxo asenjo wrote: >> The CentOS document <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix> >> explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6. >> Does anyone know of reasonably simple postfix documentation >> for CentOS-6? > > no. Maybe you can write one after you figure it out :-) I'll be happy to suggest a modest addition to <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix> when I have found why my from address was set to ------------------------------- <tim at localhost.localdomain> MAIL FROM domain does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command) ------------------------------- As I have said, I gave my fqdn in every place I can think of. > Postfix's target audience is not the average joe user but e-mail > administrators. It is assumed you know some stuff about how smtp e-mail > works. I wonder if that is, or should be, any longer the case? I would have guessed that many, perhaps the majority, of CentOS users are now running home networks rather than commercial sites. I realise that RedHat may not be particularly interested in these people, but I would have thought CentOS should be. > For simple scenarios, you go to the 'General configuration' bullet > points. In there you even have standard configuration examples: > > http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html > > Once you have that figured out, then you can go on to other configs, > like the content inspection, integration with other data sources, > performance problems, etc. It does make sense once you approach it with > an e-mail admin hat on. I'm not an "email admin" except by necessity. If in fact it takes say two days of reading to setup postfix then I would revert to sendmail, which has been working perfectly for me for years. (Incidentally, having now setup postfix/amavis/clamd/spamassassin it does not seem to me to have any advantages - at least in my case - over sendmail/procmail/spamassassin . I've been told it is much better, but nobody has told me why.) But as it happens, two short documents, <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix> and <http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/postfix-smtp-authentication-for-mail-servers/>, told me everything I needed to set up postfix on a home network. If I had homed in earlier on these two documents it would have taken me 20 minutes or less to set it up. > If what you want is an appliance that handles this stuff but hides it > all under the hood from you, I don't; I just want to be able to continue to send and receive email as I have been able to for years. > maybe you should be looking at commercial > offerings like barracuda. It is nothing to be ashamed of to buy stuff > that works and has support when something goes wrong. Handling e-mail > for a company without understanding how it works internally can be > stressing. As I have said, I am not a company. I think I run a fairly typical home network, a setup that I would guess is going to become steadily more popular as the number of devices on a local network in the average household grows: laptops, TVs, smart phones, printers, etc. > Also, the postfix mailing list is the best place to ask postfix questions I did ask the same two questions on that newsgroup/mailing-list and got no response. As you say, it seems to be the haunt of commercial or company email admins. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland