[ale] Bind postfix to one address

[Keith Bastin]

Hello James, Good to hear from you again.

The postfix config file  /etc/postfix/main.cf has an entry for
inet_interfaces. "all" is the syntax to listen on all interfaces,
default is the lopback address 127.0.0.1 and you can either give it a
string of ipaddresses to listen on or ethernet devices (keep in mind
that with kernel 2.6 and later default ethernet device names may be
assigned differently on reboot as they are labeled when initialized);
You can also use a host name

Samples:
inet_interfaces=all
inet_interfaces=eth0,eth1
inet_interfaces=38.9.127.1,10.0.1.23
inet_interfaces=mail.tux.com

Take Care!
Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
James Taylor
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:28 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Bind postfix to one address


I'm trying to do something which I'm hoping is within the functionality
of postfix.

I have multiple addresses bound to a NIC.

I have postfix running as the store and forward part of a spam filter.
On the same box I have my primary smtp gateway. 

I want postfix to bind exclusively to one address be able to forward
smtp traffic to my primary gateway, which is bound to another address on
the same box.

I know how to bind my primary exclusively to an address, but I haven't
been able to figure out how to do the same with postfix. I assume this
can be done.  I was doing on my old server with a different mta/smtp
agent.

What I've seen so far seems to indicate an smtp_bind_address entry in
main.cf, but I don't know where it goes and what the syntax is....
assuming that's the right solution..

Any thoughts on this?

-jt




James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
	
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com







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