[ale] First time setting up mail server (postfix & dovecat)

[Brian Mathis]

Instead of configuring postfix to accept real incoming mail, you might want
to use fetchmail instead.  In that setup, all of your email goes to a
mailbox on your real mail server, then fetchmail checks the mailbox every
few minutes for new messages, retrieves them, then delivers them locally to
trac.

IMO, this kind of setup is much preferred since you don't need to have
messages coming directly to/from a subdomain like "trac.example.com" and
you don't need to worry about mail server redundancy, spam/virus scanning,
etc...  All of that is handled on your real mail server, and trac just acts
as a client to it.


❧ Brian Mathis


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Adrya Stembridge <
adrya.stembridge at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm attempting to set up my trac installation to accept replies via email.
>   This is the first time configuring a machine to receive mail, and I have
> a noobish question.
>
> In postfix/main.conf I am asked to provide "myhostname", which the
> examples show as 'mail.example.com'.   The next config item is
> "mydomain", which the examples show as 'example.com'.
>
> I don't expect much inbound mail traffic.   Is it necessary to have a
> subdomain for mail to be received?  If not, is there any gotchas with
> having identical values for "myhostname" and "mydomain"?
>
> PS: I'm actually able to establish a connection to my server both locally
> and remote using "telnet example.com 143" even though my "myhostname"
> value is 'mail.example.com'.   The connection fails with "telnet
> mail.example.com 143" since that subdomain is not configured in DNS.
>
> Thanks.
>
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