I have set-up postfix on Debian 6 and I would like to forward emails to my gmail account. This is my /etc/postfix/main.cf file:
# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no
# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no
# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h
readme_directory = no
# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.
myhostname = example.com
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = example.com, localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
# configure for virtual hosting
virtual_alias_domains = example.com
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
home_mailbox = mail/
In my /etc/postfix/virtual file I have:
test@example.com test@gmail.com
But when I send an email from hotmail to test@example.com I get the following error:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;test@example.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 5.7.1 <test@example.com: Relay access denied
and /var/log/mail.log says:
postfix/smtpd[31752]: connect from mail-qy0-f178.google.com[xxx.xx.xxx.xxx]
postfix/smtpd[31752]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-qy0-f178.google.com[xxx.xx.xxx.xxx]: 554 5.7.1 <test@example.com>: Relay access denied; from=<example@gmail.com> to=<test@example.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-qy0-f178.google.com>
postfix/smtpd[31752]: disconnect from mail-qy0-f178.google.com[xxx.xx.xxx.xxx]
Do I need to be doing something with SMTP authentication?
Fixed. In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file I had:
mydestination = www.example.com, localhost
replacing with the following got it working:
mydestination = example.com, localhost
Best Answer
example.com
is inmydestination
. Why don't you add to/etc/aliases
:Don't forget to run
newaliases
after updating aliases file.