Re: use of relayhost, relaydomain?

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use of relayhost, relaydomain?
\ Andrew Long (14 Mar 2008)
. \ Andrew Long (14 Mar 2008)
. . \ Victor Duchovni (14 Mar 2008)
. . . \ Andrew Long (14 Mar 2008)
. . . . \ mouss (14 Mar 2008)

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Subject:	Re: use of relayhost, relaydomain?
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	14 Mar 2008

Andrew Long wrote:
> I'm a little confused, are you saying to leave
> relay_domains = EMPTY
>

mydestination =
relay_domains = example.com

PS. Please do not top post (Google if you don't know what this means)

> I need to accept for ourdomain.com, which leads me to believe I must
> set that in mydestination;

mydestination is for mail that is delivered to local unix accounts. for
mail that is relayed elesewhere, use relay_domains.

> but if I don't set it in relay_domains, how
> will postfix know to pass that mail back out to the
> MX's for oursomain.com? And, yes this host will be an MX for
> ourdomain.com, but it will have priority 90 where the pri-mx and
> sec-mx are 0 and 10. I hope you'll forgive my ignorance, but I am
> still learning the ropes with postfix.
>
>