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Subject: RE: Two Postfix instances on one machine
From: Stephen Bolinger (pflistpigglet.com)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 13:00:10 CDT

Lorrie,

Thanks so much for the help. I was trying to run them on the same IP
(different ports). I have it all up and running now. The reason for the two
instances was to implement a couple separate content filters, so mail is
delivered to the first postfix that uses content filter one, then delivers to
the next postfix that uses content filter two then complete the local
delivery.

-Stephen

Thanks to the others who responded as well!

> I have not two, but *three* instances of postfix running. You
> do not need more than one copy of the binaries, however you *do* need
> duplicates of the outbound mail queue directories and of the
> configuration directories.
>
> However, the command I run is just like yours -- here's an
> excerpt from my rc scripts:
>
> /usr/sbin/postfix -c /etc/mail/snugharbor start
> /usr/sbin/postfix -c /etc/mail/thetroth start
> /usr/sbin/postfix -c /etc/mail/nerdalfheim start:
>
> ... and this works. Each main.cf points to a different IP
> address and only listens to that IP address. Your problem may, perhaps,
> be that you still have your postfix instances listening to *all*
> IP's on the machine, which is incorrect.
>
> The above assumes IP aliasing, however -- why are *you*
> runnning multiple instances of postfix?
>
> -- Lorrie
>
>
>