From: Luca Berra (blucacomedia.it)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 11:11:44 CST

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On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:41:05PM -0800, Ken Miller wrote:
>-> You have configured Postfix to look for aliases in
>-> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db. Unless you use
>-> Mailman, remove that lookup table from alias_maps.
>
>OK good, thanks, that removed the errors. (Another error came up,
>postfix was looking for procmail as /usr/local/bin/procmail, but it's
>actually /usr/bin/procmail on my machine. Couldn't figure out where
>postfix gets told that procmail should be in /usr/local/bin -- 'grep
>procmail *' in /etc/postfix came up empty ...--?. Anyhow I made a link to
>it in /usr/local/bin, restarted postfix, and now lo and behold it
>works -- mail is delivered locally.)

postfix shipped with mandrakelinux do not use procmail by default, so
unless you told it somewhere to do that it is impossible.

do you have some alias pointing to a script that calls procmail?

>So, now I'm back to my original simpler question:
>
>> I am setting up mail on my local machine using postfix under Mandrake
>> 10.1. All I want my local machine to do is send my mail with SSL
>> encryption to an external SMTP server. My SMTP server will only
>> accept SSL-secured connections. (I'm behind a firewall and the
>> powers-that-be will not let me run a mail server myself, hence all I
>> can do is send it out to the SMTP server). Can someone tell me the
>> magic words to put in /etc/postfix/main.cf or master.cf to make this
>> happen?
see my previous mail

>And, a subsidiary question. I would like even local mail to go to the
>smtp server rather than be delivered locally. How do I arrange this?
>
undefine mydestination
        postconf -e "mydestination="

L.

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