Postfix as an outbound connecter

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  1. rsteuer

    rsteuer Member

    I am looking for info on configuring an Ubuntu server that will be added to an ISPConfig cluster that can act as an outbound connecter. We do not want it to house mailboxes and it will not be used to receive inbound email.

    The reason is that we have multiple email domains where some domains need to be forwarded to one destination and everything else will be sent directly to the internet. This is strictly for outbound mail.

    I've found several docs, but they do not to accomplish what we need, as most want to host mail and/or send and receive messages. None are specific to adding to an ISPConfig cluster.

    Thanks in advance for any info.
     
  2. remkoh

    remkoh Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    I don't think the ispconfig's installscript can do just that.
    So you probably need to fallback to one of the older tutorials and manually install your server.
    All you need is a base system including postfix and php with entensions cli, curl, mbstring, mcrypt, mysql, opcache and readline.
    Than you can download and install ispconfig in expert mode to add it in your existing cluster.
     
  3. rsteuer

    rsteuer Member

    thanks, remkoh. I assumed I'd need to do a manual install, as I've never used the available scripts. And thanks for referencing the list of packages - that's where I'd run into issues trying to figure out exactly what would be required.
     
  4. remkoh

    remkoh Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    Those are the php extensions I've always used for dns-only nodes and ispconfig needs minimal.
     

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