OT: Postfix problem I am hoping you can help with

James,

> I am trying to get out Postfix server to send AOL mail
to our ISP rather
> than directly to AOL as they insist on bouncing our
mail if we send
> directly.
>
> I am editing the transport files with the following
lines...
> aol.com         smtp:smtp.nildram.co.uk
> .aol.com        smtp:smtp.nildram.co.uk
> gmail.com       smtp:smtp.nildram.co.uk
>
> With the gmail one there so I can test it is working,
unfortunately after a
> "postfix restart" it is still sending the
mail directly.

Did you forget to prepare a transport.db?  (# postmap
transport )

The smtp.nildram.co.uk has either MX nor A record, mail will
get stuck
in the queue. Perhaps you wanted to specify
smtp:nildram.co.uk

> I am also a little concerned that the transport file
has the following at
> the top of it...
>
> #
> # MTA Managment Transport List;
> #
> # Please do NOT edit it manually;
> #
>
> So where am I supposed to edit it?

There is nothing like that in Postfix files as distributed.
Must be your packager or local folklore.

  Mark


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