Postfix not relaying mail from computers in my network

[xlargebear at bellsouth.net]

I found the solution.
My eth0 interface had the subnet mask set to 255.255.255.0 whereas the 
local host (lo) had it set to 255.0.0.0
After ifconfig lo netmask 255.255.255.0 it worked as expected.
F
On Apr 16, 2005, at 7:59 PM, xlargebear at bellsouth.net wrote:

> Hi
> I've previously set up postfix in my mac running MacOS 10.3 to relay 
> mail from all computers in my network. It used to work. Now I have 
> another mac running YDL4 and I am trying to configure Postfix to do 
> the same. As long as I send the emails from the host running Postfix I 
> have no problem. However, when I configure the other computers to 
> relay through the mail server, I get an error saying "The attempt to 
> read data from the server '192.168.1.20' failed". In the logs for 
> Postfix nothing shows. I turned off all firewalls and still nothing 
> happens.
>
> myhostname is set my FQDN
> mydomain is set to FQDM minus the first part.
> myorigin = $mydomain
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
> mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/255, 127.0.0.0/8 ( I also tried 
> mynetworks_style = subnet )
>
> If I open a tunnel from any computer to the mail host using ssh -L 
> 25:127.0.0.1:25 root at mailhost_IP and I set the client to relay through 
> 127.0.0.1 it works. Why doesn't it work when I enter the actual IP of 
> the mail server in the client configuration as the smtp relay host?
> Help
> Thanks
> F
>
> _______________________________________________
> yellowdog-general mailing list
> yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general
> HINT: to Google archives, try  '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
>