The Slicehost-Cogent-Outage, or How to setup a relay with Postfix

Our problem is that an application hosted on Slicehost uses an external mailserver, which is located in Europe. Since neither Slicehost/Rackspace or Cogent seem to be able to fix the situation after almost two days, here’s a quick workaround. The idea is that our relay will collect emails and send them whenever the connection permits. Postfix install This is a pretty simple: Configuration main.cf Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf (this is my entire main....

May 5, 2010 · 1 min