I'm hoping this is the right forum for this. My geekery is limited, so please minimise the geek-speak .
So I'm experimenting with a Postfix mail server on my home desktop mac. I'm not IT trained but I do enjoy exploring stuff. In other words it's a hobby. If it doesn't work out it's no big deal really. My setup is pretty low level. I'm not receiving mail through my server; only sending. Or rather, I send everything through an SMTP provider as relayhost.
The server's going great within the LAN. Love the speed. What's not going at all great is relaying mail through the server from outside the local network. I just can't get it to work no matter what settings I try. In all likelihood having a dynamic IP won't be helping. But I am running a DDNS (and the IP rarely changes). And if I telnet either to my current IP or to my DDNS hostname, it resolves quickly to the subdomain I'm using for the mail server. The telnet also confirms that my port forwarding is working.
The problem part is configuring outgoing mail settings in my email client. (Mail on mac and also iOS). I add a new SMTP hostname (I've tried both my mail server subdomain and my DDNS hostname). I enter the SASL username and password I have configured in Postfix. It seems to work at first, but after maybe 20 seconds the new server is marked as "(Offline)". And so it remains. I can never get past that point.
Can anyone give me some pointers? Thanks.
So I'm experimenting with a Postfix mail server on my home desktop mac. I'm not IT trained but I do enjoy exploring stuff. In other words it's a hobby. If it doesn't work out it's no big deal really. My setup is pretty low level. I'm not receiving mail through my server; only sending. Or rather, I send everything through an SMTP provider as relayhost.
The server's going great within the LAN. Love the speed. What's not going at all great is relaying mail through the server from outside the local network. I just can't get it to work no matter what settings I try. In all likelihood having a dynamic IP won't be helping. But I am running a DDNS (and the IP rarely changes). And if I telnet either to my current IP or to my DDNS hostname, it resolves quickly to the subdomain I'm using for the mail server. The telnet also confirms that my port forwarding is working.
The problem part is configuring outgoing mail settings in my email client. (Mail on mac and also iOS). I add a new SMTP hostname (I've tried both my mail server subdomain and my DDNS hostname). I enter the SASL username and password I have configured in Postfix. It seems to work at first, but after maybe 20 seconds the new server is marked as "(Offline)". And so it remains. I can never get past that point.
Can anyone give me some pointers? Thanks.