EMail: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:32, 27 January 2015

The spaces email infrastructure:

The MX records for pumpingstationone.org redirects to google apps.
Google apps routes some email into into various accounts.
By default, google apps forwards unmatched emails to info@pumpingstationone.org
info@pumpingstationone.org forwards to the postfix server on mail.ad.pumpingstationone.org
mail.ad.pumpingstationone.org runs a postfix instance

has no MX record, so the A/AAAA record is used, which routes to the space, which routes to mail.ad.pumpingstationone.org

has no MX record, so the A/AAAA record is used, which routes to the space, which routes to mail.ad.pumpingstationone.org
mail.ad.pumpingstationone.org has postfix and listserv. There are a few mailing lists hosted there,

Most services are configured to use mail.ad.pumpingstationone.org as the outgoing email server. Postfix on that box then routes through comcast's smtp relay, which helps us avoid the PBL.
Having all the email route through this box also makes debugging things easier, journalctl can be used to view the mail logs.

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 == Outgoing Email ==
-Most services are configured to use mail.ad.pumpingstationone.org as the outgoing email server.  Postfix on that box then routes through comcast's smtp relay, which helps us avoid the PBL.
+* Most services are configured to use mail.ad.pumpingstationone.org as the outgoing email server.  Postfix on that box then routes through comcast's smtp relay, which helps us avoid the PBL.
+* Having all the email route through this box also makes debugging things easier, journalctl can be used to view the mail logs.