Problems setting up Postfix to relay to Gmail
When I send an email to my email address, I get an “Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender” error email with the following error: “relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO command)” or “Relay access denied (state 14).”
In mail.log I see errors like this one:
NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail.domain.com[###.###.###.###]: 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied; from= <username@domain.com>to= <username=domain.com>proto=ESMTP helo=<mail.domain.com></mail.domain.com></username=domain.com></username@domain.com>
Here is my main.cf file:
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no
# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no
# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h
readme_directory = no
# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.
myhostname = li53-52.members.linode.com
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = li53-52.members.linode.com, localhost.members.linode.com, , localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
# Gmail
relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem
smtp_use_tls = yes
Here is my sasl_passwd:
[smtp.gmail.com]:587 username@gmail.com:password
Any suggestions?
3 Replies
Here's my solution:
in main.cf, I restored to the original main.cf file and added these two lines:
virtual_alias_domains = domain.com
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
Then I created /etc/postfix/virtual and put this in there:
#/etc/postfix/virtual
user@domain.com user@gmail.com
@domain.com user
Then I ran````
postmap /etc/postfix/virtual
And in my user home directory, I created a file called ".forward" and placed this in it````
user@gmail.com
Everything seems to be working perfectly (all mail sent to @domain.com is being forwarded to
file in your mailbox.
Here is the other way I know of. I use gmail for one of my domains and
I simply have the gmail mx records in my nameserver. Google tells you
how to do this. Something like:
yourdomain.com. IN MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
yourdomain.com. IN MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
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@flb:
yourdomain.com. IN MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
yourdomain.com. IN MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
Thanks for the response. Is that for Google Apps for your domain? I'm not interested in using that–I'd just like to forward emails sent to *@mydomain.com to