How to use Postfix with your Easy-SMTP account

Learn how to connect you Postfix email service with ReachMail's Easy-SMTP relay connections.

To begin, locate your system’s Postfix configuration files. In most distributions, these will be in /etc/postfix. If you’re having trouble finding the files try 'locate main.cf'.

Add your Easy-SMTP login credentials to /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

$ echo "ssrs.reachmail.net accountkeyuser:password" >> /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

Rebuild the password hash

$ chown root:root /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
$ chmod 600 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
$ cd /etc/postfix ;; postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

Add the following to /etc/postfix/main.cf. Note that if you’re using a Postfix version less than 2.5 the configuration lines are slightly different.

...
tls_export_cipherlist = SSLv3:TLSv1:!SSLv2
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
relayhost = ssrs.reachmail.net
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt # Force all connections to use TLS
# For postfix versions < 2.5 replace the previous setting with these:
#smtp_use_tls = yes
#smtp_enforce_tls = yes
smtp_tls_mandatory_protocols = !SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
...

Restart Postfix Note that your system command to restart Postfix may be different

$ /sbin/service postfix restart

Special Configurations

Relay specific destinations through Easy-SMTP

If you want to use Easy-SMTP for only certain mail transactions, you can specify the destinations to relay via Easy-SMTP in the /etc/postfix/transport file. The transport configuration file entries are formatted as destination:relay-host.

Add an entry to /etc/postfix/transport.

$ echo "some-destination.com:ssrs.reachmail.net" >> /etc/postfix/transport

$ chown root:root /etc/postfix/transport
$ chmod 600 /etc/postfix/transport
$ cd /etc/postfix ;; postmap hash:/etc/postfix/transport

...
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
...

$ /sbin/service postfix restart