From 734961858f071181765d843623ff2f7f66772cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brennan Kinney <5098581+polarathene@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:26:27 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] Apply suggestions from code review --- .../tips/server-multiple-ip-addresses.md | 40 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/content/config/advanced/tips/server-multiple-ip-addresses.md b/docs/content/config/advanced/tips/server-multiple-ip-addresses.md index b61e0a8b..188ba237 100644 --- a/docs/content/config/advanced/tips/server-multiple-ip-addresses.md +++ b/docs/content/config/advanced/tips/server-multiple-ip-addresses.md @@ -4,40 +4,40 @@ title: 'Advanced | Tips | Server with multiple IP-addresses' ## Server with multiple IP-addresses -!!! warning "Only tested with docker configuration running with network-mode: host" +!!! warning "Advice not extensively tested" - This configuration has only been tested with network: host where you have direct access to the host interfaces. + This configuration has only been used with `network: host`, where you have direct access to the host interfaces. If your host system is running multiple IPv4 and IPv6 IP-addresses, you probably have an interest to bind outgoing SMTP connections to specific IP-addresses to ensure MX records are aligned with PTR-records in DNS when sending emails to avoid getting blocked by SPF for example. -We can use the tricks of [overriding defaults in postfix configuration](../override-defaults/postfix.md) -by supplying a custom `docker-data/dms/config/postfix-master.cf` and `docker-data/dms/config/postfix-main.cf`. +This can be configured by [overriding the default Postfix configurations](../override-defaults/postfix.md) DMS provides. Create `postfix-master.cf` and `postfix-main.cf` files for your config volume (`docker-data/dms/config`). -In `postfix-main.cf` you'll have to set the [smtp_bind_address](https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_bind_address) and [smtp_bind_address6](https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_bind_address6) +In `postfix-main.cf` you'll have to set the [`smtp_bind_address`](https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_bind_address) and [`smtp_bind_address6`](https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_bind_address6) to the respective IP-address on the server you want to use. -!!! info "IP-addresses shown below are reserved documentation IP-addresses by IANA, [RFC-5737](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5737/) and [RFC-3849](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3849)." +!!! example -Example `postfix-main.cf`: + ```title="postfix-main.cf" + smtp_bind_address = 198.51.100.10 + smtp_bind_address6 = 2001:DB8::10 + ``` -``` -smtp_bind_address = 198.51.100.10 -smtp_bind_address6 = 2001:DB8::10 -``` + **NOTE:** IP-addresses shown above are placeholders, using reserved documentation IP-addresses by IANA, [RFC-5737](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5737/) and [RFC-3849](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3849). One problem with using `smtp_bind_address` is that the default configuration for `smtp-amavis` in -DMS needs to be updated & explicit configured to connect via loopback (localhost) to avoid using -the `smtp_bind_address` as source address when "forwarding" email for filtering via amavis. -This seems to be a better configuration than adding your bind-addresses to `mynetworks` configuration in -Postfix. +DMS needs to be updated to explicitly connect via loopback (localhost), which avoids using +the `smtp_bind_address` as source address when "forwarding" email for filtering via Amavis. -Example `postfix-master.cf`: +!!! example -``` -smtp-amavis/unix/smtp_bind_address=127.0.0.1 -smtp-amavis/unix/smtp_bind_address6=::1 -``` + ```title="postfix-master.cf" + smtp-amavis/unix/smtp_bind_address=127.0.0.1 + smtp-amavis/unix/smtp_bind_address6=::1 + ``` + +This seems to be a better approach than adding your bind-addresses to `mynetworks` parameter in +Postfix `postfix-main.cf`.