postfix redux

[gbburkhardt at aaahawk.com (Glenn Burkhardt)]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:47 pm, Chris Devers wrote:
> > I don't think postfix can find interfaces if they don't exist when you
> > start it.  They have to be manually configured.  What is your connection
> > to the Internet?  Is the IP address for your machine dynamic?
>
> Yeah -- PPPoE, dynamic IP address, hostname set via a dyndns.org account.
> Where a host name or domain is asked for in the config, I use the dyndns
> name since, obviously, any IP address is going to be transient.
>
> So, I think the problem has been focused somewhat now...

I'll look at your posting - but, why are you trying to use Postfix if you have 
a dynamic IP?  Postfix is suitable for a mail server.  Does your ISP 
dynamically map a domain name to your current IP address?  If you don't need 
to set up a mail server, you're better off using your ISP's mail server.

That being said, the next thing to do is to see if there's any advice in the 
Postfix doc about dealing with dynamic IP's.