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I have a VPS server that only deals with email hosting. This server does not have any designated domain name pointing to it. Its only one VPS with one IP address.

I am running CentOS 6.5 Minimal, 32bit with Postfix and Dovecot installed. This is currently what my etc/postfix/main.cf looks like (for domain/hosting attributes).

# INTERNET HOST AND DOMAIN NAMES
#
# The myhostname parameter specifies the internet hostname of this
# mail system. The default is to use the fully-qualified domain name
# from gethostname(). $myhostname is used as a default value for many
# other configuration parameters.
#
myhostname =   
#myhostname =

# The mydomain parameter specifies the local internet domain name.
# The default is to use $myhostname minus the first component.
# $mydomain is used as a default value for many other configuration
# parameters.
#
mydomain =     
# SENDING MAIL
#
# The myorigin parameter specifies the domain that locally-posted
# mail appears to come from. The default is to append $myhostname,
# which is fine for small sites.  If you run a domain with multiple
# machines, you should (1) change this to $mydomain and (2) set up
# a domain-wide alias database that aliases each user to
# [email protected].
#
# For the sake of consistency between sender and recipient addresses,
# myorigin also specifies the default domain name that is appended
# to recipient addresses that have no @domain part.
#
#myorigin = $myhostname
myorigin = $mydomain

As you might have noticed, both myhostname & mydomain fields are empty. The reason for this is, the server doesn't really have a domain or hostname. What should I be doing in this case?

I have an M record pointing to mail.my-domain.tld and MX record pointing to mail.my-domain.tld

Can I use mail.my-domain.tld for both as mydomain = and myhostname = in main.cf? Because my-domain.tld is pointing to another VPS with another IP, which takes care of only web hosting.

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By default your mail server should accept email sent to its hostname, in your mydestination parameter you enter what domains you are receiving email for, so that would be my-domain.tld in your example and you can set myhostname, mydomain to one of the domains.

This is independent of your MX record, that record (which can be anything) points to a domain name which should resolve to the IP of your server (A record), you probably don't need to change it.

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  • Thanks, but what if I have over 10 domains, for which I am using this server to host all their emails? Can I put all those domains in mydomain & myhostname filed?
    – samayo
    Apr 22, 2014 at 18:28
  • Sorry, mixed up mydomain and mydestination, edited the answer. So yes, you can put many mydestination domains separated my commas Apr 22, 2014 at 18:49

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