====== Outgoing mails from postfix to relayhost ====== In order to let another mail server handle your outgoing mail traffic you need basically two things: Relayhost should allow your server to relay mails to it (not in this description)\\ Postfix should forward all mails to relayhost. Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf add following line relayhost = Reload postfix configguration: service postfix reload If you don't use your server as mail receiver, make sure postfix is only listening on port 25 on 127.0.0.1. In this way, incoming mails will not be handled. netstat -anp | grep 25 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1745/master In RHEL6 listening to 127.0.0.1 is the default configuration.\\ If this is not the case insert following line in /etc/postfix/main.cf: inet_interfaces = loopback-only and reload postfix configuration Verify the server is able to relay mails via relayhost: mail -s "Hello world"