Here is my situation. I have set up two virtual Linux machines in a windows 2022 server.
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One machine hosts a mail server (iredmail). It has an open port 25, and its FQDN is: mail.mydomain.com. It has the LAN IP address 10.10.10.9 and an internal DNS entry/webserver http://mailserver.lan. It hosts a bunch of email addresses, including icinga@mail.mydomain.com
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The second machine hosts only Icinga. It has the internal IP address 10.10 dot 10.8 or http://icinga.lan. It can send packets to the internet through the gateway, but none of its incoming ports are NAT-ed from the gateway to the LAN.
My question is: how can I configure the second machine to send notifications to any given email address using the sender’s address icinga@mail.mydomain.com (the domain hosted by the 1st machine). I suspect that I need to configure the iRedMail mailserver as a relayhost. I believe that I understand how I can do that in a safe way (SASL_authentication, noanonymous, etc.).
However, it is unclear to me how I should configure postfix in the icinga.lan machine to send notifications using the relayhost. For safety, I would prefer to avoid exposing icinga to the internet.
it may have become painfully obvious that I’m not an expert on networking. In real life, I am a medical doctor and a Covid specialist. However, I do have a genuine interest in learning these things. I would be exceedingly grateful for some help and I am happy to reciprocate with advice in my field of expertise if need be!