Skip to content
Bots!
Bots!
  • About
    • Myself
    • আমার দোয়া
  • Bookmarks
    • Bookmarks
    • My OCI Bookmarks
    • Useful Proxmox Commands & Links
    • Learning Nano
    • Useful Sites
    • Useful Virtualbox Command
    • Useful MySQL Command
    • Useful Linux Command
    • BTT-CAS
  • Resources
    • Webinar on Cloud Adoption for Project Managers
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Downloads
Bots!

Randomize Source IP Addresses With Postfix

Rumi, August 19, 2026

Enters Postfix version 3. It introduced a new randmap table which made this much easier to accomplish.

In main.cf, just add the following lines

sender_dependent_default_transport_maps = 
randmap:{relay1,relay2,relay3,relay4,relay5}
smtp_connection_cache_on_demand=no

Those lines have 2 effects:

Randomly select an SMTP client for sending each email
Prevent the SMTP clients from caching connections, so sending multiple emails to a single domain does not end up using the same SMTP client.
In master.cf, just add new SMTP services and configure them to bind the designated IPs

relay1 unix - - n - - smtp
-o smtp_bind_address=IP1
-o smtp_helo_name=foo1.bar.com
-o syslog_name=relay1
relay2 unix - - n - - smtp
-o smtp_bind_address=IP2
-o smtp_helo_name=foo2.bar.com
-o syslog_name=relay2
relay3 unix - - n - - smtp
-o smtp_bind_address=IP3
-o smtp_helo_name=foo3.bar.com
-o syslog_name=relay3
relay4 unix - - n - - smtp
-o smtp_bind_address=IP4
-o smtp_helo_name=foo4.bar.com
-o syslog_name=relay4
relay5 unix - - n - - smtp
-o smtp_bind_address=IP5
-o smtp_helo_name=foo5.bar.com
-o syslog_name=relay5
Administrations Configurations (Linux) PostfixRandom IP

Post navigation

Previous post

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Myself…

Hi, I am Hasan T. Emdad Rumi, an IT Project Manager & Consultant, Virtualization & Cloud Computing and Public Key Infrastructure Savvy from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I have prior experience in managing numerous local and international projects in the area of Telco VAS & NMC, National Data Center & Naitonal PKI Root and Enterprise CA Infrastructure. Also engaged with several Offshore Software Development Team.

Worked with Orascom Telecom-Banglalink, Network Elites as VAS partner, BTRC, BTT (Turkey) , Mango Teleservices Limited and Access to Informaiton (A2I-UNDP) and at Oracle Corporation as Principal Technology Solution (Cloud) Architect.

And currently being employed at Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Ltd. as Advanced Business Development Lead (Cloud) in the south asia region.

You can reach me [h.t.emdad at gmail.com] and I will be delighted to exchange my views.

Tags

Apache Bind Cacti CentOS CentOS 6 CentOS 7 Debain Debian Debian 10 Debian 11 Debian 12 DKIM Docker icinga iptables Jitsi LAMP Letsencrypt Linux Munin MySQL Nagios Nextcloud NFS nginx pfsense php Postfix Proxmox RDP Softether SSH SSL Ubuntu Ubuntu 16 Ubuntu 18 Ubuntu 20 Varnish virtualbox virtualmin vpn Webmin Windows 10 XCP-NG zimbra

Topics

Recent Posts

  • Randomize Source IP Addresses With Postfix August 19, 2026
  • Conversation of Trevor Noah and Ian Bremmer August 7, 2026
  • Multi Thread file downloader for linux CLI July 27, 2026
  • Proxmox Proxy Application for WHMCS and ModulesGarden Plugin May 28, 2026
  • Installing & Configuring Cloud-Init on ISO-Built Ubuntu 22.04 VMs May 27, 2026
  • Upgrdae debian 12 to debian 13 May 22, 2026
  • User Account Control (UAC) or Windows blocks a setup file May 2, 2026
  • Install Proxmox VE on Debian 13 Trixie March 24, 2026
  • Directory Index PHP file March 17, 2026
  • CovermyAss February 27, 2026

Archives

Top Posts & Pages

  • Randomize Source IP Addresses With Postfix
©2026 Bots! | WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes