Send all outgoing email trough one IP address in postfix

When a server has more than one IP address, then postfix will use all IP addresses randomly to send out emails. This can cause your emails to be listed as SPAM on other servers because the sending IP does not match the reverse IP of the server hostname. The solution is to bind postfix to the primary IP address of the server.

Edit the postfix main.cf file:

nano /etc/postfix/main.cf

and add the line:

smtp_bind_address = 192.168.0.1

were 192.168.0.1 has to be replaced with the primary IP address of the server. Multiple IP addresses can be separated by comma, example:

smtp_bind_address = 192.168.0.1, 127.0.0.1

Then restart postfix:

service postfix restart

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