Question Configure Plesk as MX backup and Smarthost for a domain.

[linuxman1]

I tried to configure Plesk as MX backup for a domain and to act as Smarthost but had some issue, please recommend a better solution for this task?
An issue I am afraid to change Postfix configs manually because Plesk on an update may overwrite the configs or on plesk repair tries. what do you think i should do?

 

[Matt Sonnentag]

Unfortunately, configuration of this is outside of the plesk interface and you have to drop to the command line and update the postfix files.

 

[Denis Gomes Franco]

I guess you wouldn't even need Plesk in order to achieve what you're doing... You could use some of the free control panels available or even go without any panels at all (which is harder to do, of course).

 

[Matt Sonnentag]

We put webmin on all of our servers just for this, just keep in mind that Plesk always wins as it will overwrite those parameters as it needs to.

 

[linuxman1]

I couldn't, I found it's imposible to do it on Plesk, I had this setup working on Cpanel for years, but for Plesk there is no backup MX facility which I used at Cpanel from a long time to do so, so for this I setup a VM as external mail proxy outgoing and forwader using Postfix as Plesk will recognize any domain as local and will not forward emails to external server, I tried with Plesk, I believe it will not work! even when you work on CLI, besides Plesk may overwrite main.cf on upgrades or repairs.