Simple (I think) Postfix configuration question

CanuckNJE · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 24

OK, so I have postfix running, and I want to set it so send mail via my ISP's SMTP server. In main.cf I put the line:

Slurp53 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Iowa

I am unsure what is wrong here, but did you check the log files? Postfix logs every little step that the email takes. Maybe that would give you a clue.

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Sequentious · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but relay host sets what hosts your mailserver is allowed to relay FOR, not where to relay to
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kashani · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject:

relay_domains is the setting for domains you'd want to relay for, relay_host is the machine(s) you want Postfix to use, so that's all correct.

I'd verify that Postfix is running and then post a snippet of the logs when you attempt to send an email.

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CanuckNJE · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 24

Which log do you want to see? I have a mail.err, mail.log, and mail.info in /var/log which contains the following (this is just the end of the files, I've left out the rest because it repeats itself):

mail.err:

CanuckNJE · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 24

In the Postfix FAQ they said to issue the command

kashani · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:57 am Post subject:

kashani@azul kashani $ date
Tue Mar 2 16:49:59 PST 2004
kashani@azul kashani $ date --set='Tue Mar 2 17:49:23 PST 2004'

mail.log is plenty, no need to include the other two as it's all the same stuff. Also trim it down to one transaction, we don't need to see imap checks and other nonsense.

Accoding to your last few lines in mail.log it looks like mail is leaving the system and being marked as delievered which is what happens when the accepting system passes a 250 code back.

Are you seeing problems sending email out fo the system or accepting emails? Your post was not very clear.

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CanuckNJE · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 24

Well, what I want to do is to be able to send mail from my computer using a program like mutt, pine, or squirrelmail using postfix via smtp, so that postfix is not really a full blown MTA, but it just relays my mail via an smtp server. I will get around to configuring fetchmail next, but I want to get postfix sending mail first. So the problem that I am having is that if I open mutt with the command

kashani · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:25 am Post subject:

It's generally a bad idea to test more that one thing at a time. What if mutt is broken? or imap? or Postfix? This is why I prefer to test from the command line and limit the number of variables being tested.

According to the logs it does look like it's leaving your Gentoo box and being accepted by the relay host at your ISP. I'd try sending to local account at your ISP first assuming you have an account there. Many of the larger email servers such as yahoo.com, hotmail.com, will quietly drop your message if the originating address isn't in DNS, fails to resolve, and a number of other things. You local ISP might not be a restrictive allowing you to see what's going on.

Also check to see if you've gotten any bounce backs. Mutt won't read .maildir/ files by default so you might be missing the bounces. Cruise your .maildir/ from the command line to see if there is anything in there.

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CanuckNJE · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 24

OK, I've looked around my .maildir, and it seems to be pretty empty. What am I supposed to be looking for in here?

I've tried using mutt to send a mail to my ISP account as above, but it didn't go through. When I try to send an email via SquirrelMail I get:

CanuckNJE · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 24

Well... I fixed that error in SM by running the conf.pl perl script, should of thought of that sooner. So, I changed the "server settings" to sendmail rather than smtp, and now SM sends the email that I write into the "sent" folder, but the email never shows up at the destination address.