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lokelo
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 Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 1:03 pm Post subject: Problems with Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide |
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I am trying to set up a mail server on my gentoo box. I just finished step 2, with installing postfix and now am trying to test my postfix setup with mutt. I have never used mutt before so I am unsure if my problem is a mutt issue, or with postfix.
First, I kept getting ~/.maildir not a maildir error after mutt asked me if it should make the .maildir. So following advice in the forums, i went ahead and installed courier-imap as it contained the maildirmake command. I then deleted the .maildir and used maildirmake to create one. No more complaints about it not being a maildir.
But now when i send an email with mutt It is not recieved. I tried sending mail to "root" and "root@localhost" and a couple external emails and none have been sent or recieved. I sent these messages as root if that makes a difference. Any ideas cuz i'm studk and dont want to proceed until this issue is resolved. |
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ixion
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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is postfix running (/etc/init.d/postfix status)? If it isn't running, then there is no medium to send the mail with. 
You shouldn't have to use maildirmake on all your users. I found when I had that same maildir message, after sending a message using mutt, the error disappeared.
To make mutt a little bit easier to use, you can test using this command line:
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mutt -s 'test' -x user
<type your message>
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lokelo
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| That seems to work much better now. However, any messages going outside of my system are coming back as undeliverable because it is being rejected by the recipients mail servers because the host does not exist. Its being bounced as coming from root@host.domain.tld instead of root@domain.tld like it should. Any idea about that? |
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ixion
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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ah, just follow the steps for editing the main.cf file in /etc/postfix.
Here is a sample that I've changed:
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queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
myhostname = my.domain.org
mydomain = my.domain.org
inet_interfaces = all
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain
local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps $virtual_mailbox_maps
virtual_transport = virtual
virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-domains.cf
virtual_minimum_uid = 1000
virtual_gid_maps = static:$vmail-gid
virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-maps.cf
virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual.cf
virtual_uid_maps = static:$vmail-uid
virtual_mailbox_base = /
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450
mynetworks = 172.0.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-aliases.cf
relocated_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-relocated.cf
local_transport = local
home_mailbox = .maildir/
local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command =
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
setgid_group = postdrop
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.19/sample
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.19/readme
default_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
home_mailbox = .maildir/
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oooh, looks like I need to do some config file cleaning..
anyway, just follow the tutorial from here on out and you should be good..
just FYI, when I had first set up my mailhost all my mails to RoadRunner or AOL addresses were blocked since my mailhost wasn't setup on their servers. I had to get corporate internet service and get setup with that so my mail would go through. You may want to check and make sure that this isn't happening. You may be able to get away with not upgrading to business class service, but if you sweet-talk them enough maybe they'll setup your mailhost.. afterall, Postfix does a great job of denying relay requests..
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amne
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Location: Graz / EU
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