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kernelcowboy
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Joined: 14 Feb 2004
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Location: New Plymouth, New Zealand
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 Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:55 am Post subject: Local mail setup |
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I followed
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Postfix_Setup_for_Local_Mail_Only
basically I, installed postfix, configured it for local mail only, and started it.
then did this ...
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% mail -s "test" root
% mail
No mail for root
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I choose to use the system mail spool because I didn't think I had to know anything about it and I don't. I have a /var/spool/mail dir, but it is empty.
I'm guessing this is a simple problem for someone. I've never setup this type of mail before, so any obvious help would be great.
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indynet
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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Location: Prague - Czech Republic
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: Re: Local mail setup |
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[quote="kernelcowboy"]I followed
/etc/postfix/master.cf add flag -v to smtp send email again look at log
outup of postconf -n and mailq is also usefull |
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magic919
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Location: Berkshire, UK
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| The TIP says to alias root's mail to a user. Did you do that? |
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kernelcowboy
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: Local mail setup [FIXED] |
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http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#noalias
I was seeing this in the logs.
| Code: | Mar 10 10:56:19 localhost postfix/master[18015]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 18043 exit status 1
Mar 10 10:56:19 localhost postfix/master[18015]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Mar 10 10:57:19 localhost postfix/local[18044]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
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The weird thing is that I could still send mail out to the internet. Must be that aliases are necessary to route incoming mail.
Local mail works fine now.
Note: I didn't have to setup Mail Aliases part of the orignal wiki, as I was just sending to root and a real user. |
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