Postfix not sending mail

Novack · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Finland

Hi,

I have a problem with Postfix when sending mail. PINE gives a "SMTP Greeting failure: 421 SMT Connection went away". All the docs I've read say that sending mail should work automatically after "emerge postfix" and starting the server.

When I try "telnet localhost 25":

s1th · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: Postfix not sending mail

kashani · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject: couple of things it could be

1. Did you you do any sort of configuration to /etc/postfix/main.cf? If not you'll want to add the IP's of the local server to the mynetworks variable. 127.0.0.1 needs to be allowed if nothing else.

2. Run a test from the command line make sure it's a Postfix problems and not the client. I suggest something like this:

echo "Subject: Testing #214" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F yourusername -f your username test@addresshere.com

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Novack · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Finland

The test worked fine and it sent the mail (Postfix check didn't give any errors).

I didn't configure PINE at all (because it worked fine on the Mandrake box without configuring. I checked it's config, they were all "not set" and it worked fine. Postfix on the Mandrake box also works if I configure it to use localhost as it's smtp-server).

If I configure "localhost" as the smtp-server on my Gentoo box, PINE will timeout when trying to send mail (Connection failed to localhost,25: Connection timed out). If I don't configure anything, it will give the "SMTP Connection went away" error.

b0fh · Guru Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 426

I've got the same error here, the test works fine, but pine gives me an error. Did you solve this some way?

b0fh · Guru Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 426

I found the error with sending mail and pine: Just add "sendmail-path=/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -t -oi" to your .pinerc. Now I've got another problem: I'm sending myself a mail, but it doesn't appear in my inbox, it's still in the mail queue (mailq). What to do?

Novack · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Finland

I fixed my mail sending problem by doing a symbolic link
/bin/mail -> /usr/sbin/sendmail

It can also be fixed by editing /etc/services.
Find the line:

smtp 25/tcp mail
and change it to
smtp 25/tcp sendmail

(This way of fixing, compared to modifying .pinerc, has the nice side effect in that you can use any mail software (like mozilla mail on another computer in your network) by just using your server as the SMTP-server).
This could also fix your problem with the mailboxes.

fimblo · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 10:52 am Post subject:

I just told pine's smtp-server field to localhost. works fine if you have a MTA on your puter.
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