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alet_roux
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 Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject: Postfix problems with localdomain [Solved] |
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I have mail-mta/postfix-2.3.6 installed to manage local mail only (i.e. from portage and fcron to my user account). I followed http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Postfix_Setup_for_Local_Mail_Only and this worked perfectly... until last week. Suddenly my mail gets stuck in the queue, or completely disappears -- for example, I did not receive a single message from Portage for the whole upgrade of KDE.
The problem seems somehow related to my hostname. Here is some information from /var/log/maillog:
| Code: | Aug 12 23:32:16 roux postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Aug 12 23:32:16 roux postfix/master[5031]: daemon started -- version 2.3.6, configuration /etc/postfix
Aug 12 23:34:32 roux postfix/pickup[5045]: 08B8727DCE: uid=0 from=<root>
Aug 12 23:34:32 roux postfix/cleanup[5453]: 08B8727DCE: message-id=<20070812223432.08B8727DCE@localhost>
Aug 12 23:34:32 roux postfix/qmgr[5046]: 08B8727DCE: from=<root@localhost.localdomain>, size=280, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 12 23:34:32 roux postfix/local[5455]: fatal: gethostbyname("roux") does not resolve as a fully qualified domain name.
Aug 12 23:34:33 roux postfix/qmgr[5046]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/local socket while reading input attribute name
Aug 12 23:34:33 roux postfix/qmgr[5046]: warning: private/local socket: malformed response
Aug 12 23:34:33 roux postfix/qmgr[5046]: warning: transport local failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description
Aug 12 23:34:33 roux postfix/master[5031]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 5455 exit status 1
Aug 12 23:34:33 roux postfix/master[5031]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Aug 12 23:34:33 roux postfix/qmgr[5046]: 08B8727DCE: to=<alet@localhost.localdomain>, orig_to=<alet>, relay=none, delay=4.1, delays=2.7/1.4/0/0, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (unkno
wn mail transport error)
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My computer is a laptop, and as such does not have a domain name specified in /etc/conf.d/net or elsewhere (at work the domain name is specified by dhcp). I do specify the hostname ("roux"), for reasons of convenience, and it seems that postfix is suddently trying to extract a domain name from this. This behaviour started sometime after last Thursday, and I cannot say what in my system changed to cause this problem, apart from the upgrade to the new version of expat+KDE (I run a stable amd64 system).
Can anybody help me, please?
Here is some more information:
| Code: | roux ~ # postconf -n
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
home_mailbox = .maildir/
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.6/html
inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost
mail_owner = postfix
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
mydomain = localdomain
myhostname = localhost
mynetworks_style = host
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.6/readme
sample_directory = /etc/postfix
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = postdrop
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450
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magic919
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| I would just set myhostname as an FQDN and drop the mydomain as not needed. |
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alet_roux
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:33 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply. Do you mean like so:
| Code: | myhostname = localhost.localdomain
#mydomain = localdomain
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in /etc/postfix/main.cf?
I have tried to just make up my own domain name in /etc/hosts, but am worried that it will interfere with other applications. |
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magic919
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, just like that. Postfix should use that and then it won't pollute your other apps. You'll need a postfix reload once changed. |
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alet_roux
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Fantastic! I flushed the queue as well and everything arrived in the right place. Thank you very much! |
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magic919
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| You're welcome. HTH. |
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