Hi Russ, @ 8:21:21 PM on 10/29/2001, Russ Chadwick wrote: RC> Oooo I set the hostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf, which the rpm RC> neither did for me or told me to do, and now I get (unknown mail RC> transport error).  Its like I'm running around a small room with a RC> bag over my head.  - Russ Based on some things other members have said, I would definitely try building it from the tarball and rpm -e the SuSE package. If http://www.postfix.org/ doesn't come up, try http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/ This http://perso.club-internet.fr/ffaure/postfix.html and this http://weblogs.userland.com/qube/stories/storyReader$75 should get you started pretty fast if the docs in the distribution don't suffice. -- -Brian Clark | PGP is spoken here: 0xE4D0C7C8 Please, DO NOT carbon copy me on list replies.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:21:26AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:43:09PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:

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Hi Russ,

@ 8:21:21 PM on 10/29/2001, Russ Chadwick wrote:

RC> Oooo I set the hostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf, which the rpm RC> neither did for me or told me to do, and now I get (unknown mail RC> transport error). Its like I'm running around a small room with a RC> bag over my head. - Russ

Based on some things other members have said, I would definitely try building it from the tarball and rpm -e the SuSE package.

If http://www.postfix.org/ doesn't come up, try http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/

This http://perso.club-internet.fr/ffaure/postfix.html and this http://weblogs.userland.com/qube/stories/storyReader$75 should get you started pretty fast if the docs in the distribution don't suffice.

Install it from the source, do not use the SuSE RPM, especially for 7.3. I don't think it surfaced on this list, but a long mail was sent to SuSE by someone, concerning the ways the SuSE rpm c'fs a Postfix installation. With regard to the SuSE rpm, SuSE is referred to in some quarters as Suse-from-hell.

I'm just curious, I'm running Postfix on 7.1, just installed it from SuSE provided rpm (it's an update) and see no problem with it.

As I said in a previous post I had bad experiences with Suse Postfix install, one case being an adjustment they made to a certain parameter making Postfix consume vast quantities of CPU when there was nothing for it to do.

No strange CPU consumption. Am I falling out of pattern? -Kastus

There is also a *very* active and very knowledgable mailing list. Also one of the experts on that list has the best fortune's I have ever seen at the end of his mails :).

-- Regards Cliff