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:
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