Please post the results of "postconf -n" and the four or so lines in
/var/log/maillog for one outgoing post.
Jeffrey
Quoting basslake
Thanks for the help
I got in trouble with my isp last week I set /etc/postfix/main.cf - relayhost=my-isp-smtp and they got sent all my cron-jobs, and security check mails . I get ONE more CHANCE to test anything , and it has to be right , or I'm booted. They get really pissed when sendmail or postfix appends root, or usr at the front of my login-name. I can receive mails , ok but I need to be real careful about smart-host or any other option - the headers get screwed up . and I get a threatening mail from them . I can supply some more info on this in a later post - kmail works fine to send or receive and filter - thats how I'm posting now. I 'm not sure if kmail depends on postfix - if it does , then why doesn't mutt work through postfix? Maybe there's some answers to this?
thanks for any help John W Mislan
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, you wrote:
Try using nslookup to check those hosts, Postfix uses DNS heavily. As Joost says,
try relay_host=your.ISP.SMTP.server
Also post some of the Postfix log with the error messages.
Jeffrey
Quoting Joost van der Lugt
: * basslake
[Jun 14. 2001 17:33]: Hi all I have been trying to get mutt to send mail, but the mail keeps ending up in /var/spool/postfix/defer and says that host not found , this is with any hostname I try to send to.
Am I missing something in postfix - procmail - fetchmail -or mutt configs that is needed for sending mails through the postfix system, mail delivery agent ?
Well think I can help you pinpoint a little bit.... postfix.
You probably need something like a SMART_HOST pointing to your ISP's mailserver. I have however no experience setting this up with postfix; a search about this on google should clear things up, or maybe, maybe somebody here...
Joost
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