mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:

Sandy Drobic [mailto:suse-linux-e@japantest.homelinux.com] offered:

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And before you submit any real mail to your system you should be able to verify that Postfix/Cyrus are indeed working, before you enable fetchmail on your system.

What's the preferred way to do that? Use the mail command (any particular options?) to send a few words to... where? The postfix inbound port? Myself-the-user? Other?

As for the rest, I'm about to start two weeks off, so any mail that I don't receive this afternoon will have to be viewed in the archive, and I'll have no way to send until I fix the home setup. But I will look at the specific items you mentioned at the end of your post and see if anything rings a bell.

I usually don't make promises to have everything finished in two hours due to a lot of bad experience with such optimistic project beginnings. (^-^) Most of the time I start backwards, meaning I set up the imap server first, test the login to cyradm, create a few test mailboxes, set up the first user accounts and then try to authenticate to the imap server with a mail client. If that works I send a mail manually with cyrdeliver and check if the mail is indeed visible on the imap server. Once that works I begin with Postfix, check the config if it's an open relay, set up the right domain and host names and recipient maps, enable mailbox_transport for Cyrus and submit a mail to postfix, either by telnet or simply with mail. When that works I include amavisd-new for spam and virus checks. Only then do I publish the mx record, connect the server to the internet or use fetchmail to get the mails. The last step is to configure the log and server monitoring. I think it is important, even if some may say it is overkill for small sites. This is not done in a few hours. it is slow but steady work and ensures that every link in the mail chain works before I use it productively. This is of course only the basic setup without any tuning. Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com