Hi, I have a SuSE 9.1 distribution installed, with postfix as MTA. I have problems in configuring my Linux box to receive emails; in practice postfix is running and listening to port 25, but I cannot see any email sent to my machine (precisely, I can't see anything in /var/mail/vecchiato where vecchiato is my username, but I don't know how to check if this is the correct queue). I never configured an MTA under Linux, so I tried to use YaST2 with little success. I need not to use my own postfix to send non-local emails, I just need it to receive from outside and store them correctly. Also, surfing over the web in search of tutorials for configuring postfix is of little help. The SuSE administrator's guide does not mention the mail server configuration, and the user's guide says nothing that I couldn't understand by myself. I know that my question is rather "blurry", but do you have any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Alberto Vecchiato
The Friday 2005-04-08 at 17:45 +0200, Alberto Vecchiato wrote:
I know that my question is rather "blurry", but do you have any suggestion?
Very "blurry" :-) Check the log file: /var/log/mail. Errors will show there. Remember that in order to receive emails trough an MTA you need a domain name, with an MX entry. It is just a thought, you don't specify. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2005-04-08 at 17:45 +0200, Alberto Vecchiato wrote:
I know that my question is rather "blurry", but do you have any suggestion?
Very "blurry" :-)
Check the log file: /var/log/mail. Errors will show there.
Remember that in order to receive emails trough an MTA you need a domain name, with an MX entry. It is just a thought, you don't specify.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Hi, I'm trying again. I tried to remove and reinstall postfix (and fetchmail)
from my PC, to start from a clean configuration. Re-configured postfix using
YaST2 and started the daemon.
Then I tried a connection "by hand" from another account directly to the port
25; here is what I get:
220 eraora.to.astro.it ESMTP Postfix
ehlo zeus.to.astro.it
250-eraora.to.astro.it
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250 8BITMIME
rcpt from: bucciarelli@to.astro.it
503 Error: need MAIL command
mail
501 Syntax: MAIL FROM: <address>
mail from: bucciarelli@to.astro.it
250 Ok
rcpt to: vecchiato
450
Tue, 12 Apr 2005, by vecchiato@to.astro.it:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2005-04-08 at 17:45 +0200, Alberto Vecchiato wrote:
I know that my question is rather "blurry", but do you have any suggestion?
Very "blurry" :-)
Check the log file: /var/log/mail. Errors will show there.
Remember that in order to receive emails trough an MTA you need a domain name, with an MX entry. It is just a thought, you don't specify.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Hi, I'm trying again. I tried to remove and reinstall postfix (and fetchmail) from my PC, to start from a clean configuration. Re-configured postfix using YaST2 and started the daemon.
Then I tried a connection "by hand" from another account directly to the port [..] mail from: bucciarelli@to.astro.it 250 Ok rcpt to: vecchiato 450
: Sender address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
You need either a local user (login account) named "bucciarelli", or an alias to an existing user in $alias_maps (usually /etc/aliases).
This sounds strange, the same direct connection to another PC with SuSE 9.0 works fine (I have 9.1).
Postfix doesn't lie. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info.
Alberto Vecchiato wrote:
Hi, I have a SuSE 9.1 distribution installed, with postfix as MTA.
I have problems in configuring my Linux box to receive emails; in practice postfix is running and listening to port 25, but I cannot see any email sent to my machine (precisely, I can't see anything in /var/mail/vecchiato where vecchiato is my username, but I don't know how to check if this is the correct queue). Perhaps check if the mail storage is where you are looking ie by looking at /etc/postfix/ .
I never configured an MTA under Linux, so I tried to use YaST2 with little success. I need not to use my own postfix to send non-local emails, I just need it to receive from outside and store them correctly. Also, surfing over the web in search of tutorials for configuring postfix is of little help. The SuSE administrator's guide does not mention the mail server configuration, and the user's guide says nothing that I couldn't understand by myself.
I know that my question is rather "blurry", but do you have any suggestion? I am also in the long process of setting up a local mailserver.To my knowledge an MTA will not retrieve email from the mail drop/box at your ISP. You also need a program to get the email from the ISP, and Fetchmail does that for you and is initially setup in configuring the MTA under YAST, however I do not know if there is additional configuration required and where the file is.
Hope it helps -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================
participants (4)
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Alberto Vecchiato
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Carlos E. R.
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Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
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Theo v. Werkhoven