On Oct 30, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> took up a keyboard and banged out

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.

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.

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 :).

For me, when I had a dedicated IP on dsl, the default did "The Right Thing", which is what MTA's usually want to do, I believe. That is, be the default mail handler for a given domain. Then I lost that, and had to work through my other ISP (earthlink). I found a very helpful HOWTO at RHAT, on various Postfix configurations. Note, however, that in order to get the envelope correct for ezelm (sp?) lists such as this one, I had to cut back on the recommendations to just do the masquerade and relay-host bits. Works lovely and simply. http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/book1.html Cheers. Michael -- Michael Fischer 7.5 million years to run michael@visv.net printf "%d", 0x2a; -- deep thought