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 ========================================================================