It seems like when im sending mail out that it is always going to [email protected]lhost , any ideas why? This is making all of my servers website scripts not be able to mail the users it needs to send mail to. even if I just type "echo "test" | mail [email protected]" it sends it to [email protected]lhost
What's in your mail og when you try to send an email? What's in /etc/postfix/main.cf (please strip out the comments)? What's in /etc/aliases?
Not sure what exactly your asking for here. main.cf is Code: virtual_mailbox_domains =/etc/postfix/vhosts.txt virtual_mailbox_base = /var/spool/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmaps.txt virtual_uid_maps = static:506 virtual_gid_maps = static:507 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/valias.txt queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix mail_owner = postfix myhostname = localhost mydomain = $myhostname myorigin = $myhostname inet_interfaces = all mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 mynetworks_style = host relayhost = smtp.comcast.net alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5 sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix setgid_group = postdrop html_directory = no manpage_directory = /usr/share/man Code: # General redirections for pseudo accounts. bin: root daemon: root adm: root lp: root sync: root shutdown: root halt: root mail: root news: root uucp: root operator: root games: root gopher: root ftp: root nobody: root radiusd: root nut: root dbus: root vcsa: root canna: root wnn: root rpm: root nscd: root pcap: root apache: root webalizer: root dovecot: root fax: root quagga: root radvd: root pvm: root amanda: root privoxy: root ident: root named: root xfs: root gdm: root mailnull: root postgres: root sshd: root smmsp: root postfix: root netdump: root ldap: root squid: root ntp: root mysql: root desktop: root rpcuser: root rpc: root nfsnobody: root ingres: root system: root toor: root manager: root dumper: root abuse: root # mailman aliases mailman: postmaster mailman-owner: mailman newsadm: news newsadmin: news usenet: news ftpadm: ftp ftpadmin: ftp ftp-adm: ftp ftp-admin: ftp www: webmaster webmaster: root noc: root security: root hostmaster: root info: postmaster marketing: postmaster sales: postmaster support: postmaster # trap decode to catch security attacks decode: root # Person who should get root's mail #root: marc
The mail log. Are you sending emails to any of these users? These mails are all redirected to root because of these entries in /etc/aliases.
heres what my maillog shows when I do something that requires mail being sent. Code: Jul 12 12:37:36 localhost postfix/pickup[22519]: A945F250326: uid=502 from=<apache> Jul 12 12:37:36 localhost postfix/cleanup[22559]: A945F250326: message-id=<20060712163736.A945F250326@localhost> Jul 12 12:37:36 localhost postfix/qmgr[22520]: A945F250326: from=<[email protected]>, size=811, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 12 12:37:37 localhost postfix/smtp[22561]: A945F250326: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.comcast.net[216.148.227.147], delay=1, status=bounced (host smtp.comcast.net[216.148.227.147] said: 550 [PERMFAIL] comcast.net requires valid sender domain (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Jul 12 12:37:37 localhost postfix/cleanup[22559]: 37C9B250328: message-id=<20060712163737.37C9B250328@localhost> Jul 12 12:37:37 localhost postfix/qmgr[22520]: 37C9B250328: from=<>, size=2655, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 12 12:37:37 localhost postfix/qmgr[22520]: A945F250326: removed Jul 12 12:37:37 localhost postfix/local[22563]: 37C9B250328: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Jul 12 12:37:37 localhost postfix/qmgr[22520]: 37C9B250328: removed So it looks like either something changed with a comcast setup (even though it always worked before) or its not liking the fact that the email is coming from [email protected]lhost ?
After looking around some more and doing a dnsreport, the problem is the "myhostname = localhost" ...I don't know what to do about this though. If I set the hostname to one of my domains, it will send email fine (however the from field is blank in the email) but I have multiple domains.
You must change Code: myhostname = localhost in /etc/postfix/main.cf. Use a real domain/FQDN here that's on your server. Restart Postfix afterwards.
well, thats what im doing right now, but im using no-ip for my domains so its not actually on my server. It works fine if I email from the domain that I wrote in there, but if i use my other sites the emails come from "(unknown)".
