I started with my first Linux server with RedHat 9.0. I have Fedora 1.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 and now I am trying to create my first mail server. I followed the C5 Perfect Setup. I deviated a couple of times and ran into problems so I wiped the disk and this time I followed to the letter. (I think.) However, I can not get the mail server to accept the mail and deliver it to the users. I am not planning to install ISPConfig so I followed the steps below. and it doesn't work. If you do not want to install ISPConfig, then you must configure Postfix to deliver emails to a user's Maildir: postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/' postconf -e 'mailbox_command =' /etc/init.d/postfix restart I checked the directories for the users and there is no Maildir in the users directories. I even tried the following to create a directory to no avail. echo "hello" | mail root echo "hello" | mail terry Nothing! The rest of the installation was great! Thanks for your efforts! Here is tha main.cf queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix mail_owner = postfix myhostname = mmaserver.tlalbright.com mydomain = tlalbright.com myorigin = $mydomain inet_interfaces = all mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases debug_peer_level = 2 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 sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.8/samples readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.8/README_FILES smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtp_use_tls = yes smtpd_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom home_mailbox = Maildir/ mailbox_command =
The Maildir will be created when the first email is delivered. If you perform an telnet session from your desktop pc to your mailserver IP-address, like: ehlo IP-address 25 What do you see then?
Tried this I tried the following ehlo 192.168.1.200 25 (The IP of the server) From the server I tried echo "hello" | mail root echo "hello" | mail terry and I sent an email from hotmail.com to my server. No mail shows up for root or terry No Maildir shows up in the directories for root or terry The hotmail message returns with 5 minutes as a failed to deliver. I restarted the postfix, saslauthd, and dovecot this morning. I got the following entry in the message file. Feb 21 06:44:16 mmaserver saslauthd[22666]: server_exit : master exited: 22666 Feb 21 06:44:17 mmaserver saslauthd[27296]: detach_tty : master pid is: 27296 Feb 21 06:44:17 mmaserver saslauthd[27296]: ipc_init : listening on socket: /var/run/saslauthd/mux The hotmail message created the following entry in the maillog file. Feb 21 06:58:37 mmaserver postfix/smtpd[27429]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from bay0-omc3-s22.bay0.hotmail.com[65.54.246.222]: 554 <[email protected]>: Relay access denied; from=<[email protected]> to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP helo=<bay0-omc3-s22.bay0.hotmail.com>
You must add all domains that you want to receive emails for to the mydestination parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf. Also take a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2
Almost got it! Thanks for the last gerat bit of info. I am now sending and receiving mail. I have just one last problem. When I send mail it puts localhost.domainname as the origin. Consequently, when someone replies, I never get it because it has localhost in front of the domain name and there is no valid address for that domain. I had the following in my main.cf file (see above) myhostname = mmaserver.tlalbright.com mydomain = tlalbright.com myorigin = $mydomain I changed it to myorigin = /etc/mailname and put tlalbright.com in the file mailname. I keep getting the same thing for an address [email protected] Any last suggeestions. I do greatly appreciate the help.
