Hi all. I have installed postfix using virtual domains on a fresh ubuntu install using falko great howto: Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) All tests appear to reply with correct responses as per the howto. I can get into database using phpmyadmin. I have setup two user accounts this way, '[email protected]' and '[email protected]'. using mailx I have sent each a welcome email. I have registered the domain name and arranged DNS hosting. they say they can see the mail server. I have forwarded the required ports on my router. I have sent an email to [email protected] from two seperate external email accounts and neither of them have bounced. I can browse to suirrelmail across my network using the ipaddress/squirrelmail/ but it will not let me sign in to either of the accounts that I setup. Then I noticed that the result of netstat -tap on the second last line it says: getnameinfo failed here is my postfix info vi /etc/postfix/main.cf I noticed in another thread that falko advised someone to change myorigin = /etc/mailname to myorigin = their fqdn as I have done above but it has not changed anything and below: result of telnet localhost 25 does anyone have anyideas where I should look. Im sure there are no typos as I copy and pasted everything in (being very careful about extra spaces as many have warned.) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
started again. got as far as page 2 I decided to start again from scratch. reformat. fresh install. pages 1 to 3 of The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server) then page 1 of Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) I omitted installing postfix-tls because it cannot find a source for it and I have read in other threads that it is not needed as it is included in the latest postfix. I skipped section 3 Apply The Quota Patch To Postfix I completed section 4 Create The MySQL Database For Postfix/Courier I checked to see that I could log into phpmyadmin and I could. On to page 2 section 5 Configure Postfix /etc/mysql/my.cnf already had: bind-address = 127.0.0.1 I restarted MySql anyway. /etc/init.d/mysql restart then: netstat -tap | grep mysql and got: I dont understand what I could be doing wrong, this early in the piece. my hosts file looks like this: and my network interfaces file looks like this: there isnt anything else. I havent even gotten as far as creating the six text files. I dont understand what I could have done wrong. can anybody please help me understand this?
More learningnessment Thank you Falko and Ralic for your propmt replies. I think I will take Ralic's advice and ignore it, now that I know what is going on, and since if I do it from the actual server terminal instead of ssh the error is not there. just to be on the safe side, the contents of /etc/resolv.conf is one line nameserver 10.1.1.1 (which is my DSL 504T adsl modem router). I did do a search in this forum for 'getnameinfo failed' but there were no results. again I thank you both for your help and I will continue on with the build. This is the 5th time I have started again from scratch but each time I get better results and each time I am learning more. Cheers p.s. is there a way to mark posts as "resolved" in this forum.
Many thanks. Thanx Falko. it works when I use the ip address you gave me. What is this IP address? I assume I now have to put in the IP address of the name server for my ISP. I can see it in the status area of my router. Again thank you. With your help and a few others, I have been able to build and get working, my own mail server, in a week, without ever having touched linux before. I can see that I have embarked on a journey that I am going to enjoy. Thank you.
It's a working nameserver from a German DSL provider. Instead of this one you can use your provider's nameservers.
