Hello I have installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 and got my email server working. I am using dovecot-postfix with squirrelmail. Is it possible for me to configure it so i'm able to receive email from anyone? I'm able to receive only from my domain but i'm able to send to anyone. Thanks for the help in advance
Make sure that the MX record for your domain points to your server. You can check that with Code: dig mx yourdomain.com
mx resord Does this look right or do I need more entrys? ;; ANSWER SECTION: domain.com. 3600 IN MX 0 smtp.hostname.domain.com. domain.com. 3600 IN MX 0 smtp.domain.com. domain.com. 3600 IN MX 0 hostname.domain.com.
One entry would be enough. Make sure there's an A record for the right part of the answer (e.g. smtp.hostname.domain.com).
amavis-new problems Thank you for your help. I had been doing test emails from yahoo and i looked at the error message real close and it was saying that there was no MX or A record for the domain.com. I went back and added that MX record and now it works. I would have gotten back to you sooner but I installed amavis-new, clamav, and spamassassin which messed the server up to where it wouldn't send out mail.... I uninstalled one at a time to find the culprit and it was amavis-new. Afer I uninstalled everything I reinstalled dovecot-postfix ( aptitude reinstall dovecot-postfix ) and squirrelmail then rebooted the server to get it back to where it was. Any ideas about the amavis-new. I used this to configure amavis-new http://postfixmail.com/blog/?p=340 My install was pretty simple I installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 with lamp, open-ssh, and mail. Then after the server install I did (aptitude install dovecot-postfix) and (aptitude install squirrelmail) and of course (aptitude install apache2) I'm just setting up a web site with email and wordpress.
postfix fails after amavisd-new After I install amavisd-new and configure it to the above tutorial, or this one https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixAmavisNew , and when I restart postfix and it comes up fail. i'm not sure which log to look at but in the /var/log/syslog it basically said postfix failed with no code. The mail log /var/log/mail.log didn't show anything usefull. Right now i have amavisd-new uninstalled and I commented out the chainges i made to the master.cf and main.cf file. When I restarted postfix it still came up fail so I reinstalled dovecot-postfix and the problem went away. So for now amavisd-new is uninstalled and my mail server is working fine. I do have clamav and spamassassin installed.
Thanks again for the help I'll reinstall amavisd-new this weekend again and if it's still doing the same thing i'll post you the exact errors.
