[SOLVED]Postfix: mails delivered to user root

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by Phrosgone, Dec 17, 2015.

  1. Phrosgone

    Phrosgone New Member

    Hi
    I installed postfix and dovecot and now I am fixing the issues. :confused: Most of them I was able to sort out with reading through to tons of websites. But one (hopefully) last issue is still open:
    All incoming mail are in the folder /var/spool/mail/root. I guess they should be delivered to /var/spool/mail/vmail
    Any idea what is causing this issue and what I should check to resolve it?
    Thanks in advance for your help!
     
  2. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    It depends on your setup. Which tutorial did you use to install the server?
     
  3. Phrosgone

    Phrosgone New Member

    The tutorial I followed is on nazimkuet. wordpress.com/2015/08/26/setup-mail-server-on-centos-7-email-with-postfix-dovecot-and-mariadb-on-centos-7/

    (remove the space after nazimkuet, I had to add it because I am currently not allowed to post links, sorry)

    Edit: If I send a mail from the local machine with mailx, I reiceive the mail on another client with Thunderbird. If I send the mail from external, after some time I get a "Delivery Status Notification (Delay)" and 2 days later a "Delivery Status Notification (faied)" mail.
     
    Last edited: Dec 20, 2015
  4. Phrosgone

    Phrosgone New Member

    Any idea why I do not get any external mails?
     
  5. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Is postfix listening on the external network interface?
    Did you open port 25 in the CentOS firewall?
    Did you check /var/log/maillog for errors?
     
  6. Phrosgone

    Phrosgone New Member

    Thank you taking you time. I will try to answer your questions as good as I can:
    If I do a netstat -tlnap | grep :25, I get the following output:
    tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 27438/master
    Then I did a ls -l /proc/27438 | grep exe and it shows:
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 20 00:50 exe -> /usr/libexec/postfix/master

    Yes, port 25 is open: firewall-cmd --list-ports --permanent
    110/tcp 443/tcp 80/tcp 465/tcp 587/tcp 25/tcp 143/tcp 995/tcp 993/tcp

    Yes, I checked the logs, but what I don't understand is the sender non-delivery notification. But else there aren't any error or reject messages.

    Dec 20 03:00:02 phrosgone postfix/cleanup[27537]: 74006208F5: message-id=<[email protected]>
    Dec 20 03:00:02 phrosgone postfix/bounce[27547]: B3FB1208F2: sender non-delivery notification: 74006208F5
    Dec 20 03:00:02 phrosgone postfix/qmgr[27440]: 74006208F5: from=<>, size=2851, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    Dec 20 03:00:02 phrosgone postfix/qmgr[27440]: B3FB1208F2: removed
    Dec 20 03:00:03 phrosgone postfix/smtp[27546]: 74006208F5: to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=0.16, delays=0.05/0/0.11/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for myhost.mydomain.ch loops back to myself)
    Dec 20 03:00:03 phrosgone postfix/qmgr[27440]: 74006208F5: removed
     
  7. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Add myhost.mydomain.ch to mydestination in postfix main.cf and restart postfix.
     
  8. Phrosgone

    Phrosgone New Member

    I did that actually few minutes ago. I added:
    mydestination = mail.rastoder.ch, localhost.rastoder.ch, localhost, rastoder.ch
    Then I have restarted postfix and sent a testmail from a hotmail account and checked with Thunderbird if I have received something. The maillog shows only the connection established from Thunderbird, but no indications about an incoming mail.
     
  9. Phrosgone

    Phrosgone New Member

    I was able to solve the issue, thanks a lot for your support!
     

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