[Nottingham] Postfix - again...

[Martin]

David Aldred wrote:
> I had trouble with this before, and now I've got it again....
> 
> Just installed Mandriva 2006, and very nice indeed - more or less everything 
> obvious and out-of-the-box stuff.   

Good stuff. I may well wish to borrow your DVD ;-)


> But I'm back with a problem getting Postfix to deliver mail off-site.   If I'm 
> logged on as root, I can do 
> 
> mail david
> 
> and the mail is there for me when I log on as david - no problem internally, 
> then.
> 
> But if I do 
> 
> mail david at familyaldred.org.uk
> 
> the mail gets into the mailq, then disappears.  No error messages that I can 

For the sake of good security (on Mandriva at least), root is not 
permitted to mail offsite.

Does it work ok as a /normal/ user?

Good luck,
Martin

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