[Nottingham] Postfix problem...

[Simon Amor]

I must admit I've not been following this thread (using exim on  
pretty much all the machines
I use) but it looks to me like it can't resolve the domain name.

$ host -t mx aldred.org
aldred.org mail is handled by 0 aldred.org.
$ host aldred.org
aldred.org has address 83.223.116.20

Works ok for me, can you resolve the domain and MX records ok on the  
machine that's giving the bounce?

Failing that, have you tried strace to see exactly what the postfix  
processes are doing?

   Simon

On 11 Sep 2005, at 19:17, David Aldred wrote:

> On Sunday 11 Sep 2005 00:11, David Aldred wrote:
>
>> I've been blaming leafnode for a problem posting to moderated  
>> groups, and
>> it turns out to be postfix..
>>
>
> A couple of people have suggested copying /etc/services over to
> var/spool/postfix/etc/services - I've tried this, and the problem  
> may not
> have gone away, but it's changed!
>
> Nothing is now sticking in th mail queue, but I am getting bounce  
> messages
> instead!   The result of mailing (from the command line) a test  
> message to my
> address at david at aldred.org is a bounce mail which, after a  
> standard (quite
> nicely phrased) 'couldn't deliver you mail' text, provides the  
> deatiled
> appended below.
>
> Basically, there is still somthing it can't find, but I can't tell  
> what!
>
> One thought: should there be anything in my xinetd.conf file  
> relating to smtp?
> That's about the only thing I've been mucking about with since the  
> time when
> postfix was working: I'm just wondering if I hit a button twice in  
> vi and
> deleted more than I meant to, or something...
>
>
> Those details from the bounce messge:-
>
> <david at aldred.org>: [aldred.org]: Name or service not known
>
> --50BC9100369.1126459772/main.familyaldred.org.uk
> Content-Description: Delivery report
> Content-Type: message/delivery-status
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns; main.familyaldred.org.uk
> X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 50BC9100369
> X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; david at main.familyaldred.org.uk
> Arrival-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:29:32 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; david at aldred.org
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; [aldred.org]: Name or service not known
>
> --50BC9100369.1126459772/main.familyaldred.org.uk
> Content-Description: Undelivered Message
> Content-Type: message/rfc822
>
> Received: by main.familyaldred.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 500)
>         id 50BC9100369; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:29:32 +0000 (UTC)
> To: david at aldred.org
> Subject: hello
> Message-Id: <20050911172932.50BC9100369 at main.familyaldred.org.uk>
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:29:32 +0000 (UTC)
> From: david at main.familyaldred.org.uk (David Aldred)
>
> hello
>
> --50BC9100369.1126459772/main.familyaldred.org.uk--
>
> -- 
>
> David Aldred
>
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