[Wolves] postfix config help

Ron Wellsted wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue May 20 19:40:00 2003


On Tuesday 20 May 2003 11:08 am, Steve wrote:
> hi
>
> We (me, si and jayne) been trying to set up mailserver, using postfix,
> fetchmail and courier-imap.Fetch works, so does courier, but can't seem to
> figure out why postfix isn't working. Try to send mail, and it ends up just
> being queued.
>
> One thing i a little confused about.Docs say that a FQDN is needed for
> hostname otherwise it won't work.We don't have have this, it's simply
> 'foeserver'. I changed it to foeserver.localdomain, and used 'localdomain'
> as the domain.
>
> The other thing is that the mailowner is 'postfix'. do we then need to make
> an actual linux user called 'postfix'?
>
> One more question. I made a user called mailgetter, which i used in
> fetchmail to recieve mail. I thought that the postfix mailowner should be
> the same, but it didn't work (sorry , can't be any more specific than
> that.)
>
> The mailserver is being set up so that 3 accounts (all going to the same
> inbox) can be set up and accessed from any machine.
>
> As you can tell we a little hazy about how this thing works , so some help
> would be super!

Do you have a "mydestination = " line in your main.cf?
This tells postfix the domain names to accept mail for and deliver locally.
try:

mydestination = a2rt.org, foeserver.locadomain, localhost

HTH

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