[Wylug-help] mail server problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 04 October 2008 05:52:51 Roger Beaumont wrote:
> More info:
>
> Stopping the fetchmail daemon on the new box, starting it on the old
> box, and setting the 'Server settings' on the third to access dovecot on
> the old one gives error free operation - no DUL messages, just the
> correct arrival (via the old box) of the test message sent from the
> third box.
>
> Since dovecot does seem to give IMAP access on both and fetchmail also
> seems to collect messages on both, I'm guessing its a postfix issue,
> though /root/.fetchmailrc does need to be different on each server: on
> the old box it's actually polling 3 mail servers - the current one plus
> my two previous, defunct, mail accounts; on the new one, I've chopped
> off those two out of date accounts, and 'user
> "roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk" there with password "************" is user
> "roger" here' has to change to, 'user "roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk" there
> with password "***********" is "roger" here' to avoid identifying 2
> local accounts, both 'roger' and 'user'.
>
Roger, you may have already checked this, but in the postfix main.cfg there is 
a definition of where it looks for aliases.  In some installs it looks at 
/etc/aliases, but in others it looks at /postfix/aliases.

Anne
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