[Wylug-help] mail server problems

Andrew J Cole ajcole at ajcole.org
Sat Oct 4 12:00:27 UTC 2008


Roger,

Your postfix configuration on the new box appears to be your culprit.

Earlier Lee said ...

>NTL SMTP server delivers message to roger-beaumont.co.uk, via Message Labs,
>who I assume then forward that on to your home server (tower2)

I don't think that is the case.  I assume that you are picking up
(incoming) e-mail using fetchmail (rather than a direct SMTP feed)
and then using postfix to deliver it locally?

Are you certain that you have configured postfix on the new box to accept
e-mail addressed to XXXX at roger-beaumont.co.uk for local delivery?

>Tower2 doesn't know what to do with the message, for one reason or another,
>and wants to send a delivery failure back to the sender (also
>roger-beamont.co.uk)

Indeed it appears that postfix is not configured correctly to perform
local delivery for XXXX at roger-beaumont.co.uk and (as Lee said) is also
not setup correctly as a "smarthost" to relay everything through the
NTL SMTP server (its attempting to use direct delivery & messagelabs is
rejecting since your IP is - correctly I presume - in the DUL).

Andrew



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