[Wylug-help] mail server problems

[Mike Goodman]

Roger Beaumont wrote:
> Andrew J Cole wrote:
>>  Your postfix configuration on the new box appears to be your culprit.
> 
> <chuckle> I think that too, but don't know how to fix it.
> 
>>  Earlier Lee said ...
> <snip>
>>
>>  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?
> 
> Not certain at all <grin> but main.cf does contain:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> mydestination = localhost, tower.beaunet.homelinux.net, 
> localhost.beaunet.homelinux.net,
>  localhost.internal, tower.internal, localhost.localdomain, 
> roger-beaumont.co.uk
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
>> > 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-beaumont.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).
> 
> You've not only identified the problem, but at the same time, my area of 
> ignorance.  I've looked through both main.cf and master.cf (attached in 
> cf.zip, holding those files renamed here as *.cf.t2 to identify that 
> they are the versions for tower2) until I'm blue in the face.  Some of 
> them I think I understand, other parts I can make guesses, the rest I 
> can't even guess at.  My fond hope was that since they came from a 
> working system, they'd just work, but no such luck.
> 
> Thanks to everyone here for being so helpful.
> 
> Thanks to you lot I now think I know fairly accurately what's going 
> wrong.  All I need now is to learn how to fix it! <grin>
> 
> BTW, procmail is also installed (a default that I didn't change).  Is 
> that an issue?  'ps -e' doesn't show that it is running.
> 
> 
> Roger
> 
Roger, are you doing all this from the command line, or are you using a 
hosting management app such as Webmin or ISPConfig? For instance, the 
latter sets up a special file for hosts (can't remember the name of it). 
Also, in your old config, you would have had /etc/postfix/virtual with 
lines saying this complete address should be passed to this user's inbox 
but the domains themselves would each have a line like {mydomain.co.uk 
virtual}. So my question is, other than in main.cf, where are you 
telling postfix which domains to handle user mail for?

Don't worry about procmail, BTW. Its purpose is simply to hand off the 
various requests to the correct process, which it will dutifully do once 
you have postfix configured correctly.