[Wylug-help] mail server problems

[Mike Goodman]

Roger Beaumont wrote:
> Andrew J Cole wrote:
> <snip>
>>  I would start by making certain that postfix was delivering locally
>>  as desired.  Since you aren't using postfix for SMTP outside your
>>  local machine I would leave the "smarthost" setup (SMTP to NTL relay)
>>  till later unless you can see an obvious "smarthost" setting in your
>>  .cf files.
>>
>>  You might be able to get some clues on what your postfix
>>  configuration is doing using good old unix/linux mail.
>>
>>  What does "mail -v XXXX at roger-beaumont.co.uk" etc. produce?
> 
> More DUL bounce messages from the ntl: server.
> 
> The output from 'mail is:
> -----------------------------------------------------
> [root at tower2 mail]# mail -v roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk
> Subject: new test 3
> Can I work 'mail'?
> Cc: roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
> 220 tower2.internal ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 
> 18:24:05 +0100
>  >>> EHLO tower2.internal
> 250-tower2.internal Hello tower2.internal [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
>  >>> MAIL From:<root at tower2.internal> SIZE=71
> 250 2.1.0 <root at tower2.internal>... Sender ok
>  >>> RCPT To:<roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk>
>  >>> DATA
> 250 2.1.5 <roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk>... Recipient ok
> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>  >>> .
> 250 2.0.0 m94HO5FF000826 Message accepted for delivery
> roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk... Sent (m94HO5FF000826 Message accepted for 
> delivery)
> Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>  >>> QUIT
> 221 2.0.0 tower2.internal closing connection
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Clearly, 'mail' sees "roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk" as an external 
> destination.
Methinks you need to define the domain - without the alias@ part - as 
one the server is serving users of.

> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Roger
> 
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HTH. Mike