"Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The default installation of postfix that comes with Mandrake does not
> work by default. If I try to use pine to send a message it freezes up pine
> fot more than a minute. It get's stuck at 0% of sending the message. It
> does this with other mail readers too like mutt. Getting the latest postfix
> source and recompiling seems to fix this problem. But I am wondering
must be a configuration problem rather than a compilation problem.
you should monitor the logs (tail -f /var/log/mail.log) while on another
console/shell you try basics emailing (telnetting or using the standard
"mail" program from the mailx package)
> if anyone else has had this problem? I've experienced it in several
> different computers. At home, at workstations at school, and on a server
> at school I've had to recompile postfix to get it to work.Any
> ideas/solutions? It would be really nice for it to work out of the box..
worked for me out of the box on my work machine here and on my home
machine with a dialup connection.
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Guillaume Cottenceau
