Hello zamri;
Without any knowledge of your LAN setup, troubleshooting your LAN mail is
not possible.
On your DNS question, mail won't be delivered without proper DNS zone. That
is not true for receiving mail (IMAP or POP) but mail not delivered won't be
received.
Your LAN DNS Zone must have an MX record for SMTP to work. (If it's all
dynamic (DHCP) then of course it won't work.)
A precautionary step: If you are truly doing everything from and as
localhost use 127.0.0.1 not "localhost" as the hostname in all configs to
avert a no-DNS problem.
Your test environment, testing an unknown with an unknown, is somewhat
flawed.
By using a new setup of Squirrelmail you are testing an unknown DBMail
system with an unknown MUA -- you'll go "WebMail Nuts" :o).
Try using a known MUA like T-Bird or Outlook Express or Mozilla Mail or
whatever. (Did you telnet into your DBMail system to check mail?)
Squirrelmail is usually more than a five-minute installation. An awesome
application once finished, sometimes it can be a devil to get it configured
and working the way you want it with the many plugins and customizations
available. Until everything is stabilized it is a plug-in breaking things or
the core installation or a missing PHP module in the build or something
else. Conclude that you should start with a minimal (basic) installation and
add plug-ins one by one. (Don't test it against an untested DBMail
installation. )
so:
1) Fix DNS
2) Use a working MUA for tests and get DBMail working the way you like it.
3) Then have fun with the Squirrelmail manuals. :o)
best...
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "zamri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DBMail mailinglist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:18 PM
Subject: [Dbmail] problem receiving mails
hi all,
I have setup dbmail as instructed in INSTALL.postfix and also have setup
dbmail tables successfully. I use SquirrelMail to access emails as a
frontend. The problem that I'm facing is I can't receive emails. FYI I want
to test the system in my LAN first. So it won't need to setup any MX record
for it. Am I right? The hostname and the domain is localhost and localdomain
respectively. Are there any options that I need to setup for squirrelmail
parts specific to dbmail ? I can;t find one except for the server setting
that I set to others. I set the maillog and it said 550. Do i need to set
local_recipient_maps?
My system:
Slackware 10.2
dbmail-2.0.7 (use dbmail-imapd & dbmail-lmtp)
postfix-2.2.7
SquirrelMail-1.4.5
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