On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:15, Alan Olsen wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote:
> > Postfix refuses to send email from one computer on my network to another.
> > It simply sends me repeated emails that say that the mail could not be
> > delivered and will be retried because the host could not be found.
> >
> > These computers (cups166.reisersun and tux350.reisersun) are right next
> > to each other and I can telnet to and from them and so I am amazed that
> > postfix on both computers can't actually see each other.
> >
> > The imap service is running on both computers.
> >
> > The only file I configured on both computers for postfix is
> > /etc/postfix/main.cf.  I've attached main.cf for tux350.reisersun and
> > main.cf.patch, in case you only want to see the changes that I've made.
> > The cups166 version of main.cf is the same as that for tux350 except for
> > "myhostname".
> >
> > Cups166 is running MDK8.1 and Tux350 is running MDK8.0.
> > The problem existed even when both computers where running MDK8.0.
> >
> > Obviously, it is my configuration error -- please tell me how to fix it.
>
> Do you have a DNS entry and/or /etc/hosts entry for these machines?
>
cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.1.1     tux350.reisersun        tux.reisersun   tux350 tux
192.168.1.2     cups166.reisersun       cups.reisersun  cups166 cups

> Also you might check to make sure the "ident" service is running. i have
> seen postfix refuse to deliver mail if it was not running correctly.
>
This is probably the problem.  What is the ident service and where can I get 
it?

> Also check your firewall rules and make sure that things can connect to
> port 25. (hosts.allow and hosts.deny can also effect that.)
Checked.

Thanks,
pesarif


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