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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