Stick with postfix, its far easier them m4's and the like... you might find postfix easier if you use webmin..
generially yes, postfix should have a domain name.. you may be able to get it sort of functioning without it.. but its a good idea... do you have a static IP address??? if so, try doing a lookup on it, my ISP gives all its Ip's numeric subdomains.. and they are find for a mail server... when you send mail, (or try to) what is showing up in /var/log/mail/warnings? or info, or errors that info will help us determine whats wrong.. Also, postfix in mdk9 sometimes installs wrong.. so if you don't have a head of symlinks and lib files in /var/spool/postfix/lib then uninstall and reinstall postfix.. I had that problem twice and both times manually reinstalling postfix fixed it. (and strangely enough, postfix gave no real outward sign that there was a problem, it just wouldn't work properly.) rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jordan Elver Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix Config On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:03 pm, Franki wrote: > configure /etc/postfix/main.cf > > pay attention to the following: > > $mydomain > $mydestination > $myhostname > > go to dyndns and get yourself a domain name you can use.. its free, or > donation based. Please excuse my ignorance, but is it nessaccery to have a domain name? > make sure /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and hosts match those in /etc > so your mail server can resolve address's. They do match. All of the files in each. > reload postfix: service postfix reload > > see how that goes. Thanks for the help. The thing is, when I had sendmail installed ages ago, that worked fine. But, sendmail is not working either and the configuration files look very scary :-/ Cheers, Jord > rgds > > Frank > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jordan Elver > Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 2:37 AM > To: Mandrake Newbie List > Subject: [newbie] Postfix Config > > > Hi, > I'm setting up Apache (with PHP), MySQL etc and want to be able to send > mail from PHP. I've installed postfix and it's running. When I send mail > from PHP, > it sends and is added to the /var/spool/mail/postfix file. Inside the file > are messages which say something along the lines of: > > 450 Sender address rejected: Domain not found > > This box is not a production machine (thank goodness ;-)) but for local > development. I do, however need to send external email. I know this is a > postfix config error. The machine does not have a domain hosted here, just > a fqdn I made up for my LAN. > > How can I fix it? > > TIA, > Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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