On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 00:03, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 12:44 pm, Brian Parish wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 23:04, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 3:06 am, Brian Parish wrote: > > > > Well - one dummy anyway. > > > > > > > > All I need to do is to set up a server to handle mail on an intranet. > > > > No relaying to anywhere and no incoming mail from anywhere else. I > > > > would think that this should be easy - it probably is. > > > > > > > > So I installed postfix and imap. I can check for new mail OK, so pop > > > > is working, but no matter what I do, sending mail only results in > > > > connection rejected messages from SMTP. > > > > > > > > I read that mandrake sets up postfix to run chrooted, so I copied the > > > > /etc/passwd file over to /var/spool/postfix/etc, casue it said I might > > > > need to. > > > > > > > > I am running with defaults in main.cf because that's supposed to work. > > > > I have tried setting things according to the local intranet example on > > > > postfix.org - no change. > > > > > > > > Where do I look to try to work out what's going wrong? > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > Brian > > > > > > If that is all you want to do then just install the drakwizard RPM and > > > run the Postfix wizard you will find in Mandrake Control Centre. (It > > > might be an idea to uninstall Postfix first to get it back to a known > > > state) > > > > > > derek > > > > Thanks Derek, > > > > That got me part of the way. Seems I can now send mail and it goes > > somewhere, but I don't get it back. I assume that having sent mail to > > brian@server I should only need to define an e-mail account with brian > > as the id and server as the pop server to receive it back. It polls > > without throwing an error, but no mail comes back. > > > > Looks like I'm missing something else really obvious, but that will have > > to wait for tomorrow - it's getting late here. > > > > thanks again for getting me started. > > > > cheers > > Brian > > If you send a mail to someone with an account on your machine e.g > brian@localhost, then Postfix will place it in /var/spool/mail/brian > > (If procmail is installed and a ~/.procmailrc file exists, then Postfix will > pass the mail over to procmail for filtering and delivery.) > > You can read your mail simply by opening a terminal and typing > mail > > To get your Evolution to read the mail select Settings>Accounts>Add and make > the account type 'Local Delivery' Evolution will then read from the spool > file (or is it 'Standard Unix Mailbox Spools'? ) > > derek
OK, but in my case it has to be pop because I will have some windows machines using the local accounts. So this is truly a server with clients, not just one machine with a number of local users. cheers (and now I really am going to bed!) Brian Any overnight replies that lead to the path of enlightenment in the morning gratefully received though!
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