On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:06, 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
Ok....first, when you're sending an email - in whatever email client you're using, did you set it for SMTP or for SENDMAIL? If you are sitting on the local machine when you're sending, you can set the outbound as SENDMAIL (in most programs) and then POSTFIX will send it out generally without a hitch. Now if you're on a machine on your network, and need to send mail out, you're going to have to do some configuration to your POSTFIX server in order to allow for relaying the mail - but that's not hard either. In th POSTFIX configuration, under SMTP Server Options, you can set "Allow untrusted routing" to "yes" - which should then allow any client on your network to pass mail though the SMTP server - and should also work on the email client on the local machine. Does that help any, or confuse you more? Give a holler for more! -- Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:05:00 +1100 7:05am up 1 day, 16:01, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.30, 0.34 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kelly
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