On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Bill Thoen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm setting up a new CentOS 64-bit machine and have nearly got mail > working, except I can't send mail to myself from outside the LAN it's > on. When I try I get this error message: > > "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.1.1 > <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in > virtual alias table. Please check the message recipient > [email protected] and try again." > > I can send mail from that address, no problem. I'm using the latest > Dovecot and Postfix. I've tried setting an alias in etc/aliases like so: > bthoen: [email protected] > > and pointing local_recipient_maps in main.cf at it. I also tried leaving > that empty. Also did 'service postfix restart' and 'service dovecot > restart' whenever I disturbed their config files. > > The log says that dovecot connects and disconnects OK, but I'm so new to > this end of the business that I probably don't see half of what I should > notice. Here's the last few log entries as I tried to login via Thunderbird: > > Dec 1 10:16:02 oneimage dovecot: IMAP(bthoen): Disconnected: Logged out > Dec 1 10:51:48 oneimage dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<bthoen>, > method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:72.251.11.78, lip=::ffff:192.231.196.244, TLS > Dec 1 10:51:48 oneimage dovecot: IMAP(bthoen): Effective uid=500, > gid=500, home=/home/bthoen > Dec 1 10:51:48 oneimage dovecot: IMAP(bthoen): maildir: > data=/home/bthoen/Maildir > Dec 1 10:51:48 oneimage dovecot: IMAP(bthoen): maildir: > root=/home/bthoen/Maildir, index=/home/bthoen/Maildir, control=, inbox= > > I've read lots of article on Dovecot, Postfix and related from Googlets > -- not understanding a lot of it. And I don't know what would be > relevant to display here for help. This is probably dead simple to an > experienced sysadmin, but my experienced SA got a real job in another > state and is no longer as free to freelance as before. So I have to > learn enough to make this work in the short term, and hopefully more > will sink in in the long run. > > Any help, references to articles, or requests for some information to > diagnose what's wrong would be much appreciated. > > TIA, > Bill Thoen
Bill, It sounds like Postfix doesn't know it's supposed to accept mail for your domain. Make sure that visualfarms.com is in the mydestination= line in main.cf and restart the service if you have to add it. If that doesn't work, it might be helpful to see the whole main.cf (you can obfuscate anything you don't want to share, though I can't think of anything in there that would be sensitive.) -James _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
