--- "John Paul Tomas [Yahoo!]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > im using fedore core 5. postfix / smtp. > > Problems: > > 1. Cant seem to receive any mails, but i can send.
Things to check: - Can you send mail from the server to itself? - Is port 25 open on your firewall? - What's the mydestination setting in Postfix? (see below) - Do you have mail if you check on the server using mailx or elm? - Do you have an IMAP or a POP server set up? (see below) > 2. nslookup / dig mx seems ok. > 3. when sending emails the account need an entire domain name > like [EMAIL PROTECTED] not the usual [EMAIL PROTECTED] This sounds like a problem with the MX record in your DNS. It could, however, also be a Postfix configuration problem. Look in main.cf for: myhostname = (probably ns1.domain.com) mydomain = domain.com myorigin = $mydomain (if it's $myhostname, that may be the problem) mydestination = $mydomain (and probably some other things too) > 4. workstations cannot connect to the server using their gui mailbox. You haven't mentioned that you're running an IMAP or a POP server. Postfix by itself doesn't provide the ability to connect a GUI mail client. All it gives you is an mbox file (or possibly maildir, depending on how you've set it up). That's enough if you're only going to read mail on the server, with e.g. mailx or elm, but if you want to read mail on another machine, you also need IMAP or POP. Look at Dovecot, or possibly Courier or Cyrus. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
