I have postfix running on my xubuntu 21.10 desktop machine and it's working fine for sending mail from mutt which uses the 'sendmail' interface.
However I have a script which attempts to send using localhost port 25 and that doesn't appear to work. I am trying to debug it by connecting directly to port 25 on localhost using telnet and composing mail that way. It appears to be sent according to the postfix mail.log but it just disappears. I.e., from mail.log, this message never arrives:- May 16 16:57:23 esprimo postfix/smtpd[190440]: 865FE2C01D6: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] May 16 16:57:36 esprimo postfix/cleanup[190255]: 865FE2C01D6: message-id=<20210516155723.865fe2c0...@esprimo.zbmc.eu> May 16 16:57:36 esprimo postfix/qmgr[1316]: 865FE2C01D6: from=<ch...@zbmc.eu>, size=356, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 16 16:57:37 esprimo postfix/smtp[190560]: 865FE2C01D6: to=<ch...@isbd.co.uk>, relay=mail.gandi.net[217.70.178.9]:465, delay=24, delays=23/0.01/0.57/0.36, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 3D57D1C0003) May 16 16:57:37 esprimo postfix/qmgr[1316]: 865FE2C01D6: removed May 16 16:58:08 esprimo postfix/smtpd[190440]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] ehlo=1 mail=1 rcpt=1 data=1 quit=1 unknown=0/1 commands=5/6 ... but this one sent from mutt via postfix's sendmail arrives OK (you can see it arriving):- May 16 16:55:46 esprimo postfix/qmgr[1316]: 021532C0841: from=<ch...@zbmc.eu>, size=425, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 16 16:55:46 esprimo postfix/smtp[190257]: 021532C0841: to=<ch...@isbd.co.uk>, relay=mail.gandi.net[217.70.178.9]:465, delay=0.54, delays=0.01/0/0.18/0.35, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 68B71240003) May 16 16:55:46 esprimo postfix/qmgr[1316]: 021532C0841: removed May 16 16:55:49 esprimo postfix/smtpd[190353]: connect from p3plsmtp25-04-2.prod.phx3.secureserver.net[216.69.139.18] May 16 16:55:50 esprimo postfix/smtpd[190353]: 2AEBF2C01EB: client=p3plsmtp25-04-2.prod.phx3.secureserver.net[216.69.139.18] May 16 16:55:50 esprimo postfix/cleanup[190255]: 2AEBF2C01EB: message-id=<20210516155545.GC189386@esprimo> May 16 16:55:50 esprimo postfix/qmgr[1316]: 2AEBF2C01EB: from=<srs0=l8qg=kl=zbmc.eu=ch...@bounce.secureserver.net>, size=2507, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 16 16:55:50 esprimo postfix/local[190332]: 2AEBF2C01EB: to=<ch...@zbmc.eu>, relay=local, delay=0.49, delays=0.43/0/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /home/chris/.mutt/bin/filter.py) May 16 16:55:50 esprimo postfix/qmgr[1316]: 2AEBF2C01EB: removed So what's the difference? I *guess* that something in between must be rejecting the first one for some reason. -- Chris Green