I finally figured out why I couldn't send emails to smok...@sizzelicks.com <mailto:smok...@sizzelicks.com> .
I am attempting to migrate from shared hosting to a VPS. My shared hosting account at hostgator.com still had the domain sizzelicks.com set up. Every time I tried to send email FROM a hostgator account hostgator intercepted the message because it hosted (or thought it hosted) sizzelicks.com. I removed sizzelicks.com from the domains on hostgator and now I can send an email to smok...@sizzelicks.com <mailto:smok...@sizzelicks.com> without it bouncing. I don't know what happened on the server end. The mailbox folder exists and dovecot has files in there but I can't say it contains emails. I still can't connect to the mailbox. I'm guessing that's a dovecot/imap problem. Maybe you can help me now? Dec 6 23:17:01 softlinksys postfix/smtpd[48166]: warning: dict_nis_init: NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled Dec 6 23:17:01 softlinksys postfix/smtpd[48166]: connect from gateway21.websitewelcome.com[192.185.45.159] Dec 6 23:17:01 softlinksys postfix/smtpd[48166]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: Connection refused Dec 6 23:17:01 softlinksys postfix/smtpd[48166]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Dec 6 23:17:02 softlinksys postfix/master[47990]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/smtpd pid 48166 exit status 1 Dec 6 23:17:02 softlinksys postfix/master[47990]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling -----Original Message----- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org <owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org> On Behalf Of Wietse Venema Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 11:04 AM To: Postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org> Subject: Re: virtual mailbox domains?? <mailto:post...@aecperformance.com> post...@aecperformance.com: > Command: sudo postfix status > postfix/postfix-script: the Postfix mail system is running: PID: 38284 Good. > I attempted to send an email to <mailto:smok...@sizzelicks.com> smok...@sizzelicks.com > < <mailto:smok...@sizzelicks.com> mailto:smok...@sizzelicks.com> . It bounced. What is the Postfix logging for this? Be sure to include more than only the delivery error (i.e. logging from pickup or smtpd; cleanup; qmgr; ...). This is the first problem that you need to fix. > In the log I see a few attempts to connect from spammers. I do not see > my laptop IP or anything at all about what I did. That is the second problem to fix. I suspect a firewalling or routing problem. Wietse
