postmas...@mydomain.com
I just installed postfix on Debian6. It's humming along and I am sending mail from it. I noticed that there is a folder /root/Mail although there is no mail in it yet. Also there seems to be nothing at all in /var/mail/. Doesn't Postfix create postmas...@mydomain.com by default? I am using mutt like this: mutt -f postmas...@mydomain.com but mutt is telling me no directory exists and I should have mutt create the directory. I did not see anything in mysql yet either as far as email addresses. Do I need to create the boxes manually? If so how would I do that? How do I know if I am using the vmail system or mysql? Thanks!
Re: postmas...@mydomain.com
On 2011-11-18 1:26 PM, peng...@sepserver.net wrote: I just installed postfix on Debian6. It's humming along and I am sending mail from it. I noticed that there is a folder /root/Mail although there is no mail in it yet. Also there seems to be nothing at all in/var/mail/. Doesn't Postfix createpostmas...@mydomain.com by default? Postfix doesn't create *any* addresses by default, that is your (the mail admins) job. One of the first things I always do is alias root to my admin account, and when setting up a new domain (I do all mine as virtual domains in a mysql db), I create the (RFC required) abuse and postmaster aliases to the same admin account. -- Best regards, Charles
Re: postmas...@mydomain.com
On 2011-11-18 1:34 PM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: One of the first things I always do is alias root to my admin account, Should have read: One of the first things I always do *when setting up a new mail server* is alias root to my admin account,... -- Best regards, Charles
Re: postmas...@mydomain.com
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:26 PM, peng...@sepserver.net wrote: I just installed postfix on Debian6. It's humming along and I am sending mail from it. I noticed that there is a folder /root/Mail although there is no mail in it yet. Also there seems to be nothing at all in /var/mail/. Doesn't Postfix create postmas...@mydomain.com by default? I am using mutt like this: mutt -f postmas...@mydomain.com but mutt is telling me no directory exists and I should have mutt create the directory. I did not see anything in mysql yet either as far as email addresses. Do I need to create the boxes manually? If so how would I do that? How do I know if I am using the vmail system or mysql? Thanks! There are some possibilities. For example, you can use Mailbox or Maildir. If you configured as the most common configuration, you may have a /Maildir directory created for each user that receives an e-mail, when it receives the first e-mail. Also, when using the simplest configuration, every user in the /etc/passwd file may receive e-mails... So, it depends on how you configure your postfix... You may take a look at the documentation for postfix, there are some examples you may learn a lot from. Try looking at http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html, at least. Fernando Maior
