Oooh! This may not be a total Postfix issue after all. The name servers for my domain (rmmp.org) are at ZoneEdit. I have an MX record set to mail.rmmp.org.
When I telnet to rmmp.org (25 or 26, depending on what network I'm behind), I can talk with the SMTP server. However, when I try to get to mail.rmmp.org, I get a host not found. I'm hoping this is where the problem is. Seems quite likely. In ZoneEdit, under my MX config for the domain, I have: mail.rmmp.org "handles mail" 1st "for domain" rmmp.org For the IP (A) records, I have rmmp.org and www.rmmp.org pointing to the IP address of the server. Do I also need a mail.rmmp.org A record mapped to an IP address? My initial thoughts that were since mail.rmmp.org "handles mail" for rmmp.org, and rmmp.org has an A record, I wouldn't need one explicitly for mail.rmmp.org. I'm going to give this a shot, but still don't know if it's correct. --Aaron On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 01:27 -0400, Aaron Bockover wrote: > Okay, having never worked with Postfix or any email system before, other > than web-based user administration on my shared hosting systems, diving > head first into the world of email systems is slightly overwhelming, > considering the time restrictions I am under. > > I am right now just working with Postfix. I have the server set up, and > it is delivering mail into user Maildirs (/home/user/Maildir). I can > connect to the SMTP server from localhost and send a message without a > problem. I can connect via telnet from my desktop (which is on a > completely separate network), actually through port 26 (set up a > iptables rule on the server to forward 26->25, thanks Earthlink!) and > send a message. > > The problem is sending a message through Earthlink's SMTP server, as set > up in Evolution. My Postfix server is denying the message relayed from > the Earthlink SMTP server. > > I was thinking that the "mynetworks" and "mynetworks_style" settings in > main.cf have something to do with this? > > Does anyone have a config that I can work with that handles the > following goals: > > 1. Accept incoming SMTP connections from anywhere and messages bound for > the local server > 2. Do not relay messages from any other host except the local server > (and other hosts manually specified) to remote SMTP servers > > If I can get mail delivered from any SMTP server to mine, then I think I > can really get going with Postfix, and move on to virtual domains and > users, and then getting Courier-IMAP set up to read the Maildirs. > > I'd also appreciate any other Postfix/Courier-IMAP related > tips/tricks/articles that anyone may have to share! Email is the only > system I'm not too familiar with! It'd be more fun if I had more > time :-/ > > Thanks! > > Aaron Bockover > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
