[ale] New PostFix install

Armsby John-G16665 John.Armsby at motorola.com
Wed Jun 18 08:40:48 EDT 2003


All,

So much for upgrading from a working Mandrake 8.0 to Mandrake 9.1.  The upgrade became a start over install.... I am really disappointed in Mandrake...

The good news is I was able to go through a Red Hat HowTo and get my mail system to send mail locally.  The bad news is the box does not use my Mindspring relay to send mail outside of the box.  My environment is a home PC with a linksys switch to Mindspring.  I also have a modem.


Any help would be appreciated.

John



##################################################
my hostname is xena.
my isp is mindspring.com

my hosts file has  127.0.0.1   xena    xena.mindspring.com 
###################################################

Here are the error messages:

Jun 17 23:45:49 xena postfix/pickup[3727]: BDE191BB1E: uid=501
from=<john>
Jun 17 23:45:49 xena postfix/cleanup[3745]: BDE191BB1E:
message-id=<20030618034549.BDE191BB1E at xena.mindspring.com>
Jun 17 23:45:49 xena postfix/nqmgr[3728]: BDE191BB1E:
from=<john at mindspring.com>, size=316, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 17 23:45:49 xena postfix/local[3747]: BDE191BB1E:
to=<john.armsby at mindspring.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced
(unknown user: "john.armsby")
Jun 17 23:45:49 xena postfix/cleanup[3745]: CC0291BB21:
message-id=<20030618034549.CC0291BB21 at xena.mindspring.com>
Jun 17 23:45:49 xena postfix/nqmgr[3728]: CC0291BB21: from=<>,
size=1917, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 17 23:45:49 xena postfix/local[3747]: CC0291BB21:
to=<john at mindspring.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent
("|/usr/bin/procmail")



Here is the main.cf file.


 #sample /etc/postfix/main.cf for a dial-up user
    #
    # your ISP's SMTP server name or IP address goes here
    relayhost = mail.mindspring.com
    #
    # this line disables spontaneous PPP connections
    defer_transports = smtp
    #
    # this line disables DNS lookups for mail. As you are using a relay you really
    # don't need DNS. If you use this you should use an IP address for $relayhost.
    disable_dns_lookups = yes
    #
    # you will need all of the default stuff included as well
    # defaults
    queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
    program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
    command_directory = /usr/sbin
    daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
    mail_owner = postfix
    default_privs = nobody
    mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
    mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
    local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
    default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10
    debug_peer_level = 2
    debugger_command = PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin, xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
    #
    # you shouldn't need any more in this next line for a stand alone host
    mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
    #
    # host specific information
    myhostname = xena.mindspring.com
    mydomain = mindspring.com
    myorigin = $mydomain
    #
    # where do we receive mail and who do we accept/receive mail for?
    inet_interfaces = all
    mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain
    #
    # no uucp here
    default_transport = smtp
    #
    # let's get the envelope right
    masquerade_domains = mindspring.com
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