>> The only thing postfix put in my log is the startup: >> Mar 27 13:46:40 davserver postfix/postfix-script[24448]: starting the >> Postfix mail system >> Mar 27 13:46:40 davserver postfix/master[24449]: daemon started -- > version >> 2.5.6, configuration /etc/postfix >> >> I know you said non-verbose, but since the above was useless I tried >> activating verbose for all lines in master.cf (except the dovecot one) > but >> the log still says nothing about my attempt to send a mail?? I did > double >> check my thunderbird config, and it does use schaumburger.info as SMTP >> server - I'm really confused now :( > If Postfix does not log a connect, then Postfix is not receiving one.
But then how can thunderbird give the error message about the virtual mailbox table? > When you telnet to your mail server, what is the banner response? > grkni...@mx1 ~ $ telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 mx1.scent-team.com ESMTP Postfix > > > Try this from both localhost and where you're attempting to send the > mail from. Tried, and that did produce log messages. Very very verbose lol. So I removed the verboseness again and tried telnet again and it connected. Now comes the weird part - now suddenly it works. The only things that changed: - I reinstalled (remerged) mysql with debug on (but haven't restarted since so I don't think that's what fixed it) - I installed telnet-bsd. I just tried removing it again and it still works so that shouldn't be it. - I had started a reinstall of everything, but aborted it after a few packages. So my best guess is that somewhere during install it had screwed up. I don't understand why - I did update glibc, but I did also reinstall everything after that so I really don't see why reinstalling now should've suddenly fixed things. Very, very, very weird. In any case, thanks for all your help, I'd put this down to freak install problem potentially due to updating core libraries and/or GCC. I don't think it'd be possible to reproduce this error so I don't think it's possible to investigate the root cause. Personally I'm prepared to put this away into the "unexplained mysteries" shelf unless someone would like to take it further. So thanks again - you guys give MUCH better support than certain commercial mail server developers that I had to deal with at work ;) Steffen
