On 06/24/2013 20:19, /dev/rob0 wrote:
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 07:24:00PM +0200, Postmaster wrote:
Seems like you are missing some basic configuration. From postfix.org:
IMPORTANT: Either the smtpd_relay_restrictions or the
smtpd_recipient_restrictions parameter must specify
at least one of the following restrictions. Otherwise Postfix will
refuse to receive mail...
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_recipient_restrictionst
That would be without the "t" on the end, but anyway, no, that's not
what's going on here.
Yep. My mistake.
On 06/24/2013 19:02, postfix2...@hushmail.com wrote:
I'll admit I'm not that familiar with how mail systems work.
Mail IS very difficult. Have you looked at outsourcing? I don't have
any service I can particularly recommend, but Google used to have
gratis mail hosting, and they probably still do it cheaply.
Success at mail self-hosting is possible, but it will require more
from you than perhaps you are willing to invest? And then it will
need care and feeding, such as for spam control, and quick action
when something goes wrong (suppose your server has a hardware
failure, for example.)
Before I started to use Postfix I was using a product named Axigen. It's
a nice clean (closed source) solution with free license for personal use.
I can only recommended it. Especially during a start-up phase where you
need to become familiar with basic emailing concepts.
That said, I'll continue and try to point you to ways to find the
answers to your questions.
I wish to collect e-mail from two different domain names.
I have The Book of Postfix by Hildebrandt and Koetter in front of
me and have been using it as a how to guide for setting it up. I
followed "Mail Server for a Single Domain" and using the IP
address instead of a domain name, it tested out and worked. I
also followed the steps in the chapter "A Mail Server for Multiple
Domains"
This doesn't really tell us what settings you used. Ralf or P@rick
might be able to guess, but none of us should have to:
http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail
So I went to send a test email and got this immediate reply:
<m...@joeswebsite.com>: host mail.joeswebsite.com[76.xx.yy.zz] said:
550 5.1.1 <m...@joeswebsite.com>: Recipient address rejected: User
unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command)
Logging is a better resource than a bounce message, but this does
tell us some things:
1. Your system accepted and relayed for you (thus why Carsten,
quoted above, was wrong.)
2. Mail addressed to m...@joeswebsite.com was relayed to host
mail.joeswebsite.com[76.xx.yy.zz]
3. host mail.joeswebsite.com[76.xx.yy.zz] has joeswebsite.com
listed in its $mydestination, but no Unix user nor alias of
"me" was found.
Again, my mistake. I was worried about setting up an open relay.
Either you have used someone's real domain as your example (don't
do that!) or something is wrong with DNS:
joeswebsite.com. 14400 IN MX 0 joeswebsite.com.
joeswebsite.com. 14400 IN A 216.97.227.40
mail.joeswebsite.com. 14400 IN CNAME joeswebsite.com.
This should have gone to joeswebsite.com[216.97.227.40] and not to
mail.joeswebsite.com. (It happens to be the same address, but the
actual MX value would have been logged.) Your munged address was
clearly not 216.97.227.40.
