On June 24, 2013 at 1:19 PM, "/dev/rob0" <r...@gmx.co.uk> 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_restrictions >t > >That would be without the "t" on the end, but anyway, no, that's >not >what's going on here. > >> 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.) > >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:
My main.cf is an attachment to the first e-mail. I did look in /var/log/mail.log and had a few warnings/errors of interest. warning: do not list domain xxxxxxxx.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_mailbox_domains and Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table > >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. > >Either you have used someone's real domain as your example (don't >do that!) or something is wrong with DNS: > Holy cow? Two things I didn't expect. Somebody would own a goofy name like that and somebody else would actually feel like pulling the records to test that. I suppose example.com is taken too, which is precisely why I avoided it. I'm sure they get bugged all the time as it is. >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. >-- > http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting > Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
