On 12 Dec 2014, at 22:47, ghalvor...@hushmail.com wrote:
Hello friends,
I followed a HOWTO document and it wasn't an entire success. I do
want to be more proficient with Postfix and have bought The Book of
Postfix from No Starch and Postfix: The Definitive Guide from
O'Reilly. I've spent about 15 hours in each book, so hopefully I have
a vague idea of how it works.
Note that those are both quite old. They are solid references for their
times and because Dr. Venema is very careful about backward
compatibility they are mostly not wrong, but they cannot help you with
the setup of the many features added to Postfix in the past 8-10 years.
The HOWTO is:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-mail-server-using-postfix-dovecot-mysql-and-spamassasin
That seems a bit more modern, but it is mostly instructions for
operating Things That Are Not Postfix.
[...]
So when I send a test email from my MacBook using mail in the command
line, I get these in mail.log. I get many, many of these. For now,
I'm mainly concerned with the postfix error. The Dovecot stuff, I can
refer to their list once the Postfix is in good shape. The
/var/spool/ and /var/mail/ directories seem to be unchanged, which is
a bit disturbing (maybe a permissions problem?)
Dec 12 21:52:06 example postfix/qmgr[29911]: 21EDCC08A3:
from=<gary@Garys-MacBook-Pro.local>, size=578, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec 12 21:52:06 example dovecot: lmtp(30139): Connect from local
Dec 12 21:52:06 example dovecot: lmtp(30139, b...@example.com): Error:
user b...@example.com: Initialization failed: namespace configuration
error: inbox=yes namespace missing
Dec 12 21:52:06 example dovecot: lmtp(30139): Disconnect from local:
Successful quit
Dec 12 21:52:06 example postfix/lmtp[30138]: 21EDCC08A3:
to=<b...@example.com>, relay=example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp],
delay=1021, delays=1021/0.02/0.02/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred
(host example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0
<b...@example.com> Temporary internal error (in reply to end of DATA
command))
That is entirely a Dovecot problem. The first line is purely
informational and the final line is just a record of the Dovecot LMTP
response.
