Steve Matzura: > I have charge of a very mixed system--current OS (Fedora 20--OK 21's > out but I just haven't upgraded yet), current (or nearly so) Mailman > (2.1.18-1), Postfix 2.10 with a configuration file sfrom something a > lot older which I've run through the upgrade-configuration procedure, > and old Dovecot (1.0.15). Is there anything I can do to test each of > these components individually, then add a second component and test > the three pairs, then all three together? I am nobody's definitioin of > an expert in any of these three components, so am having a lot of > trouble making them work together, so I thought maybe there might be > some test procedure that might straighten me out.
Follow instructions in http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html, submit mail with the Postfix "sendmail" command and look at the maillog file for what happens next. $ sendmail -t <<EOF To: m...@example.com Subject: Hello there EOF $ tail -f /var/log/maillog May 13 11:33:01 spike postfix/pickup[74640]: 3ln0Pn5JQCzJrQ5: uid=1001 from=<me> May 13 11:33:01 spike postfix/cleanup[75403]: 3ln0Pn5JQCzJrQ5: message-id=<3ln0pn5jqczj...@spike.porcupine.org> May 13 11:33:01 spike postfix/qmgr[34425]: 3ln0Pn5JQCzJrQ5: from=<m...@example.com>, size=340, nrcpt=1 (queue active) ... and so on... Wietse
