I just stopped postfix and dovecot, then cleared the logs then restarted postfix and dovecot.
The status of postfix says active (exited). The status of dovecot says: active (running) syslog Dec 6 12:48:45 softlinksys systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. Dec 6 12:48:45 softlinksys dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b) starting up for imap, pop3, lmtp (core dumps disabled) Postfix is not logging anything at all. This has gone from bad to worse. You have my config. Please let me know why postfix won't run. >From what you post here, I have an impression that you have multiple problems and are trying to solve them all at once, which usually never succeeds. Try to debug and solve one thing at a time. First, make sure that DNS records are actually correctly set up and point to the correct hosts. Our VPS IP is 194.163.45.150. You can easily check this: <https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3asizzelicks.com&run=toolpage > https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3asizzelicks.com&run=toolpage <https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3asizzelicks.com&run=toolpag e> https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3asizzelicks.com&run=toolpage You can check them for softlinksys.com/mail.softlinksys.com also and see that the IP is the same. Second, make sure that your services are actually running, try checking if Postfix delivers the mail by telnetting locally to port 25, then checking logs and checking the destination folder where the mail is supposed to appear. It turns out that I can't make postfix run. I start it and then check its status and it says active (exited) At the very end, when you are absolutely sure everything is working, you should try to configure an email client like Thunderbird and check email sending/receiving with it. I did and it did not work even when postfix was running. The error was auth failed Not everything at once! -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa <mailto:r...@rafa.eu.org> r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."
