Re: postfix not able to send email

[subin]

Thanks everyone. Troubleshooting was much pain. I built it from scratch 
and it works fine now.


Re,

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// Subin

On Tuesday 23 September 2014 08:00 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:55:32AM +0200, Christian R??ner wrote:


Debian turns on chroot in master.cf.

See http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#no_chroot for turning
it off.

Not sure, if this depends on his setup, as he compiled it from source.

Installs from source don't clobber an existing master.cf file.  So
unless Postfix was never previously installed on the system, any
prior chroot settings will apply.

postfix not able to send email

[Subin K S]

hi,

I've compiled and installed postfix 2.11 on Debian7, from source. Now when
I try to send an email using to an extrernal address from teh command line
it errs out as follows:

Sep 22 15:44:57 server1 postfix/qmgr[3894]: 0610827808C6: from=,
size=259, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 22 15:44:57 server1 postfix/smtp[4167]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp
Sep 22 15:44:58 server1 postfix/qmgr[3894]: warning: private/smtp socket:
malformed response
Sep 22 15:44:58 server1 postfix/qmgr[3894]: warning: transport smtp failure
-- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem
description
Sep 22 15:44:58 server1 postfix/master[3864]: warning: process
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 4167 exit status 1
Sep 22 15:44:58 server1 postfix/master[3864]: warning:
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
Sep 22 15:44:58 server1postfix/qmgr[3894]: warning: connect to transport
private/retry: No such file or directory


Please let me know what' I'm missing here.

Re