Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-28 Thread Morten Torstensen
Giulio Troccoli wrote: I have tried both mail and Thunderbird. mail of course doesn't work because it read from /var/spool/mail while postfix puts the email in Maildir. However I would have thought that I could download the emails with Thunderbird (on my laptop). I have a similar setup, but I

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-27 Thread Giulio Troccoli
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Giulio Troccoli wrote on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:00:29 +: * smtp:[smtp:tiscali.co.uk] That has to be the FQDN of your provider's smarthost. What's a FQDN? Doesn't that open my server for realy anyway? As for your problem with sending mail: logs are usu

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-27 Thread Harald Wegscheider
Giulio Troccoli wrote: I have tried both mail and Thunderbird. mail of course doesn't work because it read from /var/spool/mail while postfix puts the email in Maildir. However I would have thought that I could download the emails with Thunderbird (on my laptop). I hope you're not saying I ha

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Giulio Troccoli wrote on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:00:29 +: > * smtp:[smtp:tiscali.co.uk] That has to be the FQDN of your provider's smarthost. As for your problem with sending mail: logs are usually the best source for troubleshooting. On CentOS it's /var/log/maillog. Kai -- Kai Schätzl,

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-27 Thread Giulio Troccoli
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 27 March 2008 20:00:29 Giulio Troccoli wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Now for the mail sending. Have you got a file called 'transport' under /etc/postfix? And one called transport.db? This last one is what tells postfix where to send things. The transpor

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 March 2008 20:00:29 Giulio Troccoli wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Now for the mail sending. Have you got a file called 'transport' > > under /etc/postfix? And one called transport.db? This last one is what > > tells postfix where to send things. The transport file needs lines

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-27 Thread Giulio Troccoli
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:04:02 Giulio Troccoli wrote: No, you are misunderstanding this. Your line needs to be mynetworks = 192.168.69.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 The /24 denotes a Class C network, which yours is, and the final part is the loopback address. Those were

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:04:02 Giulio Troccoli wrote: > I have just installed CentOS 5.1 on my home server and I am trying to > set a mail server. > > I have diligently followed the instructions on the Wiki - How To on the > CentOS website (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix). However I cann

RE: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

2008-03-27 Thread Dennis McLeod
"So I changed mynetworks to 192.168.69.0/24 and also 192.168.69.19/30" 192.168.69.19/30 should not be in there. What exactly does it say? This?: mynetworks = 192.168.69.0/24, 192.168.69.19/30 should be mynetworks = 192.168.69.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 (the /24 assumes you are using 255.255.255.0 as your