Ok, sorry. Posting in plain text now.
I'm using Cyberguard firewall & I heard it's stateful. It's not
managed by me but by the network/security guys.
So by permitting SMTP from those selected domains' SMTP
gateways to my postfix server is not sufficient even if I only
need to receive incoming m
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:15:21 +0800
sunhux G articulated:
> Does my firewall need to permit SMTP outgoing or just incoming is
> sufficient?
Please don't top post. If you are unfamiliar with that term, Google for
it. While you are at it, could you please post in plain ASCII format.
There is no nee
You're right, there's one master postfix process locking it even though
"postfix status" reported postfix is down. Killed it & now postifx could
start & I'm beginning to get bounced mails notifications (shown below ***)
chroot is disabled & I've whitelisted the sending domains
Ran tcpdump nohup
On 2/16/2011 10:21 PM, sunhux G wrote:
Sorry for the lack of info in earlier post.
Think the main issue is I can't even start up postfix :
# postfix set-permissions
[root@etc]# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
[root@ etc]# postfix reload
postfix/postfix-sc
Sorry for the lack of info in earlier post.
Think the main issue is I can't even start up postfix :
# postfix set-permissions
[root@etc]# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
[root@ etc]# postfix reload
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is no
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:36:31 +0800
sunhux G articulated:
> Just set up postfix & it's running on my RHES 4.2 box.
>
> Immediately after postfix is up, I test sending emails from a
> permitted domain
> (ahhh, on this postfix server's domain firewall, we even have a
> firewall rule
> which permit
sunhux G:
> maillog:Feb 15 13:43:20 hostname sendmail[7688]: NOQUEUE:
> SYSERR(recipient_id): can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied
That is a SENDMAIL error message, not a POSTFIX error message.
Wietse
