[NTLUG:Discuss] SMTP and Postfix on SuSE 9.0

Bobby Wrenn bjwrenn at augustmail.com
Fri Nov 26 11:32:56 CST 2004


What am I missing in Postfix setup?

My old mail server crashed (Mandrake 7.2). It's been five years since I 
had to do this and a lot has changed. I just loaded SuSE 9.0 on a new 
machine and am having some problems getting every thing back up and running.

I am running qpopper and can get mail from the machine if there is mail 
in the mail box. But Postfix is not getting mail or accepting outgoing 
mail from my local network.

The network setup has not changed. I have IPCOP with Postfix running on 
the Orange (192.168.2.0) network all local workstations are on the Green 
(192.168.1.0). DNS is external (on August.net).

The IP address of the MTA/POP3 server has changed but is on the other 
side of IPCOP and is properly redirected (port 25 and 110).

/var/log/mail gives the following:

Nov 26 09:34:25 jenny popper[4518]: (v4.0.5) Unable to get canonical 
name of client 192.168.1.10: Unknown host (1) [pop_init.c:1087]
Nov 26 09:34:25 jenny popper[4518]: Stats: bwrenn 0 0 0 0 192.168.1.10 
192.168.1.10 [pop_updt.c:296]

/var/log/mail.warn gives the following:

Nov 25 13:00:00 linux postfix/postdrop[5442]: warning: unable to look up 
public/pickup: No such file or directory
Nov 25 13:00:53 linux postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail 
system is not running
Nov 25 13:56:54 jenny postfix/postqueue[14298]: warning: Mail system is 
down -- accessing queue directly
Nov 25 16:58:06 jenny postfix/postqueue[2510]: warning: Mail system is 
down -- accessing queue directly

ps indicates postfix is running.

a snip of /var/log/mail.info has this:

Nov 26 11:19:09 jenny postfix/smtp[5184]: 2DCC51B3DB: 
to=<rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com>, 
relay=lists.bestpractical.com[63.251.136.85], delay=10, sta
tus=deferred (host lists.bestpractical.com[63.251.136.85] said: 450 
<rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com>: Recipient address rejected: 
Greylisted for 94 seconds... (in reply to RCPT TO command))
Nov 26 11:19:09 jenny postfix/smtpd[5161]: connect from 
pallas.eruditorum.org[63.251.136.85]
Nov 26 11:19:09 jenny postfix/smtp[5182]: 46FB51B3D8: 
to=<bobby at wrennest.com>, relay=none, delay=10, status=bounced (Name 
service error for name=localhost type=A: Host not found)
Nov 26 11:19:09 jenny postfix/cleanup[5181]: C41811B3E1: 
message-id=<20041126171909.C41811B3E1 at jenny.wrennnest.com>

Kmail gives this when I try to send:

The server responded: "<bjwrenn at gmail.com>: Relay access denied "

TIA
Bobby




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