Journal FortKnox's Journal: More Email Problems 17
OK, after some looking, I think I know what's going on with email.
postfix is what's sending email.
sendmail is what's getting email.
procmail is in that mess somewhere.
What I want? Just to recieve emails and either forward them (via my alias file), or accept them and read them in the shell. I don't want to use fetchmail to get email from my other accounts, just my marotti.com email addresses. Outgoing mail works.
I can send emails internally AND outgoing. I just can't recieve emails from the external internet.
Originally, email didn't get in at all (it would time out eventually). Now, I'm sending an email to an account that just recieves email and holds it, and I'm getting a relayed denied message.
This confuses the hell outta me, cause I have no idea why it even thinks I want to relay. I just want to accept the email, not relay it...
Any ideas at all?
postfix is what's sending email.
sendmail is what's getting email.
procmail is in that mess somewhere.
What I want? Just to recieve emails and either forward them (via my alias file), or accept them and read them in the shell. I don't want to use fetchmail to get email from my other accounts, just my marotti.com email addresses. Outgoing mail works.
I can send emails internally AND outgoing. I just can't recieve emails from the external internet.
Originally, email didn't get in at all (it would time out eventually). Now, I'm sending an email to an account that just recieves email and holds it, and I'm getting a relayed denied message.
This confuses the hell outta me, cause I have no idea why it even thinks I want to relay. I just want to accept the email, not relay it...
Any ideas at all?
ummm (Score:2)
telnet marotti.com 25 (Score:1)
220 xerxes.marotti.com ESMTP Postfix
So Postfix is handling incoming traffic. I'd dig up some documentation for Postfix and figure out the settings that prevent relaying and how to tell it which domains to accept.
I've only used sendmail and qmail so I can't provide much more help than that. For ease of configuration, I highly recommend qmail. Sendmail is a bitch. Or maybe it's just me.
Don't worry about procmail, it just delivers mail from sendmail/postfix/qmail/whath
Re:telnet marotti.com 25 (Score:1)
Wasn't 'Sendmail' the biggest (read # of pages) O'Reilly book for a long time?
It's always seemed like a hornet's nest to me.
Re:telnet marotti.com 25 (Score:2)
Re:telnet marotti.com 25 (Score:2)
Taking it a couple of step further:
My guess is that Postfix isn't configured to treat accept mail for local delivery for marotti.com, thus it's trying to relay it on (to a smart host, perhaps), and is quite rightly denying that. In sendmail, you'd just stick marotti.com in /etc/mail/local-host-names.
Don't know how you'd configure Postfix to
configuring Postfix... (Score:2)
Relay denied (Score:2)
Check the docs for how you tell the mailserver for which hostnames it should accept mail.
ISP mail relay? (Score:1)
Re:ISP mail relay? (Score:1)
Because we can. It's that simple. If your box is hooked up to broadband and has an UPS (dsl "modem" also hooked on it), it is very reliable. I only depend on my ISP for my bandwith, which I love: anything that goes wrong is my fault and hence I can fix it. I expect FortKnox to think in the same lines.
My parents actually have a server too, and I've been thinking to add MX records so that they can back each other up in case of failure of
Those weren't really my issues... (Score:2)
The "home server" is a geek ornament that I believe many grow out of. It really doesn't make much sense. I would much rather have m
Re:Those weren't really my issues... (Score:1)
I don't have an AC, as most Europeans, and I don't need one. Temperature rarely gets over 30 or 35 degrees centigrade. My P166MMX happily shugs along at those temperatures.
Downtimes due to moving are a non issue. How many times do you move in your life? 4 or 5 times?
A home server may be a geek ornament, but honestly, it also
Re:Those weren't really my issues... (Score:1)
Your fridge does not run all the time. It comes on when the temperature requires. Your computer runs 24x7x365 until you shut it off, unless it has some cool sleep mode which I do not know of in desktop PC systems.
A home server may be a geek ornament, but honestly, it also acts as a router and a fileserver in my home.
A router I can u
Re:Those weren't really my issues... (Score:2)
I also don't think people who run home servers appreciate how often they are portscan
Re:Those weren't really my issues... (Score:1)
Re:Those weren't really my issues... (Score:1)
That server
DNS setup? (Score:2)
Is all the rest of your mail done from the shell on the same machine?
I read the comments (Score:1)
Let me copy/paste a few sections that may be relevant for you:
Where foo=marotti
I looked through t