At 12PM -0800 on 26/11/12 /#!/JoePea wrote:
Hi Ben, Indeed, the mailq command shows my test messages sitting there with "mail transport unavailable".
┌─[11:48:22/hypership/root/~] └─╼ mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- 2DCCB580C01 1901 Mon Nov 26 11:45:02 trusktr@gmail.com (mail transport unavailable) trusktr@bettafootwear.com
B1449580C03 1895 Mon Nov 26 11:48:41 trusktr@gmail.com (mail transport unavailable) trusktr@bettafootwear.com
-- 5 Kbytes in 2 Requests.
I checked in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf and it shows destination d_mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); }; but there is no such mail.log file so I created one.
I don't know how syslog-ng works, but you need to be able to see the Postfix logs to have any chance of debugging this. Read your system documentation and get that working before trying anything else.
I logged in as mailman by doing su -s /bin/bash mailman then ran
/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f trusktr@gmail.com -d trusktr@bettafootwear.com </home/mailman/test_msg.txt
where /home/mailman/test_msg.txt contains a plain text sentence.
A single sentence is not a valid mail. Dovecot mostly doesn't care, but you will see odd client behaviour if you deliver invalid mails...
After doing that, mailq shows the new messages, but with the same "mail transport unavailable" message.
(I assume here that you only see the same list as before you attempted the new delivery? Delivering to LDA by hand shouldn't go anywhere near the Postfix queue.)
However, in Roundcube I see a new blank message with no subject for each attempt of the dovecot-lda command.
...such as this. It looks like the 'mail' is being successfully delivered; if you try with a proper mail, something like
From: root@localhost
To: root@localhost
Subject: testing dovecot-lda
1 2 3it should show up properly in your client.
At this point I think this is a Postfix problem, not a Dovecot problem. You can apparently successfully deliver mail using dovecot-lda, so something in your Postfix config is not invoking it properly.
Ben