Hi,
I recently found out that I was able to get system mails, but not mails from the outside world. What setting do I have to fiddle with for this?
Regards,
I didn't say I couldn't send. I said I couldn't get from the outside world. I can send.
Sysadmin wrote:
Tere.
I recently found out that I was able to get system mails, but not mails from the outside world. What setting do I have to fiddle with for this?
Check Your smtp (sendmail, postfix etc) settings.
How did you think it comes in from outside? ;) It's the SMTP server that "brings in" and "sends out". Dovecot only reads what has been "bringed in" (brought in, actually, but I know this kind of English, though wrong, is fine here). * On 10/06/06 10:42 +0300, Tolga wrote: | I didn't say I couldn't send. I said I couldn't get from the outside | world. I can send. | | Sysadmin wrote: | | >Tere. | > | >> | >>I recently found out that I was able to get system mails, but not | >>mails from the outside world. What setting do I have to fiddle with | >>for this? | >> | >> | >Check Your smtp (sendmail, postfix etc) settings. | > -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
Am Samstag, 10. Juni 2006 09:38, schrieb Tolga:
I recently found out that I was able to get system mails, but not mails from the outside world. What setting do I have to fiddle with for this?
Usually your Transfer Agent (MTA, SMTP server) accepts mails from remote machines and forwards these to the delivery agent (MDA; often procmail or dovecot-lda, or a simple local MDA integrated into the MTA) which actually puts the mail into the mailbox depending on local delivery rules. Dovecot imapd / pop3d just offers mail which already ended up there.
So you'r problem is probably related to your MTA or MDA configuration and not to dovecot.
Greetings,
Gunter
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Hi,
I can't think of what's wrong with my postfix configuration. I built main.cf using postconf -d > main.cf. Anyway, it's at http://www.kunduz.org/main.cf which I hope you'll take a look and tell me what's wrong. It works well with Thunderbird and mutt.
Regards,
Gunter Ohrner wrote:
Am Samstag, 10. Juni 2006 09:38, schrieb Tolga:
I recently found out that I was able to get system mails, but not mails from the outside world. What setting do I have to fiddle with for this?
Usually your Transfer Agent (MTA, SMTP server) accepts mails from remote machines and forwards these to the delivery agent (MDA; often procmail or dovecot-lda, or a simple local MDA integrated into the MTA) which actually puts the mail into the mailbox depending on local delivery rules. Dovecot imapd / pop3d just offers mail which already ended up there.
So you'r problem is probably related to your MTA or MDA configuration and not to dovecot.
Greetings,
Gunter
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:50:05PM +0300, Tolga wrote:
Hi,
I can't think of what's wrong with my postfix configuration. I built main.cf using postconf -d > main.cf. Anyway, it's at http://www.kunduz.org/main.cf which I hope you'll take a look and tell me what's wrong. It works well with Thunderbird and mutt.
Thunderbird and mutt don't have a lot to do with postfix, and dovecot is not the problem here, but well.
postfix -n would have been easier to read.
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
myhostname = mail.kunduz.org
mydomain = kunduz.orgMX for kunduz.org is mail.kunduz.org which is 85.97.118.195, that seems not to be the problem (but dnsreport.com will have a lot of nasty things to say about your domain setup, you should correct accordingly).
I have the feeling that mydomain is not taken into account when receiving mail, which means that your postfix is not configured to recive mail for mtozses@kunduz.org, but only for mtozses@mail.kunduz.org, mtozses@localhost.kunduz.org, mtozses@localhost, which my crystal ball tells me isn't quite what you you want.
If correcting that doesn't solve the problem, try to deliver mail to your host from the outside using telnet to port 25, save the session and the corresponding postfix logs, do the same thing with a local mail (those that work, tcpdump them if you can't figure out what is sent), look over those traces, compare the ones that succeed to the ones that don't, and you should be able to find the problem. If you don't, postfix lists are probably a better place to ask than here.
HTH.
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Gunter Ohrner
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Lorens
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Odhiambo WASHINGTON
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Sysadmin
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Tolga