I'm almost up and running on Mandrake 7.0 at home. This was a clean
install, rather than the upgrade from 6.1 which I did on my laptop
and on other machines at work.
For 7.0, the default mail handler is "postfix" rather than sendmail.
Supposed to be a nice program, and easier to configure, but the simple
examples don't get me up and running :(
At the moment, I can bring messages in with APOP via fetchmail, which
apparently delivers them correctly to postfix. But they stall in
/var/spool/postfix/deferred/, which indicates that postfix can't figure
out how to deliver the message. I've had it try to deliver to
lockhart@localhost and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the machine is
golem.jpl.nasa.gov) with no change. These two addresses show up in the
/etc/postfix/mail.cf file, and I've tried using the claimed "defaults
to" mechanism and explicit values. I did get the deferred queue to
empty once (can't remember how), and the mail then stuck in
/var/spool/postfix/defer/...
Any ideas? Any hints on getting some verbosity to help with debugging??
afaicr the other machines did not require any changes to get local mail
and outbound stuff up and running, but that is because they were
upgraded and actually use sendmail. Oh, I couldn't remove postfix
and install sendmail, since rpm fails with a script error when
deinstalling one of the "depends on postfix" packages :((
TIA
- Tom
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Thomas Lockhart
Caltech/JPL
Interferometry Systems and Technology
