Re: [gentoo-user] Virtual/Mailhost Howto - Postfix

[Mitchell James]

Found it.  I had put a  "-w" instead of a "-v".  A bifocal problem. Mitch Andrey Kartashov wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:17:49PM -0600, Mitchell James wrote: hi, I am trying to follow the *Virtual/Mailhost Howto <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml> *and have run into a problem: postfix smtp does not receive mail. When postfix is stopped and I try "telnet localhost 25", I get a reject message as I should. When postfix is started: ----- # telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. ----- And that is it. It hangs and never sends the 220 mail.domain.com ESMTP Postfix message. I tried restarting portmap and have looked through the main.cf file till my eyes are crossed. Any ideas? Anything in the log files?