I've got my email server nearly working (includes fetchmail, postfix, procmail, ipopd). ;-)
Main Problem: I can't send email to myself. Sub Problem: My postfix logs don't seem to be running -- are there any simple traps I'm liable to have fallen into which stop the postfix logging mechanism? The logs I'm checking are the info, warnings, and errors logs in /var/log/mail. Postfix is still running, but nothing has appeared in these logs since mid afternoon yesterday. The messages in the info and warning logs concern an email message that had been sitting there for 13 days (which is of no concern as I was only experimenting at the time it was sent -- mail now seems to flow OK). Hmm, I wonder what I did about that time yesterday? Background (on not being able to send email to myself): (I was going to try to find something in the logs, but ...). Anyway: * I'm using postfix as the MTA, and most things seem to work. I've set relayhost to point to my ISP. My home network is private, and my machines are named like System8.Home (System8 is the host (machine) name), and Home is the domain (not fully qualified, and not registered). My user name on system8 is dad, so I set a canonical_map (two ways, i.e., for send and receive, IIUC) to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other than that, my setup is fairly vanilla -- the only other parameters I've set are: * defer_transports=smtp * disable_dns_lookups=yes * canonical_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/canonical This is all on Mandrake 7.2 (actually the MandrakeFreq update). All the other settings are, IIRC, as they were upon installation. I do know that if I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly to my ISP (not via my server) it goes to them and comes back later. If I send it via my server, it just seems to disappear (although I suppose it could be at my ISP, waiting to get a nondelivery notice after five days). Randy Kramer
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