2009/3/18 Justin Mattock <justinmatt...@gmail.com>: > hello;(after spending 6days of starring at the same > message); > I can't figure this out for the life of me. > > I've compiled balsa from source using this > tutorial: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/balsa.html > when building I've decided to use postfix as the mta instead of esmtp. > The problem I have is I keep receiving a: no recipients specified
Sounds like Balsa is misconfigured or misbehaving. Try a manual smtp session to your postfix server. Example assumes postfix is running on localhost: furin...@shirayuki:~$ telnet localhost smtp Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 furinkan.ath.cx ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) HELO myhostname 250 furinkan.ath.cx MAIL FROM: justinmatt...@gmail.com 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: justinmatt...@gmail.com 250 2.1.5 Ok DATA 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> Subject: this is a test From: justinmatt...@gmail.com To: justinmatt...@gmail.com This is a test foo bar . 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 4D3F98FDB3 It sounds like Balsa isn't giving any "RCPT TO: email.addr...@goes.here.com" lines. > under: > cat /var/log/mail.log;(I see this) > > Mar 17 15:16:34 name postfix/pickup[1795]: 61712AE1C4: uid=1000 from=<a-12> > Mar 17 15:16:34 name postfix/cleanup[2113]: 61712AE1C4: > message-id=<1237328194.190...@unix> > Mar 17 15:16:34 name postfix/cleanup[2113]: 61712AE1C4: to=<unknown>, > relay=none, delay=0.13, delays=0.13/0/0/0, dsn=5.1.0, status=bounced > (no recipients specified) > Mar 17 15:16:34 name postfix/cleanup[2117]: 6A85CAE1C8: > message-id=<20090317221634.6a85cae...@stillneedtocreate.com> > Mar 17 15:16:34 name postfix/qmgr[1796]: 6A85CAE1C8: from=<>, > size=2196, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Mar 17 15:16:34 name postfix/bounce[2116]: 61712AE1C4: sender > non-delivery notification: 6A85CAE1C8 > Mar 17 15:16:34 name postfix/local[2118]: 6A85CAE1C8: > to=<n...@stillneedtocreate.com>, relay=local, delay=0.03, > delays=0.02/0.01/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) > Mar 17 15:16:34 name postfix/qmgr[1796]: 6A85CAE1C8: removed Indeed, there's no "to" lines there. From the above example, note the "to=<r...@meidokon.net>": Mar 18 19:07:08 shirayuki postfix/smtpd[2760]: 4D3F98FDB3: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] Mar 18 19:07:16 shirayuki postfix/cleanup[2779]: 4D3F98FDB3: message-id=<20090318080708.4d3f98f...@furinkan.ath.cx> Mar 18 19:07:16 shirayuki postfix/qmgr[973]: 4D3F98FDB3: from=<r...@meidokon.net>, size=342, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 18 19:07:47 shirayuki postfix/smtp[2891]: 4D3F98FDB3: to=<r...@meidokon.net>, orig_to=<root>, relay=yoshino.meidokon.net[202.4.232.68]:25, delay=42, delays=11/0.01/31/0.36, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as A9EF29B1D1) Mar 18 19:07:47 shirayuki postfix/qmgr[973]: 4D3F98FDB3: removed Mar 18 19:07:56 shirayuki postfix/smtpd[2760]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] If the manual test works then you need to poke Balsa, postfix is working as expected.