On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:32:10PM -0700, Jonathan McMahon wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set up an extremely basic mailserver on Leopard 10.5 in order
> to check the behavior of some PHP scripts. Nothing fancy needed - I just want
> to send and receive mail to/from myself without having to go out to my ISP.
>
>
> QUESTION #1
> I've been able to get Postfix started and can telnet into 127.0.0.1 to get a
> test email sent. The issue is that it bounces as an unknown user...is there a
> basic checklist I can run through to make sure the user does in fact exist? I
> can only find buts and pieces on the web.
http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html
> Here is the error message I'm getting:
>
> to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<j...@john-does-imac>,
> relay=local, delay=0.07, delays=0.06/0/0/0, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced
> (unknown user: "john")
There is no unix account for the user "john", and no mailbox_transport
is specified to do something other than delivery to a unix mailbox
or command.
> I modified /etc/postfix/aliases:
>
> root: john
Aliasing "root" to "john", does not make john's mail deliverable, it
would make root's mail deliverable, if only john's mail worked.
> QUESTION #2
> I know that I need an FQDN in order for Postfix to function properly,
Not true if mail is not going to leave your system.
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Viktor.
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