Hello all having a problem getting postfix to send email, i think its sort of related to virtual machine/LAN/WAN/MX i'm sure its a simple fix but i cannot seem to get postfix to do what i want when i try to send email to myseld i get the following errors in the mail.log
May 31 18:03:13 erp postfix/pickup[9738]: 801FE27599: uid=0 from=<root> May 31 18:03:13 erp postfix/cleanup[10069]: 801FE27599: message-id=<20120601000313.801FE27599@erp.localdomain> May 31 18:03:13 erp postfix/qmgr[29637]: 801FE27599: from=<r...@erp.computerking.ca>, size=323, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 31 18:03:34 erp postfix/smtp[10072]: connect to mx1.computerking.ca[204.X.X.X]:25: Connection timed out May 31 18:03:34 erp postfix/smtp[10072]: 801FE27599: to=<r...@computerking.ca>, relay=none, delay=21, delays=0.09/0.01/21/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mx1.computerking.ca[204.244.122.131]:25: Connection timed out) This machine is on the same LAN as the server its ip is 10.0.0.108 and the server is 10.0.0.102 however these machines are all virtual on the same hardware. As seen in the logs postfix trys to deliver to the external ip 204.X.X.X where sure enough it get disconnected and im not sure why however i can connect to postfix on using the interal IP telnet 10.0.0.102 25 Trying 10.0.0.102... Connected to 10.0.0.102. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx1.computerking.ca ESMTP Postfix \ I have added mx1.computerking..ca to the hosts file to try and fix things and now i can even telnet to the hostname since i added the LAN ip in hosts telnet mx1.computerking.ca 25 Trying 10.0.0.102... Connected to mx1.computerking.ca. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx1.computerking.ca ESMTP Postfix However Postfix insists on sending to the external ip address probably an mx record thing and i telnet does not work there telnet 204.244.122.131 25 Trying 204.244.122.131... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out I'm not sure why the vm cannot connect to the other vm on the external ip, but is there anyway to make postfix use the LAN address or is there a better way to fix this? I ha Computer King CaN-Mail Surveillance King http://computerking.ca http://canmail.org http://surveillanceking.net Surveillance - Sales Service - Hosting Backup Internet Based Surveillance Systems Custom Service Pac kages Secure IMAP Email - Automated Remote Backups - Photo Blogs - Online ERP and Accounting Packages
