On Wed, 13 May 2015 11:36:14 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Steve Matzura: >> I have charge of a very mixed system--current OS (Fedora 20--OK 21's >> out but I just haven't upgraded yet), current (or nearly so) Mailman >> (2.1.18-1), Postfix 2.10 with a configuration file sfrom something a >> lot older which I've run through the upgrade-configuration procedure, >> and old Dovecot (1.0.15). Is there anything I can do to test each of >> these components individually, then add a second component and test >> the three pairs, then all three together? I am nobody's definitioin of >> an expert in any of these three components, so am having a lot of >> trouble making them work together, so I thought maybe there might be >> some test procedure that might straighten me out. > >Follow instructions in >http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html, submit mail >with the Postfix "sendmail" command and look at the maillog file >for what happens next.
All quite helpful and useful. Turns out most of my problems were with Dovecot, all of which have also been worked out. Another unrelated question in the next post.
