Removed Citadel and installed Postfix, Postfix acting funny??
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I whish I could just remove Postfix and re-install it, however it's tied into important applications which will be removed aswell and since backuppc is in the middle of a backup I really don't want to touch it or anything else like logcheck either.
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That is true as I've come accross this situation many time! However I don't know if that will sort my issue as APT already removed Postfix when I mistakenly installed sendmail-mta. Of course I re-installed Postfix but still results are the same
So what can I do now without re-installing the operating system on the server??
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hmm good question!
My other implementation is configured with an n under chrooted, however I don't know exactly if it runs as a chroot.
As when we had our marathon with my DNS which was run as chroon, we mod'ed the directory structure run by the system, so / became .....<path to chroot>/
My Postfix main server is not working that way, even thought chroot enabled so I don't know if I am or not??
Here is the master.cf of the working server to compare:
Code:
#
# Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format
# of the file, see the master(5) manual page (command: "man 5 master").
#
# ==========================================================================
# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
# (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
# ==========================================================================
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
#submission inet n - - - - smtpd
# -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes
# -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
#smtps inet n - - - - smtpd
# -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
# -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
# -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
#628 inet n - - - - qmqpd
pickup fifo n - - 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - - - 0 cleanup
qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr
#qmgr fifo n - - 300 1 oqmgr
tlsmgr unix - - - 1000? 1 tlsmgr
rewrite unix - - - - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - - - 0 bounce
defer unix - - - - 0 bounce
trace unix - - - - 0 bounce
verify unix - - - - 1 verify
flush unix n - - 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
smtp unix - - - - - smtp
# When relaying mail as backup MX, disable fallback_relay to avoid MX loops
relay unix - - - - - smtp
-o fallback_relay=
# -o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o smtp_connect_timeout=5
showq unix n - - - - showq
error unix - - - - - error
discard unix - - - - - discard
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - - - - lmtp
anvil unix - - - - 1 anvil
scache unix - - - - 1 scache
#
# ====================================================================
# Interfaces to non-Postfix software. Be sure to examine the manual
# pages of the non-Postfix software to find out what options it wants.
#
# Many of the following services use the Postfix pipe(8) delivery
# agent. See the pipe(8) man page for information about ${recipient}
# and other message envelope options.
# ====================================================================
#
# maildrop. See the Postfix MAILDROP_README file for details.
# Also specify in main.cf: maildrop_destination_recipient_limit=1
#
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
#
# See the Postfix UUCP_README file for configuration details.
#
uucp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender - $nexthop!rmail ($recipient)#
# Other external delivery methods.
#
ifmail unix - n n - - pipe
flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient)
bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -t$nexthop -f$sender $recipientscalemail-backend unix - n n - 2 pipe
flags=R user=scalemail argv=/usr/lib/scalemail/bin/scalemail-store ${nexthop} ${user} ${extension}
mailman unix - n n - - pipe
flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
${nexthop} ${user}
amavis unix - - - - 2 smtp
-o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
-o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes
-o disable_dns_lookups=yes
-o max_use=20
127.0.0.1:10025 inet n - - - - smtpd
-o content_filter=
-o local_recipient_maps=
-o relay_recipient_maps=
-o smtpd_restriction_classes=
-o smtpd_delay_reject=no
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
-o smtpd_data_restrictions=reject_unauth_pipelining
-o smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions=
-o mynetworks=192.168.1.0/24
-o smtpd_error_sleep_time=0
-o smtpd_soft_error_limit=1001
-o smtpd_hard_error_limit=1000
-o smtpd_client_connection_count_limit=0
-o smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit=0
-o receive_override_options=no_header_body_checks,no_unknown_recipient_checks
-o strict_rfc821_envelopes=yes
-o smtpd_bind_address=127.0.0.1
With regards to directly answering your question, if Postfix can work as is it would be great however if not then I will make the necessary adjustments to get it working!
Also I haven't added the amavis stuff as something Mr C. said last time about trying to solve one problem at a time and taking small steps, so even though am enthusiastic and want to do everything at once I'm trying to take a more diciplined approach this time to make life easier.
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I just installed postfix on a debian box and it ran fine.
When you installed postfix, did it run through a setup utility for you?
The same thing with my mail server Postfix runs fine and works great. The only issue with my main server is that I had Exim in there before, then we switched to Exim-heavy then after that Citadel groupware suite and after removing Citadel I want to get Postfix in there as I like it and it will take up less resources then Citadel; but also it already runs on my mail server.
Yes to your question, it did run through the setup and after running dpkg-reconfigure postfix I can get back to that setup. Which I've already attempted yesterday I think.
However same result always the system just doesn't wana work?
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Oh for heavens sake!!!!
Just remembered I had a .forward file left over from the Exim config........ :0
This is the reason I stopped using Exim in the first place as that file kept sending replies to everybody endlessly and I ended up with major complaints about them.
I just recieved my very first email!
I am gona keep trying to test the config to see if it is actually 100% or just teasing me and will reply with the outcome.
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