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postfix can send but cannot receive emails

Hello,

I have configured Postfix on a Ubuntu 8.04 box using this tutorial:

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...ntu8.04-lts-p5

I can send emails but I cannot receive any email because of a "bad recipient address syntax:"

The log from /var/log/mail.info says this:

Code:

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/pickup[31716]: 74A682190661: uid=0 from=<root>

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/cleanup[32402]: 74A682190661: message-id=<20090425124606.74A682190661@mail.360romania.eu>

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/qmgr[31717]: 74A682190661: from=<root@360romania.eu>, size=349, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/local[32404]: 74A682190661: to=<root@360romania.eu>, relay=local, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.1.3, status=bounced (bad recipient address syntax: root@360romania.eu`)

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/cleanup[32402]: 79AF52190662: message-id=<20090425124606.79AF52190662@mail.360romania.eu>

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/qmgr[31717]: 79AF52190662: from=<>, size=2121, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/bounce[32405]: 74A682190661: sender non-delivery notification: 79AF52190662

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/qmgr[31717]: 74A682190661: removed

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/local[32404]: 79AF52190662: to=<root@360romania.eu>, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0.02/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.1.3, status=bounced (bad recipient address syntax: root@360romania.eu`)

Apr 25 14:46:06 360romania postfix/qmgr[31717]: 79AF52190662: removed

It looks like something is appending the character ` to the final email address so that the final recipient gets written like this:

Code:

root@360romania.eu`

instead of

Code:

root@360romania.eu

Can anyone tell me what is wrong?

The content of the file 'main.cf' is the following:

Code:

# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version





# Debian specific:  Specifying a file name will cause the first

# line of that file to be used as the name.  The Debian default

# is /etc/mailname.

#myorigin = /etc/mailname



smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)

biff = no



# appending .domain is the MUA's job.

append_dot_mydomain = no



# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings

#delay_warning_time = 4h



readme_directory = no



# TLS parameters

smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt

smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key

smtpd_use_tls = yes

smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache

smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache



# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for

# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.



myhostname = mail.360romania.eu

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases

myorigin = $mydomain

mydestination = mail.360romania.eu locahost www.360romania.eu 360romania.eu

relayhost =

mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128

mailbox_command =

mailbox_size_limit = 0

recipient_delimiter = +

inet_interfaces = all

inet_protocols = all

smtpd_sasl_local_domain =

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes

smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes

smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination

smtpd_tls_auth_only = no

smtp_use_tls = yes

smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes

smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem

smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1

smtpd_tls_received_header = yes

smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s

tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom

home_mailbox = Maildir/

Regards,
Razvan

Nobody has any clues?

Please define some more....

R u using dovecot for pop/imap?
Have u tried to send mails to other domains?
R u able to receive mails from other domains?

Quote:

Originally Posted by friendyogi (Post 3522300)

Please define some more....

R u using dovecot for pop/imap?
Have u tried to send mails to other domains?
R u able to receive mails from other domains?

1) I am not using Dovecot or any other solution. What I am trying to do right now is to send email to myself (root to root) using this command:

echo Test1 | mail -s Blabla root@360romania.eu

2) I can send emails to any domain. I have no problem sending email! I only have problem when I have to receive them.

3) I am not able to receive emails from anywhere. All the time, I am getting the error that I mentioned in my initial post.

... what can be wrong?

Personally, I suspect that something is adding a ` character to the receiving email address.

Well .... any ideas?

You can start by grepping for backticks, e.g.

Code:

grep -rl '`' /etc/postfix/ /etc/aliases ~/.forward ...

Hey not sure if u resolved the issue or not but i was able to hit ur servers. if still having the problem try doing it from a user as apose to root.

May 1 14:09:29 postfix/smtp[23590]: A707D22D6: to=<root@360romania.eu>, relay=mail.360romania.eu[78.46.72.171]:25, delay=11, delays=0.04/0/11/0.31, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 0C18D2190484)
May 1 14:09:29 postfix/qmgr[2132]: A707D22D6: removed

Berhanie, it is working now!!!

The problem was in the file /etc/aliases! After the alias for root there was a backtick! I don't know how it got there.

Sorry about this ... This is my first Postfix installation.

Previously, I checked the config files from /etc/postfix/ and didn't found anything wrong (since there was nothing wrong there). I didn't checked the /etc/aliases file because I didn't knew about it.

So, what I did is this (it might help other people):
1. update the file '/etc/aliases';
2. run the command 'newaliases';
3. run the command '/etc/init.d/postfix restart';

Thank you!

Good job, rmihai. Also, usually there's no need to restart postfix after making changes: postfix reload is sufficient. You might also want to read this at some point.