Broken postfix

hazmatt20 · 07-25-2006, 02:49 PM

Earlier this afternoon, I had postfix working pretty well. After trying to make a few more changes, it stopped working again. Here's my /etc/postfix/main.cf

Code:

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases

virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
mydomain = example.com
myorigin = $mydomain
mydestination = $mydomain
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/24
relay_domains = $mydomain otherdomain.com
relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients
relayhost =
inet_interfaces = all

and /etc/hosts

Code:

#$HOSTNAME is firewall
128.61.105.132  mail.example.com example.com firewall
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.0.2     ftp

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
#::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
#fe00::0 ip6-localnet
#ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
#ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
#ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
#ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

/etc/postfix/relay_recipients has a list of addresses in the form

Code:

user1@domain.com OK
user2@domain.com OK

and /etc/aliases has

Code:

list: user1@domain.com, user2@domain.com

When it was working, I could mail list@example.com and it would send the message to all the addresses set in /etc/aliases as long as they were listed in /etc/postfix/relay_recipient. Now, I can't send to anyone in relay_recipient, only to those whose domain is listed by relay_domains. It says relay access denied. Also, the alias rules have stopped working. If I type

Code:

postmap /etc/alias

it gives me

Code:

postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 2: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?

for each entry. What went wrong?

Matir · 07-25-2006, 03:36 PM

So, out of curiousity, what did you change just before it broke? I haven't used postfix in a while, but it looks fine to me.

Just saw your name on the post and figured I'd come take a look.

hazmatt20 · 07-25-2006, 03:59 PM

I just remembered what I was doing. It was working, but there were some errors coming up in the logs, so I was trying to work on them. At the time, I was working on this one.

Code:

Jul 24 10:20:06 firewall sm-msp-queue[6823]: My unqualified host name (firewall) unknown; sleeping for retry
Jul 24 10:21:06 firewall sm-msp-queue[6823]: unable to qualify my own domain name (firewall) -- using short name

/etc/hosts was

Code:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       firewall
192.168.0.2     ftpserver

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
#::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
#fe00::0 ip6-localnet
#ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
#ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
#ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
#ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

and I changed it to

Code:

128.61.105.132  mail.example.com example.com firewall
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.0.2     ftpserver

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
#::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
#fe00::0 ip6-localnet
#ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
#ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
#ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
#ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Somewhere in there it stopped working, and changing it back didn't help.

billymayday · 07-25-2006, 04:23 PM

You want to postalias aliases, not postmap