Postfix Configuration

ToothlessRebel · 03-04-2006, 08:38 AM

Trying to configure postfix on a machine, following the postfix HOWTO on the website and after editing /etc/postfix/main.cf I get get an error from postfix reload. The error is as follows:

Quote:

postfix: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter mail_owner: unknown user name value: postfix myorigin = toothlessrebel.org mydestination = toothlessrebel.org, brandontechclub.org

$myorigin should be fine, most mail leaving this machine is nothing and can be marked from that domain.

$mydestination I believe is correct, as the server should eventually expect mail from both of these domains.

mail_owner is a major problem. I believe the user exists, from /etc/passwd:

Quote:

postfix::5000:102:postfix user::/bin/bash

Also, I can su to the user from the root account.

This is what I believe to be the pertinent portion of /etc/postfix/main.cf:

Quote:

# QUEUE AND PROCESS OWNERSHIP
#
# The mail_owner parameter specifies the owner of the Postfix queue
# and of most Postfix daemon processes. Specify the name of a user
# account THAT DOES NOT SHARE ITS USER OR GROUP ID WITH OTHER ACCOUNTS
# AND THAT OWNS NO OTHER FILES OR PROCESSES ON THE SYSTEM. In
# particular, don't specify nobody or daemon. PLEASE USE A DEDICATED
# USER.
#
mail_owner = postfix

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

-TR

Berhanie · 03-04-2006, 10:51 AM

Make sure there are no spaces and tabs following newlines, unless you want to continue a line. Looking at the error leads me to believe that your config looks something like

Code:

mail_owner = postfix 
 myorigin = toothlessrebel.org 
 mydestination = toothlessrebel.org, brandontechclub.org

instead of

Code:

mail_owner = postfix 
myorigin = toothlessrebel.org 
mydestination = toothlessrebel.org, brandontechclub.org

ToothlessRebel · 03-04-2006, 01:11 PM

Yeah, that was what was causing the error when the script was read. postfix now runs, but not properly. Trying to see what it is and is not doing, then will re-post.

ToothlessRebel · 03-04-2006, 01:14 PM

Does localhost need to me in mydestination for local mail delivery? If I type:

Code:

$ mail marshall
Subject: Test
Test
EOT
$

That user never receives any mail and I am not sure where to look to determine the error.

peter_robb · 03-04-2006, 03:13 PM

The mail programme doesn't use postfix, just local mailboxes in mbox format.

To test the smtp protocol, follow the following..
http://www.netadmintools.com/art276.html

ToothlessRebel · 03-04-2006, 04:46 PM

Don't recognize anything in the mentioned article, and reading it over and trying to gleen what I can from it. As a side note, that form of the usage mail worked before I screwed up sendmail and decided to use postfix. Also, my machine can send mail to an outsail receipiant.

Berhanie · 03-04-2006, 09:18 PM

Make sure postfix is even running. It may not be after changing mail_owner. Probably a good idea to run 'postfix set-permissions'. Also check the logs (might be /var/log/maillog).

ToothlessRebel · 03-05-2006, 01:34 AM

Code:

Mar  4 15:08:21 toothlessrebel postfix/local[1445]: fatal: open database  
  /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory

Thinking that may be the issue?

ToothlessRebel · 03-05-2006, 02:10 AM

newaliases command fixed that... on to configured it to receive email, then POP3!

Thanks all.