Hmmmmm....You are learning.

Hi again,

Sorry >.<

hmm there's a part about SASL file, we have to set passwords for it. How to get into the file? Is it:

in the links they didn't specify. i assumed it is the above cause for transport it is /etc/postfix/transport

Hello again,

i've done configuring postfix to work with Gmail from the help of this http://prantran.blogspot.com/2007/01...untu-with.html

But still, i don't receive emails.

I went to take a look at mailq, i got:

and i also went to check in sudo vi /var/log/mail.log

There were like thousands of records in mail.log, i have to scroll down from TOP to BOTTOM to get the latest which is like so frustrating..


This is my /etc/postfix/main.cf:


What's wrong? I'm confused X_X

Can you turn off DNS lookups and see if the error goes. I used Zimbra, which in turn uses postfix, for sometime and disabling DNS lookups can sometime help.

Hi,

i added

in /etc/postfix/main.cf

Still the same result.


/etc/postfix/main.cf:

Hello Xanios and good morning (at least here in Spain it is),

You're not sending to GMail apparently.
From your main.cf:
Mine (that works even without authentication because we are using fixed IP and Google Apps for Enterprises) says:
Try to put smtp.gmail.com as first destination, restart postfix with:
and try to send mail.

PS: there might be already thousands of mails from Nagios in the queue so if you don't want to get blocked by GMail or your ISP for 'spamming', it's good practice to empty the queues first using:
That will empty all the queues.

Kind regards,

Eric

You do not have MX record for your domain set properly pointing to the mail server. You first need a A record set in your DNS and then add MX record pointing to the A record.
So in short you need a proper DNS server setup for it.

Hello Eric and good afternoon (here it is noon already haha :P)

I did as what you said and have added smtp.gmail.com in mydestination

And also emptied the queue.

Now queue is empty

i tried to send a mail to my gmail:

But i did not receive the email in my gmail account. So that means the postfix isn't working?

Hi there,

I don't really understand. DNS server? x_x
But i don't the server

Hello,

Check your log /var/log/messages to see if the mail got sent right away or deferred.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi Eric,

is this the right command?:

The log file is very long, is there a way to scroll easily for today's log?
Because my log first started with Aug 1, and i have to scroll all the way down :X

I have not worked with postfix much, but it needs a valid MX record as per my knowledge. Only time I worked with postfix was when I installed Zimbra. And it worked flawlessly with the same configuration as you are trying to do. I was also relaying messages using external SMTP server from Go Daddy where we had email accounts hosted for the domain.

Oh, i thought by default the MX record is valid. Hmm.
Postfix seems so hard ):

Hi,

Vi is an editor and you just want to 'view' the log file. You can use for example:
to scroll through the log file. You will have to page down to the end though. You could also use:
which will show you the last 100 lines of the logfile.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi,

i used tail -n 100 /var/log/messages

which gives me:

That doesn't gives me the mail log so i tried:

Which shows me: