Postfix not sending mail, how can I debug this?

abefroman · 02-23-2010, 06:32 AM

Postfix is not sending mail, I did a basic test of sending an email locally using the Linux mail command, and nothing was delivered, and I couldn't find an error either.

Where is the log for postfix located?

In main.cf I changed:
myhostname
mydomain
mynetworks
home_mailbox (I want to use Maildir/)

What am I missing?

TIA

Berhanie · 02-23-2010, 07:12 AM

Quote:

Where is the log for postfix located?

It might be /var/log/mail.log. If you can't find it, you can look in /etc/syslog.conf to see where mail messages go.

abefroman · 02-23-2010, 09:35 AM

Thanks! It was in /var/log/maillog

I fixed a couple problems, but now it telling me it can't connect, even though telnet works fine:

Code:

Feb 23 09:31:23 main postfix/smtp[4950]: connect to katieasdfsadfsdf.com[11.11.11.11]: Connection refused (port 25)
Feb 23 09:31:23 main postfix/smtp[4950]: 094F224A0041: to=<katie@katieasdfasdfasdfsda.com>, relay=none, delay=0.05, delays=0.04/0/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to katieasdfasdfasd.com[11.11.11.11]: Connection refused)
[root@main log]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 main.asdfasdfasdfasdf.com ESMTP Postfix

Any ides why it's saying that?

TIA

Berhanie · 02-23-2010, 03:34 PM

It looks like you're suggesting that mail to katieasdfasdfasd.com should have been delivered locally. But, postfix is not aware of that.
You should post at least the output of "postconf -n". Also, what's 11.11.11.11? Is that the external IP address of main.asdfasdfasdfasdf.com?