Postfix on Mandrake 9.0

wolftechmn · 11-21-2003, 08:07 PM

I'm trying to setup a postfix server for email but i can't recieve any messages

i can send them just fine but i can't recieve them. Also, how so you install pop and imap support. Any reply would be great, thax in advanced

david_ross · 11-22-2003, 08:55 AM

What is your domain? Have you got an MX record setup right?

As for pop and IMAP trak a look at installing courier-imap and qpopper.

wolftechmn · 11-26-2003, 01:17 AM

I gave up on postfix and switched to sendmail, personaly i like it MUCH better and best of all, it works

kvtournh · 11-26-2003, 08:26 AM

You have to setup your postfix. You will see that if you do netstat -a |grep LISTEN | grep tcp there is a port localhost:smtp and this should be *:smtp. It means that you can only recieve e-mail from your own computer.

sugestions: read the manual how to configure postfix
in your config file (postconf) there is a line
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
I think this should be something else, but I have no clue what

if you use sentmail, it works fine from the begining.

iainr · 11-26-2003, 08:50 AM

I've set up postfix and had no problems getting it receiving mail - it just worked after I had configured about 3 parameters. For POP3 I used vm-pop3d but I'm sure any other POP3 server would have worked too.