[CentOS] Re: Installing Postfix/Dovecot
Giulio Troccoli
giulio.troccoli at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Mar 27 19:46:55 UTC 2008
Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-27-2008 12:04 PM Giulio Troccoli spake the following:
>> I have just installed CentOS 5.1 on my home server and I am trying to
>> set a mail server.
>>
>> I have diligently followed the instructions on the Wiki - How To on
>> the CentOS website (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix). However I
>> cannot send internal email (I haven't yet tried externally).
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions on what to check? To test it I used two
>> normail user: giulio and federica. I logged in as federica and sent
>> an email to giulio with the mail programme. Is this correct (i.e.
>> using the mail programme)?
>>
>> There is one thing that I don't quite understand from the
>> instructions. In section 3.1 it's suggested to set
>>
>> mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
>>
>> in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. My home network however is
>> 192.168.69.0 and actually the IP assigned to any computers in the
>> networks start from 192.168.69.20. So I changed mynetworks to
>> 192.168.69.0/24 and also 192.168.69.19/30 (as my server IP address is
>> actully 192.168.69.25). I don't think this is the cause of my problem
>> anyway, because it didn't work even with the value suggested by the
>> Wiki page.
>>
> 192.168.69.0/24 should be the proper setting here. 192.168.69.19/30 is
> not a proper network. Are you absolutely sure that you did every step
> in the howto?
>
> I used mail to send a test message and it worked fine ( after I read
> the man page -- I haven't used mail to send a message for 20 years or
> more!).
>
> There must be other errors in your postfix config.
>
> When you start postfix, does it throw any errors in the logs?
>
>
The 192.168.69.19/30 was just a test after 192.168.0.0/24 and
192.168.19.0/24 both failed (i.e. I could send an internal email). To
make clearer this is what I have in my main.cf file
mynetworks = 192.168.69.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
Starting Postfix does not throw any errors.
I can download emails using POP3 with postfix and davecot, can't I? I
don't have to use IMAP, right?
Giulio
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