On 10/18/10 2:22 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 23:15, Scott Robbinsscottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
Well, see if you have an /etc/aliases, which you should, even if it's a defaut. Then just run newaliases which will create an /etc/aliases.db
The issues may be elsewhere, but get rid of that one.
Well, I tried:
[root@mercury ~]# ls -l /etc/aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1512 Apr 25 2005 /etc/aliases [root@mercury ~]# newaliases [root@mercury ~]# service postfix restart Shutting down postfix: [ OK ] Starting postfix: [ OK ] [root@mercury ~]# service postfix status master (pid 12412) is running... [root@mercury ~]# tail /var/log/maillog Oct 18 23:15:59 mercury postfix/master[7816]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 18 23:16:18 mercury dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sami37>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured Oct 18 23:16:18 mercury dovecot: IMAP(sami37): Disconnected: Logged out Oct 18 23:16:59 mercury postfix/smtpd[12298]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory Oct 18 23:17:00 mercury postfix/master[7816]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 12298 exit status 1 Oct 18 23:17:00 mercury postfix/master[7816]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 18 23:17:49 mercury postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system Oct 18 23:17:49 mercury postfix/master[7816]: terminating on signal 15 Oct 18 23:17:49 mercury postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system Oct 18 23:17:49 mercury postfix/master[12412]: daemon started -- version 2.3.3, configuration /etc/postfix [root@mercury ~]#
But it still won't connect:
no kidding. look at that log, it didn't start. (last 3 lines notwithstanding, every else there looks like 'error' to me)