Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2008 20:00:29 Giulio Troccoli wrote: > >> Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> >>> Now for the mail sending. Have you got a file called 'transport' >>> under /etc/postfix? And one called transport.db? This last one is what >>> tells postfix where to send things. The transport file needs lines like >>> >>> lydgate.lan smtp:[192.168.0.40] >>> .lydgate.lan smtp:[192.168.0.40] >>> * smtp:[smtp:mailhost.zen.co.uk] >>> >>> where the first two lines define that anything addressed to >>> anyone at lydgate.lan is local, and should be delivered onto my imap server. >>> The last one sends everything else to my ISP. >>> >>> When they are ready, you just run 'postmap transport' and it creates the >>> database. >>> >> I didn't know this. I change the transport file and done 'postmap >> transport'. I have also restarted postfix, just in case, but still no >> joy. However, are those your settings so that I should have something like >> >> troccoli.it smtp:[192.168.69.25] >> .troccoli.it smtp:[192.168.69.25] >> * smtp:[smtp:tiscali.co.uk] >> >> where 192.168.69.25 is the IP address of my mail server? >> >> > That should be fine. > > >>> You also need to make sure that your system knows you want to use >>> postfix.sendmail, instead of just sendmail. >>> >> I have previously run system-switch-mail and chose postfix. >> >> > That would make the necessary links. Now, if postfix can send your mail out, > either to local or to your isp, what happens to the local mail. and how are > you going to read it? In my system it is then forwarded to procmail, which > sorts it into the relevant folders under dovecot's structure. > > I have tried both mail and Thunderbird. mail of course doesn't work because it read from /var/spool/mail while postfix puts the email in Maildir. However I would have thought that I could download the emails with Thunderbird (on my laptop). I hope you're not saying I have to install procmail too. I'd like to keep the system as simple as possible: postfix, dovecot, squirrelmail and majordomo (later) are enough. Giulio