on 3-27-2008 1:36 PM Giulio Troccoli spake the following: > > > Scott Silva wrote: >> on 3-27-2008 12:46 PM Giulio Troccoli spake the following: >>> >>> >>> 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? >>> >> Dovecot is the server that provides POP3 and IMAP to the users. >> Postfix is the server that moves mail from place to place. >> >> so you logged in as federica and sent an email to giulio. Did you then >> log in as giulio and try to read the mail? >> > I did >> I haven't used mail in so long I am not sure if it works with maildir. >> I think it reads from /var/spool/mail or /var/mail directly, but you >> have set postfix to deliver to Maildir stores. You can also install >> squirrelmail on the server and apache, and then just log in to >> http://yourserver/webmail and read mail that way. But you would also >> have to make sure dovecot is set up. >> > Actually both, as /etc/mail is a symlink to /etc/spool/mail. I wasn't > expecting to find my email there but I did expect to be able to use > Thunderbird to download my emails. So maybe there is something wrong > with Dovecot.... >> Have you thought of just using something like SME server (based on >> CentOS 4) as your server? >> It does most of the work for you, and has a very user friendly admin >> system through web pages. >> > Ok, so maybe I've take the wrong path. This is what I am trying to achieve. > > I want a mail server, obviously, with the ability to use both POP3 and > IMAP. I usually download my emails on my laptop (and the other users, > like federica, on their PCs), but I want also to be able to install a > webmail (most likely squirrelmail). Finally I want to install majordomo > to manage some MLs. > > > What do you suggest then? Do you have any linux administration experience? If not, I would still recommend smeserver http://www.smeserver.org It has mailman under its contributed software which is miles ahead of majordomo and years more current. http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080327/bae16cd0/attachment-0005.sig>