On 10/18/10 2:22 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 23:15, Scott Robbins<scottro at 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 at mercury ~]# ls -l /etc/aliases > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1512 Apr 25 2005 /etc/aliases > [root at mercury ~]# newaliases > [root at mercury ~]# service postfix restart > Shutting down postfix: [ OK ] > Starting postfix: [ OK ] > [root at mercury ~]# service postfix status > master (pid 12412) is running... > [root at 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 at 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)