[Lias] postfix

[Adam Brown]

Hi Parkes High School,

There are a number of things to try:

Can you ping the ip address of the mail server windows machine? If not you 
need to get the basic network connectivity going.

Can you ping the mail server by name from the windows machine. If not, you 
have an issue with DNS. What machine are the windows servers using for DNS? 
You might like to try using the raw IP address of the mail server in the 
windows mail settings.

Have you looked in the postfix logs in /var/log/mail.log, mail.warn, mail.err.

Have you configured postfix? The configuration file is /etc/postfix/main.cf 
(or wherever Mandrake puts it).

Have you allowed access to the pop3 daemon in /etc/hosts.allow (or whatever 
Mandrake uses).

Do you have a firewall and do the rules allow access to the pop(110) and 
smtp(25) ports?

127.0.0.1 is not a local network address. Your machines need to have local ip 
addresses like 192.168.X.X. 

good luck,


Adam



On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:04, Parkes High School wrote:
> I'm having some trouble getting Postfix to work.
>
> I have it installed on a machine running Mandrake 9.0
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> Hostname of the machine is den.school.phs.intranet
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> Service postfix status indicates it is running
>
> Cucipop is installed on the machine as the pop server
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> When I go to a workstation running XP and open up outlook to configure
> the email client and test an account - I get an indication that cannot
> connect to the smtp server.
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>
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> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Perhaps there is a postfix error log I can look at to get some further
> indication of the problem.
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> In the etc/hosts file the hostname is present as is
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> Localhost.localdomain as 127.0.0.1
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> I have a very similar set up with a Mandrake 7.2 machine and no problem.
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> Peter Hughes