Re: Re: Installing Postfix/Dovecot

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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?
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