[ILUG] Setting Up Postfix and Courier

[David Pintor]

By the way, you can also check the error log in /var/log/maillog


On 8 March 2012 21:26, David Pintor <painterman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I assume your port 25/tcp is open? I haven't seen a mention on your link
> and by default it should be closed.
>
> To open it, in the server, do:
>
> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
> On 8 March 2012 21:17, Conor Mac Aoidh <conormacaoidh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to setup Postfix and Courier on my server ( running
>> Fedora
>> 15 ). It's my first time trying to do something like this on a live
>> server,
>> so if anyone wants to add any advise/recommendation they are welcome. I've
>> been following a guide located here:
>>
>> http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/courier-mysql-fedora-13
>>
>> I've pretty much got everything installed/configured as it says in the
>> guide but I'm still having a few problems. I've set my hostname in postfix
>> as mail.mydomain.ie ( where mydomain is an actual domain ) and I added an
>> MX record for this ( and I think this may be where the problem lies )
>> which
>> looks like this:
>>
>> Record Host: mail.mydomain.ie
>> Record Data: mail.mydomain.ie
>> Preference: 20
>>
>> When I try and issue the command 'telnet localhost smtp' on the server I
>> get the response "Connection closed by foreign host.", though it is
>> working
>> for pop3 and imap. So there has to be something going wrong with the smtp
>> setup. What I'm looking for is advice on how to troubleshoot the problem,
>> are there any error logs or anything I could be using to find out what's
>> going wrong?
>>
>> Thanks for any input
>> ---
>> Conor Mac Aoidh
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