[ale] postfix problems with mindspring

[Dow Hurst]

Start back with the basics.  Can you telnet to 
207.69.200.246 at port 25 from your machine as user that is 
running postfix?  Are you able to manually via SMTP commands 
at the smtp.mindspring.com server send an email?  If so, 
then can you set your ipchains or iptables to log the 
exchange over the ports and ips being used and try sending 
email with postfix again?  Even better and in addition can 
you capture the exchange with ethereal?
Dow


Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> I am still stumped.... Here is postconf -n  Email works great to accounts on the box itself and to my mindspring account.  Mail does not go to the internet.  No obvious errors in the error log.  I get a sent to relay host.
> 
> alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> command_directory = /usr/sbin
> config_directory = /etc/postfix
> daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
> debug_peer_level = 2
> default_privs = nobody
> inet_interfaces = all
> mail_owner = postfix
> mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
> manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
> mydomain = mindspring.com
> myhostname = server.mindspring.com
> mynetworks = 168.100.189.0/28, 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.1.0/24
> myorigin = $myhostname
> newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
> readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/README_FILES
> relayhost = 207.69.200.246
> sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/samples
> sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
> setgid_group = postdrop
> 
> 
> aaaaarrrrrgggggggf
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Armsby John-G16665
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
> Subject: RE: [ale] postfix problems with mindspring
> 
> 
> # postconf -n  That is a good one.... 
> 
> Right wrong or indifferent or just stupid, my little server host name is "server".  Since I dialed/DSL'd into mindspring I would put mindspring as the domain.  I don't think my little home network cares as I am hiding behind a linksys router and have the classic 192.168.1.x ip address.
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  I will keep looking.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Chris
> Ricker
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:27 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] postfix problems with mindspring
> 
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> 
>>All,  
>>
>>I seem to have lost the recipe for sending postfix mail (from the mail command) to computers outside of mindspring.com.  
>>a simple mail -s test john < Message.txt works for the john account on the box.
>>a simple mail -s test john at mindspring.com < Message.txt works for my mail from mindspring.com
>>
>>I can not send mail anymore outside of mindspring.com..
> 
> 
> So mindspring's not relaying your mail to the rest of the Internet?
> 
> 
>>I have distilled the main.cf file down to a readable level.  Does anything look obviously broken?
> 
> 
> use
> 
> # postconf -n
> 
> in the future for this -- it prints all non-default parameters....
> 
> 
>>myhostname =server.mindspring.com
>>mydomain = mindspring.com
> 
> 
> Are these correct? Everything else looked reasonable....
> 
> At any rate, try to send an email outside, then post what /var/log/maillog 
> says for that.
> 
> later,
> chris
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