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Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Postfix problems
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From: Chris G. <dj_...@ti...> - 2008-10-21 22:13:24
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Hi Dom, and everyone else. One quick and probably silly question, I've managed to get postfix to work so I get system messages emailed to me (or at least I think I have), but is there any way of getting my server to email me when it's finished printing something? Thanks Chris. -----Original Message----- From: Dom [mailto:dl...@ed...] Sent: 20 October 2008 10:59 To: dev...@li... Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Postfix problems Hi Chris I'm pleased to hear you got it working. There is mention of the postmap command on my page, in the sub-section about setting up postfix SMTP authentication; are you using SMTP authentication? If not, do you need a password at all to send emails? (I'm not an expert on email systems!) To change the outgoing email address using nail, use the -r option (do 'man nail' for more information). And you can also change it using 'sendmail' by putting into the text a line From:MyDevil<dev...@so...>. Both seem to use postfix for the actual sending, but nail does a lot more pre-processing and is generally easier to use, sendmail is basic but works fine for simple text messages. System-generated messages (e.g. from md_adm) as far as I know will always come from 'root@', but perhaps you can overcome it by changing the name of the 'root' superuser? See http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-change-rename-user-name-id/ You can change the source domain (tiscali.co.uk) by changing the 'myhostname' setting in main.cf. Do you have a domain of your own - I presume you don't own tiscali.co.uk ;-) ? Dom Chris Grove wrote: > Hi Dom, Well its working now, but I'm not really sure how or why. One > thing I did find from somewhere on the net was that you need to run > something called postmap to convert the passwd file in to the right > format. Having said its working now, I do still seem to have a small > problem. Whenever I send an email from my server it comes up as > ro...@ti... and no matter what I fiddle with it either works as > ro...@ti... or not at all. Any ideas please?? > > Thanks, Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dom [mailto:dl...@ed...] > Sent: 20 October 2008 06:26 > To: dev...@li... > Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Postfix problems > > Hi Chris, > > Well as I wrote that guide I would certainly like to help, though > there are real experts around here who will know more! Here are some suggestions: > > When you do: > /etc/init.d/postfix restart > do you get a series of messages all ending [OK]? > > Have you tried: > postfix check > to see what this tells you? All I see for instance is a couple of > warning messages saying > postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/shadow and > /etc/shadow differ > postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/passwd and > /etc/passwd differ ... but these are not a problem since my postfix works. > > Have you looked in your syslog file? For instance, after trying to > send a message e.g. by typing: > echo hello | sendmail root > you can then type: > cat /home/messages | grep postfix > (assuming that you have set /home/messages as the destination logfile > in syslog-ng.conf). If postfix is running then the most recent > messages should tell you something about what is happening when it > tries (and presumably > fails) to deliver your email. > > If you are using DL 1.3.6 [testing], did you follow the instructions > to fix the data_directory entry in /etc/postfix/main.cf? [I am sure > this bug will be squashed in the next release.] > > If you solve your problem (or not!), please let me know if there was > anything wrong/confusing in the guide so I can improve it. > > Regards > > Dom > > Chris Grove wrote: > >> Hi, me again, sorry to be a pain. New problem, I've been following a >> guide from here http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/dlsetup. Now I've >> followed the instructions but I can't seem to get the Postfix bit to >> work. From near as I can tell, Postfix isn't starting properly but >> I'm not sure how to go about fixing it. 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