Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Postfix problems

[Dom <dl...@ed...>]

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. Can someone please point me in the 
> right direction, thanks.
>
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