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Subject: Re: [Urgent] Need help Sendmail -> Postfix
From: Oliver Schade (schadembi-berlin.de)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 13:13:21 CDT

Hi Jonathan,

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> You might check /etc/nsswitch.conf to see if your local password file is
> being served by NIS instead of /etc/passwd.

Yes, that is a point. I deleted within nsswitch.conf, from lines

passwd: files nisplus nis
shadow: files nisplus nis
group: files nisplus nis

all nisplus/nis entries. But it still fails:

[schadejoystick schade]$ telnet smtp1 smtp
Trying 213.128.64.4...
Connected to smtp1.bln-de.serverpool.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtp1.bln-de.serverpool.net ESMTP Postfix
Mail From:osls-la.net
250 Ok
RCPT To:infols-la.net
250 Ok
DATA
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
weofjwe ifw
.
250 Ok: queued as 9E8B578A1
QUIT
221 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.

And within the logfile:

Jun 21 18:58:00 smtp1 postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Jun 21 18:58:00 smtp1 postfix/master[15952]: daemon started
Jun 21 18:58:01 smtp1 postfix/smtpd[15956]: connect from
joystick.schaefer-systems.de[213.128.64.254]
Jun 21 18:58:05 smtp1 postfix/smtpd[15956]: 9E8B578A1:
client=joystick.schaefer-systems.de[213.128.64.254]
Jun 21 18:58:13 smtp1 postfix/cleanup[15957]: 9E8B578A1:
message-id=<20000621165805.9E8B578A1smtp1.bln-de.serverpool.net>
Jun 21 18:58:13 smtp1 postfix/qmgr[15954]: 9E8B578A1: from=<osls-la.net>,
size=401 (queue active)
Jun 21 18:58:13 smtp1 postfix/local[15959]: warning: lookup els-la00+info,
NIS domain ssg-bln-de, map mail.aliases: can't bind to server on this
domain
Jun 21 18:58:14 smtp1 postfix/local[15959]: 9E8B578A1:
to=<Els-la00+infosmtp1.bln-de.serverpool.net>, relay=local, delay=8,
status=deferred (alias database unavailable)
Jun 21 18:58:15 smtp1 postfix/smtpd[15956]: disconnect from
joystick.schaefer-systems.de[213.128.64.254]
Jun 21 18:58:17 smtp1 postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
Jun 21 18:58:17 smtp1 postfix/master[15952]: terminating on signal 15

I am somewhat confused...

Thanks, Oliver