From: John te Bokkel / Tempus (tanj.tanjgmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 10:21:19 CDT

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I am setting up a small office mail server. The idea is to use it so
that our outgoing mail shows as userpowercoreeng.com. The current
state is that we are using our providers smtp server for sending mail
and our hosting service for receiving mail.

Outlook is set like this:

receiving mail server: mail.powercoreeng.com (astrahosting)
sending mail server: smtp.broadband.rogers.com
reply to: userpowercoreeng.com

during the next 2 weeks we will be switch office locations and
internet providers. Our new service will have a static IP. Our current
service is dynamic ip, I am just working on getting the config set so
that it will be ready to go when we move.

The problem I am having is with setting up Maildir/ style mail boxes.
With setting like this it delivers mail to /var/spool/mail in mbox
style.

server john # postconf -n
alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
config_directory = /etc/postfix
mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
mydestination = $mydomain, $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
mydomain = powercoreeng.com
myhostname = server
myorigin = $mydomain
notify_classes = resource, software, protocol

these are the settings I have for Maildir/ style

server john # postconf -n
alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
config_directory = /etc/postfix
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
mydestination = $mydomain, $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
mydomain = powercoreeng.com
myhostname = server
myorigin = $mydomain
notify_classes = resource, software, protocol

The log looks like this

Oct 1 11:14:36 server nss_wins[14930]: fatal: gethostbyname("server") does not
resolve as a fully qualified domain name.
Oct 1 11:14:37 server postfix/qmgr[6923]: warning: premature end-of-input on pr
ivate/local socket while reading input attribute name
Oct 1 11:14:37 server postfix/qmgr[6923]: warning: private/local socket: malfor
med response
Oct 1 11:14:37 server postfix/qmgr[6923]: warning: transport local failure -- s
ee a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description
Oct 1 11:14:37 server postfix/master[5526]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/l
ocal pid 14930 exit status 1
Oct 1 11:14:37 server postfix/master[5526]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: ba
d command startup -- throttling
Oct 1 11:14:37 server postfix/qmgr[6923]: 57B9E273B79: to=<rootlocalhost.power
coreeng.com>, orig_to=<rootlocalhost>, relay=none, delay=1.9, delays=0.03/1.9/0
/0, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)

/var/spool/postfix/defer

<rootlocalhost.powercoreeng.com>: unknown mail transport error
recipient=rootlocalhost.powercoreeng.com
original_recipient=rootlocalhost
offset=172
status=4.3.0
action=delayed
reason=unknown mail transport error

/var/spool/postfix/deferred

C? 407 207 1 0T.1191251675 34
6862A.create_time=1191251675A.rewrite_context=localF.S.johnpowercoreeng.comO.ro
otlocalhostR.rootlocalhost.powercoreeng.comM.N/Received: by server (Postfix, f
rom userid 1000)N6 id 57B9E273B79; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:14:35 -0400 (EDT)N$D
ate: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:14:35 -0400N.From: johnN#To: rootlocalhost.powercoreen
g.comN.Subject: postfix testN+Message-ID: <20071001151435.GA14923server>N.MIME-
Version: 1.0N*Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiN.Content-Disposition: i
nlineN$User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09)N.N.postfix testX.E.

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