From: archa_bhandare (archa_bhandarepersistent.co.in)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2007 - 01:14:46 CST

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Hi,

With my current installation, before doing " make install" in
/usr/ports/mail-mta/postfix-current, I tried to send a mail to my Postfix
server and the observations are as follows:

The mail was sent to a user 'postfix', which was configured on Postfix
installation (referring to the INSTALL guide)
Say my System IP (from which I sent the mail using a perl script) is
192.168.10.200
And Say the PostFix Server IP is 192.168.10.300
The other parameters setup in the main.cf are as stated in my last mail. i.e
        myhostname = abc.domain.co.in
        mydomain = domain.co.in
        myorigin = $mydomain
        inet_interfaces = all
        mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain,localhost
        mynetworks_style = class
        mynetworks = 168.100.189.0/28,127.0.0.0/8
        relay_domains = $mydestination
        relayhost = $mydomain
        relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients
        alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
        alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
        home_mailbox = Mailbox
        mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
        mailbox_command = /etc/postfix/procmail
        mailbox_transport = cyrus
        fallback_transport = cyrus
        1user_relay = $localother.host
        smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mailname

Also before sending the mail I had kept tcpdump to a txt file (check.txt) on
the Postfix system

When I sent the mail from my system, I saw that netstat showed me the
following status
        Proto: tcp4
        Recv-Q: 81
        Send-Q: 0
        LocalAddress: 192.168.10.300.smtp
        ForeignAddress: 192.168.10.200.52744
        State: ESTABLISHED (before) / CLOSE_WAIT (on completion)

When I checked the check.txt file dumped, I got some encrypted characters. I
could see the MAIL FROM, RCPT TO headers there

But when I logged in as 'postfix' user and typed the command
        % mail
It said "No Mails".

I checked the /var/mail and /etc/postfix/procmail folders, but there was
nothing there too.

I had the following queries
(1) How do I get the mail for the user?
(2) How do I add another user into Postfix?
(3) When I add a user, how do I map the ID of the user into Postfix

Please help

Regards,
Archa

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postfix-userspostfix.org
[mailto:owner-postfix-userspostfix.org] On Behalf Of Devdas Bhagat
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:57 AM
To: postfix-userspostfix.org
Subject: Re: Issue in connecting to the Postfix MTA

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:18:22AM +0530, archa_bhandare wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I didn't get what ' On FreeBSD "use the ports".' means. Can you
> please explain in brief.
IIRC,
cd /usr/ports/mail-mta/postfix-current && make install replace clean
(the directory may not be correct).

> Or can u tell me the exact steps I should perform to setup and test that
the
> Postfix server is up and running? Its ok if you even provide me with
> examples of domain name, mail to etc
>
What does netstat say? And your logs?

Devdas Bhagat

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