postfix nightmare

Roland0 · 4 Jul 2010 at 14:11

Hello all,

I am trying to setup a small postfix/dovecot server (on CentOS 5.3) that simply uses local user accounts, and an alias file for delivering email. I have dovecot running nicely, so users can connect and view their mailbox.

But as for postfix / sending receiving mail, its seems to be a real pain! I get all manner of errors! and i don't seem to be able to find a straight forward guide either, if anyone can either give me a hand trouble shooting postfix, or nkows a good guide, that has some tips etc, then PLEASE HELP ME!

Thanks peeps

john_s · 5 Jul 2010 at 11:17

I used this:

http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/

to set up a postfix server, and it was pretty straightforward.

Roland0 · 5 Jul 2010 at 21:53

That looks like a good one, I'm on CentOS and I'm not sure how much is transferable. Also i'm not sure that I will be using a database for the user accounts, but thanks for the link, I'm deffo going to go though it!

deano · 6 Jul 2010 at 17:55

what are the errors and can you post up you postfix config file

cooljimy84 · 8 Jul 2010 at 23:30

i used http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/linux/centos for my ubuntu setup (well not the cent OS one

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Roland0 · 21 Aug 2010 at 19:13

john_s said:
I used this:

http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/

to set up a postfix server, and it was pretty straightforward.

That looks great, I just need one for CentOS / RHEL5 (5.3 to be exact) I'm going to be setting this up in the next week or so, now I hopefully have some time. I will try and use that guide, since it should really only be the package manager and directory structure that are different.