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bobbydigital

bobbydigital

bobbydigital

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Hey there got a few problems with a dedicated box that I am working on, admitedly I am a linux amateur. Everything was going smoothly, got myself working firewall, backup systems, webhosting and some games servers, but for the life of me I cannot get any form of mail to work.

I've been trying to setup postfix, using this http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/. But I cannot for the life of me get it, to work and have found other people with similar problems but no joy in fixing it (well that I can see.)

Problem I am having is when it gets to the stage in the configuration, where I have to enter "Local address extension character:" where I believe it is a symbol "+" I recieve this error:

Bad recipient delimiter
The recipient delimiter must be a single character. 'question will be asked' is what you entered.

No matter what I do I can't get past this.

So my question here is can anyone help? Or even recommend another mail program I only need something simple just now maybe about 3 email addresses, but I do hope in future for anyone who signups to site to have the chance to have a free email account (once my linux skills improve of course!)
 
Anyone at all? Even willing just for a recommendation of a mail server I can setup as really need to get some form of mail setup and well its the weekend plenty of time :)
 
I don't know a thing about mail servers so I'm useless. If you can't get anybody who can help here you should definitely try the Ubuntu forums. I'm sure someone there can help. :)
 
I too prefer to ask here first since it's a lot more close-knit and personal, but sometimes a question will come up where nobody knows enough to consider themselves helpful. Alas, this might be the case. :p
 
After a quick look, the error message looks to be generated when you're using dpkg-reconfigure rather than editing postfix's config by hand as that article suggests - so I would try just editing main.cf in a text editor.
 
Tried editting it manually too but never had much luck getting it working, so I went for the dpkg-reconfigure. I'll have another go manually and about to head over to ubuntu forums thanks again guys :)
 
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