Postfix, not receiving mail

Net Llama! netllama
Mon Jan 10 09:32:16 PST 2005


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Dirk Moolman wrote:
> Hi, I am new to this group.   I work on Solaris, but have been asked to
> help out with a postfix setup on a SUSE SLES 8 machine.
>
> The machine can send mail, but apparently it cannot receive mail.  I
> have looked at the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, but do not understand it
> properly.
>
> Any tips / suggestions ?

How do you know that it can't receive mail?  Is the mail bouncing?  Are
there errors?  Can you telnet to port 25 on the mail server from a
different box?

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