Postfix help - Postfix does receive e-mail

[Dirk Moolman]

Thank you very much.   Things are starting to fall in place now.  Had
someone over here this morning that helped me with the Postfix setup.

Turns out Postfix was working 99%, I just had my "mydestination" setting
wrong.  We changed this, and suddenly I started receiving mail in
/var/spool/mail !    Big smile :-)

We even took it further, and loaded IMAP and read the mail from there.

This has been a very successful morning for me   :-)

Thanks for all the help received from this list as well - much
appreciated.

Dirk



-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
Carpenter
Sent: 20 January 2005 05:27 PM


By default (unless Cyrus-IMAP is installed), incoming mail is saved in
either /var/spool/mail/<username> or just /var/mail/<username>

University of Washington's IMAPd (aka imapd) treats that file as "inbox"
and then creates Mail directories in your home directory for your
folders.

Cyrus is another beast altogether, with its own mail-storage.  Postfix
actually hands mail off to the Cyrus daemon for filing (instead of
storing it in /var/mail/).

For a peek into the many ways Postfix can be set up to deal with mail,
look at /etc/postfix/master.cf and "man master.cf".  If main.cf is the
main configuration file for Postfix, master.cf is the "mail handler"
configuration file, defining various "pipelines" to handle the mail,
both incoming and outgoing.  For instance, Postfix is told to listen on
port 25 by an smtpd definition in master.cf

Better reading can be found for Postfix in
/usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/
~  and
/usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/html/ (use a browser and view the docs)

In fact, as a n00b, you will not only find a wealth of information in
"man" pages, but also in /usr/share/doc/packages/  which has the
specific documentation for each significant package installed (My
current install has 1176 subdirectories, so bring a lunch).  Some docs
are rather limited, but if I want to learn about a new package, that's
where I start.  That and Google, of course :)

In KDE:    <Alt-F2>  the "gg:<search string>"

(note: These are the paths in SuSE and may differ in your distro)



Dirk Moolman wrote:
| Just one quick question - where will the mail be stored on Linux ?
|
| Is it a simple matter of logging onto Unix as the user the mail was
sent
| to, and reading his Linux mail using the Linux mail command ?
|
|
|
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