[SGVLUG] [LiLAX] Postfix Rejections

[Rae Yip]

Yeah, I suspected it was something like that. Postfix is pretty picky
about what it accepts. If you *were* trying to act as a relay, then
setting relay_domains would be the way to go.

I don't really know why they bother with "localhost.$mydomain" really;
no one ever sends email to that, and it's rarely actually defined in
/etc/hosts.

-Rae.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I feel silly.  It was as follows...
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> Change the following line in the Postfix config (main.cf) from:
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
>
> To:
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
>
>
> ...and suddenly I'm receiving mail.
>
> Apparently, "mydestination" refers to which server this is receiving mail for.  This includes the domain itself, sans hostname.
>
> --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Carol Johnson <cnordj at sprynet.com> wrote:
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>> From: Carol Johnson <cnordj at sprynet.com>
>> Subject: Re: [LiLAX] Postfix Rejections
>> To: skevin521 at yahoo.com
>> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10:26 AM
>> Hi Solomon,
>> Possibly port 25 is not what you need?  (For
>> Earthlink's SMTP server, I had to change 25 to a 3-digit
>> port number.)
>> Bye, Carol J
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Solomon K. Chang
>>   To: Lilax ; lula at lula.org
>>   Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:35 PM
>>   Subject: [LiLAX] Postfix Rejections
>>
>>
>>
>>   Dear Lula/Lilax,
>>
>>   I've been trying to get a Postfix installation
>> running for some time now.  I have a stock CentOS
>> installation.
>>
>>   However, when I try to send mail to my domain, the mail
>> keeps getting bounced.  A brief glance at /var/log/maillog
>> show me:
>>
>>   Mar 18 15:09:13 localhost postfix/smtpd[32333]: NOQUEUE:
>> reject: RCPT from
>> n56.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com[98.136.44.52]: 554 5.7.1
>> <admin at XXXXXX.TLD>: Relay access denied;
>> from=<solomonchasos at yahoo.com>
>> to=<admin at XXXXXX.TLD> proto=SMTP
>> helo=<n56.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
>>
>>   [domains x'd out for security reasons]
>>
>>   I've done the following:
>>   - made sure port 25 is wide open.
>>   - added "admin at XXXXXX.TLD OK" to
>> /etc/postfix/relay_recipients
>>   - added "yahoo.com OK" to /etc/postfix/access
>>   - added ".yahoo.com OK" to /etc/postfix/access
>>   - ran postmap against /etc/postfix/access and
>> /etc/postfix/relay_recipients
>>   - restart Postfix
>>
>>   ...and the mail server is still rejecting Yahoo, just
>> like that hot supermodel at the bar last night-... but
>> that's another story for another time.  Ironically, I
>> can send email connecting from another machine on the local
>> subnet.
>>
>>   What have I left out?
>>
>>   Thanks in advance.
>>
>>   Solomon
>>
>>
>>
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