Rony Bill wrote:
Postfix too was setup with smtp authentication. However the mails cannot be sent due to some nameserver error. Here is a sample of mailq below.
Further to my earlier mail, this time instead of randomly adding parameters from different sample postfix main.cf files, I went to http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html and read the docs step by step and changed parameters accordingly. The main problem area was that the parameter relayhost = [Yahoo_SMTP_Server] was put without the [] as it was shown on a website and that gave the DNS problems. The postfix site specifically recommends the brackets to be added............." The form enclosed with [] eliminates DNS MX lookups. Don't worry if you don't know what that means. Just be sure to specify the [] around the mailhub hostname that your ISP gave to you, otherwise mail may be mis-delivered."
Now I am able to send messages to the outside world simply from command line just like sms. Its really fun to setup and I recomend new users who have a fair knowledge of linux command lines to visit the postfix site and try out this sleek beauty. http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html
I noticed that my mails are received as rony@localhost.localdomain. A little tweak of the cf file will solve that.
Next thing to setup, mutt.
Regards,
Rony.
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