I'm trying to configure postfix at my server. The thing is that using an external relayhost (gmail) I can actually send emails from my machine, but if I try to use my local machine (no relayhost), then no mail arrives, even if I try to send email to my own local machine.
Logs don't say any error occurred, so I'm not sure what can be happening... any ideas?
If it's of any use, I use Debian Lenny
here's my main.cf file:
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
myorigin = servername.net
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no
# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no
# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
# TLS parameters
smtp_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtp_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtp_use_tls=yes
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
#smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem
#smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
#smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
#smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.
mydomain = $myorigin
myhostname = hostname.$mydomain
mydestination = $mydomain, $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
mynetworks_style = host
# relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
relayhost =
notify_classes = 2bounce, delay, policy, protocol, resource, software
inet_interfaces = all
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html
Heres the outpud in the logs:
Aug 3 14:36:02 hostname postfix/pickup[22767]: F16E31A3F: uid=1000 from=<jstitch>
Aug 3 14:36:03 hostname postfix/cleanup[22959]: F16E31A3F: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 3 14:36:03 hostname postfix/qmgr[22768]: F16E31A3F: from=<[email protected]>, size=1596, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 3 14:36:03 hostname procmail[22962]: Error while writing to "/var/log/procmail"
Aug 3 14:36:03 hostname postfix/local[22961]: F16E31A3F: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<jstitch>, relay=local, delay=1.5, delays=1.5/0.02/0/0.03, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a "$EXTENSION")
Aug 3 14:36:03 hostname postfix/qmgr[22768]: F16E31A3F: removed
perhaps thar error while writing to var/log/procmail suggests a problem with procmail?
actually /var/log/procmail is an empty file with 640 permissions, owner root, group adm (all other syslog files have that same characteristics)
at my ~/.procmailrc, there's this:
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/
CAUGHT_SPAM=$MAILDIR/.CaughtSpam/
UNSURE=$MAILDIR/.Unsure/
VERBOSE=on
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
#Spambayes process
:0fw:hamlock
| /usr/local/bin/sb_filter.py -d ~/.hammie.db
:0
* ^X-Spambayes-Classification: spam
${CAUGHT_SPAM}
:0
* ^X-Spambayes-Classification: unsure
${UNSURE}
# Catches everything else.
# Anything left over goes into the DEFAULT folder
:0:
${DEFAULT}
there's no /etc/procmailrc file though...
Do you have a /etc/procmailrc file ? and a ~jstitch/.procmailrc ?
Check in the user jstitch's home dir : maybe a procmail.log is created...