Mail Woes

[swestrup]

Does anyone out there know how to debug a buggy postfix configuration? I ask because I am trying to get our web server to also be a mail server and the default configuration doesn't work. I've done some googling for Linux manuals on mail systems but most of them say insipid things like 'it just works'. This is useless info, since a) it doesn't just work and b) there are things I need to do to set things up that clearly AREN'T going to just work. For example, how to I set up a recieve-mail alias for postmaster, since there is no account by that name???

Grumph.

(Oh, the immediate problem I have, I should say, is that any attempt to use 'mail' to send mail to my user name on the system results in a postdrop error saying 'unable to look up public/pickup: no such file or directory'.  There are postfix docs that I've found, but they are both huge and arcane.)

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Addendum: It turns out that the Postfix wasn't being started. Now all I have to do is read all those arcane docs to figure out how to configure it. Whoopee

Comments

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Postfix reads the /etc/aliases file. I have an entry
postmaster: root
which redirects all my postmaster mail accordingly.

Unfortunately, that's pretty much the only thing I ever learned about postfix.