I found and corrected the setting for this too...thank you very very much for your reply..

but now...since this mail arrives to my server...at which mailbox does it delivered too?

do i need to create virtual domains or aliases in order to deliver the mails?

For example..i have currently i user test1 at which i can receive and sent mail outside my network...but where does these mail that comes delivers too?

thank you

Typically postfix delivers to a user's home directory (Maildir) or /var/spool/mail.

Postfix will happily deliver to valid users, so unless you want to complicate things stick with that.

You can get mail from the command line using the mail command, or set up a pop/imap server like dovecot and get your mail with evolution/thunderbird/outlook/etc.

I currently have 1 user named test1 with mailbox...but messages i have sent to this address never delivered to this mailbox..

i just want to sent me from outside mail to test1@example.com and this to be delivered to test1 maildir..which of course i declare to postfix..'

inside postfix i have : home_mailbox = Maildir/

maybe messages i sent from outside never came to my server????

thank you

You should find the messages under /home/test1/Maildir in the "new" or "cur" directories.

right...but this folder is empty!!!


maybe should i edot local_recipient_maps ???

thank you

Time to look at your logs - I don't know what distro you use. For me - /var/log/maillog.

Send test1 a message (just "mail -s test test1 < /dev/null" should do), the tail /var/log/maillog (or relevant log file)

I have to my main.cf : myorigin = netconfig.gr

I have create a user test1@netconfig.gr

from maillog i get :
Dec 1 13:31:02 mail postfix/smtp[3212]: connect to mx1.netconfig.gr[62.1.55.34]: Connection timed out (port 25)
Dec 1 13:31:02 mail postfix/smtp[3212]: C7F89D9022: to=<root@netconfig.gr>, orig_to=<root>, relay=none, delay=61, delays=0.79/0.01/60/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mx1.netconfig.gr[62.1.55.34]: Connection timed out)

DNS error???

thank you

If you are doing this on the server, yes.

What is in /etc/hosts?

i have alter dns records just about 3 hours ago..so i hope that dns hasn;t still change...
So, after dns propegation i should receive messages under it's account maildir..right???

thank you

dns has succefully propagate..but i get :

Dec 1 14:04:54 mail postfix/smtp[4321]: connect to mx2.netconfig.gr[80.245.170.117]: Connection timed out (port 25)

where 80.245.170.117 is ip of mail server...

can you pls assist on this.??

thank you

where does this log come from? how is this IP address assigned - actually on the box itself or natted on an external router?

ip assigned to external dns server, not locally...
this log is the maillog of the mail server..

thank you

when i add this:
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
to main.cf i get relay access denied message...

if i add the below without reject_unauth_destination i get this:

Dec 1 15:43:02 mail postfix/smtpd[5859]: fatal: parameter "smtpd_recipient_restrictions": specify at least one working instance of: check_relay_domains, reject_unauth_destination, reject, defer or defer_if_permit
Dec 1 15:43:03 mail postfix/master[4999]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 5859 exit status 1
Dec 1 15:43:03 mail postfix/master[4999]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

mynetworks looks like this:mynetworks = 0.0.0.0/32, 10.70.36.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8,


thank you very much

so you're going *from* that mail server *out* to an external IP which will be natted back to you? That's unlikely to ever work, as I'd expect you'd get some nasty asym routes and such.

to connect to your internal mail server internally you'd generally use a seperate DNS hostname or configure firewalls to do DNS rewriting exactly for this eventuality.