Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 19/01/10 17:53, wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 04:54:57 Adam Hardy wrote: Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote: On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send all its mail for root to my email address,

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 19/01/10 14:56, wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:15 +, Adam Hardy wrote: As you *explicitly* installed Postfix I thought you knew beforehand what you were doing and what you wanted to achieve. I had to explicitly install most stuff because the hosting company who set up lenny

Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 04:54:57 Adam Hardy wrote: > Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote: > > On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: > >> I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to > >> send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I > >> don't want it

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-19 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:15 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 19/01/10 07:47, wrote: >> Explain a bit so we can get the whole scenario about your Postfix >> setup. > > All I need is for my system to send various administrative emails to my > own personal email account (on this email's doma

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Jon Dowland on 19/01/10 11:08, wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 07:47:11AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:50:56 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Jan 18 23:32:32 my-other-domain postfix/smtp[32633]: 11C082A8779: to=, relay=none, delay=0.07, delays=0.04/0.01/0.02/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferre

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 19/01/10 07:47, wrote: Then I ran mail and sent user 'adam' an email, checked in the log and got this: where vs.athnic.net is the sub-domain of the hosting service, and my-other-domain is the new domain I'm setting up a webserver for. How is your Postfix global configuration done

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 07:47:11AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:50:56 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Jan 18 > > 23:32:32 my-other-domain postfix/smtp[32633]: 11C082A8779: > > to=, relay=none, delay=0.07, > > delays=0.04/0.01/0.02/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to > > my-oth

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:14:39PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I don't have mail, definitely, but I am currently testing > with sendmail, although postfix has only given me sendmail > in /usr/sbin so I have to sudo to use it. This is the normal location for the sendmail binary. All the MTAs provide

Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote: On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I somehow failed t

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:50:56 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 18/01/10 18:35, wrote: >> Are there any content filters (i.e, amavisd-new, firewall rules or any >> network traffic restrictions) that are preventing e-mails going out? >> >> Can you normally send e-mails to remote sites or is yo

Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: > This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I > feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and > postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I > somehow failed to pick up. > > I have a new server

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 18/01/10 18:35, wrote: Are there any content filters (i.e, amavisd-new, firewall rules or any network traffic restrictions) that are preventing e-mails going out? Can you normally send e-mails to remote sites or is your Postfix configured to send only "locally"? OK, right, so I c

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:49:23 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 18/01/10 17:29, wrote: >> You don't need a "database" (at least not SQL/LDAP one) at all :-? >> >> /etc/aliases (is just a "table") is the standard (and easiest) way to >> setting up local e-mail aliases in Postfix and many othe

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 18/01/10 17:29, wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:37:12 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Andrei Popescu on 18/01/10 13:40, wrote: On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote: I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send all its mail for root to my email address, and

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:37:12 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Andrei Popescu on 18/01/10 13:40, wrote: >> On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote: >> >>> I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send >>> all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I don't >

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
James Wu on 18/01/10 16:24, wrote: I apologize, I just double checked and I think the "mailutils" package is the more common one. You shouldn't need a database for it. However, I'd check to make sure you don't already have it the mail command in your system. Check your PATH by typing "env | grep

RE: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread James Wu
riginal Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam@cyberspaceroad.com] Sent: January 18, 2010 10:37 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: question about sending mail and postfix Andrei Popescu on 18/01/10 13:40, wrote: > On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hard

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrei Popescu on 18/01/10 13:40, wrote: On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote: I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else. 'man aliase

RE: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread James Wu
Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam@cyberspaceroad.com] Sent: January 18, 2010 10:01 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: question about sending mail and postfix > -Original Message- > From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam@cyberspaceroad.com] > Sent: Jan

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
-Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam@cyberspaceroad.com] Sent: January 18, 2010 8:32 AM To: debian-user Subject: question about sending mail and postfix This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I feel like all the documentation I've read about se

RE: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread James Wu
Assuming you can install new packages, the mail command comes in the package bsd-mailx. Otherwise, you can try using the Postfix sendmail command. You'll probably have to read the man page as the flags are different from mail. James -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam@cy

Re: question about sending mail and postfix

2010-01-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote: > I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to > send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I > don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else. 'man aliases' and don't forget to run newaliases a