postfix does not accept mail

Jon Bendtsen jon at kollegiegaarden.dk
Mon Apr 12 11:29:01 CEST 2004


Den 12. apr 2004, kl. 0:45, skrev Igor Shmukler:

> Sorry, the junk filter marked you respose as spam and I just now got 
> time to work though junk
> folder.
>
>> > I have a problem with my Kolab setup.
>> > Whenever I try to send mail from either remote or local machine 
>> to
>> > postfix I get error simmilar to
>> > following:
>> > Original-recipient: rfc822;lamer at groupware.time.net
>> > Final-recipient: rfc822;lamer at groupware.time.net
>> > Action: failed
>> > Status: 5.0.0 (Remote SMTP server has rejected address)
>> > Remote-MTA: dns;groupware.time.net
>> > (TCP|167.206.5.xx|21833|68.79.248.xx|25)
>> >  (groupware.time.net ESMTP Postfix)
>> > Diagnostic-code: smtp;554 <lamer at groupware.time.net>: 
>> Recipient address
>> >  rejected: Relay access denied
>>
>> Relay denied!
>> You need to configure postfix or kolab to accept emails from this
>> particular ip, or logging
>> in using username and password in smtp.
>
> But, I did not use groupware.time.net as SMTP relay. I sent message 
> from my regular ISP and Kolab/
> postfix refused to accept message for delivery.
> Should I add every public IP somewhere so postfix knows it's OK to 
> accept mail from internet?
> Is that really the deal?

no, you should not add every public ip. It seems like your postfix does 
not know
it has to recieve email for this particular domain, and thinks it has 
to relay.


>> > Could this have something to do with postfix LDAP cooperation? Is
>> > there a way to determine the
>> > cause?
>>
>> do you use a username and password to talk to the smtp server?
>
> I do not know where do I put username/password. My SMTP servers 
> accepts the message(so I do not need
> password there), then it sends message to groupware.time.net which 
> rejects the message.
>
> Am I expected to provide username/password to everyone who wants to 
> email to Kolab account?

no, i thought you tried to send with the kolab server, not recieve.


What does /kolab/etc/postfix/main.cf say on these lines
mydomain
myhostname
mydestination




JonB




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