Kolab not sending External Mails

[Stephen Hind]

Excellent the fetchmail works a treat!  Thanks for that!

Now for sending:
I know postfix is working properly now as I have found the log.  and
whenever I send a mail the log says it is sent OK, to quote "status=sent
(250 2.1.5 Ok)".

I now know why the mails do not reach the internet recipient as the server
the mail goes to responds:
"Sender domain must exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command)"

I presume this happens as I'm not using a FQDN as I don't have one.  Can I
use my public IP address?  When I try to use the public IP address as the
Mail Domain I can't send any mails at all.  Postfix says I have "Bad Syntax"
in my client's address settings.

Any further ideas would be appreciated, and Many thanks for the help so far.

Stephen Hind



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Bendtsen [mailto:jon at kollegiegaarden.dk]
> Sent: 12 May 2004 22:09
> To: Stephen Hind
> Cc: kolab-users at kolab.org
> Subject: Re: Kolab not sending External Mails
>
>
> Den 12. maj 2004, kl. 13:40, skrev Stephen Hind:
>
> > There has been some developments:
> >
> > I have changed the E-mail domain of the server to our
> public IP address
> > (I'll use a fake IP - 123.456.789.123 in this mail for illustration
> > purposes), so I could try to mail the box directly.
> >
> > So I sent a mail from another internet email account to
> > username at 123.456.789.123 and the Kolab server responded saying it
> > failed to
> > deliver it due to "Bad Address Syntax".  Obviously the message is
> > getting
> > through but postfix does not seem to know what to do with it.
>
> did you send to a domain, or the ip address ?
>
>
> > I have also tried to send mails using these new settings
> and I now get
> > a
> > bounced mail when I try to send to an internet email
> address saying:
> > "No
> > transport provider was available for delivery to this recipient".
>
> hmm, check postfix.org ?
> mail:/kolab/etc/postfix# grep transport *
> Makefile:T_TRANSPORT  = transport
> main.cf:transport_maps = hash:/kolab/etc/postfix/transport
> main.cf:mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/kolab/var/kolab/lmtp
> main.cf.old:transport_maps = hash:/kolab/etc/postfix/transport
> main.cf.old:mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/kolab/var/kolab/lmtp
> postfix-files:$config_directory/transport:f:root:-:644:p
> postfix-files:$manpage_directory/man5/transport.5:f:root:-:644
> postfix-files:$sample_directory/sample-transport.cf:f:root:-:644
>
> my transport file contains:
> nothing. Or everything is commented out. Do you have one?
> else, try to make an empty one, and then make it a .db with postmap
> transport
> maybe write this in it:
> yourdomain.com	:
> *	smtp:mail.yourisp.com
>
>
> > The box has a server for DNS lookups.
> >
> > I have tried fetchmail, but I can't workout where to tell
> fetchmail to
> > send
> > the fetched mail.  Is there a socket I send to?  Do I send it to
> > username at 123.456.789.123? Or something else?
>
> my /etc/fetchmailrc contains:
> set syslog
> set postmaster postmaster at yourdomain.com
>
> #set nobouncemail
> #set invisible
>
> poll <pop3.example.com>
>          proto POP3
>          options tracepolls
>          user YOURPOP3USER password YOURPOP3PASS is
> \YOURKOLABEMAILWITH at DOMAIN here
>          options forcecr fetchall
>
>
> if you want to do multidrop, for more than one user... read the
> fetchmail howto
>
>
> JonB
>
>