Mail Server (Even more progress)

[Derek Broughton]

David McGlone wrote:

> On Thursday 25 October 2007 9:05:56 pm David McGlone wrote:
>> On Thursday 25 October 2007 8:05:49 pm David McGlone wrote:
>> > On Thursday 25 October 2007 7:08:47 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > > David McGlone wrote:
>>
>> I sent some mail and somehow 3 messages ended up in my postfix Queue,
>> when I open the Queue to look at the messages, it says under status: mail
>> transport unavailable.
>>
>> Hmmm, I thought postfix was my mail transport agent.
> 
> Well I figured this out. Problem was I don't have sendmail installed and I
> was using sendmail to send the messages instead of procmail.

That doesn't sound right.  You have postfix, that
provides "/usr/bin/sendmail".  Procmail doesn't _send_ messages (afaik) it
delivers the local messages.

I'm not sure what postfix means by "mail transport unavailable" but my guess
is that it's supposed to be doing "smart hosting" (routing through your
ISP) and the route to your ISP isn't correctly configured.

Start by sending a mail to yourself.  If that gets stuck in the queue,
nothing's working.  If that gets delivered, see if you can read it.  It
seems to me you have two problems - reading mail that actually got
delivered, and sending mail.  I still don't know what you have fetchmail
handing off the mail to - procmail or SMTP?
-- 
derek