Postfix problems
Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski
opi at cyb3r.org
Tue Apr 19 12:12:39 UTC 2005
I'm running Postfix as my MTA. Everything was superb until I noticed
I'm not getting reports from one of my programs. I logged to my server,
asked for root rights and noticed that all my e-mail that where directed
to my account on cyb3r.org server are deffered. Now I'll have to explain
my situation a little bit: cyb3r.org is our hobby server, it's connected
to two separated networks, just in case. I'm in same network as
mail2.cyb3r.org is, but this network sysadmin didn't care to prepare
proper routes for clients, so I can not see this link. The second link,
mail.cyb3r.org and cyb3r.org is fully visible, but it takes lots of hops
to get there. But at least it works. To avoid some problems with this
(no, I don't want to run DNS server, I never did that and I have no time
to learn it now;-) I've always put those lines in my /etc/hosts file
193.238.18.195 cyb3r.org
193.238.18.195 mail.cyb3r.org
193.238.18.195 mail2.cyb3r.org
Postfix always noticed it first (as it's set in /etc/nsswitch.conf) and
send my stuff. But not any more. I have about 40 e-mails in queue and I
can not force Postix to forget about actual mail2.cyb3r.org IP.
DF59219DC 4807 Mon Apr 18 21:07:12 emil at dps1.mnc.pl
(delivery temporarily suspended: connect to
mail2.cyb3r.org[217.153.154.34]: Connection timed out)
opi at cyb3r.org
but...
fretka:/var/spool/postfix/deferred# ping mail2.cyb3r.org -c 1
PING mail2.cyb3r.org (193.238.18.195) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cyb3r.org (193.238.18.195): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=81.9 ms
Maybe Postfix is storing an IP of the SMTP server when it puts mail
into queue. If yes, is there a tool that could help me revert it to
mail.cyb3r.org? Maybe some awk/sed magic? ;-)
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Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, http://bronikowski.com
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