Postfix and Mail Blues

[Hal Burgiss]

Has anyone been through this scenario and solved it:

I had a working mail set up using Postfix on previous Ubuntu's. It is
completely broken now. I am guessing the breakage occured when I
upgraded to 8.04 but I didn't really notice until recently. 

The weird thing is no mail goes anywhere, and nothing shows in the
logs. I can telnet to port 25, and it *looks* like a working set up:

halb at honey:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 honey ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
helo hal
250 honey
mail from: hal at burgiss.net
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to: hal at burgiss.net
250 2.1.5 Ok
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
testing now
really testing
.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as EEA7B5C8023
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye

That was a few minutes ago. Now the log:

halb at honey:~$ tail /var/log/mail.log
Oct  5 20:42:18 honey postfix/qmgr[5360]: 707AC5C803C: removed
Oct  5 20:42:20 honey postfix/qmgr[5360]: 402145C803C: from=<halb at burgiss.net>, size=399, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct  5 20:42:20 honey postfix/qmgr[5360]: 402145C803C: removed
Oct  5 20:54:24 honey postfix/master[5334]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Oct  5 20:55:55 honey postfix/master[5334]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Oct  5 20:56:48 honey postfix/master[5334]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Oct  5 20:59:38 honey postfix/master[5334]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Oct  5 21:05:22 honey postfix/master[5334]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Oct  5 21:07:53 honey postfix/master[5334]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Oct  5 21:15:09 honey postfix/master[5334]: terminating on signal 15

Not a whisper. Those entries are all from last night trying to figure this out.
Not a thing from tonight from the hour or so trying. Last night I even
uninstalled postfix. Manually removed the config directory in /etc/, and then
re-installed. No dice.

I am not necessarily hung up on postfix, but have used it for years without
serious problems. Before giving up, I'd like to figure out what's so broken.


-- 
Hal