Mail server not working with Postfix Dovecot

[Mariano Jara Melagrani]

On 07/12/15 04:42, Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 00:48:02 -0300
> Mariano Jara Melagrani <mjaramelagrani at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
>> I've got ports 25, 110, 465 and 995 open, facing the internet, so I
>> doubt this is a firewall issue. I don't know if my ISP is blocking
>> those ports. I've sent them a message asking about it, but I haven't
>> got a response yet.
> 
> Where is this machine - is it in your home or hosted somewhere? If in
> your home, that is not ideal. Many (most?) ISPs block common ports for
> incoming SMTP traffic for home customers, and a lot of mail servers out
> there will not accept mail from a ISP home consumer IP range. You
> *will* have problems getting your mail delivered. I suspect this is
> what you are doing, and that is part of why you are having problems.

Yes, the machine is at home.

> Instead, find a VPS provider that will let you run a mail server on a
> small virtualized server, and set up Postfix and Dovecot there. I can
> recommend DigitalOcean.

I'll look into a VPS provider as a last resource and depending on the
hosting costs but thanks for the tip.

> There is also a problem with your configuration, if you want to receive
> mail addressed to user at jaramelagrani.com.ar you will need to add
> jaramelagrani.com.ar to the mydestination line in /etc/postfix/main.cf.
> You now only have the hostname mail.jaramelagrani.com.ar there, so only
> mail addressed to user at mail.jaramelagrani.com.ar will be accepted.
> 
I've added jaramelagrani.com.ar to the mydestination line in
/etc/postfix/main.cf and
sudo service postfix restart
to no avail. Thanks for spotting that misconfiguration Petter, I've had
missed it.

-- 
Atte.
Mariano Jara Melagrani
http://www.jaramelagrani.com.ar/

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