The Perfect Server - Fedora 7: no route to host

[v2k]

Firstly, I'd just like to say thanks for this HOWTO, it's excellent.

I followed this guide through to setup my F7 server. The web server: apache/php/mysql works great and without any issues.

I decided I needed to support mail and ftp, so I went back to the guide and went through the setup for postfix and proftpd.

I think both are failing for the same reason. They both seem to fail with "No route to host". I'm behind a router. Both ports 21 and 25 are forwarded to the server; as 80 is for the web server.

# ftp localhost
=> works fine

# ftp mydomainname
=> no route to host

If I attempt to ftp to the server remotely, it times out and returns 'connection closed by remote host'.

With sendmail, the maillog contains a couple errors:
sendmail[5646]: l83LtcrQ005646: l83LtcrR005646: DSN: User unknown
postfix/smtp[5815]: connect to mydomainname.com[xx.xx.xx.145]: No route to host (port 25)


This is my /etc/hosts file :
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.132 server1.mydomainname.com server1
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost

[v2k]

I tried disabling the software firewall:
# /etc/init.d/iptables save
# /etc/init.d/iptables stop

This solved my ftp issue!

Mailing myself@localhost, I get this:
Sep 3 16:13:49 server1 postfix/local[6360]: DB3F231B02C3: to=<v2k@server1.mydomainname>, relay=local, delay=0.05, delays=0.04/0/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
Sep 3 16:13:49 server1 postfix/qmgr[5745]: DB3F231B02C3: removed
Sep 3 16:13:49 server1 postfix/smtpd[6353]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]


But mail still says I have no mail.

[v2k]

It looks like mail is working, it's just that "mail" returns no local mail.

[v2k]

mail says I have no mail; even though I can see files in my /Mailbox.

Also, I can send mail, but receiving does not work. If I try to send mail to my domain, it bounces with:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 554 5.7.1 <v2k@mydomain.com>: Relay access denied

[falko]

How did you configure your email accounts?

[v2k]

I guess I have not setup any email accounts. Do I just do this via postfix? I just followed the guide, I'm no linux guru. I did not install ISPConfig and did not intend to. (maybe it would make my life easier)

Is there a guide I should follow to do this? I guess I need to add a MX record to the dns as well?

[falko]

Take a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2