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shoutkeeper
25th November 2008, 09:25
Hello PEOPLE,

I am setting up a mail server at our school using postfix, dovecot, with MailScanner and Spamassassin. The only problem is I CANNOT SEND outbound mail but I can receive INBOUND mails from other web based mail such as yahoo. Please Help me with this problem... the text that follows are the response of the Mailer-Daemon everytime I send oubound mail.

Any Help would be appreciated. Thanks...

---#####*****#####---

This is the mail system at host ns1.domain.edu.ph.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The mail system

<user@yahoo.com>: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
name=yahoo.com type=A: Host not found

falko
26th November 2008, 14:41
What's in your /etc/resolv.conf?

shoutkeeper
28th November 2008, 03:50
/etc/resolv.conf file contains:

search domain.edu.ph
nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 127.0.0.1

10.0.0.2 is the IP of my router

falko
28th November 2008, 13:59
Please try this:
search domain.edu.ph
nameserver 145.253.2.75
nameserver 213.191.92.86
nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 127.0.0.1Does it work then?

shoutkeeper
13th January 2009, 13:26
Please try this:
search domain.edu.ph
nameserver 145.253.2.75
nameserver 213.191.92.86
nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 10.0.0.2
nameserver 127.0.0.1Does it work then?

what is

nameserver 145.253.2.75
nameserver 213.191.92.86

?

zcworld
13th January 2009, 13:53
what is

nameserver 145.253.2.75
nameserver 213.191.92.86

?

its tell the system what DNS server to look at
nameserver : than the DNS server IP

falko
14th January 2009, 13:12
what is

nameserver 145.253.2.75
nameserver 213.191.92.86

?
These are (known to work) nameservers of two German ISPs.

shoutkeeper
15th January 2009, 04:45
Still I cannot send outgoing emails... my email software is AtMail

falko
15th January 2009, 15:24
What's in the mail log?