PostFix and SMTPd. REALLY really need help. Crying now

[raistie]

Hi everyone,
i desperately need help here.
i suspect postfix has tls on or something.
everytime i try to connect on my smtp port
i'm shown a blank screen.
the mail client can connect to smtp port
but also gets stuck in the connect state
i can connected but i cant do anything!

i already tried to switch off tls and all that
but i dont know whats wrong.
can anyone help me please?

[till]

Do you get any messages or errors in the mail.log?

[raistie]

Hi,
i dont have a mail.log in my system.
find / -name mail.log

what can i do?

[Ben]

What system do you have?
You should have some file beginning with mail
in /var/log

on debian its mail.info, mail.err, mail.log
on centos / rhel it is eg maillog

[raistie]

Hi, i found the maillog file, im on fedora 5.
Here are the some samples.
the maillog file was extremely huge

Oct 17 11:40:45 vps postfix/master[5252]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Oct 17 11:41:44 vps postfix/local[14908]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
Oct 17 11:41:45 vps postfix/master[5252]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 14908 exit status 1
Oct 17 11:41:45 vps postfix/master[5252]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Oct 17 11:41:45 vps postfix/smtpd[14909]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
Oct 17 11:41:46 vps postfix/master[5252]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 14909 exit status 1
Oct 17 11:41:46 vps postfix/master[5252]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

what does that mean?

[raistie]

Hi everyone, just wanted to say very very big thank you, for putting in the effort to help me.
Greatly appreciated.
I solved the problem by typing postfix check