Setup mailaccount

[v2k]

Upon inspection, these files do contain my actual mail. So it's just that mail thinks I have none....

pop3 works, so I guess it's not a big deal.

[falko]

What POP3 server do you use? What's the output of

netstat -tap

? You must use a POP3 daemon that uses Maildir.

[jimmypt]

Hi,

i'm new here. I found this forum cause i got some troubles configuring a fedora with postfix. i follow all the steps and i don't understaind where's the problem is.

could anyone help me please?

now i can send, via telnet an email from my server. but i can't receive.

help plz

thx

Jimmy

[falko]

Any errors in your mail log?

Please make sure that the MX record of your domain points to the correct server. You can check that by running

dig mx yourdomain.com

[Mini]

Originally Posted by falko

First you have to tell Postfix to deliver emails to a user's Maildir:

postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'
postconf -e 'mailbox_command ='
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

Then you have to create a system user and a password:

useradd -d /home/sample_user -g users sample_user
passwd sample_user

Then run

postconf -e 'virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtusertable'
postconf -e 'mydestination = /etc/postfix/local-host-names'

/etc/postfix/local-host-names should contain all domains that you want to accept emails for, e.g.:

localhost
your.server.name
localhost.your.server.name
example.com
yourdomain.com

/etc/postfix/virtusertable looks like this:

info@yourdomain.com  sample_user
thomas@example.com  sample_user
webmaster@yourdomain.com  sample_user

Emails for info@yourdomain.com, thomas@example.com and webmaster@yourdomain.com will now arrive in the mailbox of sample_user.

Everytime you change /etc/postfix/virtusertable you have to run the following command:

postmap /etc/postfix/virtusertable

Now restart Postfix:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

and you're done!

Thanks a lot. That also worked for me.