Re: Postfix under Debian 3.1 not working

[Oliver Stephan <debian@asmodeuz.myftp.biz>]

> Hi all,

Hi Scott,
> I'm fairly new to Debian 3.1 and am having problems configuring
> Postfix.  I've Googled around a bit and there are plenty of people
> blaming other people but the long and the short of it is that Postfix
> isn't working.
ok, lets get it on
> 
> I'm using the "normal" maps - simple hash maps. 

Did you do postmap /path/to/map
to create the hash file?

 I've played around with
> DNS settings, both resolv.conf's and many other things but continue to
> get the exact same error:
> 
> Jul  3 22:47:30 localhost postfix/virtual[28250]: fatal: gethostbyname:
> Success

hostname -f
should display the hostname as fqdn, if not this should be corrected.

I made a Tutorial inspired by the Tut at workaround.org for postfix, but
 in german..

> This is using the most recent Postfix that apt-get will get me along
> with everything - except for the newest kernel (I'm at 2.6.8-2-686) -
> else that can be upgraded.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Thanks for any help.



Hope i could help

Olli