Re: question about sending mail and postfix

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Camaleón on 18/01/10 17:29, wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:37:12 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > Andrei Popescu on 18/01/10 13:40, wrote:
> > > On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:32:20, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > > > I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send
> > > > all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I don't
>
> You don't need a "database" (at least not SQL/LDAP one) at all :-?
>
> /etc/aliases (is just a "table") is the standard (and easiest) way to 
> setting up local e-mail aliases in Postfix and many other MTAs. 
>
> "man etc-aliases" will give you the whole picture about how this file is 
> used.
>
> If you need more sophisticated config (delivering to local or remote 
> recipients), virtual aliasing in Postfix is pretty useful and quite easy 
> to setup, depending on you current configuration :-)

I figured that out actually but in the meantime I only managed to find another 
issue. I wrote my own /etc/postfix/aliases file:

root: adam.hardy@cyberspaceroad.com

and momentarily it worked. I then added another user

adam: adam.hardy@cyberspaceroad.com

and it fell over again. I tried removing the /etc/postfix/aliases file and 
putting the aliases in /etc/aliases and it still didn't work.

I get this, if it gives any clues to the problem:

Jan 18 17:35:11 ecocore postfix/smtp[22579]: 452652A8203: 
to=<adam@adamsdomain.org>, relay=none, delay=462, delays=462/0.02/0.05/0, 
dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to private.domain.org[1.1.1.1]:25: 
Connection refused)

where 1.1.1.1 is the ip address of the server.