[luau] Postfix Question

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Wed Dec 24 00:00:03 PST 2003


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 05:13:54PM -1000, Maddog wrote:
> I have a small problem with Postfix. I installed it on a Fedora
> Core 1 system and I can telnet in and send email all day but
> when I try to send myself email from my Exchange server it
> comes back days later with a failed to connect message.

Simple. Stop using Exchange. :)

> The log files do not show any connection attempts.

But the logs should give more clues.

> below is the main.cf file. Can anyone help me with this? DNS is
> resolving the host mail.shidler.net. I can ping the host and do
> an nslookup and it comes back to the IP addy.
>
> #myhostname = test-email.tsg.com <----- Internal Domain
> myhostname = mail.shidler.net <------- Internet Domain name

Do you literally have the garbage at the end of the hostname?
That should freak out the postfix configuratino parser.

-Vince



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