[sf-lug] mutt and postfix

[Alex Kleider]

Now this is getting even more weird!

Although the log indicates a failure, the message from dd4500s with Akkana's suggested modification DID get delivered.
?how to make sense of that?
Admittedly the error message is different than the one given by 'plug' from which an email has never left the machine.

alex



--- On Sat, 4/24/10, Alex Kleider <a_kleider at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Alex Kleider <a_kleider at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] mutt and postfix
> To: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com, "Akkana Peck" <akkana at shallowsky.com>
> Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 3:44 PM
> thanks for the reply; Unfortunately
> what you suggested made no difference.
> The thing that makes this so frustrating is that the exact
> same configuration on a different machine works with no
> problems. 
> While I was at it, I tried you suggested modification on
> the old (working) machine and your suggested change broke
> its functionality. (Another datum that might prove useful to
> someone.) Here's the specifics:
> 
> alex at dd4500s:/etc$ sudo tail /var/log/mail.log
> Apr 24 15:29:56 dd4500s postfix/master[16529]: daemon
> started -- version 2.6.5, configuration /etc/postfix
> Apr 24 15:38:36 dd4500s postfix/pickup[16532]: 0B34593D75:
> uid=1000 from=<alex>
> Apr 24 15:38:36 dd4500s postfix/cleanup[16548]: 0B34593D75:
> message-id=<20100424223835.GA16535 at kleico.net>
> Apr 24 15:38:36 dd4500s postfix/qmgr[16533]: 0B34593D75:
> from=<alex at kleico.net>,
> size=40914, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Apr 24 15:38:36 dd4500s postfix/smtp[16551]: fatal: valid
> hostname or network address required in server description:
> smtp:[mailout.easydns.com]:20025
> Apr 24 15:38:37 dd4500s postfix/master[16529]: warning:
> process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 16551 exit status 1
> Apr 24 15:38:37 dd4500s postfix/master[16529]: warning:
> /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
> Apr 24 15:38:37 dd4500s postfix/qmgr[16533]: warning:
> private/smtp socket: malformed response
> Apr 24 15:38:37 dd4500s postfix/qmgr[16533]: warning:
> transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic
> logfile record for the problem description
> Apr 24 15:38:37 dd4500s postfix/error[16552]: 0B34593D75:
> to=<akleider at sonic.net>,
> relay=none, delay=1.1, delays=0.07/1/0/0.02, dsn=4.3.0,
> status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)
> 
> ak
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 4/24/10, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
> > Subject: Re: [sf-lug] mutt and postfix
> > To: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
> > Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 2:37 PM
> > Alex Kleider writes:
> > > Apr 24 14:08:07 plug postfix/smtp[14441]:
> 67FE250411:
> > to=<akleider at sonic.net>,
> > relay=none, delay=1159, delays=1139/0.1/20/0,
> dsn=4.4.3,
> > status=deferred (Host or domain name not found. Name
> service
> > error for name=mailout.easydns.com type=MX: Host not
> found,
> > try again)
> > > 
> > > .. which suggests that relayhost is not properly
> set
> > in /etc/postfix/main.cf but it is set:
> > > relayhost = mailout.easydns.com:20025
> > 
> > I'm not an expert on this, but you might try
> > 
> > relayhost = smtp:[mailout.easydns.com]:20025
> > 
> > That disables MX lookups, in case it's easydns's MX
> record
> > that's
> > causing the problem. It looks like it might be giving
> > inconsistent
> > results -- dig -t MX mailout.easydns.com is giving
> fairly
> > different
> > results for me and for a friend trying it at the same
> > time.
> > 
> >     ...Akkana
> > 
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