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Why is postfix not sending email to the outside world?
Question We have an Ubuntu 15.10 server running, we managed to get Postfix and Dovecot set up, however Postfix can not send any email to the outside world. We have checked around and tried a lot of different stuff, but still it is like that.
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Why is my mail server not sending mail?
For some reason my server has stopped sending mail, and I am not sure why. I am running Debian 5.0 with postfix. I remember setting it up using apt-get, and it worked fine.
Where do I find the postfix file in Linux?
I’m not familiar with postfix, but maybe there’s a log file in /var/log you can look at, or check /var/log/daemon.log. Thanks for contributing an answer to Server Fault!
How to send email from the command line?
By default, a command line application called “mail” is installed as part of the bsd-mailx package we installed alongside postfix. You can use it to send test email from the command line on your host to verify you’ve got things working correctly! The stuff in <> are the keys to hit at the end of the line…
Why is mail.slash-it.eu not sending email?
I get the following error. “cannot send email through mail.slash-it.eu” the error message reads “recipient address rejected: access denied” Looking for something else?
How to create a postfix smarthost in mailcow?
For what it’s worth, too, MailCow uses Postfix as its SMTP server component (there’re a bunch of other components, too). The first thing you need to do to create a postfix smarthost is to install the postfix application on a new server (this assumes you’re logged in with a user who has “sudo” – aka admin – permissions):
Where do I find the postfix maillog file?
There’s the following notice concerning logging: Postfix logs all failed and successful deliveries to a logfile. The file is usually called /var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail; the exact pathname is defined in the /etc/syslog.conf file.