[plug] POSTFIX experts

[Quintin Lette]

Hi,

Postfix is an SMTP server (acting as a MTA and sending mail between
mail servers, its job is to deliver the message to your mailbox on the
server, not the client) you will need either an IMAP or a POP3 server
to download mail to Outlook Express or any other mail client. This
problem has nothing to do with your port forwarding but my
recommendation below does.

Also I think you might want to look at the my networks line of your
config (nothing to do with the issue you brought up, but it is
allowing anyone on that public subnet to relay mail through you, I
think you should probably use the NAT'ed ip subnet, and exclude the ip
of the router)

Good luck.

Cheers

Quintin
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:00:22 +0800, Joong Cho <joongcho at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed postfix on my linux box. The only problem I have is that I
> can't download any email's using my Outlook Express Email program. I can
> successfully send emails to myself on the linux box, but not to the outside
> world yet.
> 
> What do I need to do to change or make this work?
> 
> The following is my postfix's main.cf file:
> 
> mydomain = joongcho.com
> my hostname = joongcho.com
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost $mydomain
> relayhost = [pop.$mydomain]
> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0./8 202.72.186.114/24
> mailbox_command
> mailbox_size_limit
> recipient_delimiters = +
> 
> I have also port forwarded on my modem's management page.
> 
> Could my problem be the same as accessing my website using domain names on
> my networked machine?
> 
> Also, with mysql, I can login to my individual user name, but I can't login
> as my root. It returns the error message: ERROR 1045: Access Denied for user
> 'root at localhost' (Using password: NO). I've gone through the mysql
> documentation dozens of times, but I'm stuck.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joong Cho
> Joong Cho Enterprises
> President
> 
> Web Site Administrator and Web Site Designer
> http://www.joongcho.com/
> http://www.startreklibrary.com/
> 
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