Still no go with Postfix

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Thu Jun 10 02:52:39 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:18:47PM -0700, Bryan Cassidy wrote:

[...]
> Here is the last few lines or so from /var/log/mail
> 
> Jun  9 22:09:27 bsdjunky postfix/smtp[209]: 01BFD56F:
> to=<linux_kinda_guy at yahoo.com>, relay=none,
> delay=10125, status=deferred (connect to
> mx4.mail.yahoo.com[216.155.197.63]
> : Operation timed out)

This one is saying that outoing smtp isn't working. Is your firewall
allowing outgoing TCP to port 25? Your ISP may be also be blocking
this.

[...]
> Jun  9 22:10:00 bsdjunky postfix/smtp[210]: DAA9F598:
> to=<root at bsdjunky.homeunix.org>, relay=none, delay=0,
> status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name
> service error
>  for name=bsdjunky.homeunix.org type=A: Host not
> found)

This is another error, indicating that your DNS or /etc/hosts doesn't
have the entry for bsdjunky.homeunix.org.

Cheers.
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