Email issues, relay failure

[Bender, Chris]

Hi Brent, 
Thanks for that, I am still digesting it.

tools2# uname -a
FreeBSD tools2 8.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2 #

So I put a 0 in the first two octets of the ip address below, but  that
IP address is A.
I am not sure what that means. I was horsing around and tried to start
sendmail
On X then I tried to send an email from A. I have no  idea what all that
means. 

Here is netstat results:
netstat: kvm not available: /dev/mem: No such file or directory
tcp4       0      0 tools2.smtp            0.0.81.10.33679     SYN_RCVD
tcp4       0      0 tools2.smtp            *.*                    LISTEN

What is non $mail_owner privileges or how to determine that?

tools2# postconf -d | grep mail_version
mail_version = 2.7.0
milter_macro_v = $mail_name $mail_version

I am still not sure about the non mail owner issue yet, but I would
think because this has run in the past that it wouldn't have changed.
And how do I run smtp as a non mail user when I am root?

Hopfully we are getting somewhere.....

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernt Hansson [mailto:bah at bananmonarki.se] 
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:09 PM
To: Bender, Chris
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; Jon Radel
Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-25 22:52, Bernt Hansson skrev:
> 2012-02-25 22:44, Bender, Chris skrev:
>> NP on all counts.....
>>
>> Names and IPs are same results using both digson A and resolving.
>> In fact both are identical results on A and B. I can easily ssh 
>> user at X-Username
>>> From a too.
>>
>> The issue doesn't appear be at getting to X the issues is something 
>> to do with the service on X.
>> I amnot sure if postfix has certs, or password. I don't see anything 
>> on the maillog of X when the email from A Is sent to it. Maillog on A

>> says connection timed out.
>
> What is the output on X for ps ax|grep libexec/postfix/smtpd

Also try, on X, netstat -aptcp | grep smtp.

It should be something along the line of;

tcp4    0   0  *.smtp        *.*            LISTEN

Is the postfix machine running freebsd?

Found this on postfix.org http://www.postfix.org/smtpd.8.html

"As of Postfix version 2.3, the SMTP server refuses to receive mail from
the network when it runs with non $mail_owner privileges"

$mail_owner = http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mail_owner