Author: Sean Gibbins Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [Software] Postfix Configuration Problem
Nick Chalk wrote: > Sean Gibbins <sean@???> wrote:
>
>> Jan 13 10:44:05 www postfix/cleanup[6155]: 8A8581B40F6:
>> message-id=<20070113104405.8A8581B40F6@???>
>> Jan 13 10:44:05 www postfix/qmgr[6147]: 8A8581B40F6: from=<>, size=3169,
>> nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>> Jan 13 10:44:05 www postfix/smtp[6153]: 8A8581B40F6:
>> to=<root@???>, relay=none, delay=0, status=deferred
>> (connect to mail.funkygibbins.me.uk[81.2.99.91]: Connection refused)
>>
>
> That looks like a warning or informational mail
> sent by a daemon to root.
>
> Is the host www an internal system?
>
No, and I really cannot think where that is coming from. The system
running Postfix is called bender for short and has a fully-qualifed name
of mail.funkygibbins.me.uk, which resolves to 81.2.99.91 externally and
192.168.1.40 internally.
>
>> The only thing I can think of is that a
>> connection to 81.2.99.91 (my static IP assigned
>> by my ISP) from my LAN goes to my router*,
>> whereas a connection to the same IP address from
>> the outside world is NATted through to the mail
>> server.
>>
>
> I think your mail routing information might be
> wrong, either in DNS or on the host www itself.
> Postfix on www is trying to deliver mail to root
> on your mailserver, but is seeing the public IP.
>
> You may need to put a specific routing entry in
> Postfix's transport table on www.
I am a Postfix newbie, so it looks like a bit of manual-reading might be
the order of the day!
