postfix error

[Ahmed Mohamed]

Postfix problem solved!
It was due to FQDN problem. I tempared left out the host part in the
full hostname, which was supped to be something like
'loalhost.localdomain.ltd

Thanks for you speedy response.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Ahmed Mohamed wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>>
>> I have a CENTOS 5.4 postfix mailserver. It was working fine untill
>> yesterday
>> when
>>
>> I could't fetch mail from the default directory "'Maildir/". I could see
>> the
>> mail in the home users directory under /home/users/Maildir/new/  but
>>
>> users are not able to access through  mail client Evollution. The mail
>> client agent delays response and after a minute or so gives up
>>
>> with the following errors:
>>
>>
>> Error while Fetching Mail.
>> Could not connect to xyz.com: Connection timed out
>>
>> both postfix and dovecot services are up and running fine. The mail server
>> is also response to port 25.
>>
>
>
> Since you can see the mail in Maildir, this is not a postfix problem, but a
> dovecot related issue, did you restart dovecot?
>
> Can you  " telnet your.mail.serer 110 "
>
> if it repsonds type :
>
> user  your_username
>
> pass  your password
>
> it should them let you know if youve logged in by showing you:
> +OK Logged in.
>
> then type:   list
> it should return the number of messages waiting, ( quit to logout )
> if that works the problem then lies with evolution
>
>
> If not working, in dovecot.conf add:
>                           mail_debug = yes
>
> then  restart dovecot, and review the logs..
>
>
> --
> Res
>
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