[rhn-users] How to route mail to local users using postfix?

[Preston, Gabriel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jody Cleveland
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:12 AM
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] How to route mail to local users 
> using postfix?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > Have you verified that mail your sending is reaching the box 
> > (snooptrace, tcpdump)?  Are these messages originating from 
> > outside the domain or in the domain? 
> 
> I ran this:
> Tcpdump -w /home/cleveland/winlitdump -s 2000 winlit.org and port 25
> 
> Which gave me output which is mostly unreadable. But, I can tell that
> the message I tried sending to it while I was running that did in fact
> reach that box. I just can't tell what it did with it after that.
> 
> It's a message I was trying to send from my gmail account.
> 
> How can I tell what happened with this message after it 
> reached the box?
> 
> - jody

You can try taking a look at /var/log/maillog or mail.log or mail<something
here> and see what it says.  Hopefully it will say something about invalid
recipient and being dropped, or it forwards it on somewhere.  If nothing
appears in any of the mail logs, then I'm not sure where to go from there.

-gabriel