xs@kittenz.org wrote:
ah! for some reason postfix is trying to use dns instead of /etc/hosts.
adding "disable_dns_lookups = yes" to /etc/postfix/master.cf then reloading, i think, will fix this.
I'm now on Plan B.
I have dumped Exim having decided that, from my point of view, the documentation is generally unintelligable and installed Postfix on machine1 instead.
Most things now seem to work except for a few points.
At the moment I have Fetchmail pass the internet mail to Procmail for processing so that any of various addresses on my wife's mail is all put into the 'amanda' folder on machine1. I would like this now to go to the 'amanda' folder on machine2 but haven't managed to do this.
I would like all mail going out to the internet to have our own domain on it i.e. whoever@beenthere-donethat.org.uk but all local mail to have the local domain on it. At the moment all internal mail seems to be being sent to beenthere-donethat.org.uk which is not what I want.
I have looked through the Postfix documentation but don't understand enough of it yet to sort out these final problems.
But I do feel, at last, that I am slowly getting there.
Barry Samuels