topic Re: Not able to receive mails(Local mail) in Operating System - Linux

Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

shetty — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:39:22 GMT

Hi guys,
I have configured postfix(Mandrake)mail server for accessing local mail. I have configured k-mail as the client on linux systems and outlook express on Windows systems.

I have a problem on one system (running Linux)where kmail is configured as the client.
Iam able to send mail from this system. But iam not receiving mails.

Can anyone help me on this problem.

Regards.
Shetty.

Re: Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

Josef Forman — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:27:42 GMT

Check the queue by the command "mailq".

PF

Re: Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

shetty — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:43:35 GMT

Hi Josef,
I have checked the mail queues in the server. It says mail cannot be delivered.

Re: Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

Sยภเl Kย๓คг — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:07:27 GMT

Shetty
Are u able to recieve mail on the windows based clients.Tell me what type of authenticate is set on the Kmail client.
regards
SK

Re: Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:20:22 GMT

Can you provide more details about your topology? Do you have mailserver and several clients? If so, you need to start POP3/IMAP server on you mailserver in order to server your clients.

Re: Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

shetty — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:56:32 GMT

Hi guys,

I have configured Postfix on Mandrake Linux , everything was working fine yesterday,but today iam getting problems.

I have configured Outlook Express on windows systems, i don't get any problems on windows. Everything is working fine on windows.

I have configured K-Mail on Linux machines. Only on one particular system iam getting this problem. Iam able to send mails through this system,but iam not receiving mails. I have checked the POP3 and SMTP,Settings are correct.

It's very urgent , Please help me to figure out the problem.

Regards.
Shetty.

Re: Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:09:41 GMT

So if I understand properly you have several Linux clients with KMAIL work well and one linux box with kmail which doesn't work?
If so, I suggest:
- to check IP connectivity and DNS resolution for this client
- you can debug POP3 by connect from problematic box to mailserver manually
[see http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/pop3telnet.htm, for example]

Re: Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:39:20 GMT

Diagnostic, linux to linux

sendmail -v -q

will try to push the queue in verbose mode. We're going to need to see an error output from that.

sendmail -v -d8 -d38 someone@local.net
type some text

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good diagnostics that will also help isolate the problem, which seems like networking.

service sendmail status

what does that return?

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