Not able to receive mails(Local mail)

[shetty]

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.

[Josef Forman]

Check the queue by the command "mailq".

PF

[shetty]

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

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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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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.

[shetty]

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.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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]

[Steven E. Protter]

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
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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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