Cannot send mail.

[jeremyshoe]

I got everthing installed ok but I cannot send mail. Is there a service I can stop or restart or a setting I can use to fix this. Also fyi I am sending mail internally on my local network. Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Jeremy

[czaveri]

ssh host.yourdomain.com

su - zimbra
zmcontrol status

(If you see anything stopped or not working ...)

zmcontrol stop
ps aux | grep zimbra
(kill all lingering processes)

zmcontrol start

check again:
zmcontrol status

exit

[jeremyshoe]

I did a reinstall but still no go.
postfix: fatal: file /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/conf/main.cf: parameter mail_owner: unknown user name value: postfix
Gives me that error.

any ideas

[czaveri]

Looks like the install was not 100% successful. It probably didn't create 'postfix' user.

Try these:
grep postfix /etc/passwd
grep postfix /etc/group
grep postfix /etc/shadow

Do these show the user/group?

[brianpwolfe]

Jeremy,

You may be having the same problem as me. When you go to the zimbraAdmin page, and look in the queues. Is all your mail getting stuck in the deferred or active queue?

Check out my post for 'Unable To Send Mail - No route to host - Error' as well.

Good Luck
Brian

[czaveri]

Originally Posted by brianpwolfe

You may be having the same problem as me. When you go to the zimbraAdmin page, and look in the queues. Is all your mail getting stuck in the deferred or active queue?

Check out my post for 'Unable To Send Mail - No route to host - Error' as well.

Actually, I think this is a different problem, though the solution matrix may co-incide but it doesn't look like the same.

[jeremyshoe]

Correct postfix needed a user. I set the username as zimbra. Not sure if that is what I should have done but it works. I also had to set permissions postfix permissions.
Thanks,
Jeremy

[czaveri]

If it works, then it is ok. But my system shows permissions as follows:

[czaveri@arihant ~]$ ls -al //opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root	4096 Sep 27 04:08 .
drwxr-xr-x  48 root root	4096 Sep 27 04:12 ..
drwxrwxrwx   2 root postfix 4096 Oct 18 04:34 conf
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root	4096 Sep 27 04:08 libexec
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root	4096 Sep 27 04:08 man
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root	4096 Sep 27 04:08 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  16 root postfix 4096 Sep 27 04:08 spool
[czaveri@arihant ~]$ ls -al /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/conf
total 216
drwxrwxrwx  2 root   postfix  4096 Oct 18 04:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root   root	 4096 Sep 27 04:08 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix 15647 Jul 13 06:46 access
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix  8240 Jul 13 06:46 aliases
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix 10947 Jul 13 06:46 canonical
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix  9622 Jul 13 06:46 generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix 16393 Jul 13 06:46 header_checks
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix 11942 Jul 13 06:46 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 zimbra zimbra   1599 Oct 18 04:34 main.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix 14379 Jul 13 06:46 main.cf.default
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix  1939 Jul 13 06:46 makedefs.out
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix  5120 Sep 25 08:43 master.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix 17077 Jul 13 06:46 postfix-files
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root   postfix  6366 Jul 13 06:46 postfix-script
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root   postfix 22018 Jul 13 06:46 post-install
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix  1024 Oct 18 09:37 prng_exch
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix  6523 Jul 13 06:46 relocated
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix  1629 Jul 13 06:46 TLS_LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix 11033 Jul 13 06:46 transport
-rw-r--r--  1 root   postfix 11732 Jul 13 06:46 virtual