Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnet orMozilla Thunderbird

[Freesbie]

Either you forgot to do the command  /usr/local/bin/newaliases
or a series of postmap commands. I think it is the first one causing you
grief

Freesbie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tom at trancegeek.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 8:20 PM
Subject: Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnet 
orMozilla Thunderbird


> Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to set up a Postfix SMTP server on my machine (FreeBSD 4.11). 
> I
> read the cheat notes here 
> <http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/mail.html>
> and I can get Postfix running.  However, when I try to telnet in or 
> connect
> with Mozilla Thunderbird nothing happens.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> tom at killdozer$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.angrycoder.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> [some time goes by here...]
> [I get angry and mash the escape character like a monkey] ^]
> telnet> quit
> Connection closed.
>
> Here is some [hopefully!] useful info:
>
> tom at killdozer$ ps auxw | grep post
> postfix   275  0.0  0.2  1328 1032  ??  I     9:48PM   0:00.02 proxymap -t 
> unix
> -u
> postfix   175  0.0  0.2  1384 1084  ??  I     9:47PM   0:00.02 qmgr -l -t 
> fifo
> -u
> postfix   174  0.0  0.2  1348 1060  ??  I     9:47PM   0:00.02 
> pickup -l -t fifo
> -u
> root      173  0.0  0.2  1328 1040  ??  Is    9:47PM   0:00.08
> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/master
>
>
> tom at killdozer$ uname -a
> FreeBSD killdozer.angrycoder.org 4.11-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Fri 
> Apr
> 22 01:01:47 EDT 2005
> admin at 63-246-146-190.domain.tld:/usr/src/sys/compile/TOMKERNEL  i386
>
> [TOMKERNEL is just generic with SSE instructions enabled]
>
> Thank you in advance for any help FreeBSD Gurus!
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