Postfix Configuration File Plesk Support
The following configuration items are not in the postfix configuration and need to be added to the /etc/postfix/main.cf configuration file. They configure the SMTP authentication settings for the smtpd daemon. # # SMTP-AUTH configuration # # The name of the Postfix SMTP server's local SASL authentication realm. Postfixadmin is a web-based GUI for setting up mail users for a Postfix+MySQL setup. It will let you create users and aliases per domain. This HOWTO goes over install Postfix Admin, Postfix with a MySQL backend and SMTP auth enabled, and Dovecot (for POP3/POP3/IMAP/IMAPS) with a MySQL backend. While this HOWTO is was tested on Debian Etch, the Postfix/MySQL setup is generic and should work. The following configuration items are not in the postfix configuration and need to be added to the /etc/postfix/main.cf configuration file. They configure the SMTP authentication settings for the smtpd daemon. # # SMTP-AUTH configuration # # The name of the Postfix SMTP server's local SASL authentication realm.
I'm using the PHP mail() function, using PostFix, on CentOS6, Plesk 10.4, and my email is not getting delivered to a particular address. My personal GMail and Yahoo email addresses receive email from my server fine and do not produce errors. After a wonderful suggestion on here, I checked my mail logs, and this is the error I see :
Postfix Config File
my.valid.email@myserver.com is the name I've declared in php.ini for
sendmail_from = 'my.valid.email@myserver.com'sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f my.valid.email@myserver.com'
and the recipient is supposed to be name@company.com.
Is this an error on my side or the recipients? Can I address this on my server?
Many thanks SF.
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I've discovered this is an error due to PLESK (and the user), and because there isn't much documentation on it, I think this post is worth keeping.
Because I had the vhost domain of the email address I was sending to established in PLESK, it tried to revert to a local Postfix search when it recognized the tail end of the email address as something it thought was hosted on the server itself.
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There is documentation on how to fix this in the PostFix configuration file here.
I appreciate everyone's efforts.
RCNeilRCNeilApr 10 10:26:29 ######### postfix-local[8331]: postfix-local: from=my.valid.email@myserver.com, to=name@company.com, dirname=/var/qmail/mailnames Apr 10 10:26:29 ######### postfix-local[8331]: cannot chdir to mailname dir name: No such file or directory Apr 10 10:26:29 ######### postfix-local[8331]: Unknown user: name@company.com
Contrary to what you may think, these are not postfix logs.
Postfix prefixes all log messages with postfix/<servicename> - never postfix-<servicename>
I had this issue too. Any email being sent to my company domain was being sent locally. This is (I believe) because in Plesk (yes it's a Plesk issue).
So basically it's going oh soandso@company.com is the registered user lets send any @company.com emails locally or something like that.
Anyway, I have had to fix this twice now and I did it by editing the /etc/postfix/main.cf file and commenting out the lines that started with 'virtual'.
See http://www.rcneil.com/postfix-local-loop-in-plesk/ for instructions on how to fix the issue