Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

[Johannes Skov Frandsen <joe@omesc.com>]

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:07:33 -0500 Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:
>>     
>>> testing if apache works is easy, you just go to http://localhost and
>>> see
>>> if something happens,
>>> but how do I test if postfix actual sends my mail? 
>>>       
>> Well, you set up a web server to deliver web content.  I'm assuming
>> you're setting up a mail server to deliver mail.  So the test is to
>> see that it delivers mail.
>>
>> Not that I've ever used postfix, but testing a mail server should be
>> pretty similar for any platform.
>>
>>      1. Create a mailbox (or use a remote one)
>>      2. Using a MUA, for example, connect to mail server. 
>>      3. Send message to be delivered to mailbox
>>      4. Verify message delivered to mailbox.
>>     
>
> Except that this is more the test case for /receiving/ mail :-)
> But yes, looking at the mail server's configuration, this is most
> likely the more interesting test case. Sending, after all, should just
> work fine with almost any mail server...
>
> Since OP did set up with SASL, it might also be interesting whether
> non-local originating mail is blocked for relay (test case: Send a mail
> with the server's mail domain address -- somebody@mydomain.com -- to
> some other server out there from a computer not in the trusted address
> range) and if that can be cured by proper authentication. But the OP
> didn't mention setting up SASL by any means. It'll probably work using
> PAM out-of-the-box.
>
>
> -hwh
>   
Hi

Well I guess I should have expected it to rather simple to test. But I
have never tried to configure a mailserver before
hence my somewhat naive question.

So what I did was to change my smtp server in thunderbird to use
localhost (with my postfix server running) and the send a
mail. This failed! Thunderbirds just claims that it could not connect to
the server...

I'm obvious doing something  really simple  completely wrong, but what?

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Johannes Skov Frandsen

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