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Briefly describle my testing env

  • window7 (192.168.0.10) with vmware server 45G virtual harddisk with CentOS 6 (192.168.0.13), router Dmz 192.168.0.13
  • everything(http, ftp, ssh, mysql, phpmyadmin) work ok except postfix and squirrelmail
  • a no-ip domain name
  • installation -> webmin -> virtualmin

Email testing case 1:

  • click webmin->postfix mail server->userbox->userA->compose->
  • send an email to userB, address is userB@localhost click webmin->postfix mail server->userbox->userB->
  • no email inside (This user has no message in ~userB/Maildir/)
  • initially, Maildir doesn't exist
  • then i check /var/spool/mail/userB, i can see the recevied email

Email testing case 2:

  • click webmin->postfix mail server->userbox->userA->compose->
  • send an email to userB, address is userB@realdomain.no-ip.com
    click webmin->postfix mail server->userbox->userB->
  • no email inside (This user has no message in ~userB/Maildir/)
  • initially, Maildir doesn't exist
  • then i check /var/spool/mail/userB, i can't see the recevied email

how to troubleshoot the email server?

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Read the log files. This is why they exist. Depending on which Linux you have you see them in /var/log/mail, /var/log/mail.log or similar. In all cases you should find something under /var/log/syslog.

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    AFAIK, there isn't /var/log/syslog on CentOS. Another one to look is /var/log/messages. – grs Sep 16 '11 at 1:34
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    thanks, most of the problems are fixed. There are else problems. The email server can't send out(e.g send an email to google), and the home/user/mailDir don't have emails, need to go to /var/spool/mail/user – hkguile Sep 16 '11 at 5:54

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