[Linux] Postfix help

[David Williams]

Thanks for the advice Mike, but that didn't work either.

Regards,
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From: linux-admin@flux.org [mailto:linux-admin@flux.org] On Behalf Of =
Mike Harbison
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:42 PM
To: linux@flux.org
Subject: RE: [Linux] Postfix help

I believe the MX record for comcast is comcast.net =20

drop the smtp and try it.

mike.

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:30 -0400, David Williams wrote:
> I can try that, but if I ping smtp.comcast.net from the postscript =
server it comes back just fine.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin@flux.org [mailto:linux-admin@flux.org] On Behalf Of =
Mike Harbison
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:20 PM
> To: linux@flux.org
> Subject: Re: [Linux] Postfix help
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> use the IP address instead of the domain name.
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> Give it a try.
> Mike.
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:20 -0400, David Williams wrote:
> > Hi all,
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> > I need help with postfix.  For some reason my outgoing SMTP has
> > stopped working.  My account was recently transferred from Adelphia =
to
> > Comcast, along with that came a new SMTP server for Comcast.
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> > I=E2=80=99ve updated my main.cf file to the following:
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> > relayhost =3D smtp.comcast.net
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> > But, when ever I try and send an email I get the following in the =
log
> > file:
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> > May 15 11:58:24 dtwconsulting postfix/qmgr[5606]: 07F8845880:
> > to=3D<dwilliams@XXXXXXXXXXX.com>, relay=3Dnone, delay=3D61238,
> > delays=3D61218/20/0/0, dsn=3D4.4.3, status=3Ddeferred (delivery =
temporarily
> > suspended: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
> > name=3Dsmtp.comcast.net type=3DMX: Host not found, try again)
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> > Can anyone provide any help on this ?
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> > As some additional info, I setup Outlook to directly use the Comcast
> > SMTP server and it went through just fine.  So, why is my smtp =
server,
> > which points to the Comcast SMTP server not working ?  Does Comcast
> > have some additional security in place ?   Seems weird to me.  By =
the
> > way, my postfix server is on my local (Comcast) network.
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> > Any help would be much appreciated.
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