Telnet doesn't respond after postfix installation and configuration

[sudhi]

Hi,

I am a newbie to linux, somehow i managed to install fedora, I wanted to setup a mail server, I have installed Dovecot and tested with telnet its all fine. But I am struggling to install Postfix. May be I did a mistake in configuration.I have tried many different instruction from many websites but no luck.

I have attached the main.cf file

when I use telnet to test it hangs after displaying escape character..

In the maillog there are these following errors

Jan 14 12:29:54 localhost postfix/smtpd[8949]: fatal: open lock file pid/inet.smtp: cannot open file: Permission denied
Jan 14 12:29:55 localhost postfix/master[8760]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 8949 exit status 1
Jan 14 12:29:55 localhost postfix/master[8760]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

I can see that there is problem with permissions but how do i give permissions to postfix to access or write. Any help appreciated.

Regards
Sudhi

[stevea]

Is this F13 ? The postfix version doesn't match F14's postfix.

When you want to use epostfix, instead of the sendmail default, then you need to select this as the MTA alternative. via
Applications->System Tools->Alternatives Configurator
or
/usr/bin/galternatives
Select "mta" in the left column, and postfix in the right. selector button.
Then reboot or restart all the related services.

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I compared your main.cf to mine and I'm not seeing, I' m not seeing a problem.

These are the permissions in that lock file I have ....

# ls -l /var/spool/postfix/pid/inet.smtp
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 22 17:14 /var/spool/postfix/pid/inet.smtp

But that November date implies i'ts not used or at least not re-written.

Be sure to start the service with (as root)
service postfix start
or by reboot. If you manually start the various services as root oit may create files with wrong ownership.

The error messages you post have "localhost" as the system name. You need to set a valid system name.

[sudhi]

Thanks a lot stevea, I will try that out and let u know.Thank You.