Ok, so, I have reinstalled this distro 3 times now and I am a little frustrated with the mail, I have tried several diff HOWTO's, I have even tried total automated scripts, and I have not been able to get mail to work, I am trying to recieve mail for multiple domains on a couple of IPs . Does anyone have any good suggestions on what works from the get go with what I am trying to do on this distro?

Hrm.. I haven't had any problems getting Postfix to work under CentOS. Does /var/log/maillog have any details as to what may be the problem? Have you defined the domain names that your mail server should accept mail from? I have an /etc/mynetworks and an /etc/mydestinations file which has all the domain names to accept mail for (mynetworkss), and which domain names it should not route any further (mydestinations).

I'm pretty much shooting in the dark without some indication on what your mail server is doing, which mail server you are trying to use, etc...

Ok well, like I said, I have a tried a variety of programs, to be honest thou, I never tried with the software it came with originally, I went str8 to the howto's and I am thinking that was a huge mistake, none the less, I would like to get this resolved without reinstalling this time. My main reason for reinstalling was that I am not really sure how to properly remove things. I tried with yum one time and lost a lot of vital things, that was the first reinstall, but to sum this up, what I have running right now, is.......

I have qmail installed, and its supposed to work with courier-imap, and squirellmail, I forget which script setup this was, anyway, I am prepared to get rid of all this crap and start fresh, and thats what I would prefer to do, I have googled all my errors and came up with nothing, I have tried configing all these diff things to the best of my abilities. you use postifx? did that come with centos?

Dec 8 03:00:24 3nter imapd[11796]: imap service init from 70.85.16.61
Dec 8 03:00:24 3nter imapd[11796]: Preauthenticated user=enternet host=3nter.net [70.85.16.61]
Dec 8 03:00:24 3nter imapd[11796]: Resource temporarily unavailable, while reading line user=enternet host=3nter.net [70.85.16.61]


thats the only real error i get now, any thoughts?

Hrm... I don't use that setup.

However, CentOS (and RedHat) has an IMAP daemon installed using xinetd service. Check /etc/xinetd.d and see if there is an imap file and check to see if it says "disabled = yes" in those files.

This message sounds like your problem, though there is no solution postd:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru ... um_id=8389


Also, has root run 'ntsysv' to see if there is any other imap service running.

that does look almost exactly like my problem, I wonder what the fix is

I broke down and bought a postfix book to install my mail client.
It worked wonders and I have a better understaning of how postfix works. I would recomend this to anyone who is serious about mail


http://www.pricenoia.com/comp/0672321149/0/postfix/0/0/Postfix/index.html