need help with Postfix

[hilophilo]

i have a webserver running with domain name and it all works fine. how would i set up a mail server using my domain name. i tried postfix. im able to send mail but cant recieve. anyways.. dont think im doing anything right. i want to set up pop3 smtp and all that good stuff later too. but for now, i just want to get a simple email incoming and outgoing to work on the internet. thanks for any help.

[hilophilo]

im using zoneedit for my dns if it matters.

[bastard23]

hilophilo,
Please be more specific about your problems. Do you have the config file setup yet? Are you able to test the SMTP connection? Are you getting any error messages? Is the firewall blocking port 25. I've often used a free email account (yahoo.com) to test email. That will help you figure out what the problem is.

Have fun,
chris

P.S. zoneedit has a great service IMHO.

[hilophilo]

i cant not send email at all outside. i can send mail to users on the system but not outside using my domain name. so I dont think i have anything set up correctly. i got port 25 open. thats fine. Im just confuse on setting up the postfix "main.cf" file. what information do i need to put in there? what else do i need to set up?

[bastard23]

hilophilo,
Please read these pages for more info:
http://www.postfix.org/docs.html
http://www.postfix.org/basic.html

I believe you really only need to set the mydomain and mydestination variables to get it started. Please read the above info to familiarize youself with email servers in general and postfix. The default main.cf should be pretty close to what you want. (Is there anything in main.cf?) Once you have read up, also check out the various sample-<something>.cf files, as they talk about other things you can do.

Have fun,
chris

[hilophilo]

i can recieve mail when someone sends to me on my server. but i cant send out... what am i doin wrong? it says mail loops back to myself when i try to send.