Tag: mail

Amavisd isn’t running with Postfix – connection refused to 127.0.0.1

Late last night, I decided to apply some needed updates to my personal mail server, which is running Gentoo Linux (OpenRC) with a mail stack of Postfix & Dovecot with AMaViS (filtering based on SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Vipul’s Razor). After applying the updates, and restarting the necessary components of the mail stack, I ran my …

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phpBB problem with any call to PHP’s mail function

After fighting for a while to figure out why a phpBB installation (migrated to my new server) wouldn’t send out email notifications, and digging through non-existent logs, I have figured out the problem. When a new registration would come through, or when a user would get a new private message, no email notification would be …

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New server

After a lot of prep work, my blog is now on my new Gentoo server. I have certainly learned a lot from this experience, and have a lot more to learn! Everything works just fine with regard to the blog, but I am still having trouble getting my mail server set up with postfix, and …

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