Clogged mail server

People kept telling me recently that they were not receiving my e-mails. Well, only one person actually. So, this morning, I checked and those e-mails were still in the queue on my Linux server!

After spending a few hours fiddling with settings in the box, I gave up and asked for help in the Postfix mailing list. Within a few minutes, I got the answer. I was really surprised that I got an answer, because usually I get no reply. Thanks to them, everything is good now.

The only thing I needed to modify, was to set the “private” flag to “no” for “smtp” in the /etc/postfix/master.cf file. Duh!

So now, some of my friends will be receiving some of the mail I sent them weeks ago!

The older messages that bounced back were being sent to my public e-mail address. Because of the problem, even the mailer daemon notifications were not getting through!

Ah, Linux…