Newbie Q: Is ispCP Omega the right tool for me?

[pete]

You're great value motokochan, I already owe you a few pints. Why didn't I think of adding the domain to my hosts file myself? That was a brilliant suggestion, thanks.

Anyway, with this in place I managed to test many of the things I was after. I now find that postfix is not actually running.

I tried to start it but got an error. I found some document on the net telling me to run postfix set-permissions if this error occurs. So I did, but with no luck.

Here is the transcript:

Code:

root@serifos:/etc/init.d# postfix start
postsuper: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed!
root@serifos:/etc/init.d# postfix set-permissions
chown: cannot access `/usr/lib/postfix/dict_cdb.so': No such file or directory
root@serifos:/etc/init.d# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/lib/postfix/./master.lock
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
root@serifos:/etc/init.d# ps -elf | grep postfix
0 S root     15657  5893  0  78   0 -   758 pipe_w 20:19 pts/0    00:00:00 grep postfix
root@serifos:/etc/init.d# postfix stop
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

I assume until postfix is running, neither pop3 not smtp will work on that machine.

Wrt Master Records, my domain registrar holds these details (for one of my domain) which I need to update:

mail record (MX)
secondary MX

and then there are more entries that I can add manually that look like:

XXXXXXX.blah.co.nz YYYY ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

XXX is just some text field
YYY is a single select (IPv4, CNAME, TXT, IPv6)
ZZZ is again just text

A couple of existing entries show:

google2ff4084676c0289 CNAME goolgle.com.
mail CNAME ghs.goolgle.com.

I presume I have to remove these to bypass google.

I'll have to fiddle with the other things, but ispCP has already saved me lots of time and agony.

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In the meantime, thanks for some other helpful soul, I punched these statements into the console:

Code:

chown postfix.postfix -R /var/lib/postfix
postfix start

and voila, postfix runs now. Even better, when I look at webmail I see messages that were sent by ispCP when I created users and I can now send a message from webmail and receive it.

Trying to be clever (but no doubt making myself look extra stupid instead) I added the following to my hosts file:

1.12.123.234 blah.co.nz mail.blah.co.nz

I was hoping that by doing this and installing an SMTP server on my local machine I could send mail to:

somebody@blah.co.nz

and it would show up in webmail and I could also use a pop3 clinet (outlook) to retrieve the mail. While my SMTP server shows that it is sending mail to somebody@blah.co.nz, it still get's delivered to gmail.

I wonder how I can properly test this?