dovecot - Sep 2006 - Mail does not arrive at my server.

I run under FC5. I want to setup a mail server with postfix (already
runnung) and dovecot. Once this i working I add spamassassin and clamav.
I setup postfix and can send emails. When replying to these emails they do
not get to my server (I checked in the Maildir directory of the user, there
is no file)
The server has 2 NICs. there is a firewall where I opened the port 143 (that
is for IMAP?)
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:143 flags:0x17/0x02

the only change I made to the dovecot.conf files is:
protocols = imap

I did not touch the rest as in the comments of the file it says
# Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment
# any of the lines.


Any hint on what I am doing wrong is welcomed. Thanks in advance
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Hello Wolfgang,

Wolfgang Paul Rauchholz, 11.09.2006 (d.m.y):
> I setup postfix and can send emails. When replying to these emails 
> they do not get to my server (I checked in the Maildir directory of the
user, there is no file)
You should better check your postfix logs and your postfix
configuration.
> The server has 2 NICs. there is a firewall where I opened the port 143
(that is for IMAP?)
> ??? 0???? 0 ACCEPT???? tcp? --? eth1?? *?????? http://0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
> ??????????? http://0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
> ?????????? state NEW tcp dpt:143 flags:0x17/0x02
> the only change I made to the dovecot.conf files is:
> protocols = imap
> I did not touch the rest as in the comments of the file it says
> # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to
uncomment
> # any of the lines.
> Any hint on what I am doing wrong is welcomed. Thanks in advance
Can you do IMAP queries?

Regards,
Christian Schmidt

-- 
Wenn man Angst vor den Menschen hat, hat man vor allem Angst vor sich
selbst.
		-- Renato Guttuso

Christian Schmidt schrieb:
>Hello Wolfgang,
>
>Wolfgang Paul Rauchholz, 11.09.2006 (d.m.y):
>
>  
>
>>I setup postfix and can send emails. When replying to these emails 
>>they do not get to my server (I checked in the Maildir directory of the
user, there is no file)
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
Make sure
1) the mails reach your server at all (check  your postfix logs)
2) to what type of inbox postfix or the local delivery agent (often
procmail) delivers these mails : maildir, mbox, or /var/spool/mail
3) if dovecot looks in the right place (see above) for incoming mails.


Hope this helps,

Jakob Curdes

>> <snip>
>> 1) the mails reach your server at all (check  your postfix logs)
>> That is my problem, the mails do not get back to my server at all. 
>> the maillog file only shows me the ountgoing mails but nothing which 
>> indicates that a mail from outside is coming.
>> The only mails I receive are from the linux system as such 
>> (background kobs finished, etc...)
>>
Are you sure you have an MX record in the public DNS for your mailserver 
? If not, outside mail will never reach you no matter what you configure 
on the server. It is not enough to have an open port 25 on yours server !
Anyway, dovecot is innocent here.

Yours,
Jakob Curdes

> > > 1) the mails reach your server at all (check  your postfix logs)
> > > That is my problem, the mails do not get back to my server at
all. the
> > > maillog file only shows me the ountgoing mails but nothing which
indicates
> > > that a mail from outside is coming.
> > > The only mails I receive are from the linux system as such
(background
> > > kobs finished, etc...)
> > > 
> Are you sure you have an MX record in the public DNS for your mailserver ?
If
> not, outside mail will never reach you no matter what you configure on the
> server. It is not enough to have an open port 25 on yours server !
> Anyway, dovecot is innocent here.
If no MX, mail servers should fall back to the A record.