[Koha] Koha Emails

SATISH lis4satish at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 23:21:40 NZST 2018


Hello,

1. Please verify firewall is enabled or disabled for your machine's IP
address.
2. Next, You could check for "mail log"  to the know exact status.

*# tail -f /var/log/mail.log*
*# mialq*

example is shown here.
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*# tail -f /var/log/mail.log*
Apr 28 11:20:03 gechlibrary postfix/smtpd[4449]: disconnect from
localhost[127.0.0.1]
Apr 28 11:20:32 gechlibrary postfix/smtp[4451]: connect to
smtp.gmail.com[74.125.24.108]:587:
Connection timed out
Apr 28 11:20:32 gechlibrary postfix/smtp[4452]: connect to
smtp.gmail.com[74.125.24.109]:587:
Connection timed out
Apr 28 11:21:02 gechlibrary postfix/smtp[4451]: 9BE0E7805B6: to=<
xyz at gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=60, delays=0.12/0/60/0, dsn=4.4.1,
status=deferred (connect to smtp.gmail.com[74.125.24.109]:587: Connection
timed out)
Apr 28 11:21:03 gechlibrary postfix/smtp[4452]: connect to
smtp.gmail.com[74.125.24.108]:587:
Connection timed out
Apr 28 11:21:03 gechlibrary postfix/smtp[4452]: C7A8F7805E6: to=<
xyz at gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=60, delays=0.07/0.01/60/0, dsn=4.4.1,
status=deferred (connect to smtp.gmail.com[74.125.24.108]:587: Connection
timed out)
Apr 28 11:21:03 gechlibrary postfix/smtp[4453]: connect to
smtp.gmail.com[74.125.24.108]:587:
Connection timed out
Apr 28 11:21:03 gechlibrary postfix/smtp[4453]: E4358780614: to=<
pqrs at gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=60, delays=0.07/0.01/60/0, dsn=4.4.1,
status=deferred (connect to smtp.gmail.com[74.125.24.108]:587: Connection
timed out)

firewall was blocked, and because of this reason, status = deferred was
appeared in mail log.

*#mialq*

18308780A2A      918 Sat Apr 28 10:40:03  root at localhost
(delivery temporarily suspended: connect to smtp.gmail.com[74.125.24.109]:587:
Connection timed out)
                                         xyz at rediffmail.com


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Also refer
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21407/postfix-doesn
t-send-mail-complaining-about-host-or-domain-name-not-found

Hope! It helps to identify the problem.

*Satish MV*
Librarian - Govt. Engineering College
Opp. Dairy Circle, B.M.Road, Hassan 573 201
Karnataka, INDIA
Website: www. <http://www.git.edu/>gechassan.ac.in,
www.library.wordpress.com


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