Can send but not receive email (CentOS, Postfix)

Posted on August 6, 2013

I followed the instructions here to set up PostFix and I now have mail being sent from my website working just fine. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-postfix-on-centos-6

However I cannot receive emails.

I added an A and MX record for the mail server a few days ago.

I would like to either set up multiple user accounts to run from outlook (need passwords on each etc. so may be more complex) or just have everything get forwarded to free gmail accounts.

In postfix main.cf I have:

virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

in /etc/postfix/virtual I have a line for each intended email address and where it should forward e.g.:

me@mydomain.com me@gmail.com

Then I did this:

postmap /etc/postfix/virtual

service postfix reload

But I get nothing, any ideas?

Thanks

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samsonngure

February 4, 2014

Gone through the whole process, still cannot receive email. Emails are sent, but cannot receive. Here are my MX records: A @ 198.199.125.224 CNAME www @ CNAME * @ NS NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. NS NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. NS NS3.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. Followed Etel Sverdlov’s tutorial on setting up Postfix & Cyrus on Centos 6.

pc7878

April 16, 2014

i want to set that my droplet with many domains can forward email to external emails. i read and followed bunch od tutorials including postfix itself. set up seems very simple, but nothing works after almost 10+ hours of trying. any one managed to set postfix mail forward9ing on cent os 6.5?