I am having a problem with getting post fix to work when I follow the http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch tutorial. When I go to run telnet, it doesn't give me a header like this "220 server1.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)" and when i type in "ehlo localhost" nothing appears. I followed the tutorial twice, and double checked everything 4 times. The only thing that was different than the tutorial was that when making the keys it asked me for a keyword or something, and when doing the mysql part this line, for me had a different number than 3281 (6???) tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 3281/mysqld When I look at /var/log/mail.log, this is what I see Jan 5 22:27:41 server1 postfix/smtpd[8376]: warning: SASL per-process initialization failed: generic failure Jan 5 22:27:41 server1 postfix/smtpd[8376]: fatal: SASL per-process initialization failed Jan 5 22:27:41 server1 postfix/master[8303]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 8376 exit status 1 Jan 5 22:27:41 server1 postfix/master[8303]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling ---------------- my main.cf file ----------------------- # See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version # Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first # line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default # is /etc/mailname. #myorigin = /etc/mailname smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) biff = no # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h # TLS parameters smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_use_tls = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache # See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for # information on enabling SSL in the smtp client. myhostname = server1.233.sfcn.org alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname mydestination = server1.233.sfcn.org, localhost.233.sfcn.org, localhost.localdomain, localhost relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = all smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtp_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom ------------------ end file ----------------- Thank you for your help
What's in /etc/mailname? When you created the SSL certificate for Postfix, did you accept all default values, or did you enter some custom stuff? What's in /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf?
In the mailname file there is "server1.233.sfcn.org" in the smtpd.conf file there is "pwcheck method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login" like i said with the certificates it wanted to have a keyword, that is the only thing that was different than the tutorial
Code: mh1:~# dig server1.233.sfcn.org ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> server1.233.sfcn.org ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 3982 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;server1.233.sfcn.org. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: sfcn.org. 294 IN SOA sfcndns.sfcn.org. russell.spanishfork.org. 2007122502 10800 3600 604800 300 ;; Query time: 17 msec ;; SERVER: 213.191.92.84#53(213.191.92.84) ;; WHEN: Wed Jan 9 16:21:02 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 102 mh1:~# Please create an A record for server1.233.sfcn.org and recreate the SSL cert, but this time accept the default values.
