Hi, I followed the following tutorial on how to set up virtual mailboxs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixVirtualMailBoxClamSmtpHowto I am not able to connect via Outlook anymore. It was working before with system account/mailbox, but not now after transferring it to virtual setup How would you troubleshoot this problem? here is my postfix smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) biff = no # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache myhostname = localhost alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = $myhostname mydestination=localhost relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8,xx.36.xx.194 mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all home_mailbox = Maildir/ smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext,noanonymous #smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd #broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth-client virtual_mailbox_domains = /etc/postfix/vhosts virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmaps virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 here is dovecot: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = yes shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot login_greeting = Dovecot ready. mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n mmap_disable = no valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/vmail protocol imap { login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap } protocol pop3{ login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain cram-md5 passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/users } user = root socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } Thank you for helping Margots
Thank you Falco so much for helping From /var/log/mail.err ... Jan 18 14:49:54 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[22131]: fatal: no SASL authentication mecha nisms Jan 18 14:53:55 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[22209]: fatal: no SASL authentication mecha nisms from /var/log/mail.info Jan 17 10:58:58 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[5997]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Jan 17 10:58:59 ubuntu postfix/master[2497]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 5997 exit status 1 Jan 17 10:58:59 ubuntu postfix/master[2497]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling Jan 17 11:03:58 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[6102]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth-client failed: Connection refused from /var/log/mail.log Jan 18 15:46:26 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[22816]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth-client failed: Connection refused Jan 18 15:46:26 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[22816]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Jan 18 15:46:27 ubuntu postfix/master[2497]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 22816 exit status 1 Jan 18 15:46:27 ubuntu postfix/master[2497]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling from netstat -tap (No info could be read for "-p": geteuid()=1000 but you should be root.) Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 localhost:mysql *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 232 ubuntu:ssh 97-116-43-185.mpl:58531 ESTABLISHED - tcp 0 0 ubuntu:ssh 97-116-43-185.mpl:58506 ESTABLISHED - tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh [::]:* LISTEN - I am looking forward to hear from you Thank you Margots
You don't have any POP3 or IMAP daemon (such as Courier or Dovecot) running, that's why you cannot fetch emails from the server. What do you have in /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf?
Thank you Falco There was a typo mistake that i made at the time making this work. I fixed it and restarted dovecot. Virtual mailbox is still not working and I don't see any logs /var/log/ for mail. Here is the /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf: mech_list: cram-md5 Thank you p.s. In my Outlook i am not sure what is my IMAP server DNS name, so put IP address which worked for the system user mailbox. where is the IMAP server name defined?...do i have to create another MX DNS entry for my incoming IMAP mail server? thank you.
Can you try this instead? Code: pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login You can either use the IP address or any hostname that points to that IP, i.e. you could create an A or CNAME record that points to the IP.
Thank you Falco I did change the smtpd.conf as you said and restarted devocot, saslauth and postfix, but no success. I tried Outlook as well as Squirrelmail What other thing can we try? thank you for helping Margots p.s. thank you for answering my other question
Hi, I just restarted machine and got the following logs from mail.log: Jan 20 20:00:13 ubuntu postfix/master[2515]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, co nfiguration /etc/postfix Jan 20 20:08:48 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[2740]: connect from 206-55-188-48.usiwirele ss.com[206.55.188.48] Jan 20 20:08:48 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[2740]: BAF6619428E: client=206-55-188-48.us iwireless.com[206.55.188.48] Jan 20 20:08:49 ubuntu postfix/cleanup[2745]: BAF6619428E: message-id=<201101210 40848.BAF6619428E@localhost> Jan 20 20:08:49 ubuntu postfix/qmgr[2523]: BAF6619428E: from=<[email protected] om>, size=710, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 20 20:08:49 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[2740]: disconnect from 206-55-188-48.usiwir eless.com[206.55.188.48] Jan 20 20:08:49 ubuntu postfix/virtual[2746]: BAF6619428E: to=<contact@kapasoft. com>, relay=virtual, delay=0.63, delays=0.53/0.01/0/0.09, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir) Jan 20 20:08:49 ubuntu postfix/qmgr[2523]: BAF6619428E: removed Jan 20 20:09:01 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[2740]: connect from 206-55-188-48.usiwirele ss.com[206.55.188.48] Jan 20 20:09:01 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[2740]: lost connection after EHLO from 206- 55-188-48.usiwireless.com[206.55.188.48] Jan 20 20:09:01 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[2740]: disconnect from 206-55-188-48.usiwir eless.com[206.55.188.48] Maybe it helps
thank you Falco for replaying and making it possible to send the mail. The remaining issues is to make it possible view the mail via mail clients. When i look in /var/log/mail.log logs nothing different except the following: Jan 20 20:19:46 ubuntu postfix/anvil[3167]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Jan 20 20:16:06 Jan 21 00:54:25 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[5744]: connect from unknown[123.88.130.159] Jan 21 00:54:26 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[5744]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[1 23.88.130.159]: 554 5.7.1 <[email protected]>: Relay access denied; from=<v [email protected]> to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP helo=<oalzhe.com> Jan 21 00:54:26 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[5744]: disconnect from unknown[123.88.130.1 59] Otherwise, whenever i try to make a connection from outlook then in /var/log/mail.info or mail.log the following is written: ] Jan 22 07:15:22 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[22597]: connect from 97-116-43-185.mpls.qwest.net[97.116.43.185] Jan 22 07:15:23 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[22597]: lost connection after EHLO from 97-116-43-185.mpls.qwest.net[97.116.43.185] Jan 22 07:15:23 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[22597]: disconnect from 97-116-43-185.mpls.qwest.net[97.116.43.185] ...and i am not able to connect from outlook there is nothing in mail.err this may not be relevant but in /var/log/mail.warn there is one entry Jan 21 07:00:16 ubuntu postfix/smtpd[9338]: warning: 95.172.43.62: hostname static.mega.nn.ru verification failed: Name or service not known I wonder if there is logs for dovecot or saslauth services that we can view Thank you for your help. Please, let me know how else we can tackle this to make client access the mail server Margots
This gets all logged to mail.log. I wonder whether the Outlook problem is a firewall issue. What's the output of Code: iptables -L ? What's the exact error message in Outlook? Have you tried to use another client PC and/or different email client (such as Thunderbird)?
Thank you Falko for replying and helping I was using outlook and squiremail, but i was not able to read logs for these clients. So installed Thunderbird and read the logs as specified in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Thunderbird From logs i saw the it cannot locate the Mailbox. So, i looked into /etc/postfix/vmaps There was an alias, map to same folder as another user set for my account. By changing it i am now able to access mail via Thunderbird and sending/receiving emails Thank you for helping. Is there a way i can thank you by making donation. Thanks again, Margots
