POP3 not working

Hi,

I have a fresh instillation of ISPConfig 2.2.6 on Redhat Fedora Core 5.

I cannot seem to get POP3 to work. SMTP is working fine.

The ISP Server Status says POP3 is online; the Dovecot service is running.

My DNS has the MX record setup, correctly as far as I can tell.

I have created several mail user accounts on a site account.

I have tried using Evolution on the same machine.

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

 

dig results

Just in case I have not got the MX record setup properly here's my MX record results using dig :-

[[email protected] ~]#dig aarongray.org MX

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> aarongray.org MX
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8615
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;aarongray.org. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
aarongray.org. 79071 IN MX 10 mail.aarongray.org.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
aarongray.org. 71046 IN NS ns1.bb-online.net.
aarongray.org. 71046 IN NS ns2.bb-online.net.
aarongray.org. 71046 IN NS brain.bb-online.co.uk.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.aarongray.org. 79071 IN A 212.159.110.144
ns1.bb-online.net. 168778 IN A 194.168.163.59
ns2.bb-online.net. 83388 IN A 194.168.163.58
brain.bb-online.co.uk. 84019 IN A 80.88.192.130

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 212.159.13.49#53(212.159.13.49)
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 16 23:11:29 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 200

If you could check it please as this is the first time I have done a mail account MX record setup. My server IP address is 212.159.110.144 and I have ports 25 and 110 routed through to my server.

Aaron

 

Oh. I should add that the mail client POP3 is connecting but I am just not recieving any mail through the system.

Aaron

 

Dovecot

Dovecot.

I have followed the FC5 perfect instillation proceedure.

I have enabled maildir and restarted all services but still no joy.

Aaron

 

Please make sure SELinux is disabled.

 

SELinux disabled

Yes SELinux was disabled at install time.

 

Also make sure no firewall is blocking port 110.

 

Routing problem

Looking at the log there is something very odd with the mail routing, AFAICT not a problem with ISPConfig.

Aaron

 

What's the exact error message?

 

Domain name

I had to set the myhostname and mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf

They were defaulting to the local ip addresses domain name.

Aaron

 

Mail being sent on to local ISP's mail server

Mail was being sent on to the local ip's domain MX record, ie the local ISP's mail server.

I dont understand how that will be any different for any other mail server setup by ISPConfig ?

Aaron

 

Mail Working

main.cf is exactly the same as the FC5 perfect instillation except that I have added the mydomain and myhostname which makes it work okay now.

ISPConfig has added a 'mydestination=/etc/postfix/local-host-names' which I presume reads the other mail domains rather than relaying back to the internet.

Many thanks for bearing with me.

Aaron

 

Yes, that's ok.

 

Thanks

Thanks alot.

Aaron