I'm relatively new to these forums, and I want to start by thanking the many people who have suffered the same problems I have and the many people who have helped them. Already I've been able to get my server up and running almost entirely just by reading the posts that are available here. However, as you might have guessed I am still having a few "small" issues. Starting this morning, postfix has begun mailing me mailsize messages to my catchall email. (webadmin) I have already read several forum threads about the mailsize message so I understand that it is important for tracking purposes, but the HD space being taken up in quite large when these messages are just left in an email box. (not to mention it means they're probably not being processed correctly) I'd like to start by trying to post the typical items that have been requested with regards to this problem. Email being received just prior to problem occurring and intermittently during Code: This is the Postfix program at host base.gorillawebsolutions.com. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The Postfix program <[email protected]> (expanded from <[email protected]>): can't create user output file. Command output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/webadmin" Reporting-MTA: dns; base.gorillawebsolutions.com X-Postfix-Queue-ID: ED68E1C05356 X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; [email protected] Arrival-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [email protected] Original-Recipient: rfc822; [email protected] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; can't create user output file. Command output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/webadmin" ls -l /var/mail Code: [#####@base mail]$ ls -l total 14432 -rw------- 1 admispconfig mail 0 Jun 7 13:25 admispconfig -rw------- 1 aradmin mail 0 Jul 27 09:40 aradmin -rw------- 1 linux478 mail 0 Jul 27 09:39 aroscoe -rw------- 1 Scott mail 576 Jul 27 13:45 ddcruver -rw------- 1 Amanda mail 0 Jul 26 08:55 netadmin -rw------- 1 root root 25266 Jun 3 04:02 root -rw------- 1 sherman mail 576 Jul 31 07:28 sherman -rw------- 1 webadmin root 14716849 Jul 31 10:51 webadmin -rw------- 1 zamrok mail 576 Jul 30 12:22 zamrok Contents of /etc/postfix/local-host-names Code: ################################### # # ISPConfig local-host-names Configuration File # Version 1.0 # ################################### localhost base.gorillawebsolutions.com localhost.base.gorillawebsolutions.com localhost.gorillawebsolutions.com www.gorillawebsolutions.com www.GorillaWebSolutions.net www.aroscoe.com ns1.gorillawebsolutions.com GorillaWebSolutions.net mail.gorillawebsolutions.com ftp.gorillawebsolutions.com ftp.gorillawebsolutions.net ns2.gorillawebsolutions.com gorillawebsolutions.com mail.gorillawebsolutions.net Joe.GorillaWebSolutions.net aroscoe.com mail.aroscoe.com ftp.aroscoe.com #### MAKE MANUAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS LINE! #### Contents of /etc/aliases Code: # # Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from # Mail, but WILL be visible over networks or from /bin/mail. # # >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" must be run after # >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to # >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail. # # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present. mailer-daemon: postmaster postmaster: root # General redirections for pseudo accounts. bin: root daemon: root adm: root lp: root sync: root shutdown: root halt: root mail: root news: root uucp: root operator: root games: root gopher: root ftp: root nobody: root radiusd: root nut: root dbus: root vcsa: root canna: root wnn: root rpm: root nscd: root pcap: root apache: root webalizer: root dovecot: root fax: root quagga: root radvd: root pvm: root amanda: root privoxy: root ident: root named: root xfs: root gdm: root mailnull: root postgres: root sshd: root smmsp: root postfix: root netdump: root ldap: root squid: root ntp: root mysql: root desktop: root rpcuser: root rpc: root nfsnobody: root ingres: root system: root toor: root manager: root dumper: root abuse: root newsadm: news newsadmin: news usenet: news ftpadm: ftp ftpadmin: ftp ftp-adm: ftp ftp-admin: ftp www: webmaster webmaster: root noc: root security: root hostmaster: root info: postmaster marketing: postmaster sales: postmaster support: postmaster # trap decode to catch security attacks decode: root # Person who should get root's mail #root: marc Just a bit of the mail log Code: Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/smtpd[5108]: connect from base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1] Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/smtpd[5254]: connect from base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1] Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/smtpd[5108]: setting up TLS connection from base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1] Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/smtpd[5254]: setting up TLS connection from base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1] Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/smtpd[5108]: TLS connection established from base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Jul 31 11:00:07 base sendmail[5473]: STARTTLS=client, relay=[127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256 Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/smtpd[5108]: E7AF91C7BEB5: client=base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1], [email protected] Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/smtpd[5254]: TLS connection established from base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Jul 31 11:00:07 base sendmail[5475]: STARTTLS=client, relay=[127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256 Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/smtpd[5254]: E91141C85801: client=base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1], [email protected] Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/cleanup[4802]: E7AF91C7BEB5: message-id=<[email protected]> Jul 31 11:00:07 base postfix/cleanup[4541]: E91141C85801: message-id=<[email protected]> Jul 31 11:00:09 base sendmail[5475]: k6VF071R005475: to=admispconfig@localhost, ctladdr=webadmin (10020/10008), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=relay, pri=30101, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as E91141C85801) Jul 31 11:00:09 base sendmail[5473]: k6VF070J005473: to=admispconfig@localhost, ctladdr=webadmin (10020/10008), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=relay, pri=30101, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as E7AF91C7BEB5) Jul 31 11:00:09 base postfix/smtpd[5254]: disconnect from base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1] Jul 31 11:00:09 base postfix/smtpd[5108]: disconnect from base.gorillawebsolutions.com[127.0.0.1] Jul 31 11:00:09 base postfix/local[4592]: 7278B1C3FA1F: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=19516, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail -f-) Jul 31 11:00:09 base postfix/local[4380]: 319081C65114: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=32882, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail -f-) Jul 31 11:00:09 base postfix/qmgr[20077]: 319081C65114: removed Jul 31 11:00:09 base postfix/qmgr[20077]: 7278B1C3FA1F: removed Jul 31 11:00:09 base postfix/qmgr[20077]: 631491C8596B: from=<[email protected]>, size=791, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Your problem is that you used your servers main domain to create a website in ISPConfig: http://www.howtoforge.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=9&id=33&artlang=en&highlight=catchall
Thank you Till, you were right. My email catch all belongs to the same domain as my server itself and is therefore creating the loop. In an attempt to rectify the situation, I removed the catchall setting from webadmin. However, webadmin continued to recieve all of the mailsize e-mails. I was required to remove webadmin, and create a new user with a different name in order to rectify the problem. I assume this is because even though I removed the catchall from webadmin he remained aliased in some way to adminispconfig. However I can not find this alias. If somebody could help me find this alias I would really appriciate it. If it helps, then acessing spamfilter settings for any of my users will now change their email from whatever I have it set to, to webadmin. Thank you. For everything. --Duane Problem Solving so far I just read the link you gave me and I went in to check the main.cf Which as you can see has mydomain commented out. Reading the comments, I assume this means that it is using $myhostname minus the first component as $mydomain. However, myhostname is also commented out and is therefore using gethostname as its default value. With this in mind, I wrote a simple C program to generate the results of the gethostname function. Code: #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int main() { char name[255]; gethostname(name,255); printf("%s",name); return 1; } This program reveals that the hostname of my system is base.gorillawebsolutions.com which indeed makes mydomain=gorillawebsolutions.com which is of course the domain name used for my catchall "webadmin" This program reveals that the hostname of my system is base.gorillawebsolutions.com which indeed makes mydomain=gorillawebsolutions.com which is of course the domain name used for my catchall "webadmin"
On second thought, I'm not ok. Even though I don't have a mailbox filling up with junk mail anymore, I still have a mail log getting filled with failed mail delivery messages...if anybody can help me figure out how to remove this allias I would really appriciate it. Thank
I'm very sorry, I thought I replied to this again, but I must not have. My problem was fixed the next day after posting. I'm not sure what fixed it, but postfix crashed in the middle of the night and when I brought it back up it stopped trying to send the mailsize e-mails. Mabey it just needed time to empty its queue, or mabey something happened with the config files when it crashed, but either way it started working again. Thanks again for all the help guys. --Dew
If I try to visit the given link I get this error message: Access denied You are not authorized to access this page. So what?
Same kind of problem here ... It seems I'm having a same kind of problem. All of a sudden, some users started complaining about mail not arriving in their mailbox and being bounced. Log file entry: ------------- Aug 31 02:34:26 gconnect postfix/local[23824]: 34380ABEE1: to=<webxx_user@domain>, orig_to=<alias@domain>, relay=local, delay=2, status=bounced (can't create user output file. Command output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/webxx_user" ) Some mails seem to arrive, some seem to bounce... This happend all of a sudden, nothing really changed, except i upgraded to the latest ISPConfig verison Lil' help ? Thx !
Hmm, new problem. <webx_user@domain> (expanded from <user@domain>): can't create user output file. Command output: /bin/sh: let: HD_QUOTA=*1024: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "*1024") /bin/sh: line 1: [: !=: unary operator expected procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/webx_user" How could this be, My mailbox has a quota of 300Mb and only 50Mb is used ... Arg, I hate it when problems just show up ! Lol, second attempt gave me: <webx_user@domain> (expanded from <user@domain>): can't create user output file. Command output: ==================== QUOTA: 314572800 INBOXSIZE: 51194916 MAXMSG: 263377884 procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/webx_user" WHOT ?! BTW, When I try to comment out the QUOTA line in my .procmailrc file for that user and save the user in isp config system, i get the following: <webx_user@domain> (expanded from <user@domain>): can't create user output file. Command output: ==================== QUOTA: 10000000000 INBOXSIZE: 51194916 MAXMSG: 2147483647 procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/webx_user" Then all of a sudden, I deleted some message, since i use imap, and BANG, my mails started arriving again... Is there like a quota for the number of mails you can receive? Cause that I wouldn't like at all
No, there is no such quota. Generally it is better to use maildir with imap then mbox. Mbox files are often making trouble when they grow larger.
Yeah, I really just noticed that today the hard way Will I lose any e-mails when I change it to maildir? Is there anything I should watch not to break the ISPConfig system? Oh, Before I forget, FC4 with latest ISPConfig version
No. But the emails will not be accessible until you convert your mailboxes to maildir with a tool like mb2md. No. Just install courier pop3 and imap and then switch to maildir under management > server > settings in ISPConfig.
Seem to have found the problem. Since it was only just one user who was having problems with his mailbox, it was easy to narrow down the options. So i started looking into the postfix configs, It seemed the default value of mailbox_size_limit was: 51200000. The users mailbox size was near that size, so i changed the limit to: 204800000 with: Code: postconf -e "mailbox_size_limit = 204800000" postfix reload TUDU, user started receiving mails again Darn, why is the solution always so easy that you always look over it Now say i would want to install Courier POP3 and IMAP anyway, should i just follow the Howtoforge guide? ISPConfig really won't get messed up? Lol, just don't want anything to happen to any of my 78 hostings
Just install courier pop3 and imap packages from your linux distribution and then enable maildir in ISPCOnfig. The only problem you will have is that all old emails that your clients have in their mailboxes are invisible from that moment on until you convert the mbox files to maildir format with a tool like mb2md.
