Hello, I installed Postfix With SMTP-AUTH And TLS on a Fedora Core 6 system. I used 'Installing A LAMP System With Fedora Core 6' Tutorial. I am facing multiple issues. Here is the output of postconf -n. alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 debug_peer_list = storkrubber.com disable_dns_lookups = yes home_mailbox = Maildir/ html_directory = no inet_interfaces = all mail_owner = postfix mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail mailbox_command = mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix manpage_directory = /usr/share/man message_size_limit = 10240000 mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain mydomain = storkrubber.com myhostname = storkmail.storkrubber.com mynetworks = 192.9.200.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 myorigin = $mydomain newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/README_FILES relayhost = [$mydomain] sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/samples sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix setgid_group = postdrop smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtp_use_tls = yes smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_recipient, permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_invalid_hostna me, reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unauth_destination, permit smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s smtpd_use_tls = yes tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 I setup sasl_passwd. # Contents of sasl_passwd # [mydomain.com] [email protected]:123 I have followed exactly the steps given in the tutorial. I setup Maildir option in postfix as you can see above. If I use the Linux mail command to check a user's incoming mails, it does not show any mails. The mails are available in the Maildir/new directory of each user though. When I had set it up the first day, using mailboxes in /var/spool/mail, it all seemed to work fine. Second & most importantly, I am unable to send mail to any other domain, i.e. relay mail from my server. It rejects saying : <[email protected]>: host mydomain.com[64.191.80.85] said: 550-(mail.mydomain.com) [61.246.0.97]:48837 is currently not permitted 550-to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap 550-server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication turned on 550 in your email client. (in reply to RCPT TO command) I have put one of the users in the saslpasswd file for authentication, although I have 3-4 pop3 users available. I assume the user should not matter. The 'allothers' is a catchall account which I will setup with fetchmail to deliver mail to multiple users in my server. Any suggestions. If you need any other inputs, pls let me know. The log hasn't been much help. TIA Amal
Did you set up email accounts as shown here? http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2 Also, which POP3 daemon do you use? What's the output of Code: netstat -tap ?
Falko, No, I did not exactly use the steps but I resolved the minor issue of not being able to see the mail. I commented the following line: #home_mailbox = Maildir/ Now its putting the mails in /var/spool/mail for each user, i.e. making a mailbox for each user (with their name). If I use "mail" command I can see each user's emails. I have created their ids using what is written in the link you sent: useradd -d /home/sample_user -g users sample_user passwd sample_user I guess Maildir is good for use with Imap clients & other tools etc, but my end users will be using Outlook/Eudora etc with POP3. I am running Dovecot for that. Interestingly my main issue: Unable to relay mail has also got solved. I think that I had to restart my machine. Although I had restarted postfix many times but it was not relaying. I also wish to add that I tried sending a mail to this server using Eudora and it gave me a error of "Bad certificate.... (self certified etc...). Do you want to accept?" I did and it started working only after that. The maillog has a message: Oct 6 16:19:13 mymailserver postfix/smtp[4289]: certificate verification failed for mydomain.com: num=18:self signed certificate Is there a way to solve this and above error messages. They are both related AFAIK. Thanks Amal
But Dovecot uses Maildir... You must create a certificate for the hostname that your Postfix uses. You can see it when you type in Code: telnet localhost 25
Falko, I have been able to setup Dovecot without using Maildir. I setup a Fedora Core 3 box earlier without SSL/TLS and it works perfectly without Maildir. The mails go into /var/spool/mail/$user. It works in FC6 also. You just need to setup default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u in dovecot.conf. Haven't been able to change the Certificate. Will do that tomorrow and let you know. Amal
