Hi folks, Debian Etch - domU (guest) on Xen box Host OS -Debian Etch, Gnome deskop I follow; The Perfect Setup - Debian Etch (Debian 4.0) http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch to setup this LAMP server. It is now working. Mails can be sent via telnet and received as well with mails delivered to /home/user/Maildir On browser; http://satimis.com/apache2-default/ Code: It Works! A minor problem was found; # tail /var/log/mail.err Code: ..... Oct 13 02:57:42 xen4 dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Oct 13 02:57:42 xen4 dovecot: auth(default2): bind(/var/spoon/postix/private/auth) failed: No such file or d irectory xen4:/home/satimis# clearcot: auth(default2): net_listen_unix(/var/spoon/postix/private/auth) failed: No suc h file or directory Please advise where shall I check and how to fix it. TIA I'm prepared to set up Virtual users and domains. I found following documents; 1) Virtual Users and Domains with Postfix and MySQL http://wiki.frugalware.org/Virtual_Users_and_Domains_with_Postfix_and_MySQL 2) Postfix Virtual Domain Hosting Howto http://www.postfix.com/VIRTUAL_README.html Can I follow 1) above to proceed? Advice and suggesiotn are appreciated. TIA
Please make sure that the path "/var/spoon/postix/private/" exists and that dovecot has permissions to write to that directory. Maybe you meaned postfix instead of postix? Postfix virtual user howto: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_users_and_domains_with_postfix_debian_etch
Hi till, The printout on tail /var/log/mail.err Code: bind(/var/spoon/postix/private/auth) failed: I have no idea where it comes from On /etc/default/saslauthd Code: .... OPTIONS="-c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r" # ls -ld /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/ Code: drwxr-xr-x 2 root sasl 4096 2008-10-13 06:47 /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/ I'm now running Unix Mailbox. To change it to Virtual Domain class. Where shall I start? Do I need to remove some running files/packages? TIA B.R. satimis
You installed dovecot as pop3 and imap daemon and not courier as described in the perfect setup guide and the error comes from the dovecot configuration file. The tutorial I posted above uses Maildir and not mbox storage. The problem that I see at the moment is that you used the perfects etup guide to install your system which configures the server for linux system users as mail users and not virtual users. You will have to do the complete virtual user setup to reconfigure your system.
Hi till, Going through the notes taken down on installing this server I found the cause of the problem. I cloned the disk image of domU_1, xen1.satimis.com, as the new image for this server, domU-4, xen4.satimis.com. domU_1, xen1.satimis.com, is another mail server which installation is not finished yet. I follow; Debian Mail Server Setup with Postfix + Dovecot + SASL + Squirrel Mail http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-mail-server-setup-with-postfix-dovecot-sasl-squirrel-mail.html to build domU_1, xen1.satimis.com That is the confusion originated. It'll better for me to dump this server and make a fresh start. I'll start over again on a clean Debian Etch OS running on domU_9, xen9.satimis.com to build a Virtual Domain mail server. Thanks B.R. satimis
