Basic POP email setup guide

Hi, this is the second ISPCONFIG box I have setup up, but the first time I am configuring it to handle email.

Fresh Mandriva 2006 following the "Perfect Guide." Not using DNS, the DNS is through my ISP. In ISPCONFIG, I created new site, with a user "web4_admin" whose email I would like to be "[email protected]"

When I check "/etc/postfix/virtusertable" I see one of the lines seems to be setup to receive mail there:

Code:

[email protected]    web4_admin
[email protected]    web4_admin
[email protected]    web4_admin
[email protected]    web4_admin

But when I send an email to that, I get the reply

Code:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at st08.startlogic.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[email protected]>:
208.201.249.230 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... No such user here
Giving up on 208.201.249.230.

also tried emailing the username directly: still no dice

Code:

208.201.249.230 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... No such user here
Giving up on 208.201.249.230.

I read the post at http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2

But that seemed command-line oriented; I did everything through the control panel. I must have missed something, where can I read more about basic POP email setup with ISPCONFIG ... or what are the next logical troubleshooting steps?

Thanks in advance,

xavier

 

Yes, it contains those lines verbatim, full contents below I did notice in "main.cf" a couple parameters that seemed weird:

Code:

mydomain = example.com
myhostname = server1.$mydomain

Could that be the problem? Below find the complete contents of main.cf:

Code:

# These are only the parameters changed from a default install
# see /etc/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, fuller version of this file.

# These are changed by postfix install script
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.5/README_FILES
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.5/html
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
command_directory = /usr/sbin
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
mail_owner = postfix



# User configurable parameters
inet_interfaces = all
mynetworks_style = host
delay_warning_time = 4h
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name ($mail_version) (Mandriva Linux)
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450
smtp-filter_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
lmtp-filter_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
smtpd_sasl_path = /etc/postfix/sasl:/usr/lib/sasl2
recipient_delimiter = +
owner_request_special = no
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
mydomain = example.com
myhostname = server1.$mydomain
mydestination = /etc/postfix/local-host-names
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom

virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtusertable
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mailbox_command =

 

Are the MX records of your domains correct? Do they point to the correct server?

 

Yes, when I check it out at dnsstuff.com, I see this

Code:

mysitenet.	MX	IN	7200	mail.mysite.net. [Preference = 10]
mysite.net.	MX	IN	7200	custmx.sonic.net. [Preference = 20]

I also tried changing the following lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf to this ...

Code:

mydomain = mysite.net
myhostname = mail.$mydomain

But that didn't work, so I changed them back to the original ...

Code:

mydomain = example.com
myhostname = server1.$mydomain

Below find the tail of /var/log/mail/info. You can see the connection attempt starting at 19:59. There is an error for name service server1.example.com, not sure what to do next.

Code:

Nov 27 19:52:11 colo ipop3d[26293]: pop3 service init from 66.65.62.41
Nov 27 19:52:12 colo ipop3d[26293]: Login user=web4_admin host=cpe-66-65-62-41.nyc.res.rr.com [66.65.62.41] nmsgs=0/0
Nov 27 19:52:12 colo ipop3d[26293]: Logout user=web4_admin host=cpe-66-65-62-41.nyc.res.rr.com [66.65.62.41] nmsgs=0 ndele=0
Nov 27 19:53:33 colo postfix/anvil[26222]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:66.235.193.134) at Nov 27 19:48:10
Nov 27 19:53:33 colo postfix/anvil[26222]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:66.235.193.134) at Nov 27 19:48:10
Nov 27 19:53:33 colo postfix/anvil[26222]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Nov 27 19:48:10
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/smtpd[26388]: connect from st08.startlogic.com[66.235.193.134]
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/smtpd[26388]: 57A4B8AC267: client=st08.startlogic.com[66.235.193.134]
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/cleanup[26392]: 57A4B8AC267: message-id=<[email protected]>
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/qmgr[6699]: 57A4B8AC267: from=<[email protected]>, size=1052, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/smtpd[26388]: disconnect from st08.startlogic.com[66.235.193.134]
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/smtp[26394]: 57A4B8AC267: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=server1.example.com type=A: Host not found)
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/cleanup[26392]: 7D8648AC26A: message-id=<[email protected]>
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/qmgr[6699]: 7D8648AC26A: from=<>, size=3009, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/qmgr[6699]: 57A4B8AC267: removed
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/local[26397]: 7D8648AC26A: to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (unknown user: "xavier")
Nov 27 19:59:34 colo postfix/qmgr[6699]: 7D8648AC26A: removed

 

Please change it back to

Code:

mydomain = mysite.net
myhostname = mail.$mydomain

and restart Postfix. Then this error:

shouldn't occur anymore.

Is [email protected] listed in /etc/postfix/virtusertable?

 

We fixed this offline, but I just wanted to respond in this thread, close the issue. The problem was with the settings in main.cf, changing it to

mydomain = mysite.net
myhostname = mail.$mydomain

worked like a charm.

x