I installed everything according to this guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-centos5.1 but when I try to login using thunderbird, I get a login failed error. My maillog shows a successful login: Code: Dec 22 11:58:13 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:xxxx] Dec 22 11:58:15 authdaemond: received auth request, service=imap, authtype=login Dec 22 11:58:15authdaemond: authmysql: trying this module Dec 22 11:58:15 authdaemond: SQL query: SELECT email, password, "", 5000, 5000, "/home/vmail", CONCAT(SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',-1),'/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',1),'/'), quota, "", "" FROM users WHERE email = "[email protected]" Dec 22 11:58:15 authdaemond: password matches successfully Dec 22 11:58:15 authdaemond: authmysql: sysusername=<null>, sysuserid=5000, sysgroupid=5000, homedir=/home/vmail, [email protected], fullname=<null>, maildir=domain.com/username, quota=10485760, options=<null> Dec 22 11:58:15 authdaemond: Authenticated: sysusername=<null>, sysuserid=5000, sysgroupid=5000, homedir=/home/vmail, [email protected], fullname=<null>, maildir=domain.com/username, quota=10485760, options=<null> The SQL query looks a bit dodgy, it produces empty columns when I ran it manually using phpmyadmin. I'm not sure what the problem is :s
What's the output of Code: uname -a ? Does your Courier configuration (the formatting) look like the one in the tutorial? Courier is very finicky about this (newlines, etc.).
I double checked though all the files. This is the output of uname -a Linux lixx-xxx 2.6.23.1-linodexx #1 Sun Nov 4 12:03:06 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (xx are numbers). Edit: one other thing I didn't understand from the guide is "Our hostname in this example is server1.example.com, and it has the IP address 192.168.0.100, so we change /etc/hosts as follows:" My server ip is a 69.xx..... one, what should I put in the hosts file?
Edit: I got the telnet working after doing yum install cyrus-sasl-plain. I have to still check on thunderbird. ----- old message ----- Ok, I uninstalled it all and started again. This time I'm sure I got the hostname part right, this is my /etc/hosts: Code: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 69.xx.xx.xx lixx-xxx.members.linode.com lixx-xxx ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 But now when I telnet to localhost port 25, it opens and closes the connection: Code: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. I found these in some of the logs (not maillog): Code: Dec 23 23:35:35 lixx-xxx postfix/smtpd[12058]: warning: xsasl_cyrus_server_get_mechanism_list: no applicable SASL mechanisms Dec 23 23:35:35 lixx-xxx postfix/smtpd[12058]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Dec 23 23:35:36 lixx-xxx postfix/master[12051]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 12058 exit status 1 Dec 23 23:35:36 lixx-xxx postfix/master[12051]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling Dec 23 23:38:13 lixx-xxx postfix/smtpd[12072]: warning: xsasl_cyrus_server_get_mechanism_list: no applicable SASL mechanisms Dec 23 23:38:13 lixx-xxx postfix/smtpd[12072]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Dec 23 23:38:14 lixx-xxx postfix/master[12051]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 12072 exit status 1 Dec 23 23:38:14 lixx-xxx postfix/master[12051]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling Dec 23 23:43:37 lixx-xxx postfix/smtpd[12126]: warning: xsasl_cyrus_server_get_mechanism_list: no applicable SASL mechanisms Dec 23 23:43:37 lixx-xxx postfix/smtpd[12126]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Dec 23 23:43:38 lixx-xxx postfix/master[12051]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 12126 exit status 1 Dec 23 23:43:38 lixx-xxx postfix/master[12051]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling postfix check doesn't show any errors or anything.
I don't know how, but its finally working lol. Strange thing is it wasn't working in the morning when I tried it, but finally worked now.
