Hey guys, Again. Thanks for a great product and great help. I know it is all voluntary and it is much appreciated. My server is really not a money maker but I have put in some long hours on making the 15 or so sites on it work. It's more of a learning experience for me. My setup is Ubuntu 9.04 and ISPConfig 3 per - http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-9.04-ispconfig-3 I recently found that I was having email issues. I can't receive any emails to any of the domains that I have setup on my server. I did some research and it seems that this is a semi-common issue. I've searched through my logs to see if I can isolate the issue but don't see anything that stands out to me and most fixes i find either do not apply to my distro or I'm not comfortable trying them. My Linux skills are very limited. Any advice or help? Also, should I backup and reinstall a newer distro as this one is quite old? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
This is not the reason for your issue. It does not matter if clamav reports that it is outdated as long as freshclam downloads new updates. Regarding your original issue, please post the exact error messages from your mail.log file.
Thanks for easing my mind on the ClamAv issue Thanks, Till I don't see any error messages in mail.log but 'postqueue -p' does show this type of thing: 11A5C322001 54056 Wed Feb 13 13:49:14 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] 43DEC322006 2515 Wed Feb 13 13:54:09 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] 45C79322003 21092 Wed Feb 13 13:49:14 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] CD7A432200D 20796 Wed Feb 13 19:29:46 3Bz4cURQKCYImuumrkgrkxzy-tuxkvr4muumrk.iussgxqkzotmiuruA.ius@alerts.bounces.google.com (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] CEA8A32200A 6935 Wed Feb 13 14:08:23 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] F0A5E322005 24858 Wed Feb 13 13:49:13 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] DF42B32200C 2456 Wed Feb 13 17:02:32 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] DBACC322010 3492 Thu Feb 14 06:03:55 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] D177E32200E 2119 Wed Feb 13 21:51:47 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] ABAEB322002 2455 Wed Feb 13 13:45:08 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] A5A7C10804C 2455 Wed Feb 13 17:09:10 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] A5845322009 2453 Wed Feb 13 13:54:11 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] 73FAE322008 2455 Wed Feb 13 13:54:10 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected] Thanks
Run: ls -la /var/vmail it should show you a list of directories that have the same names then your email domains. If you see the folders exist, run this command to recursively fix all permissions: chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail
Didn't seem to work I ran the command and senta test email and this line was added to 'postqeue -p' AFA03322012 2455 Thu Feb 14 09:08:15 [email protected] (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.) [email protected]
Thanks, Florian030 but that didn't seem to work either. Here's the new messages in mail.err Feb 19 10:18:19 server1 last message repeated 3039 times Feb 19 10:19:20 server1 last message repeated 9393 times Feb 19 10:20:21 server1 last message repeated 10178 times Feb 19 10:21:22 server1 last message repeated 9642 times Feb 19 10:22:23 server1 last message repeated 6266 times Feb 19 10:23:24 server1 last message repeated 5786 times Feb 19 10:24:25 server1 last message repeated 6133 times Feb 19 10:25:26 server1 last message repeated 5442 times Feb 19 10:26:27 server1 last message repeated 2344 times Feb 19 10:27:28 server1 last message repeated 539 times Feb 19 10:27:34 server1 last message repeated 3 times And here is the mail.log file after i sent a test message today (Feb 22): Feb 21 06:46:52 server1 postfix/qmgr[14337]: CB590322020: from=<[email protected]>, size=5329, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 21 06:46:52 server1 postfix/qmgr[14337]: 8DF4F10855B: from=<>, size=4573, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 21 06:46:52 server1 postfix/pipe[10161]: CB590322020: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<contact@mydomaincom>, relay=maildrop, delay=315893, delays=315893/0.01/0/0.03, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox. ) Feb 21 06:46:52 server1 postfix/smtp[10162]: 8DF4F10855B: to=<[email protected]>, relay=ib1.charter.net[216.33.127.20]:25, delay=231600, delays=231600/0.01/0.15/0, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host ib1.charter.net[216.33.127.20] refused to talk to me: 421 imp05 charter.net ?? charter.net connection refused from [68.113.203.x] E1210) Feb 21 06:47:06 server1 postfix/smtpd[10186]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Feb 21 06:47:06 server1 postfix/smtpd[10186]: 75A0F32201A: client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Feb 21 06:47:06 server1 postfix/cleanup[10000]: 75A0F32201A: message-id=<[email protected]> Feb 21 06:47:06 server1 postfix/qmgr[14337]: 75A0F32201A: from=<[email protected]>, size=1596, nrcpt=1 (queue active) I'm beginning to think it may be an issue with my internet provider or my DNS zone files at the registrar As always, any help is appreciated.
Falko, I'm not sure what you mean by "the mailbox and all other directories in the path of the mail box". Are these "virtual" mailboxes or is there an actual folder/file for each box? Here is the result of 'ls -la /var/vmail' total 80 drwxr-xr-x 15 vmail vmail 4096 2013-02-26 17:09 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2012-10-16 09:22 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 220 2009-03-02 08:22 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 3115 2009-03-02 08:22 .bashrc drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-18 11:16 site1.com drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:26 site2.info drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:31 site3.info drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:26 site4.info drwxr-xr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:32 site5.info drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:27 site6.info drwxr-xr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:27 site7.info drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:28 site8.info drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:29 site9.info drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:29 site10.info -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 1454 2013-02-13 17:01 .mailfilter -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 1382 2013-02-13 17:01 .mailfilter~ drwxr-xr-x 13 vmail vmail 4096 2013-01-13 12:11 mailfilters -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 675 2009-03-02 08:22 .profile drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 2013-01-02 13:34 site11.com drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2012-06-14 12:25 site12.com
Each mailbox has it own directory / file - depends on your setup. The permissions in /var/vmail are ok. Make sure, that /var/vmail and everyting inside /var/vmail/$DOMAIN is also owned by vmail.vmail. You can simply run Code: chown -R vmail.vmail /var/vmail
Fixed. Almost Hey guys, Thanks for all of the help. I had someone with more Linux knowledge than I help me out and it appear s that my issue stemmed from a combination of an automatic update of maildrop and filters in place by my ISP. I'm not absolutely sure what the update broke. I think it is the way that maildrop works with postfix. But we 'downgraded' it and emails began to go through. But forwarded emails still weren't being delivered to my home address. I found my ISP has filters in place to prevent businesses from using a residential internet plan. Thanks for all of your help. I truly appreciate your work.
