Greetings... i followed the awesome howto on "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS)" ... and with no error msgs along the way, until page 4... root@server1:/usr/local/sbin# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. 220 server1.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) ehlo localhost and then terminal locked and this was in syslog and kept looping: Jan 20 13:56:04 srvr2 postfix/proxymap[9334]: fatal: dict_open: unsupported dictionary type: /mysql: Is the postfix-/mysql package installed? Jan 20 13:56:05 srvr2 postfix/smtpd[8932]: warning: private/proxymap socket: service dict_proxy_open: Success Jan 20 13:56:05 srvr2 postfix/master[8553]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/proxymap pid 9334 exit status 1 Jan 20 13:56:05 srvr2 postfix/master[8553]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/proxymap: bad command startup -- throttling i have postfix-mysql installed. and have gone over the setup and am at a loss. any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. shane just in case... here's my main.cf: myhostname = srvr2.mydomain.org alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname mydestination = srvr2.mydomain.org, localhost, localhost.localdomain relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html virtual_alias_domain = virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_forwardings.cf, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_email2email.cf virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_domain.cf virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:/mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination transport_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_transports.cf virtual_create_maildirsize = yes virtual_mailbox_extended = yes virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailbox_limit_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes virtual_maildir_limit_message = "The user you are trying to reach is over quota." virtual_overquota_bounce = yes proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps $mydestination $virtual_alias_maps $virtual_alias_domains $virtual_mailbox_maps $virtual_mailbox_domains $relay_recipient_maps $relay_domains $canonical_maps $sender_canonical_maps $recipient_canonical_maps $relocated_maps $transport_maps $mynetworks $virtual_mailbox_limit_maps content_filter = amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 receive_override_options = no_address_mappings
Error msg... Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail Fixed! (for now)... found and followed old howto form entry: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-3575.html commented out anything "proxy" ... and i got the login msg on page 4. on to the next steps. Thanks Falko!