Hi folks, Remote Server Ubuntu LAMP 6.06 amd64 postfix cyrus Evolution can receive mails on remote server but can't send mails via it with same password. $ tail /var/log/mail.log Code: Jul 13 19:06:52 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: connect from unknown[220.232.213.178] Jul 13 19:07:06 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory Jul 13 19:07:06 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory Jul 13 19:07:06 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jul 13 19:07:06 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: warning: unknown[220.232.213.178]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed Jul 13 19:07:15 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory Jul 13 19:07:15 satimis last message repeated 3 times Jul 13 19:07:15 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jul 13 19:07:15 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: warning: unknown[220.232.213.178]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed Jul 13 19:07:19 satimis postfix/smtpd[4511]: disconnect from unknown[220.232.213.178] $ sudo ls /etc | grep sasldb2 Code: sasldb2 $ ls -l /etc/sasldb2 Code: -rw-rw---- 1 root sasl 12288 2008-06-15 15:20 /etc/sasldb2 $ cat /etc/group | grep postfix Code: mail:x:8:dovecot,postfix,cyrus postfix:x:111: Can I enter "sasl" on; Code: mail:x:8:dovecot,postfix,cyrus,sasl OR on; Code: postfix:x:111:sasl to solve the problem? TIA Edit: 1) To my surprise I can send and receive emails on SquirrelMail with the same user and same password via remote server without problem. 2) After ssh connect the remote server on Xterm, local PC, I can telnet localhost 25 to send a mail to yahoo without problem. What obstruction makes the user unable to authenticate on Evolution? sasl? cyrus? SugarCRM? B.R. satimis
Hi falko, NO. I followed following guide installing ubuntu OS, mysql, apache2, postfix, iptables https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/C/email-services.html without installing dovecot, samba, etc. Cyrus installation - guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cyrus Their guides are not 100% workable, particularly cyrus. Recently I also suffered problem on MySQL after running "apt-get upgrade". Debian made changes on cyrus running it on chroot and MySQL as well. It took me some time to fix the problem on MySQL recently, not only on this Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP box and also on another Ubuntu 7.04 LAMP box. The problem came after running apt-get upgrade. I have had a difficult journey on building this LAMP server which serves as the platform to run SugarCRM. However through difficulties I learn a lot. I suspect the strange problem mentioned on this posting comes either from cyrus/sasl and/or SugarCRM. SugarCRM offers another email system, via gmail. I'll test it later disregarding whether I can fix the problem here or NOT. Thanks Edit-1: I found the cause of the problem on running; $ sudo apt-get --reinstall install evolution Code: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/2737kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done grave bugs of evolution (2.10.1-0ubuntu2.4 -> 2.10.1-0ubuntu2.4) <pending> #479880 - evolution: sent mail content contains garbage sometimes Summary: evolution(1 bug) Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] Y (Reading database ... 106017 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace evolution 2.10.1-0ubuntu2.4 (using .../evolution_2.10.1-0ubuntu2.4_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement evolution ... Setting up evolution (2.10.1-0ubuntu2.4) ... It is a bug. I doubt whether we can fix the problem. Edit-2: The problem is on Evolution of local machine. Not on the remote machine. Manual delete mails on Inbox/Outbox Manual delete mails Trash - can't be deleted Remove Evolution $ sudo apt-get remove evolution Code: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libedataserver1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libpisock9 libedata-cal1.2-6 libnotify1 evolution-common liblpint-bonobo0 gtkhtml3.14 libedataserverui1.2-8 libedata-book1.2-2 libgtkhtml3.14-19 libnm-glib0 libegroupwise1.2-13 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libcamel1.2-10 evolution-data-server-common evolution-data-server libgnome-pilot2 libbluetooth2 libsoup2.2-8 libpisync0 libebook1.2-9 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: evolution 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 8729kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y (Reading database ... 106014 files and directories currently installed.) Removing evolution ... Fresh install Evolution $ sudo apt-get install evolution Code: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: bug-buddy gnome-spell network-manager evolution-exchange evolution-dbg evolution-plugins-experimental Recommended packages: gnome-pilot-conduits gnome-desktop-data evolution-plugins yelp spamassassin bogofilter The following NEW packages will be installed: evolution 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/2737kB of archives. After unpacking 8729kB of additional disk space will be used. Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Selecting previously deselected package evolution. (Reading database ... 105878 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking evolution (from .../evolution_2.10.1-0ubuntu2.4_amd64.deb) ... Setting up evolution (2.10.1-0ubuntu2.4) ... Start Evolution. Old emails on Trash remain Problem still remain unable to send mails Warning: Code: Unable to authenticate to SMTP server. Bad authentication response from server. Please enter the SMTP password for satimis on host satimis.com I suspect the problem is on uncleared Trash box. $ ls /home/satimis/Maildir/ courierimapkeywords courierimapsubscribed courierimapuiddb courierpop3dsizelist cur new tmp Delete Code: courierimapkeywords courierimapsubscribed courierimapuiddb all of them? On all users? $ ls /home/satimis/Maildir/new has content I don't want to delete the emails on SquirrelMail. Would they be on "cur new tmp"??? TIA Edit-3 Ran zenwalk liveCD on a local machine (zenwalk.org a nice Linux distro) start email client "icedove". Remote server connected, problem remains same as previous. Emails can be download on the server. But can't send emails via the server. B.R. satimis
