Hi. I changed IP information for a virtual domain on my server last night to an external IP and changed MX records to suit. I also changed the mailserver setting to external while playing around with an physically separate server. Today I realize that mail is building up in user folders (eg: /home/www/web1/user/admin/Maildir/new) except mail clients (including IMAP & UebiMiau) fail to recognize any mail at all. I have since removed that domains DNS records and complete site from the server and reboot to no avail. Please help...spanx.....
<blush> I just remembered that I had a catch all email account on another domain forwarding all email to a catch all account on the domain that I moved/deleted/messed with. It seems that because mail wasn't being forwarded, it locked everything else up.
It seems that mail being sent to a deleted account (even removed from Recycle Bin) is still trying to be forwarded to another Mail Server IP... (BTW: I find the following commands very handy...) postsuper -r ALLThen check your mail log with tail -f /path/to/maillog
HI till, thanx for the response. It wasn't until I recreated it. I think what I saw from using tail -f /var/log/maillog was stuff queued up from before. It kept saying 447 messages queued up. Now it says 1 I'm back to square one now with mail accumulating in the new folders of everyone's mail dirs. I think something else has frozen up...
I think I'm stuck. When I connect to any account via IMAP, I see amongst various mail folders a dir named Maildir. Under that is new and then each mail message apears as a folder. What's going wrong here? I tried a reinstall of ispconfig to no avail. Please help.
When I send myself a test email, here's the tail of maillog Just checked dnsreport.com and was given the following warning... I didn't change my hostname...more digging...
Okay, I've changed my hostname...still mail keeps building up in each users new folder. Calls from my clients are driving me nuts....
Code: May 25 13:28:49 localhost postfix/smtp[4165]: 699E1BB8066: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=localhost.localdomain type=A: Host not found) What's in /etc/hosts? What's in /etc/postfix/main.cf?
I tried that and still no email. Here's some tail of a test email. Code: May 25 17:55:19 ns postfix/smtpd[3487]: warning: 206.116.63.178: hostname s206-116-63-178.gateway.bcsolutions.ca verification failed: Name or service not known May 25 17:55:19 ns postfix/smtpd[3487]: connect from unknown[206.116.63.178] May 25 17:55:19 ns postfix/smtpd[3487]: EB9CCBB80F0: client=unknown[206.116.63.178] May 25 17:55:23 ns postfix/smtpd[3487]: 23197BB80F0: client=unknown[206.116.63.178] May 25 17:55:23 ns postfix/cleanup[3494]: 23197BB80F0: message-id=<[email protected]> May 25 17:55:23 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: 23197BB80F0: from=<[email protected]>, size=2873, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 25 17:55:23 ns postfix/smtpd[3487]: disconnect from unknown[206.116.63.178] May 25 17:55:23 ns postfix/smtp[3529]: 23197BB80F0: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (mail for mail.bcsolutions.ca loops back to myself) May 25 17:55:23 ns postfix/cleanup[3494]: AE171BB80F2: message-id=<[email protected]> May 25 17:55:23 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: AE171BB80F2: from=<>, size=4706, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 25 17:55:23 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: 23197BB80F0: removed May 25 17:55:29 ns postfix/smtp[3529]: AE171BB80F2: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=6, status=bounced (mail for mail.bcsolutions.ca loops back to myself) May 25 17:55:29 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: AE171BB80F2: removed Here's one sent from a remote system Code: May 25 18:01:04 ns postfix/smtpd[3687]: connect from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net[24.71.223.10] May 25 18:01:04 ns postfix/smtpd[3687]: 9C711BB80F0: client=shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net[24.71.223.10] May 25 18:01:04 ns postfix/cleanup[3691]: 9C711BB80F0: message-id=<[email protected]> May 25 18:01:04 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: 9C711BB80F0: from=<[email protected]>, size=1286, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 25 18:01:04 ns postfix/smtpd[3687]: disconnect from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net[24.71.223.10] May 25 18:01:04 ns postfix/smtp[3692]: 9C711BB80F0: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (mail for mail.bcsolutions.ca loops back to myself) May 25 18:01:05 ns postfix/cleanup[3691]: 00852BB80F2: message-id=<[email protected]> May 25 18:01:05 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: 00852BB80F2: from=<>, size=3113, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 25 18:01:05 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: 9C711BB80F0: removed May 25 18:01:06 ns postfix/smtp[3695]: 00852BB80F2: to=<[email protected]>, relay=idcmail.shaw.ca[64.59.134.8], delay=1, status=sent (250 2.5.0 Ok.) May 25 18:01:06 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: 00852BB80F2: removed May 25 18:01:07 ns postfix/smtpd[3687]: connect from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net[24.71.223.10] May 25 18:01:07 ns postfix/smtpd[3687]: 6462EBB80F0: client=shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net[24.71.223.10] May 25 18:01:07 ns postfix/cleanup[3691]: 6462EBB80F0: message-id=<[email protected]> May 25 18:01:07 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: 6462EBB80F0: from=<>, size=4738, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 25 18:01:07 ns postfix/smtpd[3687]: disconnect from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net[24.71.223.10] May 25 18:01:12 ns postfix/smtp[3692]: 6462EBB80F0: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=5, status=bounced (mail for mail.bcsolutions.ca loops back to myself) May 25 18:01:12 ns postfix/qmgr[3120]: 6462EBB80F0: removed And finally, here's the bounce message derived from this email Code: This is the Postfix program at host mail.bcsolutions.ca. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The Postfix program <[email protected]> (expanded from <[email protected]>): mail for mail.bcsolutions.ca loops back to myself
Well, I guess if I wanna have email back up for tomorow, I best get backin' up and reinstalling. I'll definitly know better next time than to go messing around with DNS settings for virtual domains on a server I can't afford having downtime on.
I'm starting to think that this problem might be worthy of a bug report. All I did was take an existing domain that I was using on my local server running the latest upgrade of ISP Config and change it's records to point to a new address. I also set up it's mail config to external. I don't have a test server to duplicate results and I've reinstalled from scratch so... BTW: I ran a backup of all domains checked everything except for logs, and not 1 single peice of mail was xfered from my IMAP users...Are there improvements slated for the backup function? Maybe I should stop complaining...maybe plesk spoiled me...(btw: I forgot to backup ispconfig's own database...lol you probably hear from people like me all the time.) Oh well, I'm totally commited to ispconfig now and am planning on converting other companies I admin for.
