Hi. I run the Ubuntu 6.06 setup, and ISPConfig. My ISP is blocking outgoing port 25, I found that out after i moved ISP, and I'm now stuck with them until March. So during the setup I configured procmail to use my ISP's mail server as a smarthost. This has worked before with Exchange server. It was also working fine, until I migrated to new server hardware. I thought I had configured everything the same, but now I have 2 problems. First one and so far most important, mail does not get delivered to my mail box, but rather gets bounced back after a while. With an error message about too many hops. (domains, IP and usernames replaced) My config as following. server hostname: lnx1.mydomain.net my mail domain configured in ISPConfig: mail.mydomain.net settings during setup of postfix: mail.mydomain.net smarthost: smtp.myisp.net Mail sent to [email protected] get's rejected with follwoing; Code: This is the Postfix program at host smtp5.myisp.net. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <[email protected]>: host mail.mydomain.net[my.ip.add.ress] said: 554 Error: too many hops (in reply to end of DATA command) My second problem is less important since I can use the relay host directly, but would be nice to avoid. I'm unable to use my server to send mail. Kontakt(Kmail) gives an error: Code: Sending Failed: Your SMTP server does not support PLAIN. Chose a different authentication method. The server responded: "Error: authentication failed" The message ........ However when detecting what server supports, it configured everything fine. So I started looking in the logs, and this is what I see: Code: Jul 5 18:04:06 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[13414]: connect from unknown[192.168.1.5] Jul 5 18:04:08 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[13414]: setting up TLS connection from unknown[192.168.1.5] Jul 5 18:04:08 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[13414]: TLS connection established from unknown[192.168.1.5]: TLSv1 with cipher EXP1024-RC4-SHA (56/128 bits) Jul 5 18:04:10 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[13414]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory Jul 5 18:04:10 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[13414]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jul 5 18:04:10 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[13414]: warning: unknown[192.168.1.5]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed Jul 5 18:04:10 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[13414]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[192.168.1.5] Jul 5 18:04:10 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[13414]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.1.5] I should mention that the password is correct. Huff, long question, hope someone can solve it for me... Regards. Brian Levinsen
Ok, with a bit of experimenting, or actually by misstaske I found out what caused the first error, or actually more of how to solve it. By changing the domain configured in postfix to be the same as the server is configured as, mail started to come in. According to the logs, they still seem to get looped through my ISP smtp server, but at least they get delivered eventually. Is there a reason for Postfix to forward incoming mail to my ISP's server? Oh and it did not solve my second problem, I still can not send directly through my mail server. Regards. Brian Levinsen
It is started, but just in case I tried to restart it, and then connect. This is from auth.log and syslog. Code: Jul 6 22:45:11 lnx1 sudo: username : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/username ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart Jul 6 22:46:49 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[2138]: connect from unknown[192.168.1.5] Jul 6 22:46:51 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[2138]: setting up TLS connection from unknown[192.168.1.5] Jul 6 22:46:51 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[2138]: TLS connection established from unknown[192.168.1.5]: TLSv1 with cipher EXP1024-RC4-SHA (56/128 bits) Jul 6 22:46:52 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[2138]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory Jul 6 22:46:52 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[2138]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jul 6 22:46:52 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[2138]: warning: unknown[192.168.1.5]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed Jul 6 22:46:52 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[2138]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[192.168.1.5] Jul 6 22:46:52 lnx1 postfix/smtpd[2138]: disconnect from unknown[192.168. On server I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 and on Desktop I'm running Kubuntu 6.06
Then it seems as if saslauthd is not configured correctly as Postfix is running chrooted. Please configure Postfix and saslauthd as described here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06_p5
