I have setup my server at work; it is going to be for mail/web server functions. I followed the link here http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu704 Setup guide But when I try to send mail out it comes as [email protected] instead of [email protected] I know I can change this but during the install it said to use localhost, localhost.domain.com and a few others for the name, to make sure mail sends correctly. My other problem is I am using webmin, I love it but everyone says it’s harder to configure than ispconfig, it looks so nice though and seems to do the trick. My 2 main concerns are getting the domain name settled and getting incoming mail working. I am not using bind, I am using free dns servers, and they provide me with 4 name servers. I am using “everydns” service, but I don’t know how to add a MX record for that service, do I just make one that’s called mail.domain.com or mx.domain.com And point it to my IP address and my server will do the rest? I cannot receive mail to this box now because I have no incoming mail server configured. I have a static IP address, and can buy another if I need a second IP address. Please help, Ultimately I want to end with I will be shooting for hosting, my mailserver that will provide services for 60 email clients, PLEASE HELP. I WILL TRY ANYTHING THAT WILL WORK. also what program should i use for a gui interface? squirrelmail ? and do you recommend postfix or other for this number of clients. a step by step guide start to finish just configuring mailserver part would be excellent.
You must set the correct sender address in your email client (e.g. Thunderbird, Outlook, Evolution,...). You must create an A record for mail.domain.com or mx.domain.com (doesn't matter) which points to your server's public IP address, and then you must create an MX record like this: Code: domain.com. MX 10 mail.domain.com. or Code: domain.com. MX 10 mx.domain.com. Of course, Postfix must be configured to accept emails for domain.com. You can either do this with webmin or on the command line: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2 You don't need a second IP address. Squirrelmail is fine. You can't go wrong with Postfix.
im still sort of lost Ive caught on to most of what I had to do for this stuff but im still lost, I started over with a fresh install. When I was using the perfect setup ubuntu 7.04 tutorial, What do i type here The directions say echo server1.example.com > /etc/hostname my hostname right now is ubuntu but for my mail to resolve correctly, do I change this to mx.example.com or just plain example.com and then further down in the instructions I what do I use for. Mailname? and other destinations to accept mail for? on the ubuntu page https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/server/C/postfix.html they show an example of mail.example.com I have configured mx.domain.com to goto my ip address all ready. sorry some of the generic directions mess with my head during the setup, if someone posts an example just make a fake company name please.
First you must make up your mind which hostname you want to use (e.g. ubuntu.yourdomain.com). Then you simply replace server1.example.com with ubuntu.yourdomain.com. ubuntu.yourdomain.com should have an A record pointing to your server. If you want to receive emails for yourdomain.com, you create an MX record like this: yourdomain.com MX 0 ubuntu.yourdomain.com
hopefully this will help me and others. hopefully this will help me and others, here are screenshots of what I have. http://lyncomail.com/record.jpg http://lyncomail.com/webmin-postfix.png http://lyncomail.com/webmin-postfix2.png how do i fix this. I will post any file needed here so i can get this working. I thought, a picture speaks a thousand words, so where could i go wrong. there has to be something wrong with my setup. mail goes out, but doesnt come in. I am running postfix, dovecot, im installing squirrelmail soon, and hopefully I will have this working today. I hope I have all the available ports and things open. I can do a clean install if i need to.
The DNS records look ok (if 216.220.234.160 is your server's IP address). What's the output of Code: postconf -n and Code: netstat -tap ? Any errors in your mail log?
outputs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- mark@ubuntu:/$ postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes config_directory = /etc/postfix home_mailbox = Maildir/ inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = all mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 0 mydestination = lyncomail.com, localhost, localhost.localdomain, localhost myhostname = lyncomail.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 myorigin = /etc/mailname recipient_delimiter = + relayhost = smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache smtp_use_tls = yes smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s smtpd_use_tls = yes tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom mark@ubuntu:/$ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- mark@ubuntu:~$ netstat -tap (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 ubuntu.lyncomail.c:2208 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *op3s *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *op3 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:imap2 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:webmin *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 ubuntu.lyncomail.co:ipp *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:microsoft-ds *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 ubuntu.lyncomail.c:2207 *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:5900 *:* LISTEN 13869/vino-server tcp6 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 ip6-localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN - mark@ubuntu:~$ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- where do i find my mail log file? im kinda new to postfix sorry.
error I went into my mailbox and i had a message in there but i cant remember if i have changed my server name in apache, what should that be set at at my situation? /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for ubuntu.lyncomail.com apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for ubuntu.lyncomail.com apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
I don't see the file included in your Postfix configuration where the email addresses are definded. What's the output of Code: ls -la /etc/postfix ?
output heres the output root@ubuntu:/home/mark# ls -la /etc/postfix total 88 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-06-19 13:26 . drwxr-xr-x 119 root root 12288 2007-06-25 09:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318 2007-06-15 14:15 dynamicmaps.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1750 2007-06-19 13:26 main.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3968 2007-06-15 14:15 master.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17975 2007-03-28 10:40 postfix-files -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6840 2007-03-28 10:40 postfix-script -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22239 2007-03-28 10:40 post-install drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-15 14:19 sasl drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-15 14:24 ssl root@ubuntu:/home/mark#
The file that contains the accepted email addresses doesn't exist at all. I suggest that you confoigure Postfix as shown here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2
