Hi, i would like to use Mozilla Thunderbird for sending and receiving mails. i am able to send/receive mails using squirrelmail web interface. when i tried sending a mail to my yahoo account it says sending of message failed the message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server server1.mydomain.com failed. the server may be unavailable or is refusing connections. please verify that your SMTP setting is correct and try again. SMTP settings server name : server1.mydomain.com port 25 username & password username : [email protected] : password i tried with SSL at port 465 but got the same message. tried with just username but no use. same with pop3 port 110 and pop3 SSL port 995 portforwarding is enabled for ports - 25,110,465,995 i installed ispconfig using IP instead of domain name cos' the changes with my domain weren't updated . now i am able to ping www.mydomain.com, smtp.mydomain.com, pop3.mydomain.com. i use my ISP DNS servers. so didn't make any entries in ispconfig DNS Manager. i want this machine just to be a mail server. what should i do to fix this
Hi Username should be somtehing like "webXX_username" where XX should be the assigened number of the site. what are your DNS entries?
i changed the login format by removing user prefix in management-system config--settings- user prefix --Blank i login with my email id without webXX prefix and is working fine. i think there's some problem connecting to the server as the error indicates sending of message failed the message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server server1.mydomain.com failed. the server may be unavailable or is refusing connections. please verify that your SMTP setting is correct and try again.
When you want to send an email with your smtp server, you need to enable "this server needs authentication" within your emailclient. This means that you have to enter a loginname/password for sending e-mails. If this will not work, please have a look to your /var/log/mail.log file. You can read your logfile online with the commands: cd /var/log/ tail -f mail.log or: tail -f mail.warn Quit = CTRL+C
Additionally, ensure that your ISP is not blocking port 25 (rather common actually) There is a thread about enabling a different port to accept mail located at: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13106
i reinstalled the machine i try to login using web1_user (got that from ispconfig cpanel) here's my Mozilla thunderbird setting account name work account your name myname email address [email protected] reply to email address [email protected] server settings - server type popmail server server name server1.mydomain.com username web1_user port 110 Outgoing server (SMTP) server name server1.mydomain.com port 25 username & password - enabled username [email protected] i tried with both [email protected] and [email protected] and it asks for a password. but it doesn't authenticate me though the password is correct and iam able to login via squirrel webmail. i ran the port scanner in ispconfig tools it shows port 25, 110 are open
Do you see any errors within your logfiles related to your actions? Please have a look within: /var/log/mail.log and /var/log/mail.warn
error messages fetchmail and saslauthd were not running. turned them on now. but even then it keeps asking for password and doesn't authenticate. here's the log details Mail.log Jun 14 16:33:51 server1 postfix/smtpd[4769]: connect from unknown[192.168.1.254] Jun 14 16:33:56 server1 postfix/smtpd[4769]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jun 14 16:33:56 server1 postfix/smtpd[4769]: warning: unknown[192.168.1.254]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure Jun 14 16:33:58 server1 postfix/smtpd[4769]: warning: unknown[192.168.1.254]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure Jun 14 16:34:03 server1 postfix/smtpd[4769]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.1.254] Jun 14 16:34:10 server1 postfix/anvil[4601]: statistics: max connection rate 2/60s for (smtp:209.191.68.137) at Jun 14 16:31:01 Jun 14 16:34:10 server1 postfix/anvil[4601]: statistics: max connection count 2 for (smtp:209.191.68.137) at Jun 14 16:31:01 Jun 14 16:34:10 server1 postfix/anvil[4601]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Jun 14 16:24:10 Mail.warn Jun 14 16:33:56 server1 postfix/smtpd[4769]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jun 14 16:33:56 server1 postfix/smtpd[4769]: warning: unknown[192.168.1.254]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure Jun 14 16:33:58 server1 postfix/smtpd[4769]: warning: unknown[192.168.1.254]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure Mail.log while trying to retrive emails using mail client -POP3 Jun 14 16:32:35 server1 courierpop3login: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.254] Jun 14 16:32:53 server1 courierpop3login: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.254] server name : server1.mydomain.com login format : both web1_username and [email protected] didn't work how can i fix this
If the server is local to you (on your home network) then this is fine, if not, it can still be an issue, the port scanner only scans the server, not the connection. If your server is located at a data center, or remotely away from you, try do this at the command line: telnet yourhost.com 25 change yourhost.com to your domain name. You should see a welcome screen, if you do not, it's pretty likely that port 25 is blocked by your ISP and you need to open up an alternate port. If you plan on having customers, your going to eventually need to do this anyway.
yes it's web1_username. I removed secure authentication option and now I am able to receive mails in thunderbird on POPs port 995. thanks a lot for helping me out.
