Hello, I've been following the guide The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and while doing a 'telnet localhost 25' I don't see the two lines 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN . I've followed everything in the guide up to page 5 and everything else works as described. In the postfix config page (page 5) I followed the steps described and only deviated in the /etc/postfix/main.cf in one line: with this line myorigin = /etc/mailname when I start the postfix service, it complains that such a file doesn't exist. whereas with this line commented out (as is originally commented out in the file) the service comes up fine. My main question is why don't I see the 250-AUTH messages even though I see ehlo localhost 250-rethymno-ubuntu 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN Here are the contents of my /etc/postfix/main.cf: # See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version # Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first # line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default # is /etc/mailname. #myorigin = /etc/mailname smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) biff = no # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h # TLS parameters smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_use_tls = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache # See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for # information on enabling SSL in the smtp client. myhostname = rethymno-ubuntu alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases mydestination = rethymno-ubuntu, localhost.localdomain, localhost relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = all smptd_sasl_local_domain = smptd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smptd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smptd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtp_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom and here are the contents of my /etc/default/sasldauthd # # Settings for saslauthd daemon # # Should saslauthd run automatically on startup? (default: no) START=yes # Which authentication mechanisms should saslauthd use? (default: pam) # # Available options in this Debian package: # getpwent -- use the getpwent() library function # kerberos5 -- use Kerberos 5 # pam -- use PAM # rimap -- use a remote IMAP server # shadow -- use the local shadow password file # sasldb -- use the local sasldb database file # ldap -- use LDAP (configuration is in /etc/saslauthd.conf) # # Only one option may be used at a time. See the saslauthd man page # for more information. # # Example: MECHANISMS="pam" MECHANISMS="pam" #MECHANISMS="shadow" # Additional options for this mechanism. (default: none) # See the saslauthd man page for information about mech-specific options. MECH_OPTIONS="" # How many saslauthd processes should we run? (default: 5) # A value of 0 will fork a new process for each connection. THREADS=5 # Other options (default: -c) # See the saslauthd man page for information about these options. # # Example for postfix users: "-c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd" # Note: See /usr/share/doc/sasl2-bin/README.Debian OPTIONS="-c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r" Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, J.
In other postings I've seen people asking for this so I'm including it here. this may be useful... root@rethymno-ubuntu:/etc/postfix/ssl# netstat -tap Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 6850/mysqld tcp 0 0 rethymno-ubuntu:domain *:* LISTEN 6146/named tcp 0 0 localhost:domain *:* LISTEN 6146/named tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN 4632/cupsd tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 8121/master tcp 0 0 localhost:953 *:* LISTEN 6146/named tcp 0 104 rethymno-ubuntu:59501 webcs11.msg.re3.ya:mmcc ESTABLISHED5323/firefox-bin tcp 0 0 rethymno-ubuntu:37880 a209-253-130-40.dep:www ESTABLISHED5323/firefox-bin tcp6 0 0 *:domain *:* LISTEN 6146/named tcp6 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 4589/sshd tcp6 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 8121/master tcp6 0 0 ip6-localhost:953 *:* LISTEN 6146/named tcp6 0 0 rethymno-ubuntu:ssh Chania-2.client.p:53372 ESTABLISHED7942/sshd: axon [pr
There was an error recorded inside /var/log/mail.log Nov 8 19:05:04 rethymno-ubuntu postfix/smtpd[8128]: warning: cannot get certificate from file /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt Nov 8 19:05:04 rethymno-ubuntu postfix/smtpd[8128]: warning: TLS library problem: 8128:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:352:fopen('/etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt','r'): Nov 8 19:05:04 rethymno-ubuntu postfix/smtpd[8128]: warning: TLS library problem: 8128:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:354: Nov 8 19:05:04 rethymno-ubuntu postfix/smtpd[8128]: warning: TLS library problem: 8128:error:140DC002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:system lib:ssl_rsa.c:720: I checked inside /etc/postfix/ssl/ and indeed the file was missing. I must have mistyped some command... I deleted the directory /etc/postfix/ssl/ and copy pasted the commands for recreating the contents of it. Now I had all the files needed (although the permissions for some of them are world readable and they contain private keys...I don't know much about security or TLS though) Now I restarted postfix and saslauthd and I still don't get the AUTH messages even though I don't get any errors/warnings either inside mail.YYYY log files. No errors in syslog either. Any other ideas? Thanks! J> ps two other things that I have no idea if they are related are: 1) during certificate creation, I gave empty challenge question (pressed enter twice in the last two question) 2) I didn't give my host a fully qualified name (I'm experimenting with a local lan at home)
I think this is the problem. Did you add your hostname to /etc/hosts? What's in /etc/postfix/main.cf?
My /etc/hosts contains an entry: 192.168.1.100 rethymno-ubuntu and the file /etc/postfix/main.cf contains: myhostname = rethymno-ubuntu mydestination = rethymno-ubuntu, localhost.localdomain, localhost maybe the dash is confusing it? but also the 'localhost.localdomain'???
