I installed mozilla thunderbird mail client and in the incomimg and outgoing boxes i placed my fqn mail.hotchilli.net but connection was refused. in my /etc/hosts i have the entry 192.168.1.64 mail.hotchilli.net mail I have postfix and in the man.cf mynetwors = 127.0.0.1/8 so in postfix main.cf i added this line to mynetworks 192.168.1.1/24 but still on running thunderbired conection refused. hotchilli
what tells /var/log/mail.log (/var/log/maillog) while trying to access your mailserver? maybe server or clientfirewall blocking incoming / outgoing traffic on that port?
which OS do you run on your server? If nothing is in your mail.log then your mailserver does not receive anything. Any iptable rules active? -> iptables -L
OS is dapper drake 6.06(ubuntu) server iptables. Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination if the above need to be completed? if so how to complete? here is part of my main.cf (no pop) does this matter for mail client that mail server doesnot have pop? main.cf postfix main.cf recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = all smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have outgoing configured outgoing smtp to use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as its SMTP server. on prt 25 in thunderbird but still refused connection to potfix. also under edit>>>>account settings>>>>>>>>>>>server settings server type: pop mail server server name :mail.hotchilli.net port :110 user name admin (i must point out here that admin does not have root privlagies) use secure connection TLS hotchilli
mail client Is 212.67.203.170 your server's public IP address? no? netstat -tap Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 3972/master tcp6 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 3991/sshd tcp6 0 0 *:nntp *:* LISTEN 3891/innd tcp6 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 3972/master OK imy posrfix server does not have pop then what can i expect sorry. but what i would like to know is that postfix is a local ie 127.0.0.0.1/8 now I have a smtp feed from my ISP and i only use postfix and my ISP in the way that I use the MX record from my ISP ie mail.hotchilli.com I am wondering if it would be possible in thunderbird to use the pop and smtp from my ISP ? but if i use the same usernames as are connected to my domain ie [email protected] and [email protected]) would this confuse things in my local serverv(postfix) as you can see in post no5 of this thread how it is configured? hotchilli
That's not your server's public IP address? Then you must change the DNS record for mail.hotchilli.com because mail.hotchilli.com is pointing to that IP address which means your mail client connects to that IP address...
mail client ok its my fault first of all hotchili.net or . com is an example i used it is not my web site or ISP. I have two accounts at example.net hotchilli and admin(this user does not have root access) I am loged in as user hotchilli and am creating a mail account for [email protected] mail for hotchilli comes into /home/hotchilli and mail for adim comes into /home/admin thunderbird is altering me with this message unable to create lock file /var/spool/mail/hotchilli.lock for ovemail to work , it is neccessary to create lock files in the mail spool directory on many syatems this is beat done by making the the spool directory be mode 01777 how to create lock files ? asuming my mail comes ito /home/admin how to change this to /var/spool directory? hotchilli
Please run Code: chmod 01777 /var/spool/mail/ Do you use Maildir or mbox? What's the output of Code: netstat -tap ?
rob@hotchlli:~$ sudo chmod 01777 /var/spool/mail/ Password: rob@hotchilli:~$ cd /var/spool rob@hotchilli:/var/spool$ ls -la total 24 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2006-06-29 10:53 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2006-06-13 14:47 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2006-06-13 13:54 cron lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-06-13 14:47 mail -> ../mail drwxrwxr-x 8 news news 4096 2006-07-11 15:52 news drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2006-06-14 12:36 postfix drwxrwxr-x 2 news news 4096 2004-10-27 13:37 suck netstat -tap attached i think its maildir not mbox not sure. hotchilli
Please run Code: chmod 01777 /var/mail/ You don't have a POP3/IMAP server running... Please start it and post the output of Code: netstat -tap again (please post it directly instead of attaching it in a file).
