hi, first of all i used the follwing howto for my mailserver which did a really good job (using etch and postfix and so on...): http://www.howtoforge.com/proftpd_mysql_virtual_hosting_debian_etch but i wondered about my mailserver, because it didn't send my system mails anymore since i configured postfix to use mysql for user and quota administration and to send the mails to an external address (my home address and not to the an system user in the debian system) all system mails sent by the system itself or the administrator are stored in /var/spool/postfix, but this directory isn't mentioned in the actual config of postfix. Code: # 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 $mail_name (Debian/GNU) biff = no # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h # TLS parameters smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.key smtpd_use_tls = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache # See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for # information on enabling SSL in the smtp client. myhostname = **masked**.ath.cx alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname mydestination = localhost, localhost.localdomain relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all virtual_alias_domains = virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_forwardings.cf, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_email2email.cf virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_domains.cf virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf virtual_mailbox_base = /var/spool/vmail virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination transport_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_transports.cf virtual_create_maildirsize = yes virtual_mailbox_extended = yes virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailbox_limit_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes virtual_maildir_limit_message = "The user you are trying to reach is over quota." virtual_overquota_bounce = yes proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps $mydestination $virtual_alias_maps $virtual_alias_domains $virtual_mailbox_maps $virtual_mailbox_domains $relay_reci$ content_filter = amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 receive_override_options = no_address_mappings and the /var/log/mail.err gives me the following: Code: postfix/postqueue[11574]: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down so i think, that the following line is missing in the main.cf: Code: queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix but if i add this line and restart postfix, it has no influence on the behaviour of the mailsystem. the mailsystem itself works great with the user and quota settings stored in the mysql tables, but the system mailqueue seems to be ignored. can someone help me please? thank you all.
Are there any other errors in your mail log? You can check the settings that you see in the output of Code: postconf -d These are the default settings that are unless something else is specified in /etc/postfix/main.cf. If you want to forward system emails to an external email account, you can modify /etc/aliases, e.g.: Code: root: [email protected] Run Code: newaliases afterwards and restart Postfix.
