Code: root@rockinghamgateway:~# cat /etc/default/saslauthd # This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically START=yes PARAMS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r": # You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use. # This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include # "shadow" or "sasldb", like this: # MECHANISMS="pam shadow" Code: cat /etc/init.d/saslauthd #!/bin/sh -e NAME=saslauthd DAEMON="/usr/sbin/${NAME}" DESC="SASL Authentication Daemon" DEFAULTS=/etc/default/saslauthd PWDIR=/var/run/saslauthd PIDFILE="/var/spool/postfix/var/run/${NAME}/saslauthd.pid" createdir() { # $1 = user # $2 = group # $3 = permissions (octal) # $4 = path to directory [ -d "$4" ] || mkdir -p "$4" chown -c -h "$1:$2" "$4" chmod -c "$3" "$4" } test -f "${DAEMON}" || exit 0 # Source defaults file; edit that file to configure this script. if [ -e "${DEFAULTS}" ]; then . "${DEFAULTS}" fi # If we're not to start the daemon, simply exit if [ "${START}" != "yes" ]; then exit 0 fi # If we have no mechanisms defined if [ "x${MECHANISMS}" = "x" ]; then echo "You need to configure ${DEFAULTS} with mechanisms to be used" exit 0 fi # Add our mechanimsms with the necessary flag PARAMS="${PARAMS} -a ${MECHANISMS}" START="--start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --startas ${DAEMON} --name ${NAME} -- ${PARAMS}" # Consider our options case "${1}" in start) echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: " dir=`dpkg-statoverride --list $PWDIR` test -z "$dir" || createdir $dir if start-stop-daemon ${START} >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo "${NAME}." else if start-stop-daemon --test ${START} >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "(failed)." exit 1 else echo "${DAEMON} already running." exit 0 fi fi ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: " if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile "${PIDFILE}" \ --startas ${DAEMON} --retry 10 --name ${NAME} \ >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo "${NAME}." else if start-stop-daemon --test ${START} >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "(not running)." exit 0 else echo "(failed)." exit 1 fi fi ;; restart|force-reload) $0 stop exec $0 start ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/${NAME} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 TT
/etc/default/saslauthd must look like this: Code: # This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically START=yes PARAMS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r" # You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use. # This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include # "shadow" or "sasldb", like this: # MECHANISMS="pam shadow" MECHANISMS="pam" What's the output of Code: ls -la /var/spool/postfix/var/run ?
Code: root@rockinghamgateway:~# ls -la /var/spool/postfix/var/run total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-23 08:05 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-23 08:05 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-23 08:05 saslauthd TT
i'm trying but I'm getting these messages and has any oner else set up a GUI email cleint to send and recive mail from another PC contecting to the server in question, ( hope that makes sence ) TT
falko guess what it seems to be sending mail I will log into my hotmail account and find out here is the last two logs in the mail.log Code: Jul 3 07:54:19 rockinghamgateway courierpop3login: LOGIN, user=tommytomato, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.7] Jul 3 07:54:19 rockinghamgateway courierpop3login: LOGOUT, user=tommytomato, ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.7], top=0, retr=0, time=0 root@rockinghamgateway:~# P.S Yes i recive the mail in the hotmail account, will now try and send one back to sender address edit yep i had to open the router ports up to recive mail from the outside, but it worked. thanks for the support flako, is this system pretty sercue from spammers ? TT
while i'm at it falko how do i got about installing anti virus on the system I've set this up mainly for our family, not as a internet web site email server TT
