The Perfect Setup - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server

I've had a look for any mistakes, I cant seem to see any

where would you reckon looking

TT

 

What's in /etc/default/saslauthd and /etc/init.d/saslauthd?

 

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

 

Try a

Code:

chmod -R 777 /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd

Does it work then?

 

I tried , came up with this message

whats it mean

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

 

When exactly do you see this message?

 

it came up when i tried to send mail from the tommytomato account

TT

 

What's in your mail log when this happens?

 

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

 

Take a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/amavisd_postfix_debian_ubuntu