Virtual Hosting with Postfix

adduser is the old command; you should use useradd now.

 

Problems with smtpd

I have been able to open up port 25 and dovecot runs as expected. I think it is something else going wrong. This is to read in /var/log/mail.err after reloading postfix:

Code:

May 14 02:00:18 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25290]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/vmaps.db: Invalid argument 

and in /var/logs/mail:

Code:

May 14 02:07:25 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25307]: private/proxymap socket: wanted attribute: (list terminator)
May 14 02:07:25 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25307]: input attribute name: (end)
May 14 02:07:25 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25307]: dict_proxy_open: connect to map=unix:passwd.byname status=0 server_flags=0120
May 14 02:07:25 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25307]: dict_open: proxy:unix:passwd.byname
May 14 02:07:25 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25307]: dict_open: hash:/etc/aliases
May 14 02:07:25 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25307]: dict_open: hash:/etc/postfix/canonical
May 14 02:07:25 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25307]: dict_open: hash:/etc/postfix/valias
May 14 02:07:25 suse10064lamp postfix/smtpd[25307]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/vmaps.db: Invalid argument
May 14 02:07:26 suse10064lamp postfix/master[24736]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 25307 exit status 1
May 14 02:07:26 suse10064lamp postfix/master[24736]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

My main.cf looks like this (at the bottom)

Code:

readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/README_FILES
inet_protocols = all
biff = no
mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical
virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
relocated_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relocated
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical
masquerade_exceptions = root
masquerade_classes = envelope_sender, header_sender, header_recipient
myhostname = suse10064lamp.site
program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
masquerade_domains = 
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
defer_transports = 
disable_dns_lookups = no
mailbox_command = 
mailbox_transport = 
strict_8bitmime = no
disable_mime_output_conversion = no
smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access
smtpd_client_restrictions = 
smtpd_helo_required = no
smtpd_helo_restrictions = 
strict_rfc821_envelopes = no
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no
#smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_use_tls = no
smtp_use_tls = no
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
mailbox_size_limit = 0
message_size_limit = 10240000

virtual_mailbox_domains = /etc/postfix/vhosts
virtual_mailbox_base = /var/spool/vmail 
virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmaps
virtual_uid_maps = static:1000
virtual_gid_maps = static:1000 
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/valias

Can anyone tell something from this?

/ David

 

Problem less big

The las errors had to do with some misconfiguration when i tried to use gid 1000 because that id is used by ftp on my server.

Code:

virtual_uid_maps = static:1000
virtual_gid_maps = static:1000

So I am able to use mailaccounts that I alias to some other mail. If I remove alias mails sent to accounts on my server are bounced saying that the user does not exist:

Code:

[HTML]<<< 550 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... User unknown
<<< 554 Error: no valid recipients
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.domain.com

 

Did you follow this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_postfix_virtual_hosting to the letter? Because I don't use /etc/postfix/vmaps.db in that tutorial, so I guess you made some changes.
However, run

Code:

postmap /etc/postfix/vmaps

and restart Postfix to get rid of the /etc/postfix/vmaps.db error.

 

I too am trying to follow this tutorial but seem have made a basic error and would appreciate any pointers:

Thhe configuration file stops loading at the lines

24 auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/users
25 auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd

message is "error in config file .....: Unknown setting: userdb

Dovecot version is 1.0beta 3 running under FreeBSD 6.0

Thanks

 

Maybe you're missing a module for dovecot?
What's the exact error message?

 

I solved ( or worked around) the problem I had earlier - see a few messages ago - by using a different format


userdb passwd-file {
args = /etc/dovecot/users
}


instead of the style used in the tutorial. Or maybe I changed something else and fixed another problem ??? Anyway everything is now working.