Finally, after a few hours of carefully going step by step acording to the HOWTO: Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (+ SMTP-AUTH, Quota, SpamAssassin, ClamAV), I reached page 5, where it suggests you to test the settings as follows: 10 Test Postfix To see if Postfix is ready for SMTP-AUTH and TLS, run telnet localhost 25 After you have established the connection to your postfix mail server type ehlo localhost If you see the lines 250-STARTTLS and 250-AUTH everything is fine. What if I don't get mess??? This is what I get when I do it on my server: /usr/local/sbin# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. ehlo localhost (here's the blinking cursor and that's it) What the heck did I miss!?!?!? Where did I go wrong??? I'd be glad to get some help here! Thanks Ziv
Damn! I hate when it happens! I've found the problem and fixed it. I "travelled" around in the logs and found this error: Oct 24 03:02:18 zehu postfix/proxymap[2725]: fatal: /etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_forwardings.cf: bad string length 0 < 1: select_field = There was a blank space somewhere in the file, aparently came from the copy/paste, I did from the HOWTO... hmmm, now it seems to be working, anyway, the problem is fixed, talk to you in the next problem, I hope not... Ziv
Stuck same place - what logs helped? I'm stuck at the same critical moment-of-truth place. Killfrog: what log files did you find useful in tracking down your particular error? Perhaps I can find errors there that point to whatever my particular problem is .... thanks.
Well, that was so long time ago!!! I no longer own a mail server, and the last time I did I didn't use the virtual domains stuff, but to answer your question, I went through all the mail related logs on /var/log (mail.log, mail.err, mail.warn) HTH Ziv
