need help with getting Dovecot mail server to work

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 09:26 PM

Use the logs luke...

Try and send from outside (I use a hotmail account for this stuff), and look at the logs. What do you see?

steve51184 · 03-19-2008, 09:41 PM

i sent a mail from gmail to the new mail account on the server but there's nothing new in the log file??

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 09:43 PM

Ok - what are your firewall settings - is that blocking incoming on port 25?

steve51184 · 03-19-2008, 09:44 PM

as far as i know i have no firewall setup (yet.. it's a new server)

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 09:54 PM

iptables is probably running be default.

try

ps aux | grep iptable

I think you'll find it running.

Probablu stop with /etc/init.d/iptables stop or similar (I don't use Ubuntu much)

steve51184 · 03-19-2008, 10:03 PM

your right it was installed but it wasn't affecting it

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 10:08 PM

Do you want to send me an email giving me a valid email address on your new server (eg the one you tried to send to from gmail) via LQ (click on billymayday to the left and it should let you email me) and I'll see what it says when it tries to connect. May be a couple of hours before I can do anything useful, but let's see.

steve51184 · 03-19-2008, 10:14 PM

what's your email address?

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 10:16 PM

From previous post

Quote:

(click on billymayday to the left and it should let you email me)

steve51184 · 03-19-2008, 10:17 PM

it will let me email you but not give me your address so i can't email you from this new address

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 10:27 PM

Just send me an email and in it give me an address on your server - I need to try and connect as a sender, not receiver.

Ie - subject: user1@example.com

will do

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 10:38 PM

Got your message - I've sent an email just to see if there is a useful rejection notice. If not, don't expect to hear anything from me for a couple of hours.

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 10:40 PM

Is your IP

i'm getting relay access denied, which if that's your IP should show up in your logs as at least a connection attempt from my end.

billymayday · 03-19-2008, 10:42 PM

Btw, can you post your update postconf -n

steve51184 · 03-19-2008, 10:43 PM

1. remove my ip address please

2. i just figured it out read the last bit of text from "3b. Install Dovecot" from here:

http://www.mysql-apache-php.com/#mailserver

Code:

alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
config_directory = /etc/postfix
inet_interfaces = all
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
mydomain = thereddwarf.com
myhostname = server1.mydomain.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = mydomain.com
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache