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DIYMacServer » Forum: Postfix - Recent Topics http://diymacserver.com/forum/ DIYMacServer » Forum: Postfix - Recent Topics en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:54:46 +0000 Lindhardsen on "Migrate to Lion Server?" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/migrate-to-lion-server#post-1858 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:14:42 +0000 Lindhardsen 1858@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hi! I'm considering to move from this nice DIY setup to Lion Server, just to ease the setup and maintenance. The only thing I'm really concerned about is my mail server, and getting all my users mails over to Lion. Do you know of any guide on how to do this? Also, is there any particular functionality I will loose when migrating from DIY setup to Lion server (again, mail is my primarily concern)? Thanks in advance! /Jan Lindhardsen on "Will my existing setup work after upgrade to Lion?" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/will-my-existing-setup-work-after-upgrade-to-lion#post-1508 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:02:18 +0000 Lindhardsen 1508@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Maybe this has already been answered on your blog, but if so, I'm not smart enough to read the answer... So here is a direct question ;-) I do have a server running set up according to the guidelines on this site. Will my mail server continue to work after I upgrade to Lion, or will I have to reinstall reconfigure something, for this to work? How about the Apache? Thanks in advance! /Jan robcd on "10.6.5 -> 10.6.7 breaks postfix setup (with fix)" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/1065-1067-breaks-postfix-setup-with-fix#post-935 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:07:32 +0000 robcd 935@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Dear Postfix forum, After upgrading my Mac OS X client, I got the following error message: ... postfix/smtpd[526]: fatal: unsupported dictionary type: mysql I noticed that the /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd executable had been changed, together with who knows what else in that directory. So I restored the old one, only to get a similar error message from the trivial-rewrite executable (in the same directory). So I restored that as well, followed by the cleanup one, and then all is well again. So a couple of questions: * What should I do to fix things properly? * How can I avoid having to do this next time I upgrade the OS? Thanks and best regards, Rob PS Setup has otherwise worked great - many thanks! seventhfire on "postfix will not accept connection on port 25" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/postfix-will-not-accept-connection-on-port-25#post-919 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:16:19 +0000 seventhfire 919@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I'm running pretty much the default install of postfix that comes with Snow Leopard. I can send mail out to the internet in a terminal on the system in question using mail or telnet to port 25 using localhost or the ip on the system. The problem I'm having is no other systems on my local network can get a connection to port 25. I've verified with netstat there is a process listening on port 25. I've setup mynetworks in include all ip's on my local network. I've made multiple searches on different forum's trying to figure this out but I'm missing the boat somewhere. Can anyone give me some clue's on what to check. I realize I need to provide some more configuration information but I thought I'd wait until someone lets me know exactly what to post. Thanks in advance Seventhfire Taris on "Cannot send anything due to time out issue." http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/cannot-send-anything-due-to-time-out-issue#post-870 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:35:04 +0000 Taris 870@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hi, I've setup postfix/dovecot with Sqlgrey and DSPAM on my mac mini recently. I can receive e-mails from my other accounts very well and spam filter also works fine. But the problem is, I cannot send anything using a smtp server installed on my mac mini. Here's the error message from tail -f command. Aug 23 16:26:45 Taris-MacMini postfix/smtp[597]: DAA8E61C2B4: to=<destination_email_address@gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=150, delays=0.03/0.01/150/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.43.27]:25: Operation timed out) The same problem occurs even if I select other mail accounts such as me.com, naver.com, etc. I've also checked my ports, but 25 was not blocked by ISP either. Fred Turner on "Postfix "Can't connect to MySQL server"" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/postfix-cant-connect-to-mysql-server#post-816 Tue, 11 May 2010 17:40:55 +0000 Fred Turner 816@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Had everything pretty close to running, aside from the "createmaildir" script not working, but after a reboot of the server, I get this over and over in the logs: postfix/trivial-rewrite[809]: warning: connect to mysql server 127.0.0.1: Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (61) postfix/trivial-rewrite[809]: fatal: mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf(0,lock|fold_fix): table lookup problem postfix/smtpd[479]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Unknown error: 0 postfix/master[31]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 809 exit status 1 postfix/master[31]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling Any idea why it can't connect? I'm assuming that the "table lookup problem" is simply the first mysql lookup that postfix does, and since it is unable to connect, that fails w/ the "lookup problem"...right? I manually ran mysql and connected as user "postfix" w/o issue. Thx, Fred LarryL on "Temporary lookup failure" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/temporary-lookup-failure#post-824 Mon, 24 May 2010 21:55:08 +0000 LarryL 824@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hey Richard, I just switched from your Courier setup to the Dovecot setup. I started getting messages like this: <blockquote>May 24 16:18:17 autoreply postfix/smtpd[9133]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from itspmx3.zzz.ms.us[999.12.20.50]: 451 4. 3.0 <bwcassoc.comchad.allen@peer.zzz.ms.us>: Temporary lookup failure; from=<djackson@cvm.tamu.edu> to=<bwcassoc <a href="mailto:.comchad.allen@peer.zzz.ms.us">.comchad.allen@peer.zzz.ms.us</a>> proto=ESMTP helo=<itspmx3.zzz.ms.us></blockquote> for each bad address. How can I change the temporary failure to a permanent failure? Michael on "Log Rotation: too fast/too much logging?" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/log-rotation-too-fasttoo-much-logging#post-773 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:57:58 +0000 Michael 773@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Log is turning over every hour, with this message:Feb 12 19:00:00 Mailserver newsyslog[2599]: logfile turned over due to size>100K That's not enough time to troubleshoot anything but realtime problems. I'd like to either log less or roll over less. leafling on "fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/fatal-bind-0000-port-25-address#post-764 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:38:21 +0000 leafling 764@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I'm have postfix + dovecot + MySQL setup on my Mac w/ Snow Leopard (64 bit) and used your tutorial to get me going. Though everything works it only runs for a short time before I can't connect to send mail and I see this error: [code]Jan 20 15:19:30 mail postfix/master[88432]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use[/code] [b]sudo lsof -i :25[/b] [code]COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME smtp 89048 _postfix 10u IPv4 0x208bf710 0t0 TCP mail.pounce.com:56970->ip91.98.69.80.in-addr.arpa:smtp (ESTABLISHED) smtpd 89065 _postfix 6u IPv4 0x208c5740 0t0 TCP *:smtp (LISTEN) smtpd 89065 _postfix 11u IPv4 0x208c5b4c 0t0 TCP mail.pounce.com:smtp->s69-163-43-237.in-addr.arpa.static.dsn1.net:31182 (ESTABLISHED) [/code] Which looks right, but perhaps the issue is that there is no master process. I don't know... ??? [b]sudo postconf -n[/b] [code] biff = no broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix data_directory = /var/lib/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 disable_vrfy_command = yes html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html mail_owner = _postfix mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/share/man message_size_limit = 10485760 myhostname = mail.domain.com myorigin = $myhostname newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix recipient_delimiter = + sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = _postdrop smtp_tls_security_level = none smtpd_client_event_limit_exceptions = $mynetworks smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated permit smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining smtpd_etrn_restrictions = reject smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unauth_destination, reject_unauth_pipelining, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org, permit smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/mail.domain.com.crt smtpd_tls_exclude_ciphers = SSLv2, aNULL, ADH, eNULL smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/mail.domain.com.key smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_use_tls = yes tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/conf/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf virtual_gid_maps = static:199 virtual_mailbox_base = /Volumes/data/mail/ virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/conf/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_limit = 51200000 virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/conf/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 199 virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_uid_maps = static:199 [/code] I'm new to postfix so I'm not very proficient in troubleshooting so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. illitrate on "Compiling Postfix in 32 bits on Snow Leopard ?" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/compiling-postfix-in-32-bits-on-snow-leopard#post-740 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:53:08 +0000 illitrate 740@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ is there a guide for compiling postfix for 32-bits? or is there no difference from the 64-bit guide? or is such a thing not possible? thanks abton on "Compiling Postfix on Snow Leopard" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/compiling-postfix-on-snow-leopard#post-702 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:35:17 +0000 abton 702@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hi all, I tried following the instructions on this site to compile Postfix on Snow Leopard and noticed that it tries to use an include file (nameser8_compat.h) that has been removed from the latest XCode SDK. After a bit of looking around I found out that this can easily be resolved if you don't mind a little bit of source code editing. Find the file src/util/sys_defs.h and then remove the line: #define RESOLVE_H_NEEDS_NAMESER8_COMPAT_H When you try and build Postfix it will no longer try and include nameser8_compat.h and it will compile happily. Just thought I would share this. I use this site as a reference all the time and it's nice to give something back! surpher on "Can't compile Postfix" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/cant-compile-postfix#post-664 Sun, 31 May 2009 14:04:10 +0000 surpher 664@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hi. I'm banging my head into the keyboard, literally... I've tried different versions, 2.4.11, 2.5.7, 2.6.1,... I've followed all the documents here to compile mysql, apache, PHP and it seems to be working. But I'm completely stuck with postfix. SASL compiled without problems, pcre as well but postfix just won't go through. I've got a OS X 10.5.7, x86_64. Error that I get, no matter what source package I use: <code>' ld warning: in /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.dylib, file is not of required architecture Undefined symbols: "_mysql_escape_string", referenced from: _dict_mysql_quote in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_real_escape_string", referenced from: _dict_mysql_quote in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_error", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_num_fields", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_fetch_row", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_num_rows", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_close", referenced from: _dict_mysql_event in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) _plmysql_down_host in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) _dict_mysql_close in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_query", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_real_connect", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_init", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_store_result", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) "_mysql_free_result", referenced from: _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) _dict_mysql_lookup in libglobal.a(dict_mysql.o) ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [error] Error 1 make: *** [update] Error 1 ' </code> dw on "Hmm, no incoming messages, cannot send..." http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/hmm-no-incoming-messages-cannot-send#post-655 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:50:56 +0000 dw 655@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I've worked up a new installation on an Intel mac running Leopard, and everything seems to be running fine -- except there are no incoming e-mails (no sign in mail.log that anything has been seen). I also cannot send e-mails from Apple mail (smtp connection refused, ssl or not), and no error messages. If I use roundcube, it will send an e-mail. ... This looks a lot like a firewall issue, but I'm pretty sure that I've set it up correctly. That being said, there's obviously a problem somewhere. Can you give me a clue where to look? Dave Priz on "Warning: database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/warning-database-etcaliasesdb-is-older-than-source-file-etcaliases#post-327 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:15:12 +0000 Priz 327@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hello, I had a warning message : <code>postfix/smtpd[426]: warning: database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases</code> Answer from Richard <code>If you use aliases do a 'sudo postmap aliases' if not then just delete aliases.db</code> dw on "quotas maildirs?" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/quotas-maildirs#post-632 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:57:20 +0000 dw 632@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Greetings, I'm interested in being able to set a quota for our maildirs, which would then show up in RoundCube, etc. Has anyone worked through this already? Dave dw on "Spam RBL errors" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/spam-rbl-errors#post-628 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:30:54 +0000 dw 628@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I've been having some issues the last couple of weeks in receiving e-mail, and having finally noticed some errors in mail.log referencing some RBL spam sites, I looked in to it a bit more. The two RBLs in Richard's /etc/postfix/main.cf are: <pre><code>reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org,</code></pre> the first, dsbl.org, was giving errors every e-mail, thus deferring them (though not bouncing them, I think). spamhaus.org was often giving errors, but not always. I checked dsbl.org, and it says they've shut the system down: <blockquote> DSBL is GONE and highly unlikely to return. Please remove it from your mail server configuration. DSBL was a blocklist specialized in listing open relays and open proxies. To put it simply, DSBL listed IP addresses of computers that could be tricked into sending spam by anybody. This was a very successful strategy. Nowadays open relays and open proxies are rare, spammers hardly ever use them any more and no software seems to come with an open-by-default policy any more. </blockquote> I didn't find much on spamhaus.org (nor did I look too deeply) about the situation. In any case, I've removed both of these from my main.cf file and things are working again. I'd like to hear if anyone knows why I should try to replace these....I guess I'll see if there is a significant increase in spam. dw on "Default mailboxes?" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/default-mailboxes#post-607 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:17:00 +0000 dw 607@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Things are kind of getting close to working with my new Leopard/PPC install. I can make a virtual domain and mailbox, can generate the subdirectories in /usr/local/virtual by sending an e-mail from the command line, can log in to the account via roundcube, and can send an e-mail from the account. But! I cannot receive e-mails, and there are no default mailboxes made (ie there is an "indox", but no trash, drafts, or sent). The mail.log doesn't say much about this, it logs me in and out just fine and appears to accept incoming connections from other mailservers. Any clues? Dave Michael on "setting up an alt SMTP port" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/setting-up-an-alt-smtp-port#post-564 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:36:24 +0000 Michael 564@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I'd like to configure postfix to allow me to send via an alternate port. It looks like this is done via master.cf, but I can't quite figure it out. I added this to the table at the top of master.cf: 2525 inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject The system.log has this in it: Oct 10 17:30:19 mail postfix/smtpd[1462]: warning: SASL authentication failure: realm changed: authentication aborted Oct 10 17:30:19 mail postfix/smtpd[1462]: warning: dhcp-216-12-248-120.aus0.tx.us.corp.wayport.net[216.12.248.120]: SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication failed: authentication failure Oct 10 17:30:19 mail postfix/smtpd[1462]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Could not open db Oct 10 17:30:19: --- last message repeated 1 time --- Oct 10 17:30:19 mail postfix/smtpd[1462]: warning: dhcp-216-12-248-120.aus0.tx.us.corp.wayport.net[216.12.248.120]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure PaulMagrath on "can't access srvtab file krb__get_srvtabname()" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/cant-access-srvtab-file-krb_get_srvtabname#post-503 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:12:26 +0000 PaulMagrath 503@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I'm seeing the following error message: Jul 7 11:48:06 MacMini postfix/smtpd[71904]: can't access srvtab file krb__get_srvtabname() is no longer supported.: No such file or directory Jul 7 11:48:06 MacMini postfix/smtpd[71904]: SQL engine 'mysql' not supported Jul 7 11:48:06 MacMini postfix/smtpd[71904]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available Jul 7 11:48:06 MacMini postfix/smtpd[71904]: unable to dlopen /usr/lib/sasl2/twowayrandom.so: dlopen(/usr/lib/sasl2/twowayrandom.so, 2): image not found I've tried re-installing cyrus-sasl but it doesn't seem to help. I'm running a PPC Leopard v10.5.4 MacMini with Postfix 2.5.2. Any ideas? Rimas on "Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (61)" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/cant-connect-to-mysql-server-on-127001-61#post-446 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:51:41 +0000 Rimas 446@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hi! What an excellent source of information this web site is...!!! I got MySQL, Apache and PHP all successfully working. However, I am struggling to get even a basic mail server up and running. After building, installing, configuring and starting all of the required pieces, I find that I am unable to send or receive e-mail. Looking in /var/log/mail.log I see the same pattern of messages repreated every 60 seconds or so: <code> Mar 12 16:00:10 MacMiniServer postfix/trivial-rewrite[584]: warning: connect to mysql server 127.0.0.1: Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (61) Mar 12 16:00:10 MacMiniServer postfix/trivial-rewrite[584]: fatal: mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf(0,lock|fold_fix): table lookup problem Mar 12 16:00:11 MacMiniServer postfix/smtpd[488]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Unknown error: 0 Mar 12 16:00:11 MacMiniServer postfix/smtpd[347]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Unknown error: 0 Mar 12 16:00:11 MacMiniServer postfix/master[286]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 584 exit status 1 Mar 12 16:00:11 MacMiniServer postfix/master[286]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling </code> I am able to connect to MySQL from a cmd line: <code> MacMiniServer:~ Rimas$ mysql --user=Rimas --password=******** Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 67 Server version: 5.0.51a-standard-log Source distribution Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> use mysql Database changed mysql> select host, user, password, select_priv from user; +---------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+-------------+ | host | user | password | select_priv | +---------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+-------------+ | localhost | Rimas | *972D8E7C521419D7E52E96B357E80789D622948D | Y | | MacMiniServer.local | Rimas | *972D8E7C521419D7E52E96B357E80789D622948D | Y | | 127.0.0.1 | Rimas | *972D8E7C521419D7E52E96B357E80789D622948D | Y | | localhost | mailsrvr | *972D8E7C521419D7E52E96B357E80789D622948D | N | | localhost | mailadmin | *972D8E7C521419D7E52E96B357E80789D622948D | N | +---------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+-------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select host, db, user, select_priv from db; +-----------+---------+-----------+-------------+ | host | db | user | select_priv | +-----------+---------+-----------+-------------+ | localhost | postfix | mailsrvr | Y | | localhost | postfix | mailadmin | Y | +-----------+---------+-----------+-------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> exit </code> Just to make sure it was a problem connecting to MySQL, I edited /etc/postfix/main.cf and changed <code> virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf </code> to <code> virtual_alias_maps = ********.org </code> and after restarting Postfix the can't connect to MySQL error moved to the next item (i.e. mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf). If it helps, my mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf looks like this: <code> MacMiniServer:~ Rimas$ cat /etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf user = mailsrvr password = ******** hosts = 127.0.0.1 dbname = postfix query = SELECT goto FROM alias WHERE address='%s' AND active = 1 MacMiniServer:~ Rimas$ </code> I have tried changing user = mailsrvr to user = Rimas, and also hosts = 127.0.0.1 to hosts = localhost but to no avail. At this point I feel like I am kinda stuck and am hoping that I am just missing something really obvious. Thanks, Rimas dw on "connect to postfix issue" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/connect-to-postfix-issue#post-475 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:36:43 +0000 dw 475@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hi Richard, all. At one time I used my mailserver to send mail as well as receive, but because I was using a dynamic IP, I ended up being blocked by some servers. Now that I'm static, I'd like to go back to using my own server, but for the life of my cannot figure out what's preventing me from connecting my mail program to my smtp server. Where should I start to look? :) DW Nick on "More mail problems - Unable to open mailbox" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/more-mail-problems-unable-to-open-mailbox#post-466 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:25:59 +0000 Nick 466@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Having solved the last problem of not a failure to create a mailbox, I now have new error in the mail log: to=<nick@xxxxxxxx>, relay=maildrop, delay=90883, delays=90872/0.32/0/10, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/local/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox. ) As far as I can see I have followed the instructions on the site... Details: Mac Mini 10.5.3 Postfix-2.5.1 Maidrop-2.0.4 Mails should be delivered to: /usr/local/virtual/xxxxx/nick Now, should the next level down be: /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/Maildir /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/mail /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/mailbox And below that: /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/??????/cur /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/??????/new /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/??????/tmp From virtual down the directory tree things are set owner:_vmail group:_postfix permission: 770 I am really at a loss as to where to go from here. I have rerun installs. Read tons of sites. I have spent hours and hours on this. What is causing the real problems is the lack of details in the mail log... 'Unable to open mailbox.' Not very informative..... Nick on "_dspam and _vmail on 10.5.2 - postfix won't start" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/_dspam-and-_vmail-on-1052-postfix-wont-start#post-454 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:37:44 +0000 Nick 454@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Hi, I have been following your excellent instructions and run in to a problem where postfix won't start. The problem are these two lines in the master.cf Machine details: Mac Mini, 10.5.2 maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=_vmail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop /etc/maildroprc -d ${user}@${nexthop} ${extension} ${recipient} ${user} ${nexthop} ${sender} dspam unix - n n - 10 pipe flags=Ru user=_dspam argv=/usr/local/bin/dspam --deliver=innocent --user ${recipient} -i - f $sender -- $recipient The complaint in the log is: bad transport type: user=_vmail The users were created using: sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail UserShell /usr/bin/false sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail UniqueID 102 sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail PrimaryGroupID 102 sudo dscl . -create /Users/_vmail NFSHomeDirectory /var/empty sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/_vmail '' and sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam UserShell /usr/bin/false sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam UniqueID 101 sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam PrimaryGroupID 101 sudo dscl . -create /Users/_dspam NFSHomeDirectory /usr/local/var/dspam sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/_dspam '' Any thoughts? Nick jlg89 on "Enabling SMTP AUTH on Mac OS X Server 10.4.x" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/enabling-smtp-auth-on-mac-os-x-server-104x#post-420 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:43:02 +0000 jlg89 420@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I have postfix 2.4.6 up and running on MOSXS 10.4.11, and TLS/SSL works with POP, IMAP, and SMTP, but I have yet to be able to get SMTP AUTH to work. I'm currently using pop-before-smtp, which works OK, but I really want to add SMTP AUTH. Anybody know the trick for making it work? celtech on "postfix install error" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/postfix-install-error#post-403 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:42:36 +0000 celtech 403@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ On running: sudo make install I get the error: Updating /usr/bin/newaliases... mv: cannot resolve /Volumes/backup/postfix-2.4.5/junk: /Volumes/usr postfix-install: Error: your mv command has trouble renaming symlinks. If you run Linux, upgrade to GNU fileutils-4.0 or better, or choose a tempdir that is in the same file system as /usr/bin/newaliases. If you run FreeBSD, upgrade to version 5 or better. make: *** [install] Error 1 Anyone else experienced this?