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DIYMacServer » Tag: Mail - Recent Posts http://diymacserver.com/forum/ DIYMacServer » Tag: Mail - Recent Posts en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:11:40 +0000 Richard on "More mail problems - Unable to open mailbox" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/more-mail-problems-unable-to-open-mailbox#post-469 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:22:37 +0000 Richard 469@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Well it was that or a configuration error... Nick on "More mail problems - Unable to open mailbox" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/more-mail-problems-unable-to-open-mailbox#post-468 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:39:34 +0000 Nick 468@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Problem solved (I was being really, really thick....) Mail box structure should be: /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/cur /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/new /usr/local/virtual/mapped.at/nick/tmp Obvious really! Nick Richard on "More mail problems - Unable to open mailbox" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/more-mail-problems-unable-to-open-mailbox#post-467 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:53:38 +0000 Richard 467@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Nick, a few lines above that line in the logfile courier auth is retrieving the Maildir from the database. You hould se sometinh like a SQL statement. Does that correspond to what you are expecting ? Just to make sure could you mail me your /usr/local/etc/authlib/authmysqlrc file, /usr/local/etc/imapd and impad-ssl files. 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..... Richard on "Configuring postfix to bounce mail..." http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/configuring-postfix-to-bounce-mail#post-444 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:40:38 +0000 Richard 444@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Sorry, can't help you with that. You have a catch-all address and that is what it will do. The only thing you could do is create aliases for all the addresses you use and remove the catch-all. bluewomble on "Configuring postfix to bounce mail..." http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/configuring-postfix-to-bounce-mail#post-443 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:13:56 +0000 bluewomble 443@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ But the problem is that I don;t currently have an alias for <code><a href="mailto:thisaddressgetslotsofspam@mydomain.com">thisaddressgetslotsofspam@mydomain.com</a> --> <a href="mailto:myactualaddress@mydomain.com">myactualaddress@mydomain.com</a>.</code> I only have the general rule that anything @mydomain.com goes to <a href="mailto:myactualaddress@mydomain.com">myactualaddress@mydomain.com</a>, va the alias: <code>@mydomain.com --> <a href="mailto:myactualaddress@mydomain.com">myactualaddress@mydomain.com</a></code> So I already have a general alias that means that *@mydomain.com goes to me, I need a specific rule that just bounces all mail sent to <a href="mailto:thisaddressgetslotsofspam@mydomain.com">thisaddressgetslotsofspam@mydomain.com</a>... Richard on "Configuring postfix to bounce mail..." http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/configuring-postfix-to-bounce-mail#post-442 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:26:45 +0000 Richard 442@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Just remove the alias and the mail address does not exist anymore and emails get bounced... Nice idea by the way! bluewomble on "Configuring postfix to bounce mail..." http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/configuring-postfix-to-bounce-mail#post-441 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:49:17 +0000 bluewomble 441@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I've used postfix.admin to set up my domain so that @mydomain.com gets sent to me... I've done this with an alias: @mydomain.com --> <a href="mailto:myactualaddress@mydomain.com">myactualaddress@mydomain.com</a>. I use this setup so that every site I set up an account for gets given a different email address, e.g. <a href="mailto:diymacserver@mydomain.com">diymacserver@mydomain.com</a> the idea behind this is that if I get lots of spam sent to a particular address I can just start to bounce the mail sent to that address... Anyway, I now have an address that I want to bounce (because lots of spam goes there), but can't work out how to use postfix.admin to bounce specific addresses... Basically I want to keep my general alias: @mydomain.com --> <a href="mailto:myactualaddress@mydomain.com">myactualaddress@mydomain.com</a>. but also have a rule that says that mail to the alias: <a href="mailto:thisaddressgetslotsofspam@mysomain.com">thisaddressgetslotsofspam@mysomain.com</a> --> bounce back to sender Any ideas on how to do this? Richard on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-238 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:52:37 +0000 Richard 238@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Do you mean you receive emails from your local postfix server with these error messages? I guess someone else is sending spam to these fake addresses. By the way I've looked at your server and tested it with abuse.net tools (might explain the strange lines in your logfile) and you are absolutely not an open relay !!! X-D Michael on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-237 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:35:12 +0000 Michael 237@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ So, every few days I get a chunk of about 20 of these at a time from different source IPs to different non-existant end-users. My guess is that this is from Postfix, telling me that it got a bounce when it got errors from the bounce message it sent. My concern here is security, of course. I have tested to make sure I'm not configured as an open relay, but I want to make sure this is not telling me something I should be acting upon. <blockquote>Return-Path: <double-bounce@mail.whiterose.org> X-Original-To: postmaster Delivered-To: <a href="mailto:postmaster@whiterose.org">postmaster@whiterose.org</a> Received: by mail.whiterose.org (Postfix) id F2DA2696D6; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:26:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:26:53 -0500 (EST) From: <a href="mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@mail.whiterose.org">MAILER-DAEMON@mail.whiterose.org</a> (Mail Delivery System) To: <a href="mailto:postmaster@whiterose.org">postmaster@whiterose.org</a> (Postmaster) Subject: Postfix SMTP server: errors from unknown[210.177.84.15] Message-Id: <20061201132653.F2DA2696D6@mail.whiterose.org> Transcript of session follows. Out: 220 mail.whiterose.org ESMTP Postfix In: EHLO mail.fx.hk Out: 250-mail.whiterose.org Out: 250-PIPELINING Out: 250-SIZE 10240000 Out: 250-ETRN Out: 250-STARTTLS Out: 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN Out: 250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN Out: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES Out: 250-8BITMIME Out: 250 DSN In: MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=41809 Out: 250 2.1.0 Ok In: RCPT TO:<Hickman4Norriscotyledon@whiterose.org> Out: 451 4.3.0 <Hickman4Norriscotyledon@whiterose.org>: Temporary lookup failure In: RSET Out: 250 2.0.0 Ok In: QUIT Out: 221 2.0.0 Bye </blockquote> RWWMATT on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-236 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:46:44 +0000 RWWMATT 236@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I think for the time being it will work. I simply symlinked that directory to the one it should be using. I think at some point I will need to do some cleanup and start the process over again instead of trying to patch it up as I've done. Thanks for all the help though, and great job on the article! Richard on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-235 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:26:34 +0000 Richard 235@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ So you solved it or do we need to look further into this ? RWWMATT on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-234 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:44:04 +0000 RWWMATT 234@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Ok, I think I have figured out the problem. It looks as though postdrop was using the wrong configuration files. I had originally tried to build postfix prior to reading your articles, and apparently postdrop was using the original directory that was built. I have tried to rebuild based on your instructions, but it doesn't seem to affect where postdrop is looking. RWWMATT on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-233 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:03:23 +0000 RWWMATT 233@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I ran 'sudo postfix set-permissions' and didn't receive any errors after the command, but I still receive the public/pickup error. When running 'postconf -n' I receive the following: broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 html_directory = no mail_owner = postfix mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/share/man mydomain = nitrogenweb.com myhostname = mac.nitrogenweb.com newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = postdrop smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination, warn_if_reject, reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, check_client_access regexp:/etc/postfix/dspam_filter_access smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf virtual_gid_maps = static:27 virtual_mailbox_base = /usr/local/virtual/ virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_limit = 51200000 virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 102 virtual_transport = maildrop virtual_uid_maps = static:102 Also, in regards to one of your earlier posts, my sendmail_path setting is 'sendmail -t -i' Richard on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-232 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:30:35 +0000 Richard 232@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Several remarks: - I guess you are sure postfix is running! - can you do a 'sudo postfix set-permissions' and check again - can you post the output of the 'postconf -n' command RWWMATT on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-231 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:05:08 +0000 RWWMATT 231@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Yes, it has been working sending/receiving from my mail client. I did Google this a while back when I had some time, but didn't really find any solutions. About all I was able to do was create public/pickup folders with permissions of 777 (none of which seemed to have work from what I recall). I was hoping maybe it wasn't seeing the file because it didn't have permissions to get to that directory, but no luck. Thanks for the update on the maildrop stuff, it worked out perfect! Richard on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-230 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:38:03 +0000 Richard 230@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I've been googling a bit and what I found on the error is that it's not related to PHP but to Postfix not being properly configured. Where you able to send and receive email with your setup using a normal mail client ? By the way, you're quick on the maildrop stuff, the maildroprc should be in /etc and not in /etc/postfix. Sorry about that. I changed the doc. RWWMATT on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-229 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:06:50 +0000 RWWMATT 229@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I'm using the standard mail() function. It will give the same error in the logs when setting the from address in the headers string, as well as when there are no headers set. When running postfix check, I get the following message "postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /etc/postfix/maildroprc" I believe this would have something to do with the changes I made based on your "Setting up maildrop" documentation. Also, this problem has been occurring before I followed the instructions in the latest documentation. Richard on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-228 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:15:22 +0000 Richard 228@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ What function are you using to send mail and what are the settings in php.ini for mail ? And could you run the command 'postfix check' to see if anything is wrong. The file /directory should be there if postfix is installed correctly. I'm assuming that you've installed postfix using our setup. RWWMATT on "Problem with sending mail from PHP" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/problem-with-sending-mail-from-php#post-227 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:09:30 +0000 RWWMATT 227@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ I have followed along with the tutorial to setup postfix, but I have run into one problem. When trying to send mail from PHP, it will fail. To be more specific, the mail function returns true (success), but the postfix log shows the error "postfix/postdrop[21229]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory. If anyone could help me find the root of this, or find some way to verify where it is looking for public/pickup would be greatly appreciated. Richard on "Congratulations! This blog fills a big hole" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/congratulations-this-blog-fills-a-big-hole#post-54 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:53:32 +0000 Richard 54@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Lev, Can you post some links to some of the sites that can give us some more info on XMail. Are you willing to share some of the discoveries you've made by installing XMail or even share a install document.. Thanks. poppypsycho on "Congratulations! This blog fills a big hole" http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/congratulations-this-blog-fills-a-big-hole#post-53 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:29:27 +0000 poppypsycho 53@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Really, for a long time I'm trying to create an ISP configuration on my Internet box (actually a Cube G4/450Mhz/396Mb/Panther). And I have been stopped by the virtual mailboxes 'module'. I tried Sendmail, Postfix, Courier, Squirrel, and on some point I can't get compiled the daemos or I'm so dummy for configurate them. Sometimes I can make things work on my desktop mac (dual ppc G5/Tiger) but had no success on Panther. I'm trying now XMail with Umpl_XMail webmail interface (it allow you to admin the virtual domains/mailboxes, and doesn't need any local unix mailbox/maildir to work, and it have smtp/pop3 fully integrated), I had installed and configurated it ok on a Linux Morphix box (over VirtualPC). And now I had compiled it right on OS X. I'm on the installation phase, that have to be done manually on OS X. When I get positive results, sure I will share the how-to. I recommend give a try to XMail. Really thanks for your help.