Email System For The Home Network - Version 2.1

feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: USA

I've been following this guide, too, and I hope that I can reach my goals.

I have my ISP email and Gmail that I want on my server and I want access to that email via IMAP so I can dual boot and have access to my emails.

Gmail/ISP -> check/store on my server -> access from Windows/Linux

Windows/Linux -> send mail to my server -> forward to correct smtp for gmail or ISP, or just use one.

I hope that made sense.

Now I have just about finished the core of the guide but I have a problem. My check email script bombs. Here is my .fetchmailrc

feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: USA

hrm okay im very much confused...

i cant send any emails... smtp just isnt working. I'm showing that its listening, but starttls isnt working. my logs show:

Mar 17 22:00:04 mythtv postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Mar 17 22:00:04 mythtv postfix/master[6937]: daemon started -- version 2.2.9, configuration /etc/postfix
Mar 17 22:00:06 mythtv postfix/smtpd[6989]: initializing the server-side TLS engine
Mar 17 22:00:06 mythtv postfix/smtpd[6989]: connect from skeletor.universe[192.168.1.110]
Mar 17 22:00:08 mythtv postfix/smtpd[6989]: lost connection after EHLO from skeletor.universe[192.168.1.110]
Mar 17 22:00:08 mythtv postfix/smtpd[6989]: disconnect from skeletor.universe[192.168.1.110]

what the heck is going on?

and telnet localhost 25 shows:mythtv etc # telnet localhost 25

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mythtv.universe ESMTP Postfix

so what is happening any why cant i send emails?

Thanks

edit: relayhost = [mailhost.isp.com] was needed so I could properly forward SMTP, and also I redid all my configs anyway just for clarification. It is now functioning. Sylpheed works great, but Outlook and Thunderbird in Windows dont like this for some reason so I'll just use the win32 build of Sylpheed.

Thanks for the great guide! This is a really great experience and it is extremely handy!!!!

edit #2: Oh my, what a discovery! Sylpheed for Windows actually gave me a USEFUL error message! "Avast does not accept TLS connections". If only Outlook and Thunderbird could have told me that my antivirus was the issue as plainly as Sylpheed did.... Anyway, Thunderbird gained progress but is now barking about a corrupt certificate even after I cleared them out and tried again. I guess native Windows email clients suck. Sylpheed is kickin ass, that's all I gotta say

Thanks again for the guide!!!

-Feld
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feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: USA

Last question:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-412468.html

The previous link shows how sSMTP can use your Gmail SMTP server... It requires StartTLS and your username and password to auth before sending your gmail. Is the previous obtainable through the tools used in your guide?

It appears to me that our setup will not work this way. In fact, I am quite confused as to of why we configured /etc/postfix/saslpass to include an smtp server + username/password when it refuses to use this information until we set our /etc/postfix/main.cf to use the relayhost setting and list our SMTP server. It just seems odd, but obviously it IS using that username/password or else I know I couldnt send emails. ANYWAY, I am unable to locate information showing that there are settings in either configuration file that will allow me to enable StartTLS.

Prove me wrong please, as I'd like to be able to have Gmail as a backup SMTP server if something was to happen.

(my ISP isn't the most stable thing in this world.... )

-Feld
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< bmg505> I think the first line in reiserfsck is

if (random(65535)< 65500) { hose(partition); for (i=0;i<100000000;i++) print_crap(); }

fuzz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 93

i'm getting

kernelcowboy · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:14 am Post subject:

The HOWTO states to edit the file

aaronamd · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 59

I just ran throug this guide and can say that I'm definatly impressed with the time that has been put into it. Unfortunatly I still have not gotten this to work. For some reason evolution rejects my password and says unknown error. I have read through some of this thread and not yet found anything that works, any ideals?
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Grilo · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject:

Hi, I have followed this entire guide and it works great. I have only one problem I just noticed. Root does not get any mail. I have logwatch installed and ddclient and both mail root when needed. Using root and squirrel mail i can email my user and user can email out to anyone. but root cannot get mail from the user or from the system.

Any ideas. and i found an error in the messages log here it is

rpcyan · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject: storage outside of ~/.maildir

Anybody have success with storing maildirs outside of one's homedir? I'd like to use my raid array for mail storage, but symlinks are rejected by procmail as being "BOGUS" and the procmailrc files are ignored completely since maildirs aren't real-time delivery or some such nonsense. I've seen reccomendations on changing the src/authenticate.c file and changing the MAILSPOOLDIR, which is set to /var/spool/mail. Thing is I doubt changing that will do any good since there are no spools present there other than for root, which was last modified a very long time ago.

Suggestions appreciated.

matbintang · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Canada

Has anyone implimented a reliable back-up regime for their Home e-mail system on the server side?
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bludger · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 389

echto · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 108

/etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc needs to be like this.

authmodulelist="authshadow authpam"

rosschilen · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 15

I have setup everything in the guide successfully except imap. From what I can tell my server is not listening for imap connections. "netstat -a" produces the following output:

bluni · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Posts: 29

I apologize if this has been asked before, but what is the password that is used to encrypt /etc/ssl/postfix/server.crt ?

Thunderbird is asking for it when I try to import the cert and I've given it all the passwords that could be it. Any ideas? The setup is verbatim from the howto, everything else is working perfectly.

Thanks for your help,

Brian

tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

Hello

I am desperately seeking help, I have no idea what's wrong. A world update (emerge -uD world) switched the baselayout - and since then, courier-imapd-ssl won't start anymore.
Unfortunately, I have no log-files (how the heck do I have courier-imapd-ssl to log what's wrong?) - all I can say is that on starting up the service /etc/init.d/courier-imapd-ssl, I get a [!!] instead of an [ok] - no further error-messages...

Any idea what I could do?

I already skipped through many conf-files, and also re-emerged both courier-authlib and courier-imap - did nothing...

thomas
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robfish · Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem but then found...
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-488476-highlight-courierimapd.html

(I went back to the previous version of baselayout)
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tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

Wow, thanks man!

The post says you can update to the latest courier-imap (~x86) which is what I did - and it works again!

so long
thomas
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fank · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:25 am Post subject:

Hello ALL !!!
I hope this suggestions can help to anyone who get "Input/output error!" with courier-imap or other error.
if you get this stupid non-infomative message try this:
1. DOUBLE check your conf for typos. For example, all paths to mysql socket ( I loss _hours_ before found my "typo" because after I got non-working conf from official gentoo howto I tried to use other "useful" links and there was wrong path to mysql socket)
2. Use strace utility to attach to process and save the log to file (-o option). Then grep this logs for "Access denied" or "No such file" keywords and you will solve wrong permissions and path.
3. I found TONS of references for "Input/output error!" without solution and after wasting few (!!!) days, probably I found bug in "make install" of courier-imap - wrong permissions to /var/lib/courier/authdaemon/ dir. This could help you:

RS2 · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 4

Hello Beowulf, hello Chris Smith

thanks a lot for the great work.

Because of a change in Bogofilter in release 0.16 I searched for a problem that doesn't realy exist.
It just costs me some time to realize, that it isn't a ownership-problem or anything else.

The problem:
all the time, the cronjobs runs bogotrainer, I saw the message

bubbas · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Germany

@RS2

perhaps the new Bogotrainer does the job for you

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1957681#1957681
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-334239.html

erik258 · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject:

I followed this post. Beowulf, if you still read this, you did a good job. thank you and to they who contributed to the smamassassin section, that program is pretty nifty if i do say so myself, which i do.

I found that it was necessary to edit the main.cf file to allow my server to accept mail from the outside world...

tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

Hi all

First, thanks beowulf for the wonderful work - I have recently reinstalled my e-mail system, and the how-to is just wonderful!

Now, what puzzles me: It seems that bogotrainer does not learn anything: I have tons of spam, but they are in the inbox, and I move them to Spam/false-negatives. After a while, they are moved to Spam, as designed, but none of my e-mails will go to the Spam folder directly... as if they were not recognized...

At first, I thought that this is because I reinstalled the whole system and thus bogotrainer being dumb and with no idea about what is spam and what not - but I have done this some weeks ago, and still, the situation has not changed...

so long
thomas
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erik258 · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject:

first of all, to tkhobbes let me suggest spamassasin. I never tried bogofilter, but spam assassin now supports bayesian filtering and, for the few days my network was up, it worked really well for me.

now on to my problem...

arghhh! Help!

i have set up a great home email network as directed by this guide. After it finally got all up and working, it only took me a few days to break it.

My home directory on the mail server is a nfs mounted partition on my fileserver. When my fileserver crashed it took my maildir with it, and now when i try to fetch my mail from an online account i get...

carpman · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:59 am Post subject:

Hello just set this up on local box but get following error when recieving mail:

erik258 · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: