Email System For The Home Network - Version 2.1

[beowulf]

[jordant]

[beowulf]

Having never used evolution.... i couldn't tell you. Try to search for a way to set properties on a subfolder of INBOX. Or, perhaps ask in the Desktop forums how you can accomplish this given that you want to associate one email address with one IMAP folder.

Have you told Evolution to connect to your SMTP server using TLS or SSL? Is there a firewall preventing you from accessing port 25? Have you run nmap on your server? Did you set the use flag "ssl" when emerging evolution?

here's a few links i found while searching on google:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4

Hope this helps
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[puddpunk]

Hey there beowulf. Thats a great guide, put a lot of questions that I had out.

Just one thing, I pull mail from a mailbox on my ISP (I'll have some examples later), the mailbox has 4 alias's pointing to it, so I want to split what i download from that mailbox into 4 different accounts (all have accounts on the linux server).

i.e. I have 4 linux users (with home dirs etc...) chris, russell, sue and steve. I have a main account, e.g. mainmail@isp.com. But my ISP has set it up so chris.rs@isp.com, russell.rs@isp.com, sue.rs@isp.com, steve.rs@isp.com gets dumped into mainmail@isp.com which I can download over POP3.

How can I configure procmail to split those 4 email addresses into 4 different mailboxes on the linux server?

Any help appreciated,
Cheers,
Chris.

[beowulf]

Hey puddpunk, thanks for trying it out.

To answer your question, the most immediate thought that comes to my mind is by running fetchmail and procmail in daemon mode under root privaleges. Here's one untested example that may work, may not, but should give you an idea of how i'd start:

[puddpunk]

Hey beowulf, thanks for the swift reply

Just looking at that config file, I don't see exactly how that applies to my situation. There is only one POP3 box that I need to poll xtr<something>@isp.com, but in that mailbox are emails that have "chris.rs@isp.com", "sue.rs@isp.com" etc... in the TO: field. I want it to pull all that email down, then sort that into each users (chris, sue, steve etc...) home directory.

Thanks for all your help beowulf!

[Proteus]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. I got it working now but still have one more question:

[beowulf]

puddpunk:

Geeze, that's what i get for answering posts half asleep. hehe I completely misread your post. To answer your question "properly" now...

There are a few ways to do this, one is by setting up a file in /etc/

[ghetto]

wow this looks like a great guide, ive been fooling around with the virtmailhost guide for like a week now and I cant seem to get the entire thing to work.

What I really want to know is how hard would it be to throw a squirrelmail example into the guide? pleeeeaaaasssse?

I only have one domain, and I got that by using a dyndns redirect pointed at my box. All I want is to be able to recieve mail directly to this box from the internet by using local usernames followed by the dyndns redirect name( so local user 'alex' would recieve mail sent to alex@dyndns_redirect_name.com ).

I also want local users to have the choice of accessing their email locally or through squirlmail.

The first part is fine, I have that working already from the virtmailhost guide, but I cant seem to get the squirlmail part to work. I can login using the aliases that I have setup through phpmyadmin just like it says to do in the virtmailhost guide, but I after they login then all they can do is view mail, squirrelmail refuses to send any email.

So what I think I'll do is just completely trash my setup, and start all over using your guide. Then I'll try squirrelmail if everything else seems to working alright. Hopefully by then you might have come up with a squirrelmail example for me.

Thanks tones for the guide.
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[puddpunk]

Cheers beowulf! What a sport!

I don't really mind running fetch/procmail as root. They are quite mature peices of software, and my box is reasonably secure.

Thanks again beowulf,
Chris.

[puddpunk]

Lol! Back again beowulf!

Is there a way to get the procmail that runs off the /etc file, to deliver to another procmail that reads each users ~/.procmail file? So that you have the main sorting procmail that splits all the users up, then a "personal" procmail to filter mail per-user based on each individual users ~/.procmail file?

If thats not possible, what about sieve? How easy is that to impliment? Does it work with MS Outlook 2000?

Thanks Beowulf,
Chris.

[beowulf]

ghetto:

I have never used Squirrel Mail as i have never liked checking my email using a browser... Never liked webmail. That said, I believe running this setup should allow a rather easy insertion of squirrel mail. I *believe* one could simply "emerge squirrel-mail" (check the package name though) and then configure it. Since Squirrel mail is simply a front end to your IMAP server, the integration shouldn't be hard at all. I would start with the desktop guide and see what they do. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap8

I see no reason why this wouldn't work... since the backend stuff is transparent to Squirrel Mail. Courier-IMAP has already been set up in accordance to the desktop guide, and i cannot forsee any problems. However, it wouldn't be the first time i've been wrong...

Local access can be provided using an Email client, or even the web mail interface, so that shouldn't pose a problem.

I will attempt to insert Squirrel Mail into my setup though... As I believe it would make a nice addition to the guide. If you'll give me a day or two to work it out... I should be able to add the new section. It's kind of late right now, and i have prior arrangements for the better part of tomorrow...

puddpunk:

I'm venturing into the unknown with this guess... but from what i know about procmail, you could theoretically pipe the result into itself? Maybe, not quite sure....

How about this recipe line:

[Proteus]

Here is my main.cf:

[beowulf]

Okay, for the postfix file. You're missing a few lines... I would recommend adding this:

[Proteus]

Thanks alot, now everything seems to work just perfectly



My main.cf already included

[ghetto]

[Proteus]

I have never used the "virtual mailhost how-to", I read through it but found that it was far too complex for what I wanted. For example I don't need to use mysql, I don't have that much users, it's just me.

Therefor I unfortunately cannot help you with any problems regarding the how-to.

I merely waited for someone to post a tutorial for what I needed.
Well, beowulf did. But I think that he knows a lot about this stuff so maybe he can help you...

(Are you sure you need the "virtual mailhost how-to"? Maybe what beowulf described fits your needs as well? It just seems to work better and without too much hicups.)
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Proteus

[ghetto]

I basically just need webemail for virtual users, but I dont need virtual domains, one domain is enough for all my users.

..and I also need email for me, Im the only local user on this box.

The problem is that I want the web email to be very secure, I will have up to maybe 20-50 people using it when its setup and I would hate for anything bad to happen to them if they put important data into there emails. Thats why Im trying to get the virtmail host document to work, because it seems more focused on virtual users, like webemail.

Https, imaps, and authmysqld using squirrelmail for virtual users seems like exactly what I need. But maybe you're right.

But Im begining to think this might be the better guide simply because it works, the virtmailhost guide seems kind of broken. But in a way thats why I want to use it so that I can iron out the bugs and submit an update to gentoo-doc with all the little quirks worked out.

Here is a link to my postfix [url=24.77.80.239/main.cf]main.cf[/url] I have put restricted access on my url ..but thats only to keep out the search engine spiders, the username is 'alex' and the password is 'password'

im open to sudgestions still
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[beowulf]

Proteus:
I'm happy to hear the guide was helpful for you and it works!

ghetto:

An exit code of "3" means authentication failed when polling as i'm sure you know. This narrows the places where the problem could lie. Since you're following the virtual mailhost guide, you are using MySQL. Is there a mail user in the MySQL db for root?

What does this output:

[ghetto]

beowulf
An exit code of "3" means authentication failed when polling

I cant even begin to say how glad I am to get some help with this
Thanks tones beowulf.

beowulf
Is there a mail user in the MySQL db for root?

yes, here is a snip from the database:
> select * from alias;
| id | alias | destination
| 1 | root | root@division22.mersine.nu


What does this output:

[beowulf]

hehe... hmmm... well all the outputs look right... And assuming you've created the hundred /etc/postfix/mysql*.cnf files that are needed correctly... only a few more ideas have come to my mind...

Have you tried authenticating with a regular email client? Maybe fetchmail is having problems... hehe grasping at straws kind of...

Also, though not mentioned in the guide, I noticed that it uses the saslauthd service. Now in /etc/conf.d/ there is a conf file for said service. Could this be where the problem lies?

[ghetto]

No regular clients dont work anybetter than fetchmail it seems, and that file you pointed me at for saslauthd does infact say 'pam' so that ok and if i go like this:
`saslauthd -v`
saslauthd 2.1.12
authentication mechanisms: getpwent pam rimap shadow

So pam "should" be working.

I dont know what else to do.
However this morning I woke up and started all the server and now Im getting Query status=2 error. So I guess I'll look that up and see what broken now.

Can I ask where you found the info on what query status errors numbers mean?
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[beowulf]

Exit status of 2 means this:

2 An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to
retrieve mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry
about it -- just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. This
error can also be because a protocol fetchmail wants to use is
not listed in /etc/services.

I find this information in "man fetchmail"... Have you edited your /etc/services to say remove IMAP over SSL etc...?

sorry man, i don't understand why it isn't working... it's far beyond my limited knowledge...
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[ghetto]

hmm.. that was dumb, i forgot to take down my firewall before using fetchmail, I take it down completely when Im working on this imap server problem but I forgot to take it down so fetchmail couldnt access the port. Thats why I got exit status 2.

Once I get everything working I'll adapt my tables to reflect my computers new purpose however until then I like to keep rather paranoid iptable rules.

oh and thanks about the `man fetchmail` I had already read it, or so I thought, but I guess I didnt finish reading all the way down to the bottom because I didnt see the EXIT CODES section at all.

oh yeah, and about /etc/services thats not it either.
grep imap /etc/services
imap2 143/tcp # Interim Mail Access Proto v2
imap2 143/udp
imap3 220/tcp # Interactive Mail Access
imap3 220/udp # Protocol v3
imaps 993/tcp # IMAP over SSL
imaps 993/udp # IMAP over SSL
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[ghetto]

Ok, Ive given up _completely_ on the virtmailhost guide.

Ive swtiched to this guide, and it certainly is simpler. Unfortunately it didnt quite work, but maybe somehow it can be fixed.. here is what I have so far.

Postfix seems to be working because I can send/recieve email to/from local users, and I can recieve email from remote users. ie Hotmail. But I cant seem to send any email except locally.

Im still getting an auth failure with my imap server. The imap server seems to be working because I can actually log into it using a "local" users name and password.

However when I try to use any of the users that I have listed in the sasldb it gives me an auth failure.

So just to make it clear, if i do this:
mutt -f imaps://localhost

Then it asks me for the password for user_name@localhost and after I give it the password I am loged in.

However if i do this:
mutt -f imaps://division22.merseine.nu
Then it asks me for the password for user_name@division22.merseine.nu and no matter what password I give it ALWAYS fails to auth.

The imap server also works if I try to telnet to it like so
# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2003 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.
1 LOGIN alex xxxxxxxxx (<- actual local Linux user's name and passwd)
1 OK LOGIN Ok.

However it doesnt work at all if i try to telnet to it using the dyndns host name like this:
telnet division22.merseine.nu 143
Trying 24.77.80.239...
Connected to division22.merseine.nu.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2003 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.
1 LOGIN alex xxxxxx (<-name and passwd from the sasldb)
1 NO Login failed.



So it seems that sasldb is some how wrong doesnt it?
However this is how i set it up, tell me if you think ive missed anything.