virtual mail guide and virtuals not working (solved)

Jaxom · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 137

I might be setting them up incorrectly, but the docs aren't that clear for a newbie linux vmail user such as myself.

I mentioned this in another thread, but it wasn't along with the topic so I'm putting it here in the hopes someone will be able to assist in this one.

When I send mail locally from root within mutt (or even from a remote server) to my virtual account postfix complains that the mail loops back on it's self and returns it to sender, but only dealing with the virtual mail settings. Local mail works fine.

This is what the log says:

pilage · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 19

do you have your vmail user and group setup?

you will want to set your UID and GID of pern(and all other virt users) to those ID's.

that was the first thing i saw with what you provided although that doesnt seem like it would fix the looping prob....what does your main.cf look like?

also what do your MX records look like, are you beind a firewall? is the server in a DMZ? are you inside the fire wall with a different address than what the outside world sees? if so are you trying to send from an outside account(yahoo, hotmail) to test it from the outside?

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

The virtual user accounts live in /home/vmail/domain.com/user/.maildir/
and the local accounts live in /home/user/.maildir/

The alias, are used for, like root@domain.com <alias> me@domain.com so that if you send an email to root@ I will get that email at me@domain.com , capiche ?

Use phpmyadmin, belive me,it is easyer to manage all that.
By default, the vitual table is empty, you need to add the values by your self ( useing phpmyadmin, its not more than a couple mouse clicks)

Jaxom · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 137

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

hi.
ive checked out on main.cf and i just post the differences from my file:

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

that was it , everything else looks ok.
So probably you are doing something wrong with the way you are setting up the users.

Maybe someone else would like to comment ?
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Jaxom · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 137

It's definitely something with the virtuals. I made some changes to go along with the differences in your config to mine, still get the same thing when mailing from outside the network it says that relay is not allowed, however mail to a local user works fine even from a remote machine

pern@mail.scronline.com works (I'm using that as there is live mx for scronline.com. This machine was intended to replace that when I get the bugs worked out.

As far as the mysql setup all I have is this in the transport section

id | domain | destination
----------------------------------------------
1 | scronline.com | local:
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2 | sys-resource.com | virtual:
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and this in the users sections

id | email | clear | name | uid | gid | homedir | maildir
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | pern@scronline.com | <password> | first local user | 1000 | 100 | /home/pern | /home/pern/.maildir/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 | pern@sys-resource.com | <password> | first virtual user | 1001 | 1001 | /home/vmail/sys-resource/pern/ | /home/vmail/sys-resource.com/pern/.maildir/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't have anything else in any other area relating to a virtual domain. I went as far as to reload the system yesterday and start from scratch and I'm still coming up with the same issue. And it's only directed at the virtuals.

If there's anything else you can think of you might want to look at, by all means, ask and I will provide. This is my first vmail attempt on linux and I'm finding it's a bit over my head at the moment.
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Jaxom · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 137

And I actually saw someone attempting and this is what the logs say

Jaxom · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 137

And here in the logs is where the issue is coming from I believe, but how to fix it, I don't know

Jaxom · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 137

I found the problem. It was because I didn't catch something....

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

good that you got it working

btw, the one you saw trying to send you an email was me

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bravecobra · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject:

I missed the same vars. Tnx for the solution. It's working here too now

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