Production mailserver setup, courier imap/smtp/pop3 v1.7

eremini · Apprentice Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 157

Hello,
i've got a weird problem I don't have authmysqlrc and authdaemonrc files in /etc/courier at all
Edit: Files were found it /etc/courier/authlib May be this guide should be edited?
Now I have another problem there is no line starting with"version" in authdaemonrc

Any idea?

eremini · Apprentice Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 157

Also i tryed sending an email from my other adress to the new adress it comes back like this
Final-Recipient: RFC822; <admin@btwarehouse.org>
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.0
Remote-MTA: dns; mail.btwarehouse.org (194.226.215.186)
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 513 Relaying denied.

JeffBlair · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject:

OK, I think I have this straight in my head, but let me know if I need to be smacked around.

I have my server installing Gentoo at home right now. Do you know how long it takes to do a 1/3 install on a P3 550??

Anyway, I have a domain setup, not a dydns one. I know I can go in there to set up the MX records. I don't know if my ISP blocks port 25 yet. But, I still will have my ISP's e-mail account. So here is what I was thinking I would have to do:

1. Run thru this great How-To (thanks a lot)
2. setup my .maildir in /home/mail/jeff
3. Setup FetchMail like this:

DerChris · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 9

Hi!

First of all I would like to say Thanks fpr the great howto.
But I have little problems sending mail. :cry:

Maybe someone reading this thread can help!?

Tkx in advance.
Chris

Cyberwizzard · Apprentice Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Posts: 244 Location: Norway

At the risk of getting yelled at for kicking the topic:
Can somebody help me add filtering for this virtual mail system? I started a thread about it:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2931885.html#2931885

Lepaca Kliffoth · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject:

redeeman:

Lepaca Kliffoth · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject:

Forget it, it works. I was a little confused but somehow got everything to work ^^ Thanks Redeeman, that was quick and it worked perfectly.
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marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

There are a couple of new things now...

Starting courier croaks as it complains that famd is not there.......

I removed gamin (which says its the Library providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API) and emerged famd and all was ok....

Mark

marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

And if you are using phpmyadmin use the USE="session" flag when you build php......on that note if you are going to use phpBB also use the "pcre" flag....

Mark

marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

Also the instructions for creating the mail directories now contradict each other...

It says to create the directory:

maildirmake Mail/.maildir

But later on in the defaults for the mysql tables it shows the default directly under the home directory i.e. without a 'Mail' directory......this one had me going for half an hour....

marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

And as a finale, if you are trying to get the webmail working......

cp /usr/lib/courier/courier/webmail/webmail /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin
(dont sym link it as it will not run without changing permissions etc)

touch /etc/courier/webadmin/unsecureok (sometimes you have to do this sometimes you dont, even though it says if you are not running ssl you need to do this)

http://localhost/cgi-bin/webmail (substitute localhost for your server etc)

If there are no images there cp /usr/share/courier/sqwebmail/images/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs (once I had to do this, and once I didnt!?)

Make sure that the .maildir is owned by mail:mail..............chown -R mail:mail (8:12)......otherwise you will get an error:

Internal error (module sqconfig.c, line 77)

Enjoy.....Mark

marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

PaulCompton · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject: esmtp auth problem

Hi, great howto(s) - thanks!!!

However, I am having a problem with the esmtp when it comes to receiving emails from outside. The messages are continually rejected with code 535 Authorisation Required. Yes, the domain is listed in hosteddomains and in its own file in esmtpacceptmailfor.dir and I have run makehosteddomains and makeacceptmailfor and restarted. About 50 times. I would be very grateful for help.

Meanwhile, I am working on some extra tables and fields and some php to create a nice management system for this with multiple domains, aliases, etc. Once I've finished - expected in July/August - I'll make it available here.
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PaulCompton · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject:

A little further info:
showconfig is not listing any of the domains from esmtpacceptmailfor.dir, only the domain listed in "me" (which is mx.mydomain.com so to speak, whilst I am actually wanting to accept email for mydomain.com)
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Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

can you post the log?

try put your domain into /etc/courier/me file
allthough showconfig should list atleast one domain from esmtpacceptmailfor.dir/*

btw, i would not have seen this if you hadnt privmsg'ed me

i set watch on now though

PaulCompton · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:40 am Post subject:

which particular log do you want?

I tried also with my domain in me, showconfig then listed this domain as the one for which it would accept mail, but I still got the same error message when I sent email to the server.

Shall I PM you all my conf files? We can then put the solution here...

I used both howtos, the one on the forums and the one on your wiki, and compared. Not much difference really, as you say.

I have tried with both the stable (0.53) and unstable (0.55) versions of courier, the error remains the same.
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PaulCompton · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:53 am Post subject:

Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

i dont know why it says broken pipe, or why it doesent show up in showconfig, allthough showconfig doesent show all my stuff either.

one thing i can think of, is, is there somehow permission problems at the configuration files?

try also add it to esmtpacceptrelay.dir

also try add your domain to defaultdomain file.