[SOLVED] Postfix+Courier+Squirrelmail. Squirrel says

lpx · Last edited by lpx on Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:36 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I just installed postfix and courier imap and squirrel mail.

Everything appear to be ok. When i telnet to my locahost imap it responses ok

The configure check of squirrel says it's everything ok.

But when i try to login to an account, squirrel says Connection dropped by imap-server.

I just can't figure out why this is happening.

Can someone help me out?

I also need a tip for the postfix configuration.

I defined all the relevant variables about the internet domain but when i send a mail to someone outside my local network the address of the sender comes with my hostname and then with the domain of my ISP server.

How can i attach only my domain name, that i have registed to the senders address?

Cheers,

EDIT: Fixed stuck keyboard/CAPS lock problem in title. --pjp
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Prompty · Apprentice Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 292

take a look at this for clues on your squirrel problem http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/10/24/squirrelmail.html

especially

lpx · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:13 am Post subject:

thx man,

i was using sendmail before switch to gentoo and i have a nice configuration already for him but i tried to guide myself by that "virtual mail ... post fix...etc" from gentoo guides.

after installing postfix i installed sendmail and it was working so i don't if they we in confilict or something like that

i have only 2 weeks of gentoo

i'll try this :wink:

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lpx · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:38 am Post subject:

Hi againm

i'm trying to put back on the sendmail. but something weird happens.

I merge it without any problems and i unmerge postfix. i copy my old config file to /etc/mail and start sendmail

he starts ok but when i try to send a message with mutt, per instance, he blocks with the message "sending message"

did you had to do something particular to make it work?

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Prompty · Apprentice Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 292

use mail ...it's better

mail -s test email_adress@domain.ext <enter>
.

"." means EOT ;]

and watch what is going on in your /var/log/mail ( or maillog )

maybe it's a mutt thingy :]

going back to squirrel ... are you blocking lo ( or not allowing it at all ? )
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lpx · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:34 am Post subject:

i dont have mail installed.

which package i have to emerge in order to have it?

i tried to look at that file you told me and it doesnt exist.

i created it but the same thing happened. now i'm trying dovecot.

i didnt had time to look at the link you gave yet.

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Prompty · Apprentice Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 292

ok sorry ... in gentoo you're suppooused to use

lpx · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

fuck man!

dovecot is cool!!

i have just installed it and started it and squirrel its already working!!

but, yeah, this was the easy way.

if i want to have a secure system i have to know what is going on, isn't it right?

i have already installed postfix and sendmail and there was no /var/log/mail for both

i don't understand...

now i just have to put sendmail running.

i'm having a problem with it. it seems that the emerge of postfix made it standard

when i start sendmail it says me that he's already using postifx.

but i did emerge -C postfix and he continues to tell me that.

do you have any clue of what's going on?

cheers,
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Prompty · Apprentice Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 292

no ... does it stop sendmail from running ? do etc-update and env-update :]
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lpx · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject:

i'm starting and stoping sendmail and it appear to be working normally. no errors now.

the thing is that i cant know what's happening because i don't know where the logfile is

there is no /var/log/mail*

which are the basic steps to put sendmail running?

i did:

emerge sendmail

and then copied to /etc/mail/ all my old config files.

i've checked this ones already to have sure that all was in the right path

PS: i've found the mail...it's in the mailutils package ... compiling
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Prompty · Apprentice Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 292

you have system logger poorly configured ... I'can help you with that ...metalog and syslog-ng worked fine for me .

first backup your sendmail files :]

remebere to make every file with extension db

lpx · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:

When i do the mail -s testing joe@example.com

i get this:

central mail # mail -s test joe@example.com
Cc:
gregregre
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sh: sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory

sendmail exists in /usr/sbin
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Prompty · Apprentice Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 292

have you done etc-update and env-update ?

and sendmail should be running
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lpx · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject:

yeah...doesnt work...

postfix works perfectly. the only thing that happens is that when i send a email to an outside address it doesnt stay with my registered domain.... it attaches my isp domain name to my hostname

you know....when i unmerge something, the system tells me the following:

* Caching service dependencies ...
* Service 'syslog-ng' already provided by 'logger'!;
* Not adding service 'metalog'...
* Service 'postfix' already provided by 'mta'!;
* Not adding service 'sendmail'... [ ok ]

* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

->> service postfix already provided by mta
->> not adding service sendmail

i think this was because i merged sendmail after postfix.

and now its happening for metalog too because a few moments ago i tried to emerge it

but it is already unmerged and this message continues to appear.

how do i get this off?
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lpx · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject:

i must be already tired of seeing my posts

but now it's working with postfix

the domain name that i want comes attached to the emails!!

happy and not :S
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lpx · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject:

it's okay now!

thx :wink:

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