Email System For The Home Network - Version 2.1

ufoq · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 33

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pontifikas · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject:

Forgive me for probably presenting an already discussed issue but 16 pages is way too much.

I've followed the instructions exactly.Everything seems to run smoothly(no errors at start up).But I cannot get mail

I'm behind a router(Actualy DSL modem:Alcatel Speedtouch Home->Pro).
I want actually to make my system a mailserver so as to be able to sent and receive mail from my machine.

-My local IP is set to 10.0.0.1
-default gateway(the router's ip) is 10.0.0.138
-My connections IP is updated via Dyndns
-Dyndns domain: something.dyndns.org
-My hostname: something(same as dyndns).
I have also added in /etc/hosts
[Code]
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.0.0.1 something something.10.0.0.138 something.dyndns.org
[*Code]
-In /etc/postfix/main.cf I have uncommented the line

myhostname = something.dyndns.org

-I've redirected port:25 of the router to my port:25
-I have set up kmail according to the instructions.
-I send a mail to username@something.dyndns.org and it cannot be delivered.

What am I doing wrong?

Another question:What about internal mailing?Supposing the above is solved, is the system able to send messages to root?

I Thank you in advance

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Crimes against humanity??Dunno!!Maybe that chimp-face guy over there can help you.
Ehrr...don't push him hard though.He's kinda slow.

ufoq · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 33

Follow my instructions above, if it doesn't help, post some logs, without them we are walking in the dark

dsegel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 127

Does your router have a logging function? Check that first to make sure that mail is actually getting delivered to port 25 on the router. If it is, then start looking at the postfix logs.

Also, what's this line in your hosts file for:

10.0.0.1 something something.10.0.0.138 something.dyndns.org

Is that really what it looks like (and I'm not talking about the 'something')?

Let me be more clear: are you defining 'something.dyndns.org' in your hosts file and pointing it towards your internal network?

Cybergod091281 · n00b Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 10

first thx for this great howto, i ran today through it and everything works. i've got only one small problem: when acting as normaluser@server how do I get permissions to crontab -e to activate the mentioned crontab entry for fetchmail?
EDIT: solved (crontab -u user -e)

but now I've got another problem:

MarkG · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject:

Try this to fix the "sql_select option missing" problem

Cybergod091281 · n00b Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 10

thx for the tip, now it works perfectly

i tried to add my user to the cron group, but nothing happened.

greetz cg

Obfuscated · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 6

Hi everyone. First of all I'm a total Getoo noob so it may be something obvious. I'm trying to install this but I'm getting some errors when I try to emerge procmail. Here's what I get after it unpacks:

Obfuscated · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 6

Doh, looked around some more and found the solution:

Negated Void · l33t Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 672

Set it up as mentioned.

I can send mail fine, but i cannot recieve mail.

My address i hopt to recieve at is murph@murph.strobe.org

This is the returned mail i get when sending there...

Dr_Stein · Last edited by Dr_Stein on Sun Apr 18, 2004 5:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

"For clients, both KMail and Thunderbird don't work. I haven't tried others. KMail doesn't generate any errors other than something like "failed to send some messages" in the status bar. Thunderbird gives 'Could not establish an connection because certificate presented is invalid or corrupted. Error Code: -8182' when trying to send. "

Mozilla 1.7b (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040413) gives that -8182 error - so does the Released Mozilla 1.6 for Windows.

If I turn off TLS, everything works great. But I'd like to be able to use TLS. :-)

How to solve this? Hm..

SOLVED: I paid very close attention to the errors that whizzed by.

Also, I removed the CA, and the *.pem certs and re-created it...very...carefully. Adding defaults for all of the sections seems to have made it a bit easier to deal with, too. Bottom line is that it works.

numerodix · l33t Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 743 Location: nl.eu

beowulf, I noticed this a long time ago but I forgot to post it. In section 10 for spamassassin, you mention this for spam training:

dsd

thanks for the helpful guide

a few comments, i haven't read much of the thread so sorry if they have been mentioned already:

typo in section 5.1, you mention to edit "/etc/courier-imap/authdaemondrc" i dont think that D should be there.

secondly, i had to change MAXPERIP in /etc/courier-imap/imapd to stop mozilla thunderbird saying "server has disconnected, there may be a network problem" now and then (quite irritating). I changed it from 4 to 10 and the problem has gone.

finally, to avoid messages like this in syslog:

Kyrra · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 53 Location: Kansas

dixi · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 1

running

veggie2u

I have half the functionality. I can connect to IMAP folders, using SSL, but I can't sent. When I use Mutt on zeus (my mail server) I can send an email to anywhere, but when I use Outlook on a laptop on my network, I can't send an email. I get this from outlook.

bruor · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 239

beowulf: wanted to thank you again for this guide, i didnt get my issues resolved previosuly but i followed setup again from scratch with the redirect you put up. heres whats going on.

as i understand it i am using ssl to login to my mail server on the lan. my isp blocks ports so i have a but of a work around. contrary to the last time, receiving is working great, it was the fix that you posted that got me up and running the whole \ thing. (its really late and im rambling) anyway ok so i use ssl to connect to the server here with imap and it has popped down all teh mail and all looks good.

if i am sending out. my email client auths using ssl to my server here, and then my email server does what? connect with ssl outbound?

im using outlook. if i set up the email account to send using ssl with the server i just set up as teh outbound, the sending times out. if i take away ssl i get this in an email in my inbox

MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

I have now reinstalled my server, and did everything that was said up there.

There is one problem though. The how to does not say how to make your email server recieve email, without being an open relay.

I had to remove the following line:

bruor · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 239

oh, i think i forgot to mention that when i am connecting to send through this system i have to have the UN:PW in the outbound fields selected or it will time out as well.

krunk · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 316

I skimmed over the ~400 posts, but forgive me if this has been answered before, but:

My .fetchmailrc:

bruor · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 239

looks to me like you are having problems with dns resolution.

can you ping these addresses etc...
can you use your fav linux mail client with these addresses standalone?

if it doesnt work for you try using the ip addresses of these locations rather than hosts names and see if it works for you that way, if it does then you will know its a DNS issue that you need to TS

krunk · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 316

krunk · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 316

Ok, now I'm to the part with setting up Kmail. When I click on "detect what the server supports" in sending or receving set-up, it errors out:

Unknown error code 0

I've checked to ensure that all the daemons are running, I can download using fetchmail, and have confirmed that my firewall is letting port 25 through from clients. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot from here.

On a side, how do I make an OR rule in .procmailrc? I tried this (as suggested in Timo's HOWTO):

bruor · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 239

im not sure on the or rule for procmail...

just curious did you set up your smtp server to send mail directly? or did you set it up to use your ISP's smtp server for outgoing mail ?

id like to get sending for this whole shebang workign but it isnt looking good..
i can deal with only having incomine email if i can set squirrelmail up to use my ISP's smtp server instead of a local one... at least that way all aspects of this will still *seem to work

krunk · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 316