Comments on: Creating a Mail Server on Ubuntu (Postfix, Courier, SSL/TLS, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Amavis)

By: TheNabster

TheNabster — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:01:55 +0000

i checked my log, and i noticed this when starting/

Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: Amavis::DB code loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: Amavis::Cache code loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: SQL base code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: SQL::Log code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: SQL::Quarantine NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: Lookup::SQL code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: Lookup::LDAP code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: AM.PDP-in proto code loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: SMTP-in proto code loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: Courier proto code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: SMTP-out proto code loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: Pipe-out proto code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: BSMTP-out proto code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: Local-out proto code loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: OS_Fingerprint code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: ANTI-VIRUS code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: ANTI-SPAM code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: ANTI-SPAM-EXT code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: ANTI-SPAM-C code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: ANTI-SPAM-SA code NOT loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: Unpackers code loaded
Jun 9 14:22:14 mail amavis[10341]: DKIM code loaded

does this has anything to do with my problem where i cant send e-mail?

By: haisum

haisum — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:59:43 +0000

First, thanks Adam for a perfect tutorial :)

I was having this issue:

Jun 12 17:30:38 www postfix/smtpd[24126]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Jun 12 17:30:38 www postfix/smtpd[24126]: warning: unknown[80.227.150.102]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 12 17:30:42 www postfix/smtpd[24126]: warning: unknown[80.227.150.102]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure

After hours of scratching head, I figured out mysql service wasn’t running. So I did:

service mysql start

and everything worked. I hope this helps someone else

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:03:37 +0000

Fixed: Typo in a file (middspeled user)

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:35:12 +0000

I tried and tried. First i found that the mail dirs are not created and i had to use maildirmake. Second, i had the problem with certificates, now with this:

Jun 12 09:28:38 ip-172-31-12-116 postfix/trivial-rewrite[4552]: warning: connect to mysql server 127.0.0.1: Access denied for user ‘UNKNOWN_USER’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)
Jun 12 09:28:38 ip-172-31-12-116 postfix/trivial-rewrite[4552]: warning: mysql:/etc/postfix/maps/domain.cf: table lookup problem
Jun 12 09:28:38 ip-172-31-12-116 postfix/trivial-rewrite[4552]: warning: virtual_mailbox_domains lookup failure
Jun 12 09:28:38 ip-172-31-12-116 postfix/trivial-rewrite[4552]: warning: mysql:/etc/postfix/maps/domain.cf: table lookup problem
Jun 12 09:28:38 ip-172-31-12-116 postfix/trivial-rewrite[4552]: warning: virtual_mailbox_domains lookup failure
Jun 12 09:28:38 ip-172-31-12-116 postfix/smtpd[4548]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-ie0-f173.google.com[209.85.223.173]: 554 5.7.1 :

By: Felix Gertz

Felix Gertz — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:22:20 +0000

At 1. you have to configure courier to use clear text passwords, change in /etc/courier/authmysqlrc:

MYSQL_CRYPT_PWFIELD to MYSQL_CLEAR_PWFIELD

By: Felix Gertz

Felix Gertz — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:13:48 +0000

I had the same problems and could resolve them.

1.
First, be sure you are using the correct username, that is the email stored in the sql user table. So use ‘admin@example.com’ and not ‘admin’.
After checking this, you should be able to recieve your emails from Courier. To send emails through smtp you have to disable the password encryption in the sql user table and replace the password by a plain text password, unfortunatly. Maybe there is a wrong setting in the smtp auth.

2.
In /etc/postfix/main.cf change those 2 lines:
smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, permit
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination

Restart the deamons.

Have fun.

By: Login

But when I try to forward email from contact@.. to a second person, I get a Duplicate entry error. How can I manage to forward emails to many persons? Thanks

By: TheNabster

TheNabster — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:44:01 +0000

running it for over a month now and WORKED perfeclty.
since a few days i can’t connect to my mail server for outgoing mail. i can receive mail but i cant send it. in the log there are no errors indicating any problems. i’m hosting my server at a vps company and they do not block any ports. also the dns records are correct because it has worked. the error i’m having in my mail is error code 10600. any one who can help me?

By: Login

U should try to login with “fabian-hagen@yourdomain.com” as user!
The email address is the username. It took me one day to figure this out!

By: Collin

Collin — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:21:55 +0000

Hi Adam,

Two suggestions on your excellent guide:
1. Build a variation using dovecot MTA.
2. Add variations which would be compatible with likes of vimbadmin for domain/user management.