problem directing mail to users [SOLVED]

[NotQuiteSane]

OK, I'm having a blonde moment. i think i know the solution to this problem, just not te file.

i was having problems with post fix and I finally did a complete uninstall + delete files then re-install.

works to send.

now i'm getting errors like this:

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Nov  3 21:45:16 [postfix/local] 709951E2D9: to=<nqs@nqs.is-a-geek.net>, relay=local, delay=0.06, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=5.2.0, status=bounced (cannot update mailbox /home/nqs/.maildir for user nqs. cannot open file: Is a directory)

ok, before I had a file that postfix would use and if mail came in for user@domain, it would know to redirect it to user. what is that file, and is that my problem?

NQS

[flophousejoe]

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Nov  3 21:45:16 [postfix/local] 709951E2D9: to=<nqs@nqs.is-a-geek.net>, relay=local, delay=0.06, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=5.2.0, status=bounced (cannot update mailbox /home/nqs/.maildir for user nqs. cannot open file: Is a directory)

I'm guessing that your problem is this part:

status=bounced (cannot update mailbox /home/nqs/.maildir for user nqs. cannot open file: Is a directory)

It looks like you have a maildir-style mailbox-- a directory-- but postfix expects you to have an mbox-style mailbox-- a file.

Try checking out your home_mailbox parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf . Make sure that you've appended a trailing slash to the name of your maildir directory; this is a standard convention that means "this is a maildir-style directory, not an mbox-style file". (Likewise, there exists a standard convention to find maildir-style directories as ~/.maildir/ and to find mbox-style files as /var/spool/mail/username .)

To reiterate, you'd use the below if you had a maildir-style directory called ~/.maildir/ ...

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/etc/postfix/main.cf:
     home_mailbox = .maildir/

... and you'd use the below if you had a traditional mbox-style file called ~/.maildir (very unlikely, as it breaks the convention) :

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/etc/postfix/main.cf:
     home_mailbox = .maildir

[dambacher]

maybe you had an alias table? the file is called "aliases"
I think in /etc or /etc/postfix. Look in your configuration file for the correct position.

And with postfix, if you change this file you have to recreate the aliases.db with postfix db tools.

[NotQuiteSane]

I'm guessing that your problem is this part:

status=bounced (cannot update mailbox /home/nqs/.maildir for user nqs. cannot open file: Is a directory)

That was my thought. however:

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[root@mike nqs]# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf|grep maildir                                   
home_mailbox = .maildir/
[root@mike nqs]#   

NQS

[NotQuiteSane]

maybe you had an alias table? the file is called "aliases"
I think in /etc or /etc/postfix. Look in your configuration file for the correct position.

And with postfix, if you change this file you have to recreate the aliases.db with postfix db tools.

Ok, that gave me a clue. found http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.h ... tual_alias

changed main.cf to

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[root@mike postfix]# cat main.cf| grep virtual_a                                         
#   /etc/passwd, /etc/aliases, or the $virtual_alias_maps files.
# - destinations that match $virtual_alias_domains,
virtual_alias_domains = nqs.is-a-geek.net
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
[root@mike postfix]#                  

/etc/postfix/virtual:

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[root@mike nqs]# cat /etc/postfix/virtual                                                
nqs@nqs.is-a-geek.net	nqs
[root@mike nqs]#      

however...

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[root@mike postfix]# postalias virtual                                                   
postalias: warning: virtual, line 1: need name:value pair
[root@mike postfix]#         

so I change virtural to:

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[root@mike postfix]# cat virtual                                                         
nqs@nqs.is-a-geek.net:	nqs
[root@mike postfix]# 

and get:

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[root@mike postfix]# postalias virtual
postalias: warning: virtual, line 1: name must be local
[root@mike postfix]#  

any suggestions?

NQS

[NotQuiteSane]

ok, I'm making some pregress on this.

I went and found my last full backup and extracted it to a seperate directory.

found this in my old .config:

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 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
virtual_alias_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
relay_domains = $mydestination,$transport_maps

so i recreated virtual & transport, and ran postmap hash:/path/to/file on them 9along with the chmod/chown commands first)

for refrence:

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[root@mike nqs]# cat /etc/postfix/transport                                              
nqs.is-a-geek.net	virtual:

[root@mike nqs]#         

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[root@mike nqs]# cat /etc/postfix/virtual
nqs@nqs.is-a-geek.net	nqs

[root@mike nqs]#    

I belive those were the files i was thinking of

however I was doing some searching , and running postqueue -p shows 203 messages in line. and running cat on individual messages in /var/spool/postfix/active/ shows them to be my mail


interestingly tail /var/log/mail/current shows

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[root@mike nqs]# tail /var/log/mail/current                                              
Nov  6 21:19:53 [postfix/master] warning: /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov  6 21:20:53 [postfix/virtual] fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: virtual_mailbox_base = 
Nov  6 21:20:54 [postfix/master] warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 10026 exit status 1
Nov  6 21:20:54 [postfix/master] warning: /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov  6 21:21:54 [postfix/virtual] fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: virtual_mailbox_base = 
Nov  6 21:21:55 [postfix/master] warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 10042 exit status 1
Nov  6 21:21:55 [postfix/master] warning: /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov  6 21:22:55 [postfix/virtual] fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: virtual_mailbox_base = 
Nov  6 21:22:56 [postfix/master] warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 10043 exit status 1
Nov  6 21:22:56 [postfix/master] warning: /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling
[root@mike nqs]#        

from this i defer the problem is in either "virtual_mailbox_base =" or /usr/lib/postfix/virtual.

hmm. i'm gonna try adding virtual_mailbox_base =" to /etc/postfix/main.cf

hmm. now i get:

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[root@mike nqs]# /etc/init.d/postfix reload                                        
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                                 [ ok ]
 * Reloading postfix ...                                                            [ ok ]
[root@mike nqs]# mail nqs                                                                
Subject: test
gkifjfyjfyuj
.
EOT
[root@mike nqs]# tail /var/log/mail/current                                      
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] warning: transport virtual failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] 71ACF1EB03: to=<nqs@nqs.is-a-geek.net>, orig_to=<nqs>, relay=none, delay=114168, delays=114144/25/0/0, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] warning: premature end-of-input on private/virtual socket while reading input attribute name
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] warning: private/virtual socket: malformed response
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] warning: transport virtual failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] 77BE61EB34: to=<nqs@nqs.is-a-geek.net>, orig_to=<nqs>, relay=none, delay=51168, delays=51143/25/0/0, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] warning: premature end-of-input on private/virtual socket while reading input attribute name
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] warning: private/virtual socket: malformed response
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] warning: transport virtual failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description
Nov  6 21:28:05 [postfix/qmgr] 7CCA61E2D9: to=<nqs@nqs.is-a-geek.net>, orig_to=<nqs>, relay=none, delay=113268, delays=113244/25/0/0, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)
[root@mike nqs]#       

which i almost think i saw here. gonna search for unknown mail transport error

NQS

[NotQuiteSane]

ok, i found nothing that helped me in my last search.

i'm pretty sure the problem is in a configuration file (and probably real simple)

here's my main.cf, anyone see any obvious problems with it?:

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[root@mike nqs]# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf| grep -vh '^#' "$@" | grep -v '^$'             
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
myhostname = nqs.is-a-geek.net
mydomain = nqs.is-a-geek.net
myorigin = $mydomain
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain 
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450
mynetworks_style = subnet
mynetworks = 192.169.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
 
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
  
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command =
	 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
	 xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
setgid_group = postdrop
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.2/html
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
sample_directory = /etc/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.2/readme
alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
virtual_alias_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
relay_domains = $mydestination,$transport_maps
home_mailbox = .maildir/INBOX/
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/postfix/server.key
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/postfix/server.crt
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/postfix/server.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 3
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
virtual_mailbox_base = 
[root@mike nqs]#  

any help would be appreciated. i'm going into withdrawl

NQS

[NotQuiteSane]

ok, i fixed it.

made 2 changes.

changed myhostname = nqs.is-a-geek.net to myhostname = mike.nqs.is-a-geek.net

and commented out the following

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virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
virtual_alias_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
relay_domains = $mydestination,$transport_maps 

so yea, i get mail again.

NQS