Email System For The Home Network - Version 2.1

ViceClown · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject:

I followed the latest version of this guide last week w/ great success! The only thing I changed was the smtp_client restrictions so I could receive mail to my domain. Im still working out the LAN SSL warning (localhost) but once I get that fixed I'll be all set. Thanks very much to Beowulf for putting this guide together. It's exactly what I've been looking for. I think that with a little more fleshing out in a few areas this post could / should be converted into a guide under the Gentoo docs for setting up an email server solution.

Great job, Beowulf!!
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brown · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 27

ok just a note but postfix-2.0.19-r2 seems to remove the "newaliases" command

Benzman · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject:

If I try to send mail over an other pc I get the same mail from outlook. And here's the output in /var/log/messages:

BlinkEye · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject:

to help you further i suggest you diff again your /etc/postfix/main.cf with others or you post yours here
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davidl · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

This a a fantastic guide and is just what I need - few people will really need a full blown MTA infrastructure.

However, the only thing I don't want to use is IMAP. I would like a POP3 server instead of this. In the context of your guide what would you recommend and how would you go about setting it up? Perhaps this could be an optional chapter?

Cheers.

davidl · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject:

Benzman · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject:

I've now changed the line

BlinkEye · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

this is exactly the info needed to help you out. my problem: sasl authentication doesn't work for me neither. i'm sorry but i can't help you - i've tried to get ssl working for many days but finally gave up.
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BlinkEye · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject:

either way, i'm just giving it another try. i added the sasl and ssl lines according to the virt-mail-howto and if i telnet on port 25 i get:

slestak · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 115

I have root aliased to my local user on this machine in /etc/mail/aliases. Do I need to have a fetchmail entry in fetchmailrc to get local mail? I cant tell if postfix is not sending local mail, or if fetchmail is not being told to get it.

BlinkEye · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

slestak · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 115

i did see postfix output in /var/log/messages. I tried something that i need to undo. i aliased the root to my pop3 email address at my isp. that still didnt send. I will map it back to localuser and post messages output.

When I had it mapped to my external email addrtess, it did eventually get delivered.

slestak · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 115

tried using mutt to mail root@localhost with root aliased to steve@localhost

BlinkEye · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:

well, i see the bug: you set the path to procmail wrong - and i guess it's in /etc/postfix/main.cf. you need to set the line accordingly to your path to procmail, i.e.

BlinkEye · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject:

i hope you still know how you changed the configs that

slestak · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 115

the main.cf problem took care of it. thanks.

dan2003 · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject:

I followed the guide a few months ago and with a bit of help got it working. I recenlty did an emerge -u world and found that my configs got borked

. Anyway after putting them all back to how i had them i can receive mail again but cannot send. I get in my mail client a message saying "authenticatiom failed - probably incorrect password" and in the /var/log/mail/current the message saying authenticatin failed.

I noticed a commnet above

dan2003 · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject:

Still cannot send mail

. I'm using kmail 1.6.2 on 3 machines and since the udate world none of them will authenticate for sending mail from my local lan or outside (one is a laptop). I'm confused as receiving mail works fine and the username and password are the same for both.

jjasghar · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 1:35 am Post subject:

i know this has probably answered before but i'm stuck --->

vlack · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 59 Location: Austin, TX

If you want to be able to send mail to extneral hosts, and receive mail from external hosts, do the following:

Change smtpd_recipient_restrictions in main.cf to:

Benzman · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:

I've found out sth new:
When I disable TLS support for postfix (comment the tls specific lines in the main.cf file), I get this when I telnet to the mailserver:

Kope · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 136

[edit] ignore this -- re-emerged everything, re-did the rc-update stuff and it all worked .../shrug [/edit]

Well.. I'm befuddled.

I followed the guide exactly.. and I'm stuck:

ruth · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

hi @all...
first of all: great guide...
helped me a lot in learning, configuring and trying my first postfix installations.... ;-)

now to my problem, just a litte, i hope...

i just pulled postfix-2.1.1.ebuild off bugs.gentoo.org and emerged...
no problem so far - but:
after editing /etc/mail/aliases
i tried to run
/usr/bin/newaliases
NOPE, its' gone...
somone already wrote, as of version 2.0.19-r2 this program is not installed anymore...
why?
i looked around, and found the postalias command.
is this the current program to create /etc/mail/aliases.db ?
i already did a
postalias -c /etc/postfix/ hash:/etc/mail/aliases
and all seemed ok, so i just wanted to know, where, why has newaliases been kicked?
is my above command ok?

cheers

rootshell

[EDIT]
ok, the following command seems to work:

geforce · l33t Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 653 Location: Canada

OK, I can't Emerge Procmail !!!

I tried:

robfish · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:33 am Post subject:

I have tried this how-to twice (once a few months ago prior to some changes).

My server and workstation are the same box (is that a problem).
I can send and recieve email using Squirrelmail but I cannot send using either Kmail or Evolution, recieving is fine.

The error messages I get refer to an authentication problem.
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