Hi there, I installed Virtualmin and Webmin via the install.sh script on a fresh install of Debian Etch 4.0 and all apparently went well. Sites setup fine but I am having a mail problem. I was not able to send or receive mail so I searched the forums etc and found this thread
http://www.virtualmin.com/index.php?option=com_flyspray&Itemid=82&do=det...
I updated clamav as suggested and I can now receive email. The only problem I seem to have now is when I send email which seems to go off fine, it never arrives at it's destination and I don't get any error messages. It just seems to disappear.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
David
Hey David,
When you send a message, do you see anything regarding it in /var/log/mail.log? Even if there's not an error, do you see anything suggesting that the remote server accepted it?
In fact, you're welcome to go ahead and send me a message, you can email "eric@virtualmin.com" with a subject along the lines of "Virtualmin Test Message" -- I'll let you know if I see anything odd.
And if it doesn't come through, the mail.log file should be helpful in tracking down what the issue is.
-Eric
Does not even <b>seem</b> to send today? Still receiving the spam well enough though.
Last 20 lines of mail.log here...
http://pastebin.com/m22e542b5
There are a lot of addresses in there that mean nothing to me?
I have tried changing the smtp port from 25 to 587 etc and it no different.
Thanks,
David
Chaos Reigns Within, Reflect, Repent and Reboot, Order Shall Return.
It looks like Postfix isn't starting up properly, as it's giving this error when starting up:
/usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
It could be a number of problems -- I can toss out a few of them if you like (saslauthd may not be running, private/auth may not be available to Postfix, etc), or if you like I can log in over SSH and correct it.
If you'd like me to take a look, you can email me your login details at eric@virtualmin.com -- I'd need the ip address or hostname, root password, and perhaps the login details for an email user. Also, include a link to this forum post in the message if you can :-)
Thanks,
-Eric
Sure thing, thanks. Will send an email with the details.
Thanks
David
Chaos Reigns Within, Reflect, Repent and Reboot, Order Shall Return.
Okay, we did get this working earlier today, but just to recap --
Postfix seemed to be upset over a missing private/auth file. Oddly, I've only ever seen this come up on Debian systems (and not Ubuntu). What I did to fix it was add this to the Dovecot.conf in the "auth default" section:
mechanisms = plain login
socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}
I also edited /etc/postfix/master.cf, and uncommented the sections for Submission and Smtps.
-Eric