Virtual Users and Domain with Postfix etc - Problems after updating postfix

[ryv]

Hi Guys,
firstly let me say the tutorial was excellent. Probably one of the easiest to follow, but maybe a little light in terms of explanation of steps. Nevermind about that though.

I set my system up (Debian Sarge) as per the tutorial and then, as per security rules here, apt-get updated my os. It downloaded and installed a new version of postfix and then I started seeing these errors in my logs, and not receving any new mail:

Errors:

Nov 22 11:00:17 sentinel postfix/master[7168]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 7216 exit status 1
Nov 22 11:00:17 sentinel postfix/master[7168]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov 22 11:01:17 sentinel postfix/virtual[7217]: fatal: mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf: proxy map is not allowed for security sensitive data
Nov 22 11:01:18 sentinel postfix/master[7168]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 7217 exit status 1
Nov 22 11:01:18 sentinel postfix/master[7168]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling

I'm not sure what this means and given my conf files look the same as the ones from the tutorial - I don't know where I've gone wrong either. Can anyone offer me some help?

Thanks,

ryv

[falko]

Can you tell me your current Postfix version? Run postconf -d | grep mail_version to find out.

[ryv]

Here is the results of that command:

sentinel:/etc/postfix# postconf -d | grep mail_version
mail_version = 2.1.5


Thanks

[falko]

Hm, that's ok...
Please remove all the "proxy:" strings from /etc/postfix/main.cf, e.g. change

virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_domains.cf

to

virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_domains.cf and restart Postfix.

[ryv]

Falko,

I restarted postfix and got the following message:

Nov 23 06:26:44 sentinel postfix/virtual[26916]: fatal: mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf: proxy map is not allowed for security sensitive data

I also note that the logs report:
Nov 23 06:26:45 sentinel postfix/master[7168]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/virtual pid 26916 exit status 1
Nov 23 06:26:45 sentinel postfix/master[7168]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/virtual: bad command startup -- throttling

I've just had 40 odd emails arrive too. It doesn't appear to have stopped mail being delivered, but I'm still concerned about the error.

Thanks!

ryv

[falko]

Nov 23 06:26:44 sentinel postfix/virtual[26916]: fatal: mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf: proxy map is not allowed for security sensitive data

You have to remove "proxy:" from all lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf.

[ryv]

"proxy:" has been removed from all lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf. (and had been at the time of my last post).

The only remaining proxy is the proxy_read_maps line. Does this need to be changed in any way?

[ryv]

Actually, it's all working OK now. My syslog was a mess (but that's another story).

Thanks Falko for the great tutorial and the help.

ryv