postfix and quota

[mikeyr]

I am going to try and follow this howto "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail for Ubuntu 7.1" but use Ubuntu 8.04 instead.

My one question is do I still need to patch Postfix for Quota ? I thought I no longer needed to but can't find any reference to it.

Another side question would be the Perfect Server series for 8.04, do they allow virtual users/domains ? it was not clear to me as it appears to be designed more for a ISP than anything.

My goal is to set up a small imap mail server for 2 domains (maybe 3 in the near future), 1 with 18 users and the second with 21, would prefer it to be a vmware vmx but I did not see one available for 8.04

[falko]

My one question is do I still need to patch Postfix for Quota ? I thought I no longer needed to but can't find any reference to it. AFAIK you still need to patch Postfix.

Another side question would be the Perfect Server series for 8.04, do they allow virtual users/domains ? it was not clear to me as it appears to be designed more for a ISP than anything.

No, these setups are not compatible. The "Perfect Setups" prepare the system for the installation of ISPConfig which creates system users instead of virtual users.

[mikeyr]

I am using the Virtual Users and Domains for Ubuntu 7.1 BUT I am using 8.04

During the postfix quota patch on Ubuntu 8.04 I get the following errors:

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libdb-dev (>= 4.6.19-1)
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.

I had modified the lines above in the howto and changed it from apt-get install libdb4.5-dev apt-get install libdb4.6-dev but I still get that error, is there another package I need to modify also ?

[mikeyr]

I ended doing dpkg-buildpackage -d as suggested by the error message to ignore the version mismatch, gave some warnings but seems to have worked.

Should I have done something else ?

[mikeyr]

almost there, also could not find dcc-client

[falko]

What's the output of apt-cache search dcc?

[mikeyr]

My first attempt did not work yesterday :( not sure what I did wrong, trying again today. Yesterday I installed on a virtual machine and then copied that virtual machine to a real computer in the evening and I could not get eth0 to be recognized once I moved it, although it worked fine on the computer I installed on. Either way that is NOT related to getting mail to work with virtual users, I was just trying to take a shortcut that failed. Trying again today on the actual computer that will be the server.

root@mailer:/home/mike# apt-cache search dcc
konversation - user friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE
fglrx-amdcccle - Dummy package for easy transition
autobook - GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool Book
caspar - Makefile snippets for common tasks
ddccontrol - a program to control monitor parameters
ddccontrol-db - monitor database for ddccontrol
gddccontrol - a program to control monitor parameters
iroffer - IRC file distribution bot
kvirc - KDE based next generation IRC client with module support
kvirc2 - Fully scriptable graphical IRC client with plugin support
ladcca-bin - LADCCA example clients
ladcca-dev - Development files for LADCCA
ladcca2 - LADCCA shared library files
ladccad - LADCCA server
libddccontrol-dev - development library for ddccontrol
libddccontrol0 - shared library for ddccontrol
libmarc-crosswalk-dublincore-perl - Convert data between MARC and Dublin Core
liece-dcc - DCC program for liece
lostirc - simple IRC client for X11
python-irclib - IRC client library for Python
sirc - The full-featured Perl IRC client
synce-dccm - Daemon to keep a connection to your WinCE device up
systraq - monitor your system and warn when system files change
uruk - Very small firewall script, for configuring iptables
xchat - IRC client for X similar to AmIRC
znc - an advanced IRC bouncer
sdcc - Small Device C Compiler
sdcc-doc - Small Device C Compiler (documentation)
sdcc-libraries - Small Device C Compiler (libraries)
sdcc-ucsim - Micro-controller simulator for SDCC
root@mailer:/home/mike#

[mikeyr]

really close :)

I can send mail to the user/domain and I can get the mail, I can see in /home/vmail that the mail got sent. But when I try to SEND mail using the server it fails to log in.

/var/log/mail.log shows

Date/time mailer postfix/smtpd warning : SASL Auth failure cannot connect to saslauthd server: permission denied.
Date/time mailer postfix/smtpd SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure

[mikeyr]

Well I surrender...I am going to downgrade to ubuntu 7.1 and see if I can get this to work, I spent hours surfing the web and verifying everything I could think of and things I never heard of even and I still can't send mail. I even re-installed from scratch the entire thing in case I missed a step in the howto.

[falko]

/var/log/mail.log shows

Date/time mailer postfix/smtpd warning : SASL Auth failure cannot connect to saslauthd server: permission denied.
Date/time mailer postfix/smtpd SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
Try this:
adduser postfix sasl
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

[mikeyr]

I had found that in another post here and tried it, did not seem to make a difference :(