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simo923
10th June 2008, 20:56
Hi guys. I've been playing around with Linux lightly for about a year now. Just installing Ubuntu to use as my new mail server following this tut http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts
However, when i get to checking the response of SMTP i am not getting a response. When i telnet in (telnet localhost 25) i just get
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

No 220 response, even when i type in a ehlo command. It works fine on port 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.

This is the only info i get on a netstat of smtp
root@mailserver:~# netstat -l | grep smtp
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 [::]:smtp [::]:* LISTEN
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 18460 private/smtp
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 18516 private/bsmtp
root@mailserver:~#

I have seen plenty of problems with this around the forums but nothing that looks like it could fix mine. I have gone through my 'main.cf' and 'master.cf' and it looks as it should. I can post if it helps.

Thanks guys.

simo923
10th June 2008, 21:12
After a day working on it and it not working, it appears that 5 minutes after posting this i got it working.

I must have the main.cf file wrong as i copied one straight from a working machine and changed the needed details and yay.... Here is the file i used for future reference

# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version


# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no

# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h

readme_directory = no

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache

# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.

#CHANGE THIS TO YOUR HOSTNAME
myhostname = server1.example.com
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
#CHANGE THIS TO YOUR HOSTNAME
mydestination = server1.example.com, localhost.example.com, localhost.localdomain, localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject _unauth_destination
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom