Sending email problem Bellsouth

[cwtudor]

I have a new installation everything works great except sending mail. My ISP is Bell South, I’ve tried the opt out port 25 though their web site have yet to get a response. I also tried to use the post bybagpiperdude90

relayhost = mail.bellsouth.net
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

and then also made the sasl_passwd file, with this inside it:

mail.bellsouth.net username:password

but, mail will not go thur.

I telnet mail.bellsouth.net and get this

server1:~# telnet mail.bellsouth.net 25
Trying 204.127.217.17...
Connected to mail.bellsouth.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 isp.att.net - Maillennium ESMTP/MULTIBOX frfwmhc01 #42
ehlo
501 missing fully qualified domain name
quit
221 isp.att.net
Connection closed by foreign host.
server1:~#

here is my mail.cf

# 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 (Debian/GNU)
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

# 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:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_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.

myhostname = server1.ctudor.com
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
#mydestination = server1.ctudor.com, localhost.ctudor.com, , localhost
relayhost = mail.bellsouth.net
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_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

virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtusertable

mydestination = /etc/postfix/local-host-names
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
#smtp_sasl_security_options =



mail log

Jul 22 08:42:27 server1 postfix/smtp[4806]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: No such file or directory
Jul 22 08:42:28 server1 postfix/master[2920]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 4806 exit status 1
Jul 22 08:42:28 server1 postfix/master[2920]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling

By the way I tryied to clear the queue with this
postsuper -d ALL deferred
did not seem to work

Can you help Thanks

[catdude]

I telnet mail.bellsouth.net and get this

server1:~# telnet mail.bellsouth.net 25
Trying 204.127.217.17...
Connected to mail.bellsouth.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 isp.att.net - Maillennium ESMTP/MULTIBOX frfwmhc01 #42
ehlo
501 missing fully qualified domain name
quit
221 isp.att.net
Connection closed by foreign host.
server1:~#


I can't help much with the smartrelay configuration. What I can help with (maybe) is the telnet testing.

It looks like you might need to specify a host name on the "helo" line. I can't test that right now with bellsouth's servers - I get "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host".

If you aren't familiar with authsmtp testing via telnet, there's info available at http://www.raiden.net/?aid=200

[cwtudor]

Catdude thanks for the help.

new telnet test

server1:~# telnet mail.bellsouth.net 25
Trying 204.127.217.17...
Connected to mail.bellsouth.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 isp.att.net - Maillennium ESMTP/MULTIBOX frfwmhc01 #244
helo mail.bellsouth.net
250 isp.att.net
mail from cwtudor@yahoo.com
250 ok
RCPT TO:cwtudor@yahoo.com
250 ok; [simple] forward to <cwtudor@yahoo.com>
data
354 ok
test mail
.
250 ok ; id=20080723011239H0100mcgk7e
quit
221 isp.att.net
Connection closed by foreign host.
server1:~#


header from yahoo
From nobody Tue Jul 22 18:14:51 2008
Return-Path: <cwtudor@yahoo.com>
Authentication-Results: mta342.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 204.127.217.101 (EHLO fmailhost01.isp.att.net) (204.127.217.101) by mta342.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:14:51 -0700
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:14:51 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from mail.bellsouth.net (adsl-074-185-038-192.sip.shv.bellsouth.net[74.185.38.192]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc01) with SMTP id <20080723011239H0100mcgk7e>; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:14:18 +0000 test mail
Content-Length: 0





This tells me I do not need username and password authentifition so I remove those lines from main.cf

new mail log


Jul 22 21:35:57 server1 postfix/smtp[3251]: connect to mx01.mail.bellsouth.net[205.152.58.33]: Connection timed out (port 25)
Jul 22 21:35:57 server1 postfix/smtp[3251]: connect to mx00.mail.bellsouth.net[205.152.58.32]: No route to host (port 25)
Jul 22 21:35:57 server1 postfix/smtp[3251]: 574931F84C3: to=<cwtudor@yahoo.com>, relay=none, delay=30, delays=0.12/0.03/30/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mx00.mail.bellsouth.net[205.152.58.32]: No route to host)

OK more information

no mx record

server1:~# dig mx webmail.ctudor.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1.1 <<>> mx webmail.ctudor.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40433
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;webmail.ctudor.com. IN MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ctudor.com. 3600 IN SOA ns1.yourhostingaccount.com. admin.yourhostingaccount.com. 2008071881 10800 3600 604800 3600

;; Query time: 78 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 22 21:59:04 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 101

server1:~#

I hate to ask before I look, but how do I make this record

[catdude]

It might help to connect to port 587 instead of port 25, and user your auth credentials. Or it might not - yesterday when I tried to do a telnet test to port 485 on BellSouth's servers I got a route error.

When you created your domain, did you check the "Create DNS" and "Create DNS-MX" boxes? If so, I think it should have created your MX record.

[cwtudor]

I don't know, tried everthing. Now I'm getting these errors.

Jul 23 20:52:59 server1 postfix/smtp[30404]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Invalid argument

the text in the sasl_passwd.db file is simple "[mail.bellsouth.net] xxxxxxx@bellsouth.net:xxxxxxx
but there is something there postfix doesn't like. also get this error

Jul 23 20:53:00 server1 postfix/master[25433]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 30404 exit status 1
Jul 23 20:53:00 server1 postfix/master[25433]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling

I have no idea.


The wost thing just happen.............I fixed it.......I just don't know what I did

I redid the sasl_passwd.db file, it had an extra line at the end and a tab between the host and user name removed those and now it works. I don't know could that be it or did I do something else I can't remember.... Anyway thanks so much for the help A very happy Charlie