Virtual Mailbox directories not being created

[casest]

I followed the instructions (http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-ubuntu-7.10) to create a Virtual Mail server using Postfix on Ubuntu 8.04. Installation went without any error other than the ones already noted in the howto for dcc, which I skipped over. The issue I seem to be having has to do with directory creation.

root@ubuntu-mail1:/etc/postfix# telnet localhost pop3
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Hello there.
user sales@buduru.net
+OK Password required.
pass 123456
-ERR chdir buduru.net/sales/ failed
Connection closed by foreign host.
root@ubuntu-mail1:/etc/postfix#

I have tried creating these directories by hand; however, I eventually gave up and figured something must have been missed some where during the installation. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Stephen

[falko]

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-ubuntu8.04

You must send an email first to a new account before you fetch emails. Maildir is created automatically when the first email arrives.

[casest]

That makes sense, from what I can tell all the messages are backing up in the queue, any thoughts? the status message I see for each message in the queue is: delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: Connection refused.

Thanks, Stephen

[falko]

What's the output of netstat -tap? Make sure that amavisd is running.

[casest]

Here is the output.

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 localhost:10025 *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 localhost:mysql *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 *:webmin *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 [::]:imaps [::]:* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 [::]:pop3s [::]:* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 [::]:pop3 [::]:* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 [::]:2222 [::]:* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 [::]:imap2 [::]:* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 52 192.168.1.3%134645:2222 192.168.1.8%8191:1272 ESTABLISHED -

As you were hinting to amavis was not running. When I try and start it manually I get the following error. Any ideas, currently I have the server at home while I get it ready to take down to the hosting facility where it will be given a fixed ip, fqdn and a listing in dns.

Starting amavisd: The value of variable $myhostname is "ubuntu-mail1", but should have been
a fully qualified domain name; perhaps uname(3) did not provide such.
You must explicitly assign a FQDN of this host to variable $myhostname
in /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id, or fix what uname(3) provides as a host's
network name!
(failed).

Thanks, Stephen

[casest]

I've edited 05-note_id as follows.

...
#chomp($myhostname = `hostname --fqdn`);
...
$myhostname = "buduru.net";
...

So far this has resolved the issue with amavisd not starting; however it brings up a new issue. I'm able to send email successfully but now they are just bouncing and being remove and as far as I can tell are no longer in the system. Here are the entries from /var/log/mail.info

Nov 6 09:30:23 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/qmgr[8115]: 6BC4C15A2222: from=<sales@buduru.net>, size=230273, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov 6 09:30:23 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/smtpd[8505]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Nov 6 09:30:23 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/smtpd[8505]: E7F0015A2232: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Nov 6 09:30:23 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/cleanup[8501]: E7F0015A2232: message-id=<C2084DFE02E0446FBAAC1FECA4EDF6E8@EDIALT1>
Nov 6 09:30:23 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/qmgr[8115]: E7F0015A2232: from=<sales@buduru.net>, size=230695, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov 6 09:30:23 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/smtpd[8505]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Nov 6 09:30:23 ubuntu-mail1 amavis[8422]: (08422-01) Passed CLEAN, LOCAL [192.168.1.8] [192.168.1.8] <sales@buduru.net> -> <sales@buduru.net>, Message-ID: <C2084DFE02E0446FBAAC1FECA4EDF6E8@EDIALT1>, mail_id: GZV7Sb1lZa9d, Hits: -, size: 230273, queued_as: E7F0015A2232, 293 ms
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/smtp[8502]: 6BC4C15A2222: to=<sales@buduru.net>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.58, delays=0.27/0.01/0.01/0.29, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as E7F0015A2232)
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/qmgr[8115]: 6BC4C15A2222: removed
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/smtp[8506]: E7F0015A2232: to=<sales@buduru.net>, relay=none, delay=0.19, delays=0.04/0.02/0.13/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.buduru.net type=A: Host not found)
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/cleanup[8501]: 251A215A2237: message-id=<20081106173024.251A215A2237@ubuntu-mail1>
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/qmgr[8115]: 251A215A2237: from=<>, size=2969, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/bounce[8507]: E7F0015A2232: sender non-delivery notification: 251A215A2237
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/qmgr[8115]: E7F0015A2232: removed
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/smtp[8506]: 251A215A2237: to=<sales@buduru.net>, relay=none, delay=0.07, delays=0.03/0/0.03/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.buduru.net type=A: Host not found)
Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/qmgr[8115]: 251A215A2237: removed
Nov 6 09:30:26 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/smtpd[8497]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.1.8]
Nov 6 09:33:46 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/anvil[8499]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:192.168.1.8) at Nov 6 09:30:23
Nov 6 09:33:46 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/anvil[8499]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:192.168.1.8) at Nov 6 09:30:23
Nov 6 09:33:46 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/anvil[8499]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Nov 6 09:30:23

Stephen

[falko]

Nov 6 09:30:24 ubuntu-mail1 postfix/smtp[8506]: 251A215A2237: to=<sales@buduru.net>, relay=none, delay=0.07, delays=0.03/0/0.03/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.buduru.net type=A: Host not found)Please create an A record for mail.buduru.net.

[casest]

Will do. I take it the system is automatically assuming the server will be called mail.buduru.net considering I only entered it as buduru.net during the setup.

[hostchecker]

thats an odd one probably something simple though
http://photosnag.com/img/836/y08m1110mhmd/2.gif