Virtual Users.....: pop3d-ssl: chdir No such file or directory

[dinnouti]

Hi I follow the "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Fedora Core 5)" and I getting the error:

Nov 9 14:48:41 x-apache pop3d-ssl: Connection, ip=[XXXXX]
Nov 9 14:48:41 x-apache pop3d-ssl: chdir XXXX.com/sales/: No such file or directory
Nov 9 14:48:44 x-apache pop3d-ssl: Connection, ip=[XXXXX]
Nov 9 14:48:44 x-apache pop3d-ssl: chdir XXXX.com/sales/: No such file or directory

any guess?

I bet 40% is something I mistype, 35% I just forget to type, 15% I overlooked and 10% is a real error. :-)

Thanks
Alex.

[falko]

Did you send an email to that user before you tried to fetch mails? Maildir is created when the first email for that user arrives.

[dinnouti]

I will send an email and let you know.
Thanks!
Alex.

[dinnouti]

I still have the same problem

I was able to send to the mailbox

# mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/root": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 root@localhost.local Sat Nov 11 15:58 26/1101 "test"
& 1
Message 1:
From root@localhost.localdomain Sat Nov 11 15:58:51 2006
X-Original-To: sales@XXXX.com
Delivered-To: root@XXXX.com
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localhost
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:58:45 -0500
From: root <root@localhost.localdomain>
To: sales@XXXX.com
Subject: test

test 1 2 3

& q
Saved 1 message in mbox

But when I check the mailbox the mailog shows:

Nov 11 16:00:25 XXXX pop3d-ssl: Connection, ip=[XXXXX]
Nov 11 16:00:25 XXXX pop3d-ssl: chdir XXXXX.com/sales/: No such file or directory

The /home/vmail folder is empty, the permissions seems right

home]# stat vmail
File: `vmail'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 3538945 Links: 2
Access: (0700/drwx------) Uid: ( 5000/ vmail) Gid: ( 5000/ vmail)
Access: 2006-11-11 16:08:32.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2006-11-08 20:07:52.000000000 -0500
Change: 2006-11-08 20:07:52.000000000 -0500


Thanks
Alex.

[falko]

# mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/root": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 root@localhost.local Sat Nov 11 15:58 26/1101 "test"
& 1
Message 1:
From root@localhost.localdomain Sat Nov 11 15:58:51 2006
X-Original-To: sales@XXXX.com
Delivered-To: root@XXXX.com
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localhost
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:58:45 -0500
From: root <root@localhost.localdomain>
To: sales@XXXX.com
Subject: test

test 1 2 3

& q
Saved 1 message in mbox

Your mail to sales has been delivered to root! Did you set up any forwarding rules? Is XXXX.com listed only in mydestination in /etc/postfix/main.cf, or also in the domains table in the MySQL database?

[dinnouti]

It's listed in the MySQL and main.cf (mydestination and myhostname)

Alex.

[falko]

You cannot have a domain in mydestination that is in the domains table and vice versa.
If you want to use the domain for virtual email accounts, list it in the domains table; if you want to use it for "real" email accounts, put it in mydestination.

[nl0pat]

You cannot have a domain in mydestination that is in the domains table and vice versa.
If you want to use the domain for virtual email accounts, list it in the domains table; if you want to use it for "real" email accounts, put it in mydestination.
To start, I want to apologise for hijacking this thread, but I think I have similar problems.
I keep getting a message in my /var/log/maillog saying:
Nov 14 23:22:05 aaa postfix/trivial-rewrite[3436]: warning: do not list domain aaa.bbb.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_mailbox_domains

I tried this:
[root@aaa ~]# postconf -n | grep mydestination
proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps $mydestination $virtual_alias_maps $virtual_alias_domains $virtual_mailbox_maps $virtual_mailbox_domains $relay_recipient_maps $relay_domains $canonical_maps $sender_canonical_maps $recipient_canonical_maps $relocated_maps $transport_maps $mynetworks $virtual_mailbox_limit_maps
and as you can see I have nu mydestiniation set.

Any ideas on what could cause this message then ?

Besides, in the tutorial itself i see:
postconf -e 'mydestination = server1.example.com, localhost, localhost.localdomain'
so initially I changed this to
postconf -e 'mydestination = aaa.bbb.com, localhost, localhost.localdomain'


I want to remark that my server aaa.bbb.com should be mailserver for the domain aaa.bbb.com and is also named like that. I think this should not be causing my problems, but just wanted to let you know.

[falko]

I tried this:
[root@aaa ~]# postconf -n | grep mydestination
proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps $mydestination $virtual_alias_maps $virtual_alias_domains $virtual_mailbox_maps $virtual_mailbox_domains $relay_recipient_maps $relay_domains $canonical_maps $sender_canonical_maps $recipient_canonical_maps $relocated_maps $transport_maps $mynetworks $virtual_mailbox_limit_maps
and as you can see I have nu mydestiniation set. There must be a mydestination line in main.cf if you followed the tutorial (unless you deleted it afterwards).

Any ideas on what could cause this message then ?

What's the output of postconf -d | grep mydestination?

[nl0pat]

Output of

[root@aaa ~]# postconf -d | grep mydestination
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost

I have tried and tried and I think in my struggling to get it running I have also tried deleting the mydestination and haven't put it back afterwards.
So I've checked in the tutorial once again and indeed found the line where we should set mydestination. So I changed it to what the tut says. My output of postconf -e | grep mydestination now says:

mydestination = aaa.bbb.com, localhost, localhost.localdomain

What I've just come up with now, is that this doesn't change a thing because in the previous situation with an absent mydestination variable postfix would have taken its defaults, which is $myhostname which is also aaa.bbb.com
After I changed it I restarted postfix.
For testing I delivered a message for this domain and I still get:
Nov 16 07:07:56 aaa postfix/trivial-rewrite[3081]: warning: do not list domain aaa.bbb.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_mailbox_domains

[falko]

So you have aaa.bbb.com both in mydestination and in the domains table. You must remove it from one of them.

[nl0pat]

Yes as I said in my starting post I have the machine named at the domain it should be mailserver for.
Is there any way to make this a working situation?:confused:

[falko]

Use another hostname for your server. The ideal way would be to get a "technical domain", i.e. a domain that you don't use for web hosting, FTP, etc., but only for naming your servers. That's how I do it.

[nl0pat]

Ok,

I get it, have tried it today and found that this works, I have now labeled the postfix box to hostname.aaa.bbb.com.
Very much thanks for supporting me and thumbs up for the good howto you wrote..

Use another hostname for your server. The ideal way would be to get a "technical domain", i.e. a domain that you don't use for web hosting, FTP, etc., but only for naming your servers. That's how I do it.

[swydo]

Hi,

Sorry to refloat this post. I'm having exactly the same problem nl0pat had. I tried to change the hostname and so on, but the problem still there.

Here's a copy of the error given by mail.log

May 6 20:58:48 r23523 pop3d: Connection, ip=[::ffff:80.58.32.90]
May 6 20:58:49 r23523 pop3d: chdir domain.aaa/info/: No such file or directory


And a copy of the "postconf -d | grep mydestination"

mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps $mydestination $virtual_alias_maps $virtual_alias_domains $virtual_mailbox_maps $virtual_mailbox_domains $relay_recipient_maps $relay_domains $canonical_maps $sender_canonical_maps $recipient_canonical_maps $relocated_maps $transport_maps $mynetworks $sender_bcc_maps $recipient_bcc_maps $smtp_generic_maps $lmtp_generic_maps
relay_domains = $mydestination


Maybe it is due to a step I didn't consider when following the howto. Anyway I have no installed Spamassasin, ClamAV...


Thanks in advance for your support.

[falko]

Hi,

Sorry to refloat this post. I'm having exactly the same problem nl0pat had. I tried to change the hostname and so on, but the problem still there.

Here's a copy of the error given by mail.log
Did you send a mail to that account first? Maildir is created automatically when the first email arrives.

[swydo]

I did, and now it works except for the SMTP server.

That's what my log says:


May 10 21:30:30 r23523 postfix/smtpd[4011]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied
May 10 21:30:30 r23523 postfix/smtpd[4011]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
May 10 21:30:30 r23523 postfix/smtpd[4011]: warning: host[xx.xx.xx.xx]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
May 10 21:30:30 r23523 postfix/smtpd[4011]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied


When I try to connect to SMTP server, I always receive a login error, and then the message above on the mail.log


Any suggestion??


Thanks in advance :)

[swydo]

Solved.

I had just to do this:

adduser postfix sasl


Thanks!