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Problem with Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL Howto

After completing the Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL step though (http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_po...quota_courier).

As far as i can tell i've completed it to the letter.

Copies of my configuration files can be accessed here:
http://220.233.179.84/mail-config/

But when i try to smtp myself an email i get this:

Code:

ehlo mail.example.com

250-mail.mediafluid.net

250-PIPELINING

250-SIZE 10240000

250-VRFY

250-ETRN

250-STARTTLS

250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN

250 8BITMIME

mail from: blah@example.com

250 Ok

rcpt to: aaron@mediafluid.net

451 <aaron@mediafluid.net>: Temporary lookup failure

Pop gives me this:

Code:

Trying 127.0.0.1...

Connected to localhost.localdomain.

Escape character is '^]'.

+OK Hello there.

user aaron@mediafluid.net

+OK Password required.

pass <<password>>

-ERR Maildir: No such file or directory

Connection closed by foreign host.

Mysql Structure is as follows: (Transports not show because i dont have/need them).

Code:

mysql> show tables;

+----------------+

| Tables_in_mail |

+----------------+

| domains        |

| forwardings    |

| transport      |

| users          |

+----------------+



mysql> select * from domains;

+----------------+

| domain         |

+----------------+

| mediafluid.net |

+----------------+

1 row in set (0.00 sec)



mysql> select * from forwardings;

+---------------------+---------------------+

| source              | destination         |

+---------------------+---------------------+

| info@mediafluid.net | test@mediafluid.net |

+---------------------+---------------------+

1 row in set (0.01 sec)



mysql> select * from users;

+----------------------+---------------+----------+

| email                | password      | quota    |

+----------------------+---------------+----------+

| test@mediafluid.net  | ojuzu1LcDjnhU | 10485760 |

| aaron@mediafluid.net | 0uFEd8Rm7./Mc | 10485760 |

+----------------------+---------------+----------+

2 rows in set (0.02 sec)

/etc/init.d/postfix reload and check both come back with [ ok ].

/var/log/mail.warn contains this(repeating over and over every second):

Code:

Mar 10 23:10:00 localhost postfix/postdrop[16493]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/591653.16493: No such file or directory

Mar 10 23:10:01 localhost postfix/postdrop[15383]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/937108.15383: No such file or directory

Mar 10 23:10:01 localhost postfix/postdrop[14833]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/116518.14833: No such file or directory

Code:

root@evo:/var/spool/mail# postconf -d |grep queue_directory

queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix

Code:

root@evo:/var/spool/postfix# ls -l

total 72

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 11 00:14 active

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 10 18:41 bounce

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 10 18:41 corrupt

drwx------  13 postfix root     4096 Mar 11 00:04 defer

drwx------  13 postfix root     4096 Mar 11 00:04 deferred

drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 Mar 10 20:03 etc

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 10 18:41 flush

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 10 18:41 hold

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 11 00:00 incoming

drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 Mar 10 20:03 lib

drwxrwx---   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 11 00:18 maildrop

drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 Mar 10 20:26 pid

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 10 20:03 private

drwx--x---   2 postfix postdrop 4096 Mar 10 20:03 public

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 10 18:41 saved

drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 Mar 10 18:41 trace

drwxr-xr-x   3 root    root     4096 Mar 10 18:41 usr

drwxr-xr-x   3 root    root     4096 Mar 10 19:18 var

Quote:

Originally Posted by fenix

Code:

ehlo mail.example.com

250-mail.mediafluid.net

250-PIPELINING

250-SIZE 10240000

250-VRFY

250-ETRN

250-STARTTLS

250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN

250 8BITMIME

mail from: blah@example.com

250 Ok

rcpt to: aaron@mediafluid.net

451 <aaron@mediafluid.net>: Temporary lookup failure

mediafluid.net doesn't exist in DNS. Therefore Postfix can't find it:

Code:

dig mediafluid.net



; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> mediafluid.net

;; global options:  printcmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 25093

;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0



;; QUESTION SECTION:

;mediafluid.net.                        IN      A



;; Query time: 164 msec

;; SERVER: 66.135.40.144#53(66.135.40.144)

;; WHEN: Fri Mar 10 14:29:36 2006

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 32

You must create an A record for the domain (an MX record would be good, too).

The machine running postfix doesn't seem to have any problem finding it

Code:

aaron@evo:~$ dig mediafluid.net



; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> mediafluid.net

;; global options:  printcmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60677

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0



;; QUESTION SECTION:

;mediafluid.net.                        IN      A



;; ANSWER SECTION:

mediafluid.net.         14386   IN      A       65.254.54.82



;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

mediafluid.net.         14386   IN      NS      ns2.amsdns.com.

mediafluid.net.         14386   IN      NS      ns.amsdns.com.



;; Query time: 28 msec

;; SERVER: 220.233.0.4#53(220.233.0.4)

;; WHEN: Sat Mar 11 09:14:46 2006

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 93

Edit: Just tried it on a few other machines i have shell accounts on it seems to be working.

The other thing is that i dont have the domain pointed to this machine yet because i dont want to loose mail if the setup doesn't work

I think i'll be more will to point my domain to the server when i fix these errors.

Code:

Mar 10 23:10:00 localhost postfix/postdrop[16493]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/591653.16493: No such file or directory

Mar 10 23:10:01 localhost postfix/postdrop[15383]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/937108.15383: No such file or directory

Mar 10 23:10:01 localhost postfix/postdrop[14833]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/116518.14833: No such file or directory

Never mind its all fixed.

A reboot got rid of those file not found errors and its all working locally.