Postfix, Courier, MySQ

[ub007]

Falko Timme,

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS)

I found this How-to to be very useful,Infact its one of the best available on the internet and easy to follow.However the mail system is still not working for me...Initially i thought
Courier -Imap was the issue when i tried:

telnet ubuntu.surey.ac.uk 143
OK
a login david@ubuntu.surey.ac.uk
a NO Login failed

Now,I'm afraid postfix isnt functioning as well.The mailbox is created in /home/vmail/ , isnt it?I sent an email to user david but find that no mailbox is being created in /home/vmail.......I made sure there are no typo errors and followed the tutorial word by word.However i didnt install Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV,left out web mail as well .But i assume that wouldnt be a problem as far as the basic functionality is concerned,would it?.....

What am i missing here?What debugging steps do i need to follow now?

[ub007]

sorry,the cut and paste went wronmg here

[ub007]

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 = /usr/share/doc/postfix

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/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
myhostname = inter.surey.ac.uk
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = inter.surey.ac.uk, localhost, localhost.localdomain
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html
virtual_alias_domains =
virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_forwardings.cf, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_email2email.cf
virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_domains.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf
virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail
virtual_uid_maps = static:5000
virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
transport_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_transports.cf
virtual_create_maildirsize = yes
virtual_mailbox_extended = yes
virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailbox_limit_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes
virtual_overquota_bounce = yes
proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps $mydestination $virtual_alias_maps $virtual_alias_domains $virtual_mailbox_maps $vir$

These are the domains and user added

INSERT INTO `domains` (`domain`) VALUES ('inter.surey.ac.uk');INSERT INTO `domains` (`domain`) VALUES ('inter.surey.ac.uk');
INSERT INTO `users` (`email`, `password`, `quota`) VALUES ('david@inter.surey.ac.uk', ENCRYPT('secret'), 10485760);

Now when i sent mail using
telnet localhost 25
mail from:root@inter.surey.ac.uk
rcpt to: david@inter.surey.ac.uk

the mail is found in /var/mail/david3 //david 3 is my system username
cat david3
hi
welcome

i think its because my /etc/alias reads readslboro
postmaster : root
root: david3 //guess the mail is bounced back to david3

y isnt the mail being sent to david@inter.surey.ac.uk?i???

[ub007]

Finally got it working

Connected to localhost.

a OK LOGIN Ok.
a select inbox
* FLAGS (\Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Recent)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen)] Limited
* 5 EXISTS
* 1 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1219836018] Ok
* OK [MYRIGHTS "acdilrsw"] ACL
a OK [READ-WRITE] Ok

It says * 5 EXISTS could anyone plz tell me how to read them from this telnet session

Thanks in advance