Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail -Ubuntu 8.04

[metal1633]

Originally Posted by falko

You're using the wrong username and/or password in /etc/courier/authmysqlrc.

I am afraid you have lost me. I have read over the how-to again and every thing seems to be they way it should be. Did you leave something out? Something obvious? Something you may have expected the reader to already know? A common problem with many how-to's. Reality is most readers are NOT as smart as the author otherwise we would not be using a how-to.

This system is not critical. There are time constraints. I need a working mail server fairly soon.

As to the passwords. Right now, because I am the only user and I am testing there is only one. sql root, mail_admin, system admin account, my personal user account...All have the same password.

So no I did not use the wrong password.

Now I went through the sql database and found that the mail_admin had no privileges even though it should have had so I gave it SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE using Webmin. I can login to phpmyadmin using mail_admin and the password. No Problem there so I am not sure what you want me to do with /etc/courier/authmysqlrc

EDIT>> Reading through the posts I saw that one of the posters who had the same problem found that he had "and forgot[en] to change few 'mail_admin_password' to actual password." Am I to understand that I am to put the Actual Password in a bunch of plain text files? >>>> Further reading....I get it now...The files are not readable. NOW I feel like a dumb ass.

They say the third time is the Charm. I will let you know how it goes.

[metal1633]

Ok. Everything seems A-Okay now. But I am having trouble with pop clients (Evolution and Thunderbird) Everytime I try to send my password is rejected. I will search to seeif there is a thread on this issue. Unless someone here has a ready answer at hand on the proper way to set up pop clients.

[falko]

What's the exact error message from the mail log?

[metal1633]

Originally Posted by falko

What's the exact error message from the mail log?

Thanks for taking the time to do this. If you are half as busy as I am you have no time. I created the account in Evolution, accepted the Certificates and can receive without issue. When I send, as I said, it refuses to authenticate me. Here is the relevant portion of the log. I tried several times with different setting in the client account preferences dialog.

Jun 1 10:36:52 myhostname pop3d: Connection, ip=[::ffff:myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:36:57 myhostname pop3d: LOGOUT, ip=[::ffff:myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:36:57 myhostname pop3d: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:37:21 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: connect from [myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:37:24 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: disconnect from myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:38:07 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: connect from myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:38:07 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Jun 1 10:38:07 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 1 10:38:16 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Jun 1 10:38:16 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 1 10:38:24 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Jun 1 10:38:24 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 1 10:38:26 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: disconnect from myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:38:52 myhostname pop3d: Connection, ip=[::ffff:myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:38:52 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: connect from myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:38:57 myhostname pop3d: LOGIN, user=username@domain.com, ip=[::ffff:myexternalIP], port=[60595]
Jun 1 10:39:01 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Jun 1 10:39:01 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 1 10:39:05 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Jun 1 10:39:05 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 1 10:39:07 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Jun 1 10:39:07 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 1 10:39:08 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Jun 1 10:39:08 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: warning: myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 1 10:39:09 myhostname postfix/smtpd[6303]: disconnect from myIP.My.ISP.com[myexternalIP]
Jun 1 10:39:13 myhostname pop3d: LOGOUT, user=username@domain.com, ip=[::ffff:myexternalIP], port=[60595], top=0, retr=7605, rcvd=56, sent=8188, time=16, stls=1
Jun 1 10:42:29 myhostname postfix/anvil[6306]: statistics: max connection rate 2/60s for (smtp:myexternalIP) at Jun 1 10:38:07
Jun 1 10:42:29 myhostname postfix/anvil[6306]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:myexternalIP) at Jun 1 10:37:21
Jun 1 10:42:29 myhostname postfix/anvil[6306]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Jun 1 10:37:21

[falko]

What's in your main.cf and /etc/pam.d/smtpd? Did you disable AppArmor?

[metal1633]

Originally Posted by falko

What's in your main.cf and /etc/pam.d/smtpd? Did you disable AppArmor?

Apparmor is disabled and purged. It was an error in the /etc/pam.d/smtp file. That file is also readable by other users and I do not like that. By changing its permissions, making it readable to only 'owner' and 'group' will I break the system?

Ohh and its 'owner' is 'root' and its 'group' is also 'root'.

[lombardo]

First of all I want to thank you for the tutorial. I am having a connection dropped by IMAP server.

Here is the mail log i outputted using tail.


Jun 2 20:09:36 Webhoster imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jun 2 20:09:36 Webhoster imapd: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Connection refused
Jun 2 20:09:36 Webhoster imapd: [Hint: perhaps authdaemond is not running?]
Jun 2 20:09:36 Webhoster imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jun 2 20:09:36 Webhoster imapd: authentication error: Connection refused
Jun 2 20:13:33 Webhoster imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jun 2 20:13:33 Webhoster imapd: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Connection refused
Jun 2 20:13:33 Webhoster imapd: [Hint: perhaps authdaemond is not running?]
Jun 2 20:13:33 Webhoster imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=info@danielmessier.com, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jun 2 20:13:33 Webhoster imapd: authentication error: Connection refused
Jun 2 20:23:00 Webhoster imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jun 2 20:23:00 Webhoster imapd: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Connection refused
Jun 2 20:23:00 Webhoster imapd: [Hint: perhaps authdaemond is not running?]
Jun 2 20:23:00 Webhoster imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=info@danielmessier.com, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jun 2 20:23:00 Webhoster imapd: authentication error: Connection refused


Thanks for helping me out.

Lombardo

[falko]

Originally Posted by metal1633

By changing its permissions, making it readable to only 'owner' and 'group' will I break the system?

Not sure - I'd try it.

[falko]

Originally Posted by lombardo

Jun 2 20:09:36 Webhoster imapd: [Hint: perhaps authdaemond is not running?]

Is the Courier authdaemon running?

[lombardo]

How can I check if the Courier authdaemon is running ?

I am quite new at this and appreciate the efforts you are making towards helping me.

On a sidenote which book would you recommend to help me understand Ubuntu Server ? I need the book to have a chapter or two on mail setup.

Thanks