Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Debian Lenny

[White]

Im not placing any guarantee on this but i had a problem with this installation on debian etch which i cured and carried over to the perfect debian lenny install, im not using Ispconfig but i removed all instances of "proxy:" from the mysql statements in postfix/main.cf

virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_domains.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf

so they look like this below and all has been fine from minute 1 of the servers life

virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_domains.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailboxes.cf

but i hope you have correctly configured mail_admin and mail_admin_password in your 6 files aswell as mysql.

Have you tried to retrieve mails with Outlook? use the wizard and it will automatically test the settings and send the first email to create the users vmail folder

this is how i retrieve them and its fine

user = admin@yourdomain.com (set up in mysql mail db)
password = yourpassword (set up in mysql mail db)

POP3 = mail.mydomain.com
smtp = mail.mydomain.com

Secure Password Authentication (no)

but i have also added mydomain.com and mail.mydomain.com to my hosts file on my PC so it knows where to go inside my network

[shayster01]

White, Thanks I tried you solution but still no luck. What was it you were saying about mail_admin and mail_admin_password? I followed the directions from here http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...-ispconfig3-p5 and it never mentioned anything about setting up passwords.

[shayster01]

Okay I am on to something. I had to change my hostname after the installation. I think I might have missed a few places. I sent an email from the server and was able to retrieve it but its from root@wronghostname.server.com instead of root@righthostname.server.com. Where is this stored on the mailserver and where can I change it? I checked /etc/courier/imapd.cnf and /etc/courier/pop3d.cnf.

[shayster01]

Okay I played around and re-configured postfix and changed the hostname for the mailserver. Then I logged into squirrelmail using name@hostname.server.com. Now my next question is how do you change the server so the email address is just name@server.com like most emails???

Also it seems like my emails can't be received my squirrelmail. I can see I have mail when I login by ssh but I cant get to them by squirrelmail.

[falko]

Originally Posted by shayster01

Okay I played around and re-configured postfix and changed the hostname for the mailserver. Then I logged into squirrelmail using name@hostname.server.com. Now my next question is how do you change the server so the email address is just name@server.com like most emails???

You must set the correct sender address in your email client (e.g. SquirrelMail, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.).

Originally Posted by shayster01

Also it seems like my emails can't be received my squirrelmail. I can see I have mail when I login by ssh but I cant get to them by squirrelmail.

Your SquirrelMail user is not your SSH user, that's why you cannot see the mails of your SSH user.

[shayster01]

Falko,

I thought it setup email accounts based on the system users? Can you explain this then.... I send an email from squirrelmail with address name@host.server.com to address name@yahoo.com. I then reply back to name@host.server.com from name@yahoo.com but I can't retrieve it in squirrelmail. But when I log into server via ssh it says I have email. When I look at it through MAIL for user name@host.server.com it shows up.

[falko]

In the "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Debian Lenny)" tutorial, we use virtual users, not system users.

[shayster01]

Sorry for not understanding there just wasn't any explanation on how to create an email user or how to login to squirrelmail. I think I figured it out but i can only send emails from squirrelmail. Any ideas where to look for that. Or is that tied into the fact I have a mailbox setup in ISPconfig3 and a system user with the same name?

One more thing how exactly would I change the email address to user@server.host.com to just user@host.com?

I tried to create an email in ISPCONFIG that isnt a system user and when I login i log ing I get this:

ERROR:
ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
Query: SUBSCRIBE "INBOX.Sent"

ERROR: Could not complete request.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"
Reason Given: Unable to open this mailbox.

But I can login to the system users that I created emails for in ISPconfig.

[falko]

Originally Posted by shayster01

but i can only send emails from squirrelmail. Any ideas where to look for that.

What errors do you get in email clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird? Any errors in your mail log?

[shayster01]

Falko,

As I said before that is the weird thing. If I send an email from the working squirrelmail account to say a yahoo email, it works. When I send an email from the yahoo email account to my squirrelmail account. I can't view it in squirrelmail but I can see it in my ssh. Does creating a virtual email and a system email with the same name cause problems??

Also as mentioned, I created a new virtual emails in ISPconfig3 and I can't login into it in squirrelmail. this user does not exist in the system. I just get error messages:

ERROR: Could not complete request.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"
Reason Given: Unable to open this mailbox.

and

ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
Query: SUBSCRIBE "INBOX.Sent"