email not sending or recieving

[blochwall]

Hi all,

I've just started running a vps as I wanted to learn a bit more about hosting (no particular reason).

My VPS is a currently running centos 5.2 with all the standardish webserver stuff, apache, mysql, postfix... (no BIND)

Recently I tried to add a domain to the vps by redirecting the A records from my domain name provider, and point to my vps ip address e.g @, mail, www

@ (type A) my.server.ip
mail (type A) my.server.ip
www (type A) my.server.ip


On my vps using ispconfig3, I have setup the DNS zone accordingly, and the website is now displaying as I would like.

Unfortunately, the mailbox I've set-up through ispconfig3 does not seem to send or receive mails, though I can log in via squirrelmail.

On my VPS the DNS zone records are as follows...

A-------mail--------------------------------my.server.ip-----------------------0
A-------mydomainname.com.-------my.server.ip-----------------------0
A-------www-------------------------------my.server.ip-----------------------0
MX-----mydomainname.com.-------mail.mydomainname.com.--10
NS-----mydomainname.com.-------ns1.mydomainnameh.com.-0
NS-----mydomainnam.com.---------ns2.mydomainnam.com.-----0


My email domain is setup like this

my.server.ip--------------------mydomainname.com

My mailbox is setup like:

email: me@mydomainname.com
Name: my name
auto responder: n

Can anyone see anything wrong with this

I'm sure there are many reasons for this problem however, I just wanted to eliminate the obvious.

EDIT: I should have said that I get no error messages when sending from or to the mailbox, which leads me to think its something to do with the dns records.

thanks in advance.

[falko]

Any errors in your mail log?

Is the MX record correct? You can check that with

dig mx yourdomain.com

[blochwall]

Hi there falko,

thanks for your reply.

I'm very sure my MX record is correct. I have checked both the recors over at 123-reg.co.uk and my vps and they match.

here is the last few lines of my /var/log/maillog which seem to keep repeating every minute.

Apr 16 09:30:29 server1 postfix/qmgr[12340]: fatal: unsupported dictionary type: mysql
Apr 16 09:30:29 server1 postfix/proxymap[12341]: fatal: unsupported dictionary type: mysql
Apr 16 09:30:29 server1 postfix/smtpd[12342]: fatal: unsupported dictionary type: mysql
Apr 16 09:30:30 server1 postfix/cleanup[21952]: warning: private/proxymap socket: service dict_proxy_open: Success
Apr 16 09:30:30 server1 postfix/master[7109]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 12340 exit status 1
Apr 16 09:30:30 server1 postfix/master[7109]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad command startup -- throttling
Apr 16 09:30:30 server1 postfix/master[7109]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/proxymap pid 12341 exit status 1
Apr 16 09:30:30 server1 postfix/master[7109]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/proxymap: bad command startup -- throttling
Apr 16 09:30:30 server1 postfix/master[7109]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 12342 exit status 1
Apr 16 09:30:30 server1 postfix/master[7109]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

The output of

dig mx mydomain.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 <<>> mydomainname.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31204
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mydomainname.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mydomainname.com. 86400 IN A my.server.ip

;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 87.117.198.200#53(87.117.198.200)
;; WHEN: Sat Apr 16 09:39:37 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 52


hope this helps

thanks

[falko]

Apr 16 09:30:29 server1 postfix/qmgr[12340]: fatal: unsupported dictionary type: mysql

Your Postfix doesn't have MySQL support. Which tutorial did you use to set up the server?
Basically, you must install Postfix from the CentOS Plus repository - see chapters 7 and 11 of this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...64-ispconfig-3

[fak3r]

This fixed the issue for me in Ubuntu 12.04:

apt-get install postfix-mysql