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

[lombardo]

I've run /etc/init.d/courier-imap restart

and the service restarted successfully.

But I still get the connection dropped error.

[HostV]

Very helpful thread, thanks everyone!

[falko]

Originally Posted by lombardo

I've run /etc/init.d/courier-imap restart

and the service restarted successfully.

But I still get the connection dropped error.

Please try this:

/etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon restart
/etc/init.d/courier-imap restart
/etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl restart
/etc/init.d/courier-pop restart
/etc/init.d/courier-pop-ssl restart

[tonkyman]

**** Sorry!! this was for the error with squirrelmail mentioned earlier. ******
**** I jumped in a bit late. ******


You will receive that message if the mail box you are trying to check does not exsist. The mailbox is not created until it receives its first mail message.

I send a short welcome message to every new user I setup to avoid this issue.

Good luck,
Tony

[c4rdinal]

Originally Posted by falko

No, that's not necessary as amavisd calls the normal spamassassin binary, not the daemon.

What's in your mail log now?

IF the mailboxes are not created within /home/vmail, then there's something fundamentally wrong with your system...

Hi falko,

Until now, I was not able to successfully finish this HOWTO. I slowly and carefully redo it for two times but was unsuccessful. I thought by redoing the howto (because I refrain not to ask so much, I know most of you are busy) I can solve the problem. Apparently, I failed.

I don't understand when you said: "there's something fundamentally wrong with your system". What do you mean by this?

This is the case on my machine. What should I do to fix it?

I need my mail server running by next week, yet I'm stuck...

Please help me.

Thank you so much.

[c4rdinal]

Hi,

Since I always find in my /var/log/mail.log

Jun 14 08:58:11 mx-1 imapd: chdir domain.com/joseph/: No such file or directory

I tried to manually create the directory.

#mkdir /home/vmail/domain.com/joseph
#chown vmail.vmail /home/vmail/domain.com/joseph

Then login to squirrelmail and finally I was able to get in. However, there's this error after logging in.

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

I think it's because of the permission on the directory. Mailbox are not being created automatically.

I know there's a way i can make this manually? I just don't know how.

I read a post having the same problem here and it was answered by falko. It was suggested to send an email first before logging into squirrelmail. But it doesn't fix my problem. I tried it using different account, yet I failed.

Hope you can point me to the right track.

[falko]

Originally Posted by c4rdinal

I tried to manually create the directory.

#mkdir /home/vmail/domain.com/joseph
#chown vmail.vmail /home/vmail/domain.com/joseph

You can use the maildirmake command instead. See

man maildirmake

Originally Posted by c4rdinal

Then login to squirrelmail and finally I was able to get in. However, there's this error after logging in.

Did you tell Squirrelmail that you're using Courier?

[c4rdinal]

You can use the maildirmake command instead

I used the command to create directories:

mkdir /home/vmail/domain.com
chmod g-r,o-r /home/vmail/domain.com/user1
chown -R vmail.vmail /home/vmail/domain.com/user1
maildirmake /home/vmail/domain.com/user1

All went fine. Then I log in to Squirrelmail. I send a test message.
the logs shows

#tail -f /var/log/mail.log

Jun 24 16:55:01 mx-1 postfix/smtp[4848]: 260BB343DF: to=<user2@domain.com>, relay=none, delay=0.02, delays=0.02/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for mx-1.domain.com loops back to myself)
Jun 24 16:55:01 mx-1 postfix/qmgr[4643]: 260BB343DF: removed
Jun 24 16:55:17 mx-1 postfix/qmgr[4643]: ECD22343E2: from=<user1@domain.com>, size=1109, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Jun 24 16:55:17 mx-1 postfix/smtp[4849]: ECD22343E2: to=<joseph@yahoo.com>, re lay=c.mx.mail.yahoo.com[216.39.53.3]:25, delay=414, delays=414/0.02/0.02/0.02, d sn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as D1BD91D4020)
Jun 24 16:55:17 mx-1 postfix/qmgr[4643]: ECD22343E2: removed
Jun 24 16:55:56 mx-1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jun 24 16:55:57 mx-1 imapd: LOGIN, user=user1@domain.com, ip=[::ffff:127.0. 0.1], port=[41405], protocol=IMAP
Jun 24 16:55:57 mx-1 imapd: LOGOUT, user=user1@domain.com, ip=[::ffff:127.0 .0.1], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=119, sent=900, time=0
Jun 24 16:55:57 mx-1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jun 24 16:55:57 mx-1 imapd: LOGIN, user=user1@domain.com, ip=[::ffff:127.0. 0.1], port=[41406], protocol=IMAP
Jun 24 16:55:57 mx-1 imapd: LOGOUT, user=user1@domain.com, ip=[::ffff:127.0 .0.1], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=119, sent=900, time=0

I noticed the error message

mail for mx-1.domain.com loops back to myself

How can I fix it? Also, there's no message in the Inbox of any bounced message. I think the mail is getting somewhere else.

Did you tell Squirrelmail that you're using Courier?

Yes, I did this.

~# ls -la /home/vmail/domain.com/
total 16
drwx--x--x 4 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:39 ..
drwx------ 9 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:41 user1
drwx------ 9 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:42 user2

# ls -la /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/
total 44
drwx------ 9 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:41 .
drwx--x--x 4 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:40 ..
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:41 courierimapkeywords
-rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 36 2008-06-24 16:41 courierimapsubscribed
-rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 15 2008-06-24 16:41 courierimapuiddb
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:40 cur
drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:41 .Drafts
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:40 new
drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:41 .Sent
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 17:08 tmp
drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 2008-06-24 16:41 .Trash


Hope you can help me.

TIA

[wurzel]

I too am having the same problem. I have followed the tutorial step-by-step, but when I try to login to squirrelmail I get a "Connection dropped by IMAP server" error. I'm not quite sure where I've gone wrong.

[wurzel]

Scratch my last post. Now when I'm logging into Squirrelmail, I get the can't find inbox error.

Squirrelmail isn't that important to me right now, as long as I can set up access through Microsoft Outlook. I have entered all of the information and clicked Test Account Settings in Outlook. It completes everything except for the test email.