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aic71 · #1 17th March 2010, 09:35

I've followed the instructions completely.. I'm not able to get any of my users to now login.

I get the following in my /var/log/mail.log:

Mar 13 19:05:38 kaylee imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Mar 13 19:05:38 kaylee imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=achernow@kaylee.commanddotcom.com, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Mar 13 19:05:43 kaylee imapd: LOGOUT, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], rcvd=72, sent=332

The user exists in the database and has the correct password.

Help!

falko · #2 18th March 2010, 14:43

Which distribution do you use?

What are the outputs of

Code:

grep achernow /etc/passwd

and

Code:

grep achernow /etc/aliases

?

aic71 · #3 18th March 2010, 17:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by falko

Which distribution do you use?

Debian Lenny I believe is what's on the box.

Quote:

What are the outputs of

Code:

grep achernow /etc/passwd

and

Code:

grep achernow /etc/aliases

?

Do those matter if I've theoretically got the email server set up to use virtual users? The account 'achernow' already exists as a system user anyway, since that's what I'm using to log into the box.

Code:

achernow@kaylee:~$ sudo grep achernow /etc/aliases
[sudo] password for achernow: 
achernow@kaylee:~$ sudo grep achernow /etc/passwd
achernow:x:1000:1000:achernow,,,:/home/achernow:/bin/bash
achernow@kaylee:~$

The username exists, as I said, in the mail database as well:

This is getting really annoying... I can get EVERYTHING else to work except for e-mail. It's like you need to be a rocket scientist or something to configure it.

till · #4 18th March 2010, 17:35

Quote:

This is getting really annoying... I can get EVERYTHING else to work except for e-mail. It's like you need to be a rocket scientist or something to configure it.

But why do you go the hard route then by configuring everything manually? It is much easier if you use a controlpanel like ispconfig where you just have to enter the email domain and address and which configures postfix for you?

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...nny-ispconfig3

falko · #5 19th March 2010, 16:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by aic71

The account 'achernow' already exists as a system user anyway, since that's what I'm using to log into the box.

That is exactly the problem. When you send an email to achernow@kaylee.commanddotcom.com, it gets delivered to the system user achernow instead of the virtual user achernow@kaylee.commanddotcom.com, which means the Maildir of achernow@kaylee.commanddotcom.com isn't created, and that's why you can't log in.

aic71 · #6 19th March 2010, 17:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by falko

That is exactly the problem. When you send an email to achernow@kaylee.commanddotcom.com, it gets delivered to the system user achernow instead of the virtual user achernow@kaylee.commanddotcom.com, which means the Maildir of achernow@kaylee.commanddotcom.com isn't created, and that's why you can't log in.

[strike]So if I create the maildir it should be ok?[/strike]

Never mind. I re-read the part of the tutorial where you said to add the user and mail it. It seems to work from an IMAP client now...but Squirrelmail goes to a white screen after it logs in...no inbox. Not sure why.

Quote:

But why do you go the hard route then by configuring everything manually? It is much easier if you use a controlpanel like ispconfig where you just have to enter the email domain and address and which configures postfix for you?

I've had bad experiences with control panels. I'm on a sever that a friend configured right now that Error 500's every time I try to do ANYTHING in the control panel. Also it's made it hard to tweak Apache config files and php.ini files since it'll overwrite them with no notice.