IMAP and POP3 Offline

[ataru]

Fresh installation of ISPConfig3 on a CentOS vps.

after a couple of days, it says that POP3 and IMAP are Offline, and, I guess, mail is not working

in mail log I've got thousands of errors like that:

Feb 23 05:53:30 biancocelesti postfix/smtpd[15670]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
Feb 23 05:53:30 biancocelesti postfix/smtpd[15670]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Feb 23 05:53:31 biancocelesti postfix/master[7630]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 15670 exit status 1
Feb 23 05:53:31 biancocelesti postfix/master[7630]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

when system tries to send a mail, I've got that:

Feb 23 05:53:31 biancocelesti sendmail[15668]: p1NCrUAV015668: to=user@domain.com, ctladdr=web1 (5004/5005), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=31470, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by [127.0.0.1]

[till]

Do you use courier or dovecot as pop3 / imap daemon?

[ataru]

i used to follow this guide:

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...64-ispconfig-3

so I think I'm using dovecot

[till]

But mail was working right after you installed ispconfig? Or did you have not used mail until now?

[ataru]

it was online, but i don't know if it was working

however,
when i try to start dovecot it says:

[root@biancocelesti ~]# /etc/init.d/dovecot start
Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line
715: Unknown protocol name (section changed in /etc/dovecot.conf at line 709)
Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf

at line 715, in /etc/dovecot.conf, there is:

protocol managesieve {

here are lines from 709 to 715:

}

##
## ManageSieve specific settings
##

protocol managesieve {

[ataru]

removed and reinstalled dovecot, now IMAP and POP3 are marked as Online.

but i still get some errors in mail log:

Feb 23 08:01:43 biancocelesti sendmail[1414]: p1NF1gqk001414: from=web1, size=1332, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<0da9407d7c5ef4fe40666546505efeb4-p8443@biancocelesti.org>, relay=web1@localhost
Feb 23 08:02:22 biancocelesti postfix/smtpd[1771]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
Feb 23 08:02:22 biancocelesti postfix/smtpd[1771]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Feb 23 08:02:23 biancocelesti sendmail[1414]: p1NF1gqk001414: to=biancocelesti@porcapaletta.com, ctladdr=web1 (5004/5005), delay=00:00:41, xdelay=00:00:40, mailer=relay, pri=31332, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by [127.0.0.1]
Feb 23 08:02:23 biancocelesti postfix/master[7630]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 1771 exit status 1
Feb 23 08:02:23 biancocelesti postfix/master[7630]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 23 08:02:37 biancocelesti sendmail[1876]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root
Feb 23 08:02:37 biancocelesti sendmail[1876]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 779 bytes total
Feb 23 08:02:37 biancocelesti postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running
Feb 23 08:05:01 biancocelesti dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured
Feb 23 08:05:01 biancocelesti dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured

[till]

Dovecot has to be installed before ispconfig is installed or the dovecot configuration will not work as ispconfig has to replace the config file. As you reinstalled dovecot, you will have to run a manual ispconfig update now and choose to reconfigure the services.

[ataru]

Originally Posted by till

Dovecot has to be installed before ispconfig is installed or the dovecot configuration will not work as ispconfig has to replace the config file. As you reinstalled dovecot, you will have to run a manual ispconfig update now and choose to reconfigure the services.

sorry, I'm new in ISPConfig, how can i perform a manual update?


should i have to do that?

Manual update instructions
--------------------------

Code:

cd /tmp
wget http://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/I...-stable.tar.gz
tar xvfz ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz
cd ispconfig3_install/install
php -q update.php

__________________

[ataru]

nothing

[root@biancocelesti install]# php -q update.php


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  | |  `--. \  __/  | |    / _ \| '_ \|  _| |/ _` |  |_ |
 _| |_/\__/ / |     | \__/\ (_) | | | | | | | (_| | ___\ \
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>> Update

Operating System: CentOS 5 or compatible

This application will update ISPConfig 3 on your server.
Starting incremental database update.
Reconfigure Permissions in master database? (yes,no) [no]: yes

Reconfigure Services? (yes,no) [yes]: yes

Configuring Postfix
Configuring Jailkit
Configuring Dovecot
Configuring Spamassassin
Configuring Amavisd
Configuring Getmail
Configuring Pureftpd
Configuring BIND
Configuring Apache
Configuring vlogger
Configuring Apps vhost
Configuring Database
Configuring Firewall
Updating ISPConfig
ISPConfig Port [8080]:

Create new ISPConfig SSL certificate (yes,no) [no]:

Reconfigure Crontab? (yes,no) [yes]:

Updating Crontab
Restarting services ...
Stopping MySQL:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting MySQL:                                            [  OK  ]
Shutting down postfix:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting postfix:                                          [  OK  ]
Stopping saslauthd:                                        [  OK  ]
Starting saslauthd:                                        [  OK  ]
Shutting down Mail Virus Scanner (amavisd):                [FAILED]
Config file "/etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf" does not exist, at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 1795.
Starting Mail Virus Scanner (amavisd):                     [FAILED]
Stopping Clam AntiVirus Daemon:                            [  OK  ]
Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon:                            [  OK  ]
Stopping Dovecot Imap:                                     [FAILED]
Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 715: Unknown protocol name (section changed in /etc/dovecot.conf at line 709)
Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf
Starting Dovecot Imap:                                     [FAILED]
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
[Wed Feb 23 17:01:09 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:443 has no VirtualHosts
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Stopping pure-ftpd:                                        [  OK  ]
Starting pure-ftpd:                                        [  OK  ]
Update finished.
[root@biancocelesti install]#

i have some issue with amavis and dovecot

what can I do?

[ataru]

amavis is now ok running:

mkdir /etc/amavisd
ln -s /etc/amavisd.conf /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf