Home mail server setup help.

I admit that I am pretty much clueless when it comes to setting up a mail server.
The setup:
I have a local network at home with about 5 computers. Inside the network we have a router, a store-brought one that has bulit in DSL modem and wireless. It is out central DNS server and provides us with a local network domain name. Then we have a domain for the outside world to see us. Let's just call it "shadow.dot.com". I opened up the ports on the router to allow in port 80 and all POP3 addresses. I installed apache, php, mysql, and postfix on my Linux machine. I used webmin to configure postfix. Users can recieve emails, let's say from my hotmail account to [email protected] However, when I use webmins view usermail feature fromt he postfix area, I click on a user, then compose but my home local domain is listed instead of my shadow.do.com domain. I had in the configuration to place that outside domain in the address. Well, either way, I cannot send a message. It remains in the message queue and refuses to send.
I do not have smtp ports open because I want this secure. I only want to be able to send email from inside my local network. This way there is no chance at someone hacking my smtp part and sending tons of email spam with my address.
For this setup, what do I need in my main.cf configuration file? Can someone just put all the options in there that I need so I can copy and paste for the most part? I need to be able to send out, and I also need PHP to use it to send email to people. Do I need to unblock smtp? Do I need to change any settings with PHP or will it use postfix by default?
Thanks.

There is a send mail queue that is viewable via webmin. I don't know if it errored or not, it just stayed in the queue and never sent.
I uninstalled postfix and then reinstalled it with default configs again. I modified a few settings to reflect my outside domain. Then I set up sasl to log into my ISPs mail server. Not mail sorta sends. Some PHP scripts still have trouble with it. I guess I need to fix those manually because some PHP scripts work and some don't so it might be an error with the script itself.
Mail is only sent via smtp via port 25, not recieved. Recieving port is in the one hundreds. That is the only port needed to be open for recieving of mail.
Thanks for you tips. I have I dynamic IP so liem clued me in on what to do. I don't know if it was a combination of bad config and dynamic IP, but it sorta works now, so I guess have more tweaking to do.

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What I've done:
- Created a user vmail, with home directory set on /var/mail/vmail/
- Had a LAMP server already working.
- Created two databases: postfix_db and roundcube_db, owned by postfix_user and roundcube_user respectively.
- Since it is for personal use and i don't use "old/odd clients like Outlook" i skipped smtps. And made the following files:
My postfix main.cf(every commented line removed):
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/bin
daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
mydomain = mydomainname.tld
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_database = $alias_maps
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command =
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
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sendmail_path = /usr/bin/sendmail
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
setgid_group = postdrop
html_directory = no
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
sample_directory = /etc/postfix/sample
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
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relay_domains = *
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virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
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virtual_mailbox_limit = 512000000
virtual_minimum_uid = 5000
virtual_transport = virtual
virtual_uid_maps = static:5000
virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
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local_recipient_maps = $virtual_mailbox_maps
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
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smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options
smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.key
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
Postfix master.cf
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
submission inet n - n - - smtpd
-o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
pickup unix n - n 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup
qmgr unix n - n 300 1 qmgr
tlsmgr unix - - n 1000? 1 tlsmgr
rewrite unix - - n - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce
defer unix - - n - 0 bounce
trace unix - - n - 0 bounce
verify unix - - n - 1 verify
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/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf
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Edited dovecot.conf:
protocols = imap pop3
auth_mechanisms = plain
passdb {
driver = sql
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb sql {
driver = sql
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
service auth {
unix_listener auth-client {
group = postfix
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user = postfix
user = root
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mail_location = maildir:~
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/server.crt
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/server.key
dict {
#quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
#expire = sqlite:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
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/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
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- Made directories writable for them.
/etc/webapps/postfixadmin/config.inc.php (note that there is no "?>" to end the script, it came just like that, and since it had no error there ill assume its normal)
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'admin' => 'admin',
'alias' => 'alias',
'alias_domain' => 'alias_domain',
'config' => 'config',
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'domain_admins' => 'domain_admins',
'fetchmail' => 'fetchmail',
'log' => 'log',
'mailbox' => 'mailbox',
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'vacation_notification' => 'vacation_notification',
'quota' => 'quota',
'quota2' => 'quota2',
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'virtual', // for virtual accounts
'local', // for system accounts
'relay' // for backup mx
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$CONF['alias_goto_limit'] = '0';
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$CONF['logging'] = 'YES';
$CONF['fetchmail'] = 'YES';
$CONF['fetchmail_extra_options'] = 'NO';
$CONF['show_header_text'] = 'NO';
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$CONF['show_footer_text'] = 'YES';
$CONF['footer_text'] = 'Return to mydomain.com';
$CONF['footer_link'] = '[url]http://mydomain.com[/url]';
$CONF['welcome_text'] = <<<EOM
Welcome to your new account.
EOM;
$CONF['emailcheck_resolve_domain']='YES';
$CONF['show_status']='NO';
$CONF['show_status_key']='NO';
$CONF['show_status_text']='  ';
$CONF['show_undeliverable']='NO';
$CONF['show_undeliverable_color']='tomato';
$CONF['show_undeliverable_exceptions']=array("unixmail.domain.ext","exchangeserver.domain.ext","gmail.com");
$CONF['show_popimap']='NO';
$CONF['show_popimap_color']='darkgrey';
$CONF['show_custom_domains']=array("subdomain.domain.ext","domain2.ext");
$CONF['show_custom_colors']=array("lightgreen","lightblue");
$CONF['recipient_delimiter'] = "";
$CONF['create_mailbox_subdirs_prefix']='INBOX.';
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$CONF['new_quota_table'] = 'NO';
$CONF['theme_logo'] = 'images/logo-default.png';
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$CONF['xmlrpc_enabled'] = false;
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$rcmail_config['enable_spellcheck'] = false;
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$rcmail_config['spellcheck_engine'] = 'googie';
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_uri'] = '';
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_languages'] = NULL;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_ignore_caps'] = false;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_ignore_nums'] = false;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_ignore_syms'] = false;
$rcmail_config['recipients_separator'] = ',';
$rcmail_config['max_pagesize'] = 200;
$rcmail_config['min_refresh_interval'] = 60;
$rcmail_config['upload_progress'] = false;
$rcmail_config['undo_timeout'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['address_book_type'] = 'sql';
$rcmail_config['ldap_public'] = array();
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_addressbooks'] = array('sql');
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_min_length'] = 1;
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_threads'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_max'] = 15;
$rcmail_config['address_template'] = '{street}<br/>{locality} {zipcode}<br/>{country} {region}';
$rcmail_config['addressbook_search_mode'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['default_charset'] = 'ISO-8859-1';
$rcmail_config['skin'] = 'larry';
$rcmail_config['mail_pagesize'] = 50;
$rcmail_config['addressbook_pagesize'] = 50;
$rcmail_config['addressbook_sort_col'] = 'surname';
$rcmail_config['addressbook_name_listing'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['timezone'] = 'auto';
$rcmail_config['prefer_html'] = true;
$rcmail_config['show_images'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['message_extwin'] = false;
$rcmail_config['compose_extwin'] = false;
$rcmail_config['htmleditor'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['prettydate'] = true;
$rcmail_config['draft_autosave'] = 300;
$rcmail_config['preview_pane'] = false;
$rcmail_config['preview_pane_mark_read'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['logout_purge'] = false;
$rcmail_config['logout_expunge'] = false;
$rcmail_config['inline_images'] = true;
$rcmail_config['mime_param_folding'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['skip_deleted'] = false;
$rcmail_config['read_when_deleted'] = true;
$rcmail_config['flag_for_deletion'] = false;
$rcmail_config['refresh_interval'] = 60;
$rcmail_config['check_all_folders'] = false;
$rcmail_config['display_next'] = true;
$rcmail_config['autoexpand_threads'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['reply_mode'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['strip_existing_sig'] = true;
$rcmail_config['show_sig'] = 1;
$rcmail_config['force_7bit'] = false;
$rcmail_config['search_mods'] = null;
$rcmail_config['addressbook_search_mods'] = null;
$rcmail_config['delete_always'] = false;
$rcmail_config['delete_junk'] = false;
$rcmail_config['mdn_requests'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['mdn_default'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['dsn_default'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['reply_same_folder'] = false;
$rcmail_config['forward_attachment'] = false;
$rcmail_config['default_addressbook'] = null;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_before_send'] = false;
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_single'] = false;
$rcmail_config['default_font'] = 'Verdana';
- From what i can see, postfixadmin used and populated its database, but not roundcube.
- I can open postfixadmin and log in with no apparent errors (not that i know what to do with it instead of roundcube, but at least works...)
- Whenever i open roundcube it begins to output errors everywhere about db connection (I was only able after changing its .htaccess to Allow from all, is it a bad idea?)
DB Error in /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php (416): [1146] Table 'roundcube_db.session' doesn't exist (SQL Query: SELECT vars, ip, changed FROM session WHERE sess_id = 'pq5ofv7ja0gh2sunsg38jmd3g1')
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent in /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube.php on line 445
DB Error: [1146] Table 'roundcube_db.session' doesn't exist
DATABASE ERROR: CONNECTION FAILED!
Unable to connect to the database!
Please contact your server-administrator.
DB Error in /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php (416): [1146] Table 'roundcube_db.session' doesn't exist (SQL Query: INSERT INTO session (sess_id, vars, ip, created, changed) VALUES ('pq5ofv7ja0gh2sunsg38jmd3g1', 'dGVtcHxiOjE7bGFuZ3VhZ2V8czo1OiJlbl9VUyI7dGFza3xzOjU6ImxvZ2luIjs=', 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', '2014-02-08 07:34:46', '2014-02-08 07:34:46'))
Thats all i know. Whats wrong? (i already tried to set db logins with no pw at all, but still with the same problems)
How far am i to be able to send/receive one email? Please, tell me i am close...
Mail servers could be so much more linear to set up
Thanks for your help. Time to get some sleep!

The roundcube db schema needs to setup manually. See /usr/share/webapps/roundcube/INSTALL
Also, from your /etc/webapps/postfixadmin/config.inc.php:
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'NO';
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
$CONF['maildir_name_hook'] = 'NO';
..which results in /var/mail/vmail/[email protected]
From your dovecot.conf
mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
...which results in /var/mail/vmail/domain.com/user
That doesn't fit together.

10.5.1 Server Setup - Help Make it all Work!

Hello Everyone, I currently have a new MacMini running 10.5.1 with our Calendar, Wiki and File Sharing. I have recently just returned from the Mac OS 10.5 Training Session from Chicago Columbia College and was astonished at what their demo servers did versus what mine has never done lol. We are a small tech company and there isn't much yet in the way of documentation or training or even training materials for Leopard Server. So I wanted to share some of what we learned from the training seminar and hopefully someone will know the proper answers to my questions. This is going to be a bit long winded but I think it's important to convey my questions/concerns.
1. Ok initial setup of our Leopard server requires you to input a host name and then the domain name. Well after the first install of Leopard we found as I have read amongst the posts for the past 2 hours that if you place let's say macmini in the host-name field then place domain.com in the domain field. After the server setup is complete Leopard Server wants you to chat, vpn, and browse to http://macmini.domain.com/groups as well as mail. This is all well and good if you have access to DNS like I do and can easily make changes to the MX & A records but if your a typical SMB user then you won't and this means that once your e-mail is setup and your ready to start using your server anyone you e-mail will come from [email protected] and not [email protected] which is a huge problem. So be cautious here. I was instructed by Apple after scratching their head to leave the host-name blank and only fill in the domain name here if your on let's say a T1 or other medium with a static IP pointed at your machine or router. So this is my first pet peve, there is a sloppy work around to this by telling the server to receive e-mail for domain.com as well but still whenever you send it comes from the original domain.
2. Application Setup - Single Sign-on - When I attended Leopard training this week in Chicago I was amazed at how whenever a user (demo -lab environment) logged into ichat, ical, wiki or e-mail there was simple single sign-on kerberos auth. What I mean by this is once the server is up and running and your Mac connects to the network for the first time either by manual add thru the directory application or a new Mac that finds the Leopard server automatically at first boot and you auth a user on the server to that Mac then there is just a single signon from that point on, NOT! For us our users log into their machines, (mind u they are already users on the Leopard server and can log in just fine) and they try to go to their e-mail for the first time it always fails. We then have to disable SSL over SMTP and IMAP and manually type in their passwords because the MacMail clients cannot trust the SSL cert or we simply just delete their accounts and recreate them from scratch. Same happens with iChat. By design when you auth your Mac against the server, the server auto configs the security and client apps, i.e. mail, ichat, directory, VPN, ical. But iCal has consistently failed setup across 5 server builds and 10 clients. What will happen is when you go to prefs in ichat you see your account but it can't auth you and doesn't show up in ical for your personal server calendar. If you manually remove your user account and re-add it works great. But next time you go to ichat, once again you have to recreate. And I can recreate this all day long. But at the demo it worked like magic. So that is problem number two, SSL and single sign-on does not really work and app auto-config does not work at all.
3. Apple Airport Extreme 802.11N. - As a test and per Apple's recommendation for SMB clients we picked up a new Airport. We patched it and setup user/pass info and setup DHCP on the device for so if server fails we have internet. And during server setup it logged into Airport and tried to configure settings. We were on the net and all was good after server setup. However with VPN enabled per user in Standard mode on server we have only been able to gain VPN access for clients if they are actually inside the network. I have spent about 10 hours back and forth with Apple Support trying to get VPN to work outside. The Manual setup of new Airport Port-Mapping is simple but crude. It does not seem to work. And there is a default hosts setting which should translate to an open DMZ but does not. So that is third on my list, running a MacMini with 2gig's of RAM which is within SPEC for Leopard Server and using the Apple Recommended solution of an Airport Extreme N does not work for s&*% and I would be very surprised if anyone here has gotten that to work.
4. E-Mail Services - As stated prior Leopards auto app setup utility does not work for crap unless by some magic there are other steps besides the ones outlined and printed with the purchase of server. But the main thing about mail is that we are missing the basics. I mean your going to be hard pressed to find ANY e-mail application on the market today, Notes, Exchange, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, iMail or other that does not include basic vacation/out of the office message replies. This is a huge issue for any small business or for that matter any size business that wants to automate things when they are out and I think this is one of my small peeves but certainly worth a listing here.
5. VPN - We have tried like **** to get the VPN to work thru the Airport as previously noted but we have also connected MacPro with 2 nics, one for net and one for LAN and not been able to connect to the server from outside our network. Here is my largest frustration, we currently run SBS2003 from MSFT and they run flawlessly. I have literally sat with clients in their office during a new setup for SBS and in 3-4 hours we were up and running with minimal system level changes from the guided path. And for Apple to advertise this in the manual and all online materials as being SMB friendly is a complete slap in the face. Now don't confuse my above descriptions of problems we have seen across 5 Leopard builds as being a rant because it's not but seriously I am a network engineer with 10 years in the field working with 20+ product ranges and in our office we only use Mac because of stability and uptime. But OS X 10.5 is not Small Business Friendly at all even with the half hearted attempt at the new System Admin console for SMB users. However that being said I will still push on and try to get all these little bugs worked out and what I would really like to see is some feedback on my issues and I would love to know if anyone else has had similar issues. I really had hoped that 10.5 could help my firm finally push the proper solution (Mac OS X) for our SMB clients but it just isn't there yet.
Cheers,
DM

Thanks for the quick read and response. Do you feel the issue might lie with the fact that it is a Mac Mini? And possibly just not powerful enough to run Leopard Server? I have to say in our trials with MacPro it was like night and day as to how they performed. And if you could elaborate on this "Many VPNs don't play well with NAT so your VPN server should have a direct connection to the public network (preferably firewalled, of course, but not NATted)." Most every SoHo and for that matter uses simple NAT translation for security even our multi thousand dollar Cisco PIX and ASA's are basic NAT devices to start with. How would you put the VPN on public net while keeping the attack surface low for the rest of the services like file, web, mail and print?
Don't get me wrong I want this to work more than you can imagine. We are so tired of supporting MSFT technologies that cost thousands a year in antivirus, antispyware, antispam and other malware protection for the enterprise. We know that Leopard has great potential but for an integrator, getting this system up and functional is not an easy task. And the worst part of it is every time we have called for support the tech always lets out a sigh when they hear we have run standard setup because they are not allowed to walk us thru the server console to make repairs. And have been told by 3 techs so far that this is a new product and the support avenues are not there for standard since it just supposed to work out of the box. But when it doesn't then ohh well. Which is sorta sad...
DM

Redundent mail server setup (backup mail server)

i have been reading all the post of setting up a mackup postfix server. i have looked at the configuration files and have a second machine ready to be implemented but have some questions on how exactly the backup works. my current setup is:
- xserve1 with 10.4.3 OD master running mail, web, dns, ichat, ftp, host name is mail.mydomain.com
- xserve2 with 10.4.3 (i will make this replica) running web and backup dns
- G4 466MHz with 10.4.3 Server running mail and web, host name is mail2.mydomain.com (this is to bemy postfix backup server)
all 3 are behind a firewall with NAT. they have local LAN IPs with NAT to 3 separate WAN IPs and open ports for the needed services.
my first question is: do i need to run dns as well on mail2.mydomain.com?
while i understand that mail stays in the queue on the postfix backup, does that mean that while mail.mydomain.com (primary mail server) is down users will not be getting any mail? can the users actually login to the mail2.mydomain.com and if yes how do they authorize?
should i keep mail2.mydomain.com as a standalone or make it part of the directory?
any info is appreciated.
thanks
martin
xserve G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

don't mail servers hold mail for days anyway and keep
retrying and when our mail comes back up will get all
the mail?
Yes, they typically do (unless some braindead administrator has configured his server to try only for a few hours or so).
i assume there is no difference if my
backup mail server runs on 10.3.9 then?
None whatsoever.
- is there a practical way to set up a mail that
clinets can login to and check mail while the primary
server is down?
Practical? No.
can the backup server forward as well
while it holds to the queue?
Why would you want that? Where should it forward to if the primary is down? As soon as the primary is up, the secondary will forward to i.
the last time i had some
coruption and problems with reconstruct (which you
helped me with), we were down for 24 hours. i am
trying to avoid this. i have an image and i run
mailbfr to backup i assume i can use that in case of
harware failure or massive os corruption that may
take hours to fix.
If push comes to shove this may help. Although images are never too brilliant for mail services recovery.
my problem is that if this happens
during the week, during daytime we cannot really
afford to be down at that time.
This is really your call. Only you can decide how much money you want/need to throw at resilience. But if you decide you cannot afford more than an hour of downtime, you will need far more than an onsite secondary mx
Alex

Mail server setup problems

we are in the process of setting up a SL mail server and have pretty much everything running nicely, except mail.
our setup is as follows:
• previous email provider mx records are still active but have allocated higher priority to new server's mx record and according to the ISP those changes have since propagated;
• billion router as dhcp server for a shared studio space/network (same subnet for a variety of parties - we know not good, but since we need to share printers, etc. the only easy way to do so!), allocating a static IP to our new server with all necessary ports forwarded as well;
• DNS configured and running, does reverse lookups and added mail.example.com as A record;
• webmail works, i.e. we can login with a test users credentials;
we experience 2 problems:
1. incoming emails to an activated account get rejected with a 550 error message, still indicating our previous mail providers nameservers;
2. currently only SMTP seems to be working, i.e. we can send emails from external clients but strangely not from the server itself using mail.example.com (it does work using the servers internal IP address though);
3. if we telnet into mail.example.com from outside the studio we get connected, but internally again this only works with the IP address;
as we have trawled the net for some clues and unsuccessfully tried various things, we are beginning to wonder if something on the router is interfering.
any help or thoughts much appreciated.
ds.

If you can't access your server using the domain name mail.example.com it sound to me like you have a dns problem.
When you ping your server's mail.example.com from your internal network what ip are you getting?
Are you getting a your server's internal ip or external ip?

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Foe Windows 8.1 - Outlook mail: what is the server setup for iCloud mail?

Why ask under appletv security content?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4864

Outgoing mail server setup

Hello everyone,
I am having problems with setting up the e-mail response.
How do you authenticate the smtp server from FCS?
In the outgoing mail server, I put "smtp.broadband.myISPprovider.com" - string I got from them. There is nowhere in FCS to put user name and password for authentication.
The e-mail response does not even show in the "View All jobs" window like every other response.
I tried every flavor of the string, including the port :587 , my e-mail address and such with no luck.
What am I missing?
If anyone could help, please.
Thanks
Radek

Thanks Simon,
I've just spoken to Apple and sure enough, the outgoing mail needs to go through an open relay server for it to work. Well..., open relay servers are getting blacklisted by most ISPs because of all the spam. I also spoke to my ISP and they do not offer any open relay so I'm stuck. I don't want to leave our system vulnerable by going through some shady open mail server. Apple needs to figure out how to make the authentication possible from FCS.
Thanks again
Radek

New Mail server setup

Greetings,
I need some pro's cons, Ideas taunts and general whaddia thinks.
Setting up a new mail server. dpG5 xserve w/ 10,000 rpm drives
my thoughts are to take the user information off the machine to a second G5 xserve running as an ODM.
I thought about splitting IMAP/pop services to another box. keeping my primary SMTP Spam/AV away from cyrus, relaying inbound messages to the IMAP server.
so I would have
ODM.mydomain
SMTP1.mydomain
IMAP1.mydomain
-- Does anyone see any performance or configuration hick ups here?
now comes the ugly question.
How do I set up each smtp server. the imap server is still going to have to run smtp to deliver and recieve delivery of messages. but I need them to answer for mydomain, not host1.mydomain. I'm a little foggy on what comes first
--j

There are multiple ways of achieving this.
The simplest is for the servers to deliver via smtp to each other.
So (very very simplified):
Since you said you use OD, I assume all servers will refer to your OD master for user account details.
Server 1 (Filter)
Postfix & amavisd & ClamAV & spamassassin
main.cf and master.cf should be configured like you are used to now except that you only want to be able to send to the content filter and nowhere else.
In amavisd.conf uncomment and change IP (to IP of SMTP/IMAP server) of this line:
$forward_method = 'smtp:127.0.0.1:10025';
No relay settings needed, because you want mail to go the filter first and not to another SMTP server.
Server 2 (Mail Stores)
Postfix & Cyrus
main.cf and master.cf should be configured like you are used to now except that you do not want any kind of filtering anymore. Also set to accept only from Server 1 (since it should not accept incoming mail from the outside world directly)
Server 3 (Outgoing SMTP)
Postfix
main.cf and master.cf should be configured like you are used to now except that you do not need to accept incoming mail. Also no filtering needed (unless you want to scan outgoing mail)
Mail clients:
Point incoming to Server 2 and outgoing to Server 3
That's pretty much it. I know it's not a walkthrough , but then again this kind of setup is better fully understood rather than copied step-by-step.
Let me know if you need anything else.
Alex
P.S.
-Optionally you could use Server 3 as a secondary MX for backup reasons.
-For most Postfix settings see : http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html
-All of this can be further improved with firewall rules

Xserve mail server: setup postfix to ignore/delete undeliverable mail

Hi,
I've trouble with mail server on Leopard 10.5.8@xserve, that many mails has unknown recepients. In ServerAdmin I may set only copy undelivarable mail to existing mail. But I want delete this. There are some way as manually configure postfix?
Thanks.

The roundcube db schema needs to setup manually. See /usr/share/webapps/roundcube/INSTALL
Also, from your /etc/webapps/postfixadmin/config.inc.php:
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'NO';
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
$CONF['maildir_name_hook'] = 'NO';
..which results in /var/mail/vmail/[email protected]
From your dovecot.conf
mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
...which results in /var/mail/vmail/domain.com/user
That doesn't fit together.

Mail server setup

I just got a FQDN from godaddy and want to add it to DNS As a mail server. Do I create a new zone and set up mail as that as a naneserver? I want to have my Xserve as a mailserver not restrcted to the local network.
Thanks
Message was edited by: macprorocks

Hi,
firstly, why do you want to set up 2 different domains and have a real, public domain set up and then for internal users to be using a made-up one? The whole process would be a lot easier just to use one domain.
Anyway - I am not a master at Mail servers - I have set up one or two in the past though, and I think I understood your question, so here goes.
You won't be able to receive mail for y.net because you don't own the domain y.net. The internal DNS setting is private, so you can call it whatever you want, but you will need to own a real domain to send and receive mail for that domain.
To set up your server to accept email to the real domain, x.net:
In your ISP's dns, you need to set up an MX record to your real domain, so something like this:
x.net MX 1 86400 mail.x.net
mail.x.net A 1 86400 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (needs to be your public IP)
Where possible you should always use A records. This is because using CNAME records mean that the CNAME then has to be resolved, so the action will take longer. I think the DNS 'rules' allow you to use something like 1 CNAME per domain or something like that.
In server admin, you have to enter the server name, so mail.x.net and then enter your domain name - x.net.
Also, yes virtual hosting is for when you have multiple domains on one server. You can save all of the mail into the different folders instead of in one, default folder.
hope it helps
JS

Reg Mail Server Setup

Hi Experts,
I want to set-up a mail server so as to perform some email-related scenarios, so please tell me the procedure to set-up a mail server in my local desktop. Is it cumbersome to set-up a mail server for testing purposes?
Can I use one of the options available on www.google.com? Is it reliable?
Thanks.
Edited by: Abhishek01 on Jul 23, 2009 12:16 PM

Hi,
Better to checkw with your network team for desk top mai server, why because we need few autoorization for configuration.
Follow below steps for mail configuration.
1. First we need to configure basis level setp like SMTP, POP3 through Tcode SCOT then
2. Take URL for SMTP & POP3 from your network team & basis team
3. Follow below links for scenario configuration
/people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/07/mail-adapter-scenarios-150-sap-exchange-infrastructure

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