Mail server (dovecot) stop authenticate (server.app 3.0.3, OsX 10.9.2)

Hi,
I have this problem: on a Mac mini with Maverick 10.9.2 and Server.app 3.0.3 with Open Directory (with about 75 Users and mail), it appears that randomly, dovecot stop to authenticate mail clients without standart method, so all Windows client stop to work because server ask again their passwords.
At this point the only way to restart service for good is to restart completely the machine.
Start/Stop mail service or Open Directory does'nt work.
If we do an hardware reboot of the server, clients start to authenticate again.
We use as authenticate mechanism "Ad hoc" with all check opts. enabled...
This is a very annoying problem: with a large number of users can be really a pain in the *ss.
I try to search the forum and the closest similar problem I've foud it's about osx that use (in ad hoc choice of authentication mechanism) CRAM-MD5 as default option and this is not supported by windows oulook-like clients.
The only difference in my case is that this seems NOT really true because Mail server WORKS for a while (could be one or two working day) and then in a random way that I couldnt understand, it stop until I restart the machine.
It's so weird.
Please, where I can start to look to troubleshoot this problem?
Can someone had a similar experience to share?
Thanks in advance...

I try to look at passwordservice logs but nothing strange are there.
It seems that kerberos is involved too, i see many error like this:
2014-03-27T11:07:17 Failed to decrypt PA-DATA -- notifiche@SERVER.[MYSERVER].COM (enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96) error Decrypt integrity check failed for checksum type hmac-sha1-96-aes256, key type aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96
And always is notification mailbox I've created for the server.
Looking at google I found this, is the most closest case related to mine:
http://www.marshut.com/qktsu/decrypt-integrity-check-failed-issue.html
Thanks fos any hints or clue you can give...

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Currently, we are unsatisfied with our mail provider
- mostly due to delayed mail receipt. After speaking
to our ISP they advised us that we could set up our
own mail server and they could stream SMTP to us,
avoiding POP3.
Although I administer the server and the network I
have no experience of mail servers and have a few
questions. I would have searched the forum but I
don't really know which terms to search.
I would very much appreciate a fairly full
explanation and nothing too vague please.
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hardware/software - is it built-in to OSX Server?
What is it called and is it only accessed through
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Message was edited by: James Bucanek

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Jan 14 06:49:08 server.local postfix/qmgr[2788]: 74726C7B846: from=<[email protected]>, size=604, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
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I followed this guide, from the documentation but I've read that courier-imap is a lot more resources hungry than dovecot. As I could not have it working using the documentation, I tought I would use dovecot. The problem is that I am not able to configure it.
What I already have up and running: web server (nginx) with postfixadmin and roundcubemail, postfix, mysql.
Now, I want to be able to send and receive mails using dovecot. Could you guide me a little in order to replace courier-imap with dovecot, starting from this documentation? I already have my databases configured, a vmail user, ssl certificates and postifx configured for virtualhosts. Seems that the only thing missing is imap + smts thrue TLS.
Thanks for any help.
Last edited by Rolinh (2011-08-17 10:40:19)

The dovecot configuration files are very well commented with documentation and examples in /etc/dovecot/
As for TLS and SMTP Auth, this is the relevant part of my main.cf for postfix:
# TLS Settings
smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/wildcard.example.com.key
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/wildcard.example.com.crt
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/root.crt
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
# Enable SMTP authentication support
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain
smtpd_sasl_path = /srv/postfix/private/auth
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated
Last edited by fukawi2 (2011-08-17 12:33:15)

Server App: Outgoing Mail Relay not working

Hi,
I'm trying to set up Outgoing Mail Relay on my Mountain Lion Server, but I always get bounced emails:
Oct 1 04:33:34 my.server.private postfix/smtp[9582]: C855DCE700D: to=<[email protected]>, relay=mx2.sub5.homie.mail.dreamhost.com[208.113.200.128]:25, delay=0.91, delays=0/0.02/0.65/0.24, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host mx2.sub5.homie.mail.dreamhost.com[208.113.200.128] said: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [myIP] blocked using zen.dnsbl; http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=myIP (in reply to RCPT TO command))
If I use in the SMTP servers list of Mail app, the exact same account credentials, the email is been delivered only when using SSL. So, I tried adding :465 and :587 to the ougoing relay server in the Server app (Relay outgoing mail throught ISP), but I get the following error and the message stays queued:
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Oct 1 04:13:41 my.server.private postfix/smtp[8920]: connect to mx1.sub5.homie.mail.dreamhost.com[208.113.200.127]:587: Connection refused
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Any comments?

Let me add....
Mail app is connecting and sending the emails correctly with the same credentials but using SSL through port 25:
READ Oct 01 05:04:01.566 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:my.externalrelayserver.net -- port:25 -- socket:0x7f890be0c620 -- thread:0x7f890ca3dd70
250-homiemail-a45.g.dreamhost.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 40960000
250-ETRN
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250 8BITMIME
WROTE Oct 01 05:04:01.588 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:my.externalrelayserver.net -- port:25 -- socket:0x7f890be0c620 -- thread:0x7f890ca3dd70
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How: poll POP3 from ISP and feed into OSX mail server (Dovecot)

Hi all,
My desire: use IMAP for all my iOS and OSX devices to forget about the synchronization nightmare when using POP.
My ISP only provides POP3, and I can fetch emails from his POP3 server so they end up in my mail client on any OSX workstation.
But I want to use IMAP via the Dovecot email server on OSX server mountain lion.
How do I implement that missing link?
Can this be done by a cron script, mimicking a MTA?
Somehow the OSX mailserver cannot be convinced to fetch the emails from the POP3 server at the Internet Server Provider (ISP).
All the OSX or iOS device connects to my OSX Mountain Lion server running the mailserver (i.e. Dovecot).
In my private network sending emails and fetching them using IMAP already works fine.
I am lost on this one. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks already.
best regards,
Bolko

One solution is to use a server based software (i.e. that runs on OS X server) which polls a remote POP3 server and delivers mail to an SMTP server — the Postfix SMTP server on your OS X server (NOT Dovecot, Postfix is the SMTP server which then hands off mail to Dovecot the IMAP on your OS X server)
This software would have to be installed 'by hand' meaning you have to download the source and compile it as is standard with Linux type utilities.
Here is link to the utility 'fetchmail'.
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/index.html
You may want to confirm with the package maintainers that this would work on OS X. If you are not comfortable working at the level of installing Linux packages then I would advise not to proceed.
UPDATE: I found this page on the Apple developers website:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/fetchmail.1.html
it refers to the fetchmail program above so it looks like it runs OK on OS X, but you still have to manually set it up.
Another option is this software
http://www.sspi-software.com/mailfwd_macx.html
I don't have any experience with it personally and I don't know if it can run as a service (that is with no-one logged into the machine).

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