Mail server maintenance

I have migrated my xServe OS X 10.5.6 server to a macmini server OS X 10.6.3 server.
My POP logs shows that there is a DBERROR: critical database situation.
Also none of the websites are responding that were transferred over. They were each attached to an ethernet alias IP individually. Now there is now listening to port 80 when I run netstat after the Server Admin says the web is up and runing.
So there are 2 questions.
1. What is the terminal manual way to clear up the database?
2. How do I get my websites running from the migration that appears to have not gone to well?
Sincerely,
Bill,

Check with your email provider.
You may try to reduce the interval how often the phone is checking for new mail.

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Hi all,
Mattreichenbach is probably on the right track here with a reset of settings. I think I've determined the issue has to do with cached account information and inconsistencies for the account name. This seems to crop up when I've changed my password and it hasn't propagated fully to all the servers, devices, certificates, etc.
Hopefully many here are on their way to restoration of service by now but it's clear that a lot of people are having the same issues. Very frustrating and definitely something Apple needs to resolve: incoming mail server field grayed out, incorrect autopopulation of different fields, other unanticipated behaviors. If you're still having issues, though, here's what worked for me...
First, head to the iCloud preferences pane in System Configuration and choose "Sign Out". When I did this it prompted me with a number of "are you sure" type questions about retaining information on my local machine. I chose to delete/remove the info each time simply because it should all be restored by the cloud and I didn't want to risk a massive duplication of my data... I will say, I'm back up and running with no issues so I suspect you can make the same delete/remove choices... But use your own judgment. I don't want you to lose any data (ie.. please use care as you do this because I cannot bear the thought of causing anyone to experience the pain of data loss).
Once you've signed out of iCloud, restart your system. When you get back in, head to the Mail, Contacts and Calendars section of your System Preferences and add your account back by choosing the brushed aluminum "iCloud" button. When it asks for your account name, use your @iCloud.com email address. I am all but certain my issue had started because one of my devices (iPhone or whatever) had been set up with an email alias specified instead of my @iCloud.com address.
Apple, if you're reading through any of these issues (there are TONS of users having this same problem). Take note, that your icloud service somewhat frequently is not responding and yet tells the user that the password is wrong and this prompts people to be changing their passwords unnecessarily. This has happened to me on numerous occasions. Also, I noticed that last week's outage corresponded to a VERY similar outage exactly one year ago to the day. Sounds like planned maintenance to me and I think you could do a better job notifying folks so we're not wasting HUGE amounts of time troubleshooting a problem that we have no hope of fixing.
Hope that helps some of you!
Terry Mullane
Washington, DC

Outgoing/offline mail server errors (143 /and/ SSL checked?)

i am trying to do this zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance thing where i go through all my umpteen accounts on my desktop and laptop and check all the umpteen settings to try and troubleshoot an outgoing mail server / "offline" errors in mac mail. this seems like it is isolated to mac mail it would be REALLY NICE if there was some organization in here (or at least an explanation) so that all the possible settings (and all the various locations for them) didn't mean this effort is like 35 factorial with respect to possible mistakes that can be made.
/anyway/ i am reading various threads and my ISP service provider recommends port 143 for IMAP but i am seeing threads responses that highly suggest using SSL. however, if i change the checkbox next to the 143 port entry to have SSL checked this automatically changes the port to 993.
now i am not sure whether to replace the 993 with 143 as suggested or to leave off the setting for SSL.
any suggestions so i can isolate this setting from the thousands of variables that could be the cause of this (orther than it being basically embedded in the software and impossible to fix for one reason or another)?
it will be a real pain to change this setting (3 separate steps) on 15 different accounts (45 steps) on two different computers (90 steps for this one single variable) and then have to change it back again.
THANKS

i am trying to do this zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance thing where i go through all my umpteen accounts on my desktop and laptop and check all the umpteen settings to try and troubleshoot an outgoing mail server / "offline" errors in mac mail. this seems like it is isolated to mac mail it would be REALLY NICE if there was some organization in here (or at least an explanation) so that all the possible settings (and all the various locations for them) didn't mean this effort is like 35 factorial with respect to possible mistakes that can be made.
/anyway/ i am reading various threads and my ISP service provider recommends port 143 for IMAP but i am seeing threads responses that highly suggest using SSL. however, if i change the checkbox next to the 143 port entry to have SSL checked this automatically changes the port to 993.
now i am not sure whether to replace the 993 with 143 as suggested or to leave off the setting for SSL.
any suggestions so i can isolate this setting from the thousands of variables that could be the cause of this (orther than it being basically embedded in the software and impossible to fix for one reason or another)?
it will be a real pain to change this setting (3 separate steps) on 15 different accounts (45 steps) on two different computers (90 steps for this one single variable) and then have to change it back again.
THANKS

Help with Mail Server Setup/DynDNS

I don't have a static IP so I setup an account/registered a domain with DynDNS. The test site is hosted fine via Leopard Server. However, I am trying to setup a mail server to no avail. Configured Mail Server through the assistant and ended up with these settings: domain name - performa460.com hostname - mail.performa460.com POP, IMAP, and SMTP all enabled. Setup a user in workgroup manager and enabled mail. Still Cannot access mail through Mail.app and no users are listed on the Maintenance/Accounts pane. Obviously I'm new to this and need to be pointed in the right direction. Any help is apreciated; thanks!

DynDNS's base service won't work for you if you want to use your own full domain name unless you use their Custom DNS paid service. I'm assuming this is something you've already done. If so, you need to configure both the host name and the MX records for your domain to point to the right places. You'll need to set up DynDNS name servers through whatever domain registrar you use and then configure the CustomDNS service through DynDNS's web interface. Once you can successfully connect using a web browser, then look into your mail settings.
However, depending on what provider you're using for your broadband, you may have the mail ports blocked by your ISP and/or in your cablemodem/router. Be sure to open 25 and 587 and any other ports you intend to use.
Finally, you may find that even if you've configured everything correctly, other providers will refuse your mail as spam (google, yahoo, etc) because your IP address is on a "residential subnet" or because your forward and reverse DNS don't match. That means you'll need a mail reflector to bounce your mail off of with a proper IP. DynDNS has inbound and outbound mailhop services that you can use for an additional fee.
Bottom line is, because spambots inhabit a lot of dynamic IP blocks, you have to jump through a ton of hoops to get it working reliably.

Transparently replace an external mail server?

Is it possible to somehow configure the mail server to automatically connect to another server and download messages from there?
We have a corporate mail server that has severe mailbox size restrictions, and it is impossible to receive mails directly to our own server.
What I would like to do is have my users simply change their mail client IMAP server address to point to my Snow Leopard server and have their already existing username and password automatically used to retrieve the mail from the corporate server.
I don't mind automatically creating accounts on my server, because if the connection to the corporate server works, I know they are valid users.
Is this possible at all? Perhaps with a third-party software? (I looked but couldn't find anything).
(sorry for the double-post, got the wrong group at first)
Thank you,
Jerome Tremblay
LaCIM, UQAM (Montreal, Canada)

I am looking at a similar scenario.
My organisation is currently hosting 200+ email accounts on 2 external hosts, across 4+ domains. ie [email protected] is hosted externally by Rackspace and [email protected] is hosted by GoDaddy.
What I would like to do is migrate the email hosting - to our internal 10.6 servers. I have have approx 200 accounts across the two external hosts (4+ domains).
The advantages of this would include ease of automated setup and maintenance, as well as quota management.
Any advice that can be provided I would be forever grateful for. I am comfortable with email server setup and relay configuration, however a task of this magnitude seems quite daunting.

Exchange 5.5 vs Oracle e-mail Server

Why Oracle recommends to replace Microsoft Exchange with its email server?
Thank you,
Sonya

I have to say, although the Oracle mail server may be more scalable in terms of performance, the user interface of various components is not really suited to large numbers of users. We have found it necessary to create our own interfaces for doing things like distribution list maintenance and folder management (within webmail).
One issue we are starting to face now is that when selecting a user in many of the webmail screens, it either displays their UID value or mailbox name. This doesn't really work when you have thousands of users spread across hundreds of sites, and many people with the same name. Although their UIDs and email addressed are unique, it is difficult to determine if you have the correct person selected. In Exchange you generally see the display name of the person, which can be a combination of their name and depertment if required.
This is a shame, becuase the underlying architecture lends itself to being extremely configurable, but is let down by the user interface.

Mail Server -Migration

hi,
how to backup data on serveradmin at maintenance that shown email user and qouta to new mailserver, i already backup all user and mail storage using mailbfr and LDAP(WGM) but when i check on new mailserver using serveradmin on maintenance division there has no content.
i already backup cyrus..what should i do?
can anyone recommend to me how first thing first i should do.
procedure to backup old mailserver to new mailserver
pls help me

I presume you are looking to migrate emails currently stored on a mail server to your new proposed Mac mini mail server.
There are generally three approaches, if the old mail server stores the emails in a suitable format, one option is to migrate those, however with the wide variety of different servers in use this approach is rarely one that will be possible unless for example you are moving say a postfix implementation on Linux to one on the Mac.
The second more common and generally more successfull approach is to use a tool that logs in to the old server via IMAP and then copies the messages for each user account to the matching account on the new mail server. Some utilities might be more successfull than others are preserving things like read status and any message flags so testing would probably be advised.
The third approach is to export the messages from the users email client and then reimport them once they have been switched to the new server.
By the way, a lot of people including myself prefer Kerio (on a Mac server) to using Apple's own Mail Server software.
What is your current (old) mail server software?
Kerio provide a free IMAP migration tool for migrating to their mail server from another IMAP server. See http://www.kerio.com/connect/imap-migration-tool there are many other IMAP migration tools out their e.g. Google provide one for migrating to Google Mail service, and some of these are free some are commercial, an example free one that can be run on a Mac is imapsync see http://freecode.com/projects/imapsync it's written in PErl and hence can be run on a Mac although you might need to install Apple's (free) XCode in order to be able to compile any extra Perl modules you may need.

I set up the the sync add on and had no errors.When I sync now I get"Sync encountered an error while syncing:Firefox sync server maintenance is underway..."I have gotten this mesaage for the last 10 hours.Should I wait or is there an issue with my setup?

I just loaded Firefox onto my laptop. I set up the the sync add on and had no errors. When I hit sync now I get "Sync encountered an error while syncing: Firefox sync server maintenance is underway, syncing will resume automatically." I have gotten this message for the last 10 hours. Should I wait or is there an issue with my setup? I checked the Mozilla sync server status and it listed no issues.

There was a server out last week. see below. now everything works great. thanks for the follow up.
To:
Subject: [Bug 744289] sync107.db.scl3 down
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744289
Gregory Szorc [:gps] <[email protected]> changed:
          What    |Removed                     |Added
            Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
        Resolution|                            |FIXED
           Summary|error in sync               |sync107.db.scl3 down
     Last Resolved|                            |2012-04-10 19:39:11
--- Comment #2 from Gregory Szorc [:gps] <[email protected]> 2012-04-10
19:39:11 PDT --- Well, this is embarrassing. It looks like one of our
servers was down and for whatever reason we didn't notice.
It should be working now. If you still see errors, please reopen this bug.
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You reported the bug.

All the sudden can't connect to mail server

This morning I stopped receiving email. Mail says it can't connect and that the connection timed out. I use IMAP with SSL (port 993). I don't know of anything I could have changed on the MacBook to cause this. As well, my iPhone can't connect either (same settings as Mail). It gave a connection error once and since then doesn't give errors but never pulls in new mail. I can ping the mail server and telnet in via port 993. I'm not sure what else to look at. Mail settings haven't changed that I can see. Hosting provider says there aren't any issues on their end. Any suggestions?

Do you have Mail properly configured for their servers? I know you said you use SSL, but does the ISP use it, and if they do are you using their default port? Verify your server setup by opening Mail preferences, select Accounts, click on Account Information tab. From the server drop down menu select Edit. Check that your server is correctly configured and the right security option selected. If you have multiple server entires delete all but the one you use for your mail account.
You can also try removing the /Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file in case it's become corrupted.
It also can't hurt to do the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Download and install the freeware AppleJack 1.5 - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - and carefully read its instructions. Then run its full suite of maintenance and repair routines.

Does apple have mail server solutions?

Does Apple OSX server can be used as mail server for business like http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/exchange/ or http://www.mithi.com?
Thanks,
Jay Patel.

jayfromhimmatnagar wrote:
Does Apple OSX server can be used as mail server for business like http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/exchange/ or http://www.mithi.com?
No. If you're aimed at anything approaching the features and scale and capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, that's likely what you'll want — Microsoft specifically targets businesses with that product, and with the related and associated products such as Windows Server Active Directory and Microsoft Office.
OS X Server does provide Postfix and Dovecot servers, which comprise an excellent mail server and tools such as a contacts server and a calendar server, but the combination and the integration of Exchange, SharePoint, AD, Office and the rest is far beyond that.
The closest package on OS X to what Exchange provides is a third-party package from Kerio known as Connect. IMO, Connect is a good product and is more capable than what OS X Server provides, but still does not compete (directly) with Exchange Server.
If you're not inclined to provide your own IT support and server and network troubleshooting, then you might want to investigate hosted services, rather than running your own OS X Server or Exchange Server, too — there's usually something going on with a mail server, whether it's communications problems, some sort of spam that's now leaking through the filters, or the ubiquitous attacks and relay attempts on the server, and the more mundane tasks such as backups and possibly maintaining some redundancy, etc.
I'd suggest doing some self-examination and figuring out what features you want and particularly what features you need, how big your user and likely mail load is now and the expected growth rates, what your budget for hardware and software and maintenance is, and then running the investigation from there — from what little is posted here, OS X Server and its capabilities could be a good fit, or could be seriously underpowered for what you're seeking.

Setting up mail server

Hi everyone,
just a quick question,
I run an open directory server, and I also want it to act as a mail server.
On our last server(10.4) this is all working fine, when new employees arrive, I add them in the open directory using workgroup manager, and automatically when I go to the mail service in the server Admin window, under maintenance>accounts their mail account appears.
now I am setting up our new machine (10.5.7)
and I want a new mail server, no need to import or migrate anything.
But when I create my user in workgroup manager, use it to log in on a client, it gets kerberos authenticated, recieves all the proper tickets,
but I set up mail on the client, and he asks for kerberos password, although he has an IMAP ticket active, and when I provice the details he says he cant even find the user on the kerberos.
then I checked the accounts on the mail service maintance, and see that that user does not have an account there.
so, when and how exactly are mailbox accounts generated?
thanks.

Found it, with all my messing around, I put in some /etc/hosts settings, removed those, worked like a charm

Migrate from Exchange Server 2011 to Mac OSX Lion Mail Server

Hi all,
I'm looking to migrate from Exchange Server 2011 to Mac OSX Lion Mail Server. I work for a company with roughly 30 employees and they use exchange for mail, contacts and calendars. We want to take full advantage of OSX Server and to completly get off of exchange.
What are the best ways to do this? Are there any tools available to help this process?

I agree with the points made by Strontium90. If you have any PCs then Apple's mail/contacts/calendar software is a poor choice. Kerio Connect as a mail/contacts/calendar server would not only support Macs but would also do a good job supporting PCs running Outlook.
If you are going to become a pure Apple site, then you could use just the Apple software and this would be cheaper than using Kerio. For 30 users this might be a suitable solution, however even in a pure Apple environment many people prefer Kerio. For example I find Kerio much more pleasent when dealing with email addresses across multiple domains, email aliases, email group addresses, and so on. Kerio also has built-in email archiving, that is keeping a record of all emails. Kerio also provides a web-browser client for accessing email, calendar and contacts. It is worth noting that as standard Mountain Lion Server no longer includes a webmail feature. While I personally find the Kerio webclient rather ugly it does work.
There are some annoyances I have with Kerio, firstly they have always charged a 'maintenance' fee for their software. This provided access to software updates, and in the past also provided access to Kerio technical support. Unfortunately they now only let you make two (2) support cases per year for that cost, and you now have to pay extra for any more cases. Also while they added support for EWS (Exchange Web Service) to allow using Outlook 2011 for Mac as a supported email client, they did a poor job of this so that it does not work properly with any other EWS compatible client. This means it will not work in EWS mode with Apple Mail, nor with Outlook for Windows. While there are other ways to connect these other clients, this seems a foolish move and there have been plenty of requests to fix this.
Apple's Mail client uses EWS to connect to a 'real' MS Exhange server.

OSX Lion Mail Server Junk Mail Filter blocks incoming mail from any Yahoo address

I have yet to be able to use OSX Lion Mail Server's Junk Mail Filter. I have several contacts who use (free) Yahoo Mail addresses. Whenever I turn on Junk Mail Filter, even at the Most Cautious setting, any incoming mail from Yahoo.com addresses do not make it into my inbox. I was told last year by an Apple Enterprise Tech Support contact that "..we're still having problems with that Junk Mail Filter, sorry, just leave it off for now.." WTH In the meantime, the good news is I'm not missing any incoming e-mails; but, I'm having to sort through and delete a few hundred spam messages each day.
Suggestions? Thanks in advance

I agree with the points made by Strontium90. If you have any PCs then Apple's mail/contacts/calendar software is a poor choice. Kerio Connect as a mail/contacts/calendar server would not only support Macs but would also do a good job supporting PCs running Outlook.
If you are going to become a pure Apple site, then you could use just the Apple software and this would be cheaper than using Kerio. For 30 users this might be a suitable solution, however even in a pure Apple environment many people prefer Kerio. For example I find Kerio much more pleasent when dealing with email addresses across multiple domains, email aliases, email group addresses, and so on. Kerio also has built-in email archiving, that is keeping a record of all emails. Kerio also provides a web-browser client for accessing email, calendar and contacts. It is worth noting that as standard Mountain Lion Server no longer includes a webmail feature. While I personally find the Kerio webclient rather ugly it does work.
There are some annoyances I have with Kerio, firstly they have always charged a 'maintenance' fee for their software. This provided access to software updates, and in the past also provided access to Kerio technical support. Unfortunately they now only let you make two (2) support cases per year for that cost, and you now have to pay extra for any more cases. Also while they added support for EWS (Exchange Web Service) to allow using Outlook 2011 for Mac as a supported email client, they did a poor job of this so that it does not work properly with any other EWS compatible client. This means it will not work in EWS mode with Apple Mail, nor with Outlook for Windows. While there are other ways to connect these other clients, this seems a foolish move and there have been plenty of requests to fix this.
Apple's Mail client uses EWS to connect to a 'real' MS Exhange server.

Mail server setup issues

Hi.
I am in trouble setting up a basic mail server. I just spent the last 10 or so hours, in one more try to set it, and yet no results.
Please, give some help as i am becoming sort of desperated with it
This time, i followed this guide since the beginning.
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
ddd $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
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
inet_protocols = ipv4
relay_domains = *
virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vmail
virtual_mailbox_limit = 512000000
virtual_minimum_uid = 5000
virtual_transport = virtual
virtual_uid_maps = static:5000
virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
local_transport = virtual
local_recipient_maps = $virtual_mailbox_maps
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
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
flush unix n - n 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
proxywrite unix - - n - 1 proxymap
smtp unix - - n - - smtp
relay unix - - n - - smtp
showq unix n - n - - showq
error unix - - n - - error
retry unix - - n - - error
discard unix - - n - - discard
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp
anvil unix - - n - 1 anvil
scache unix - - n - 1 scache
/etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps.cf (sample password)
user = postfix_user
password = m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
hosts = localhost
dbname = postfix_db
query = SELECT goto FROM alias WHERE address='%s' AND active = true
/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf
user = postfix_user
password = m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
hosts = localhost
dbname = postfix_db
query = SELECT domain FROM domain WHERE domain='%s' AND backupmx = false AND active = true
/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_limits.cf
user = postfix_user
password = m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
hosts = localhost
dbname = postfix_db
query = SELECT quota FROM mailbox WHERE username='%s'
/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
user = postfix_user
password = m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
hosts = localhost
dbname = postfix_db
query = SELECT maildir FROM mailbox WHERE username='%s' AND active = true
- Created the SSL key with no problem, and put it in place.
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
mode = 0660
user = postfix
user = root
mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
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
!include conf.d/*.conf
!include_try local.conf
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
driver = mysql
connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix_db user=postfix_user password=m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
user_query = SELECT '/var/mail/vmail/%d/%u' as home, 'maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%u' as mail, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'
password_query = SELECT username as user, password, '/var/mail/vmail/%d/%u' as userdb_home, 'maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%u' as userdb_mail, 5000 as userdb_uid, 5000 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'
- Installed postfixadmin and roundcube and made their apache alias.
- 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)
<?php
$CONF['configured'] = true;
$CONF['setup_password'] = '562bc24a874b0c2a7340e3da04b3fdf6:d60282f5cbc19340c73cafbb6526379be696a7c7';
$CONF['postfix_admin_url'] = '[url]http://mydomain.com/postfixadmin[/url]';
$CONF['postfix_admin_path'] = dirname(__FILE__);
$CONF['default_language'] = 'en';
$CONF['database_prefix'] = '';
$CONF['database_tables'] = array (
'admin' => 'admin',
'alias' => 'alias',
'alias_domain' => 'alias_domain',
'config' => 'config',
'domain' => 'domain',
'domain_admins' => 'domain_admins',
'fetchmail' => 'fetchmail',
'log' => 'log',
'mailbox' => 'mailbox',
'vacation' => 'vacation',
'vacation_notification' => 'vacation_notification',
'quota' => 'quota',
'quota2' => 'quota2',
$CONF['admin_email'] = '[email protected]';
$CONF['smtp_server'] = 'localhost';
$CONF['smtp_port'] = '25';
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'md5crypt';
$CONF['authlib_default_flavor'] = 'md5raw';
$CONF['dovecotpw'] = "/usr/sbin/dovecotpw";
$CONF['min_password_length'] = 5;
$CONF['generate_password'] = 'NO';
$CONF['show_password'] = 'NO';
$CONF['page_size'] = '10';
$CONF['default_aliases'] = array (
'abuse' => '[email protected]',
'hostmaster' => '[email protected]',
'postmaster' => '[email protected]',
'webmaster' => '[email protected]'
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'NO';
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
$CONF['maildir_name_hook'] = 'NO';
$CONF['aliases'] = '10';
$CONF['mailboxes'] = '10';
$CONF['maxquota'] = '10';
$CONF['quota'] = 'NO';
$CONF['quota_multiplier'] = '1024000';
$CONF['transport'] = 'NO';
$CONF['transport_options'] = array (
'virtual', // for virtual accounts
'local', // for system accounts
'relay' // for backup mx
$CONF['transport_default'] = 'virtual';
$CONF['vacation'] = 'NO';
$CONF['vacation_domain'] = 'autoreply.change-this-to-your.domain.tld';
$CONF['vacation_control'] ='YES';
$CONF['vacation_control_admin'] = 'YES';
$CONF['alias_control'] = 'NO';
$CONF['alias_control_admin'] = 'NO';
$CONF['special_alias_control'] = 'NO';
$CONF['alias_goto_limit'] = '0';
$CONF['alias_domain'] = 'YES';
$CONF['backup'] = 'YES';
$CONF['sendmail'] = 'YES';
$CONF['logging'] = 'YES';
$CONF['fetchmail'] = 'YES';
$CONF['fetchmail_extra_options'] = 'NO';
$CONF['show_header_text'] = 'NO';
$CONF['header_text'] = ':: Postfix Admin ::';
$CONF['user_footer_link'] = "[url]http://mydomain.com[/url]";
$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.';
$CONF['used_quotas'] = 'NO';
$CONF['new_quota_table'] = 'NO';
$CONF['theme_logo'] = 'images/logo-default.png';
$CONF['theme_css'] = 'css/default.css';
$CONF['xmlrpc_enabled'] = false;
if (file_exists(dirname(__FILE__) . '/config.local.php')) {
include(dirname(__FILE__) . '/config.local.php');
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'YES';
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
$CONF['database_type'] = 'mysqli';
$CONF['database_host'] = 'localhost';
$CONF['database_user'] = 'postfix_user';
$CONF['database_password'] = 'm/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-';
$CONF['database_name'] = 'postfix_db';
- I went to domain/postfixAdmin/setup.php and domain/roundcube/installer/ and everything was ok.
db.inc.php (roundcube):
<?php
$rcmail_config = array();
$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube_user:%3D%29CYbd9bK%210Z7%29AsWU@localhost/roundcube_db';
$rcmail_config['db_dsnr'] = '';
$rcmail_config['db_persistent'] = FALSE;
$rcmail_config['db_table_users'] = 'users';
$rcmail_config['db_table_identities'] = 'identities';
$rcmail_config['db_table_contacts'] = 'contacts';
$rcmail_config['db_table_contactgroups'] = 'contactgroups';
$rcmail_config['db_table_contactgroupmembers'] = 'contactgroupmembers';
$rcmail_config['db_table_session'] = 'session';
$rcmail_config['db_table_cache'] = 'cache';
$rcmail_config['db_table_cache_index'] = 'cache_index';
$rcmail_config['db_table_cache_thread'] = 'cache_thread';
$rcmail_config['db_table_cache_messages'] = 'cache_messages';
$rcmail_config['db_table_dictionary'] = 'dictionary';
$rcmail_config['db_table_searches'] = 'searches';
$rcmail_config['db_table_system'] = 'system';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_users'] = 'user_ids';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_identities'] = 'identity_ids';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_contacts'] = 'contact_ids';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_contactgroups'] = 'contactgroups_ids';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_searches'] = 'search_ids';
main.inc.php(roundcube):
<?php
$rcmail_config = array();
$rcmail_config['debug_level'] = 5;
$rcmail_config['log_driver'] = 'file';
$rcmail_config['log_date_format'] = 'd-M-Y H:i:s O';
$rcmail_config['syslog_id'] = 'roundcube';
$rcmail_config['syslog_facility'] = LOG_USER;
$rcmail_config['smtp_log'] = true;
$rcmail_config['log_logins'] = false;
$rcmail_config['log_session'] = false;
$rcmail_config['sql_debug'] = false;
$rcmail_config['imap_debug'] = false;
$rcmail_config['ldap_debug'] = false;
$rcmail_config['smtp_debug'] = false;
$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'tls://localhost/';
$rcmail_config['default_port'] = 993;
$rcmail_config['imap_auth_type'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_delimiter'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_ns_personal'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_ns_other'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_ns_shared'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_force_caps'] = false;
$rcmail_config['imap_force_lsub'] = false;
$rcmail_config['imap_force_ns'] = false;
$rcmail_config['imap_timeout'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['imap_auth_cid'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_auth_pw'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_cache'] = null;
$rcmail_config['messages_cache'] = false;
$rcmail_config['smtp_server'] = 'tls://localhost/';
$rcmail_config['smtp_port'] = 587;
$rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = '';
$rcmail_config['smtp_pass'] = '';
$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_type'] = '';
$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_cid'] = null;
$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_pw'] = null;
$rcmail_config['smtp_helo_host'] = '';
$rcmail_config['smtp_timeout'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['enable_installer'] = false;
$rcmail_config['dont_override'] = array();
$rcmail_config['support_url'] = '';
$rcmail_config['skin_logo'] = 'sorrybutnocookie';
$rcmail_config['auto_create_user'] = true;
$rcmail_config['user_aliases'] = false;
$rcmail_config['log_dir'] = 'logs/';
$rcmail_config['temp_dir'] = 'temp/';
$rcmail_config['message_cache_lifetime'] = '10d';
$rcmail_config['force_https'] = false;
$rcmail_config['use_https'] = false;
$rcmail_config['login_autocomplete'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['login_lc'] = 2;
$rcmail_config['skin_include_php'] = false;
$rcmail_config['display_version'] = false;
$rcmail_config['session_lifetime'] = 10;
$rcmail_config['session_domain'] = '';
$rcmail_config['session_name'] = null;
$rcmail_config['session_auth_name'] = null;
$rcmail_config['session_path'] = null;
$rcmail_config['session_storage'] = 'db';
$rcmail_config['memcache_hosts'] = null;
$rcmail_config['ip_check'] = true;
$rcmail_config['referer_check'] = false;
$rcmail_config['x_frame_options'] = 'sameorigin';
$rcmail_config['des_key'] = '0JaV%FnEivx9e+JdH2g*?n3n';
$rcmail_config['username_domain'] = '';
$rcmail_config['mail_domain'] = '';
$rcmail_config['password_charset'] = 'ISO-8859-1';
$rcmail_config['sendmail_delay'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['max_recipients'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['max_group_members'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['useragent'] = 'Roundcube Webmail/'.RCMAIL_VERSION;
$rcmail_config['product_name'] = 'Test';
$rcmail_config['include_host_config'] = false;
$rcmail_config['generic_message_footer'] = '';
$rcmail_config['generic_message_footer_html'] = '';
$rcmail_config['http_received_header'] = false;
$rcmail_config['http_received_header_encrypt'] = false;
$rcmail_config['mail_header_delimiter'] = NULL;
$rcmail_config['line_length'] = 72;
$rcmail_config['send_format_flowed'] = true;
$rcmail_config['mdn_use_from'] = false;
$rcmail_config['identities_level'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['client_mimetypes'] = null;
$rcmail_config['mime_magic'] = null;
$rcmail_config['mime_types'] = null;
$rcmail_config['im_identify_path'] = null;
$rcmail_config['im_convert_path'] = null;
$rcmail_config['image_thumbnail_size'] = 240;
$rcmail_config['contact_photo_size'] = 160;
$rcmail_config['email_dns_check'] = false;
$rcmail_config['no_save_sent_messages'] = false;
$rcmail_config['plugins'] = array();
$rcmail_config['message_sort_col'] = '';
$rcmail_config['message_sort_order'] = 'DESC';
$rcmail_config['list_cols'] = array('subject', 'status', 'fromto', 'date', 'size', 'flag', 'attachment');
$rcmail_config['language'] = null;
$rcmail_config['date_format'] = 'Y-m-d';
$rcmail_config['date_formats'] = array('Y-m-d', 'Y/m/d', 'Y.m.d', 'd-m-Y', 'd/m/Y', 'd.m.Y', 'j.n.Y');
$rcmail_config['time_format'] = 'H:i';
$rcmail_config['time_formats'] = array('G:i', 'H:i', 'g:i a', 'h:i A');
$rcmail_config['date_short'] = 'D H:i';
$rcmail_config['date_long'] = 'Y-m-d H:i';
$rcmail_config['drafts_mbox'] = 'Drafts';
$rcmail_config['junk_mbox'] = 'Junk';
$rcmail_config['sent_mbox'] = 'Sent';
$rcmail_config['trash_mbox'] = 'Trash';
$rcmail_config['default_folders'] = array('INBOX', 'Drafts', 'Sent', 'Junk', 'Trash');
$rcmail_config['create_default_folders'] = false;
$rcmail_config['protect_default_folders'] = true;
$rcmail_config['quota_zero_as_unlimited'] = false;
$rcmail_config['enable_spellcheck'] = false;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_dictionary'] = false;
$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.

Mail server no longer accepting incoming mail

First off, let me just say that yes, I broke it. This is on an iMac G4 with Server 10.4.11.
So here's the problem. I am by no means a qualified Server Administrator, but since I am a relatively knowledgeable computer geek, my boss plugged me into this position while my department is slow. I've been tasked with figuring out a few nagging problems with slow mail delivery, among other things.
I did some serious Googling on the issue of slow mail delivery, messages getting stuck in queue, etc. I determined that the issue was with spam filtering and anti-virus. Following some great documentation from osx.topicdesk.com, I updated and configured clamav, amavisd, and spamassassin. Miraculously, this actually solved the problem, and everything was working great.
Until today. Today I noticed a log entry that reverse DNS lookup of the server's IP (192.168.1.1) had failed. Googled again and found some info on setting up DNS on the server, which I did.
There was a secondary goal for doing this. We are a small company that hosts our own email and a tiny web server on a machine at our corporate office. Our remote locations have always been able to get email from the server via POP3 using the FQDN mailman.mycompany.com, which has a public IP address. Our router is configured to forward traffic to that IP to the private IP 192.168.1.1. However, all users at the corporate office had to be set up to use server IP 192.168.1.1 to get their mail because there was no way to resolve the FQDN into an IP that was visible on the private network. Or maybe there was/is, but I don't know about it. Anyway, we have a couple mobile users that work at multiple locations. They are set up to use the server's FQDN, but every time they come to our corporate office, they'd have to change their mail setup if they wanted to get mail, because once they're behind the router, the FQDN doesn't work. I think that makes sense.
The Server is also the DHCP server for this site. Prior to this morning, it was distributing our ISP's DNS IPs. Once I'd set up DNS on our Server, I changed it to distribute its own IP as the primary DNS server, and per someone's post, I modified named.conf to include our ISP's DNS IPs. The server name I set up is 'server' and the domain is 'mycompany.com'. I also set up an alias of 'mailman' and set it as a mail server. I then went to a couple of workstations in the building and did a Lookup on server.mycompany.com and mailman.mycompany.com, both of which returned an IP of 192.168.1.1. I did a lookup on the IP and it resolved back into server.mycompany.com.
Figuring I'd accomplished enough for the first half of the day, I went to lunch. When I got back, I was bombarded with complaints that mails were being bounced when sent from inside the building, and a few people had received phone calls that mails sent to them had been bounced back to their senders. The error given is:
554 554 <[email protected]>: Relay access denied (state 14).
(This came from Google. The wording varies from person to person but it's always SMTP 554, relay access denied.)
In a panic, I un-did everything I'd done this morning, turning off DNS server, telling DHCP server to begin distributing our ISP's DNS IPs again, but I'm still having the same problem. I didn't see how this could be the cause, but did it just as a precaution.
I doubt I've provided enough information, but does anyone have any initial guesses as to what's going on here?
ARM

Thanks for the quick, easy fix. I'm curious if you know what I might have done to cause this to happen. I don't recall changing any Mail settings.
Sometimes Server Admin "forgets" settings.
Also, apparently something I did wiped out our IMAP mail store. I had a backup thankfully but wondering how I might have done that?!
Wiped out at the file level as in no contents in /var/spool/imap/user?

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