Mail services 10.4.10 refuses to work.

Question

Hello,
I'm a newbie to OS X, so please help - I need to get
a local eMail system going here in the office, and it
just doesn't want to work.
I've been to every site imagineable searching for answers
on how to configure OS X Mail Services, but it still
doesn't work.
DNS:
- I have DNS running on this server,
- I've checked "This machine is a mail server for the zone" for the server,
- I've added aliases "pop3", "smtp", and "mail" for the server.
User accounts:
- Open Directory seems to be running, although "start service" is greyed-out,
- this is an "Open Directory Master",
- I've checked "Enable Secure Sockets Layer" on the Protocols tab,
- I've checked all the encryption options in the Policy->Security tab.
Workgroup Manager:
I followed some tutorial to create the directory "/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1",
and added the user "dspratling" to it, which DOES show up in the
Mail Services automagically.
I'm only looking to create Mail Users ("dspratling" for starters),
but trying everything, I created a Home directory for this user,
since I was getting error messages in the LDAP log saying: "... object
class 'posixAccount' requires attribute 'homeDirectory'.
- I have checked the "Mail: Enabled" under the Mail tab,
- I checked "POP only" under Mail Access,
- I put "mail.mme.lan" for the Mail Server.
- Under the Advanced tab, I have User Password Type selected as "Open Directory".
Error Messages appearing in the logs:
Other error messages in LDAP log include:
"slapd[59]: SASL [conn=3740] Failure: GSSAPI Error: Miscellaneous failure (No principal in keytab matches desired name)"
kdc Log has:
"xserv.mme.lan krb5kdc[296](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18 17 16 23 1 3 2}) 10.0.0.9: ISSUE authtime 1195081950, etypes {rep=16 tkt=16 ses=16}, [email protected] for krbtgt/[email protected]"
kadmin Log has:
"xserv.mme.lan kadmin.local[22270](info): No dictionary file specified, continuing without one."
however, good news in the "Password Service Server Log":
"RSAVALIDATE: success"
and
"AUTH2: {0x000000..., diradmin} CRAM-MD5 authentication succeeded."
Now, in the Mail logs...
Mail Access log has:
"xserv master[23575]: empty option value on line 19 of configuration file"
and
"xserv master[23575]: exiting"
POP log has:
"xserv pop3[23444]: AOD: getting mail attribute for user: dspratling
"xserv pop3[23444]: AOD: mail enabled"
"xserv pop3[23444]: AOD: mbrcheck_servicemembership with accessallservices"
"xserv pop3[23444]: AOD: checkServiceACL: Mail SACL not enabled"
From the Client-side (MacMini 10.4.10), it reports "The server "mail.mme.lan" refused to allow a connection on port 995."
All other network-based services work fine with the server, even in our
heterogenous PC network - only the Mail Service is not working.
Please - ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED
Thanks,
Dylan

Answer 1

Brett -
Thanks for the suggestions. This is not an internet-facing
server, however. Strictly intra-office eMail is all I'm after
for now. The DNS works well, resolving "mail.mme.lan" to the
correct IP (via the CL "host" command), and the CL "named-checkzone"
command returned OK as well. I haven't changed the DNS for weeks,
so I'm quite sure every cache has been refreshed.
I'm going with "Plan B", until this can be resolved ...
And I know it's pure evil, but: "Parallels -> Win2K -> mailEnable"
I got it configured and working in minutes. (Parallels was already
running on this server, serving printers, and mailEnable was free
Would still rather not depend on MS.
Thanks,
Dylan