Debian :: Microsoft Refugee Trying To Set Up Postfix
Jul 29, 2011
I run a Windows based e-mail server and looking at moving my new server to Debian, however, this following problem might stop that, so I am hoping someone can help me out - I cannot receive mail.I have installed 'postfix' via Synaptic Package Manager.During installation, I was to choose a general type of mail configuration. I select "Internet Site" as this is what it is.I was then asked to input a system mail name. I used my IPv4 address (I will be hosting multiple domains).
I recently had the need to relay SMTP mail through our organizations hosted MS Exchange server. I had to do a little troubleshooting, so I wrote a concise summary of the procedure I followed.
I am an actual openSUSE 11.2 user and i would like to switch to Fedora (probably 12).Now i have couple of questions i need someone answer for me please (they are quite crucial):
1. The possibility to unlock the luks crypt encrypted partition with a file, actually i have two important partitions with data on it (/home and stuff) which i unlock with a file on a pendrive, the /etc/fstab contains the by-id entry for the partition on the pendrive to unlock the /home and stuff partitions while /etc/crypttab has it like that:
cr_sdd1 something_blabla /media/disk/key luks
And it works. Now how would it look like in Fedora? I remember last time i tried it it works a bit different.
2. What about additional repositories (like KDE Beta or Factory, something like Packman in SUSE), how it looks like to subscribe to them. (rpmfusion is the right way for codecs etc. right?)
3. nVidia drivers, i have the 8800GT graphics card and i always installed it "the hard way" (which is in fact easy) but i remember there might be some problems with that in Fedora? How does it look like to install the drivers from the cli?
4. Installing applications, now that is a tough one, last time i wanted to install kate (word editor) i had to install whole group of applications since i couldn't install it "separately" is it true or did i do something wrong? And why PackageKit sucks big time? I remember trying to find a package kate in Fedora but it didn't succeed and had to install kde-sdk or something.
5. I love that i can have SElinux in Fedora what makes me a lot happier (i'm a bit paranoid and i like to keep my box secure even though it's linux ) How mature is that for desktop use?
6. Nouveau state, how does it work, does it stay on all the time or is it that if there are the closed drivers it switches to them after the initial booting?
7. Is there any graphical application to manage the applications in Fedora (except PackageKit because it sucks big time). I really like yum which is very friendly but is there any graphical front-end to this maybe?
make install then i got this error: postfix: fatal: chdir(/usr/libexec/postfix): No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 I don't understand why it's checking the usr/libexec folder for the daemons although I've set the folder to /opt/product/postfix-2.6.5/libexec in the makefile. Here is also the cat of my makedefs.out:
I have Debian Lenny and I use Google Chrome for internet surfing. When I try to open a web page for any Microsoft site (microsoft dot com, msdn dot microsoft dot com, etc) it times out and never shows the page nor I get 404. All I get : "Waiting for www dot microsoft dot com" .
I have a Window XP VirtualBox machine within Debian with nic card as bridge and I can connect with no problems.
What could it be?. DNS look up addresses in Debian and Windows virtual are the same.
I finally found a blank DVD), I, of course, have a few questions: 1. Besides costs, what are some benefits of Linux over Windows? I'm sure with some use, I'll figure some of them out myself; my main problem with Windows (err, Microsoft) is their attempt to monopolize computers. If you have Windows, you have to deal with Microsoft's attempt to keep your computer free of all non-Microsoft products. 2. How do I resize the desktop? When I start up Debian I get an 'Out of Range' message on my screen, then after I hit CTRL Alt + a few times, I'm left with an oversized GUI- it's bigger than my monitor so I have to bring the mouse to the side/bottom to scroll down to my taskbar. 3. How do I install programs? The first thing I tried installing was Google Chrome, but I get an error message "Archive not found."
I'm running Debian Squeeze (6.0.1) 64-bit and I'm trying to run Microsoft Office 2007 (due to formatting issues with OpenOffice) through Wine (version 1.0.1 from the repositories). I followed the instructions over here but when I try to run the setup I get an error box with the following message:
Setup did not complete successfully. We are sorry for the inconvenience. An error occurred during the installation, and setup was unable to complete. Please tell Microsoft about this problem. And there are two button: "Send Error Report" and "Don't Send". And the installation is aborted. Is there anyway to make this run?
I have a Debian testing system on a laptop that used to have Windows 8 on it. I kept the EFI boatloader and its partition, but now every time the system boots, it first tries to boot into Windows (which isn't there anymore). Removing /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft just leads to an error message when booting, with some component of Windows still trying to load and not finding those files.
The workaround for now is to go into the UEFI boot menu on every boot and selecting the "debian" entry, which works but is a bit cumbersome.How can I get rid of the Microsoft loader completely? I find a lot about repairing or re-adding the Windows bootloader, but nothing about removing it.
Just picked up a Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Mouse.Whenever I try to pair it, my system hangs and I have to hard power it down. The mouse is Bluetooth 4.0, but my Bluetooth connectivity is provided by my Intel Wireless 3160 card which does support Bluetooth 4.0.I'm using Blueman as a front end, and one other thing of note is that it shows as "Unknown" after a scan.If I need to return it, I need to return it, but it seems like a good mouse and I'd like to keep it if I can make it work.
I've took this out of syslog: Code: Select allAug 1 14:58:04 Noah-LEMUR kernel: [ 317.772054] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000398 Aug 1 14:58:04 Noah-LEMUR kernel: [ 317.772090] IP: [<ffffffff81569f7e>] mutex_lock+0xe/0x30 Aug 1 14:58:04 Noah-LEMUR kernel: [ 317.772113] PGD 0 Aug 1 14:58:04 Noah-LEMUR kernel: [ 317.772123] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
is there any HOWTO for configuring Webmin Postfix server with multiple postfix virtual hosts? Seems to be a tough challenge to set it up without any easy manual..
so i set out to change the default smtp port the server uses because my ISP blocks port 25 and i need the email to work in outlook. this morning i could receive email, but not send it. so i did some research and thought that i needed to edit the master.cf file in /etc/postfix/ by commenting out this line: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -oand replace it with587 inet n - n - - smtpd (587 being the port i want to use)somewhere along the lines postfix server stopped running and now i cannot get it to start.if i try using SSH it crashes immediately and if i restart it in simple control panel nothing happens
I recently moved over user from an old box running postfix(v 2.0.16) over to rhel 6 running postfix (v mail_version = 2.6.6). ive tried to make sure all the files are of correct permissions and that the main.cf file is configured corectly. However there is something wrong as when i run postfix: service postfix server i get no error but when checking the status:service postfix status i get: master dead but pid file exists Looking into /var/log/mailog i find this line being the issue:
I was trying to write a graph plotting program with c++. I need to convert the infix expression from user to postfix expression for quick evaluation. However, the evaluation of postfix is kind of interpreted, and thus kind of slow for evaluating huge number of values. Say if I plot an implicit function the penalty is quite huge. Is there a way that I can compile the infix expression from my running graph plotting application for high speed evaluation.
I have isntalled a server with Centos 5.2 OS, now I would like to switch from the default sendmail to postfix doing a yum install postfix I've noticed there is already available an rpm version for the OS but I would like to compile my own 2.5 version, I've noticed compiling from source does not allow me to use the mail switcher to tell to the system I'm gonna use Postfix instead of Sendmail as the default MTA while this is possible when I use the "official" rpm version of the package. Now my question is this, would this be a problem? There is some specific procedure/best practice I should follow? Or once compiled and configured Postfix I can safely disable/uninstall sendmail?
I am studying Debian, the postfix service this night cannot send and recevied outside email,internal work fine, i check the log found is show "no space left device"
I installed webmin + postfix + dovecot + sasl2-bin to get a webserver running. I have fixed all the problems, but there is still one. I am totally new to sasl, so I am sorry if I made a stupid mistake.
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Thunderbird gives the following error when trying to send mail: Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to the SMTP server mail.virovene.org was lost in the middle of the transaction. Try again later or contact your network administrator. mail.err Apr 28 23:33:18 virovene postfix/smtpd[6264]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
I have Debian and I see that exim is installed on it. I want to make my own home mail server, but with postfix. Do I have to remove exim first and then install potfix or what?
I have currently configured Postfix as an SMTP server. I would preferably not use a domain name in my email address, like so: myname@[1.2.3.4]
I'm currently testing to see how other mail servers handle this kind of address. When I sent a mail with one one of my gmail accounts, I see that the mail gets rejected due to bad syntax.
It seems as though Google is giving me a RCPT TO address like so: myname@1.2.3.4 However, the postfix server rejects this address with the following error:
501 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax
To my best knowledge the only way to have an IP address inside an email address with to write it as a domain literal [1.2.3.4].
My question: how to configure postfix to accept myname@1.2.3.4 as well?
I have put both [1.2.3.4] and 1.2.3.4 in "mydestination" and 1.2.3.4 in "virtual_alias_domains".
I have a mail server up and running sending and receiving mails with one primary(dom1) and a virtual domain(dom2). My problem is that i get the header anyUserOfDom2 at dom1.tld when i receive mail on my gmail account which i sent myself from user at dom2.tld . So the part after the at sign should be dom2.tld but i get dom1.tld so people can't send replies.
I'm getting relay access denied to an email outside of my domain. It seems the passwords are authenticating because I'm not getting invalid password prompts.
My Postfix cannot currently create any folders other than inbox. Even when I send an e-mail I receive an error along the lines of, "Could not create sendmail folder." Also, my Postfix isn't receiving e-mails, and can only send e-mails to other accounts on the server. I called my ISP and they told me my port 25 isn't blocked, and it is forwarded on my router so I am not sure what could be wrong. I am using zoneedit as my name server and I am pretty sure my MX record is good.
I have a small faliure in my config after i have installed a postfix mx server on my local lan to provide me sysmails from my local network.I have masked my domain and my relay mailserver, so it can't be used to wrong thingsI run Debian 5 Lenny all packets upgraded with aptitude.
I'm trying to configure postfix to send e-mails but it is not receiving requests from networks different from its localnet (192.168.1.0/24). Iptables is like this:
Code: Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 10.0.0.0/8 anywhere ACCEPT all -- localnet/24 anywhere ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
A part of main.cf is like this: Code: biff = no append_dot_mydomain = no delay_warning_time = 4h .....
I'm using mbox storing for dovecot 1.0.15 messages. The mailbox is in a different partition (/var/mail).The MTA is postfix 2.5.5. SO is Debian 5. How can I find email accounts that haven't be accessed within a 30 days period in order to delete them?
i created a second instance of postfix.It isn' t the first time that i made this procedure but with debian i had a lot of problem.I think that the problem is chroot configuration of postfix .In the first i had two problem smtp “fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp” and the second instance was enable to make nslookup of domain.I copied the necessary file in /var/spool/postfix-second-instace and i solved the errors.Now the problem is that there aren't error in log file but connect to xxx.xxx.net[yyy.nn.yyy.yyy]:25: Connection timed out for all connection. and the email are all in defer directory and the second instance doesn' t send emails.
The problem I have is so simple yet difficult for me to resolve. My Postfix MTA allow fake mails from me@example.com to me@example.com. How can I block them?
For example, if I do "telnet smtp.mail.yahoo.it 25", as I write the MAIL FROM command I get the alert "Authentication required". How can I achieve that?
I have setup Postfix + Dovecot on my basic debian 5 server. If I send a message to a localuser@mydomain.com from mutt, it delivers just fine and is visible when viewed through squirrelmail, I can also send just fine.
My issue is that irrespective of what options I set in main.cf, I cannot for the life of me get Postfix to stop erroring with "Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table". I'm stumped.
My main.cf is as follows code...
I do not want to setup virtual hosting with MySQL or similar, I literally want to receive mail in local users mailboxes for a single domain. Any ideas on what's missing?
I'm doing some tests and playing around with postfix in a test squeeze server. What I want to achieve is a postfix mail server using ports 465 and 587 with smtp authentication to send mails. I followed this howto: [URL].. and I'm using a php script with pear functions to test sending emails to a gmail test account of mine. This is the script:
<?php require_once "Mail.php"; $from = "Webmaster <webmaster@server>"; $to = "My Name <myaccount@gmail.com>"; $subject = "This is sent with pear as a test"; $body = "This is the body of the message";
I have a web server running and wish to get a mail server running on the same machine. I have a registered domain name. I have postfix and dovecot installed. I can send emails from the server to my normal address on a different domain but cannot receive mail. I can send and receive mail locally with no problems. I just don't know where to look for the problems. If you need any more info ( config files/doamin names etc let me know)
