Ubuntu Servers :: Postfix - Stop All Users From Getting Mailbox?
Mar 13, 2011
I'm just getting started with postfix for the first time (using courier pop) and everything is working well. However I can't seem to figure out how to only allow some system users to have mailboxes?
For example I have a few accounts which are FTP only accounts but they still have mailboxes under postfix? Is there any way to tell postfix the accounts that I actually want mailboxes for?
Also on a side note, I notice that mail seems to be stored under the user's home directory. I'm scared they may accidentally delete them.
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May 8, 2011
EDIT: Change the topic, see post #3
I've been following this guide: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/
And done the points up to "Advanced mail server" and are trying to test mailing mail@mydomain.com to mail@mydomain.com (yes, the same inbox) using Thunderbird, through my own DNS, from the server.
But I get the following error: The message can not be sent because the connection to SMTP server mydomain.com timed out.
And when I check /var/spool/mail/virtual where the mailboxes are supposed to be stored there are none.
So I'm wondering how I create a mailbox with postfix.
I can add that I am quite a noob at linux but have to do this in a school project.
I'm using ubuntu server 10.04 32bit with GUI (yes I know, I know)
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Jan 27, 2011
running squirrelmail, postfix and dovecot, I filter out mails which are spam into a spambox and non-spam into the inbox but by default, the user is not subscribed to the spambox and therefore, the spambox is not visible to the user, how can I make it such that each time a user is created he or she is automatically subscribed to the spambox?
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Jun 24, 2009
Is it possible to have a folder on user A's GroupWise mailbox that user B can access with as much permisions as user A but user B cannot access the rest of user A's mail?
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Jun 14, 2011
I have installed ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS and followd all the steps from the tutorial from [URL], postfix and dovecot works fine ...but ...is there any way to create email accounts (postfix account) without creating linux accounts for each mail account ?
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Oct 28, 2009
Alright I have read through and tried many different tutorials but a VAST majority of them are with virtual users. This is my own personal email server so virtual users is unneccessary when I can just use the users personal mailbox.
My postfix main.cf there are 2 things I am unsure of. 1) For system users which local_recipiant_maps do i use? 2) What should mynetworks be?As I have been testing it out through telnet I can send mail but it doesnt get to my test email (a gmail account) and when i try to send an email locally it seems that everything works fine but the mail doesnt get there, and the error i am getting is that it cant find the user.
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Dec 2, 2010
I've been banging my head against the screen on this strange problem. Somehow my server sends out spam mails to a lot of aol mail addressess. The mail.log file looks like:
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Dec 2 16:10:55 Ubuntu-904-jaunty-64-minimal postfix/qmgr[7685]: E95C2B48DB4: from=<HappyShopping@somedomain.nl>, size=1912, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec 2 16:10:55 Ubuntu-904-jaunty-64-minimal postfix/qmgr[7685]: 5D4E0B48DB5: from=<HappyShopping@somedomain.nl>, size=1904, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec 2 16:10:55 Ubuntu-904-jaunty-64-minimal postfix/qmgr[7685]: 8F540B48D04: from=<NewYearSale@somedomain.nl>, size=1894, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
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Mar 1, 2011
I have a mail server running Postfix and the problem I'm running into is that when trying to send mail, I get a "relay access denied" error.Inside my main.cf, I did not specify 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions' so by default, the variable is:
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smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination
The 'mynetworks' variable looks like this:
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May 11, 2011
I followed this tutorial to setup a mail server, followed it to the letter, double/triple/quadruple checked everything for human error, and I can't find anything.[URL].. What's happening is it seems that postfix is adding a trailing slash to usernames when it does the user lookup, so they don't exist and then fail. I've attached the log below.
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May 11 01:06:27 vmail postfix/smtpd[1688]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 11 01:06:55 vmail postfix/smtpd[1688]: 3372E982BC: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 11 01:07:18 vmail postfix/cleanup[1691]: 3372E982BC: message-
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Feb 22, 2010
Postfix (version 2.5.5-1.1 in a debian 5 machine) isn't delivering messages to a certain account mailbox (in this case testing@domain.com).
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Feb 8, 2010
I've set up an email server as per this howto: [url]
In a nutshell, it uses a combinatio of postfix, dovecot, amavis (ClamAV and SpamAssisan) and mysql.
However, with this setup, authenticated users are able to spoof outgoing message by simple changing the "from" tag.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could implement some address mapping to users?
In this setup, postfix users are NOT system users, by are stored in the database.
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Jan 22, 2010
I'm looking into migrating postfix mailboxes and users from an old machine running Fedora5 to a new machine running cenOS. I was wondering, what would be the procedure to migrating over existing postfix mail to the new machine? Is it as simple as copying over /home directories and /etc/passwd etc?
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May 21, 2010
I have an issue with postfix and my server.One account (mine) is not considered as spam by no one. But all the other users are treated as spam by yahoo, and hotmail. And I can't understand why.Here are the header from one user who sent an email to my yahoo account (treated as spam):
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From userNAme Sat May 22 01:52:27 2010
X-Apparently-To: me@yahoo.ca via 98.136.183.25; Fri, 21 May 2010 14:52:55 -0700
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Jan 1, 2010
i followed this tutorial to the "T", [URL]. I am not able to login to the mailboxes with squirrelmail, it says "connection dropped by imap server" I used the whole address as a login just like it said to do. I can sucessfully authenticate with outlook express but it throws an error that say's [URL], no such file or directory. i can telnet into it remotely but when i type ehlo [URL] it just keeps showing all the 250 lines and wont let me generate a message.
from what i saw on the comments on the tutorial and googling there are many other people with this problem, however i found no solutions. This is fresh work and i have not touched any config files since finishing the tutorial
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Apr 6, 2010
I'm running Postfix in slackware 12.1. The mails are stored in /var/spool/mail/username. When a user's mailbox size got more than 200MB, the user can't check their mail. when it happend the log shows:
Apr 4 10:04:11 ns1 popa3d[2391]: Authentication passed for userX
Apr 4 10:04:11 ns1 popa3d[2391]: Failed or refused to load /var/spool/mail/userX
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Feb 27, 2010
I am using Unbunto desktop and installed "likewise open" so that my linux client can access windows active directory(join the domain). On server side i have windows 2003 server. On windows 2003 server in active directory i have assigned each user a disk space. I have sucessfully joined linux (ubunto) box to the active directory domain but my linux box has access ($ it can use) to all other user diskpace ( they can browse other users) and when i joined windows xp client with the same server it works properly( xp client cant access or use other diskpace)
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Dec 22, 2010
I setup a postfix mail server. Tested it to make sure it was secure and all seemed good.I sent some test messages and see from the logs that mail is being delivered to the recipient. its only delivering mail to my user's local mbox on the linux server. IMAP appears to have its own mailbox and the two boxes are no linked. I was thinking it was an alias issue however I did at one point have the mailboxes to be the same.... now they are different... Here is the config file.... (I changed the domain names for privacy).
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
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Mar 11, 2010
Here is what i do: make clean make makefiles CCARGS='-DEF_CONFIG_DIR="/opt/product/postfix-2.6.5/etc"
-DEF_COMMAND_DIR="/opt/product/postfix-2.6.5"
-DEF_DAEMON_DIR="/opt/product/postfix-2.6.5/libexec"
-DEF_MAILQ_PATH="/opt/product/postfix-2.6.5/bin/mailq"
-DEF_DATA_DIR="/opt/product/postfix-2.6.5/lib"
-DEF_NEWALIAS_DIR="/opt/product/postfix-2.6.5/bin/newaliases"
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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:
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Apr 5, 2010
how to take backup of users mailbox and how we can set mailbox size limit for users.
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Feb 25, 2011
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:
Feb 25 16:24:39 puny1 postfix/master[3517]: fatal: fifo_listen: create fifo public/pickup: Permission denied
I gather this is a file permission issue and ive tried to make sure the public folder in /var/spool/postfix is correctly set but still no avail.
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Apr 4, 2010
i have setup mailrelay using postfix and relay email to exchange server. The problem is how can i relay email to multiple exchange server. For example: -
domain aa.bb.com relay to exchange server 10.10.10.10
domain 123.test.com relay to exchange server 192.168.10.5
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May 26, 2011
(We are running CyrusIMAP v2.3.16 on Slackware 13.1)The Problem:A user deleted a HUGE public Folder (>10000 Messages, >250 Subfolders), and now the Folder is in his "Trash" folder.Besides the obvious "Why did he have the access rights to do so in the first place??" question, I am honestly at a loss as to how the user did it:Trying to copy it back using Thunderbird failed utterly, TB crashes, or copies only a part, or nothing at all... (Tried 3.x on Windows and Linux Clients)So now I'm searching for a way to copy the folder back serverside.But web and manpages seem to offer few help:I don't want to move the folder to another partition, nor do I want to reconstruct or restore any corrupted data...All I want is to copy the folder from "user/USERNAME/Trash/HERE" back to "shared/archive/HERE".
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Jan 1, 2011
I have a Linux server that has local mail service. There are few user accounts on this server. User may send the mail to each other but that only restrict to LAN environment only.
For example, I may
# mail user1
To send mail to user1. User are not able to send mail to public. Some service like hylafax using this local mail service to send notification of fax status.
I don't want to manage and maintain local mail service anymore. I have subscribed a package from ISP to host a public domain of my own. I wish to have my hylafax service to able to send the notification mails to public mail server, is that possible to do it? It is great if all mails that send to local mail server may forward to public mail server. That makes the local mail service serve mail forward only.
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Feb 14, 2011
I have made some little mail server (postvix+dovecot+fetchmail) at ubuntu. The mail serve is using system accounts. Now I want to creat Shared mailbox. I have found some information, but I can't understand it correctly. Can U view the below information and correct me.
I have several accounts: Oleg (my account - /home/oleg/Maildir/); pankov (/home/pankov/Maildir); cv ( /home/cv/Maildir/). I want to share the mailbox of CV user:
I have add the follwoing information to dovecot.conf:
# You need to create also a private namespace:
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix =
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Feb 3, 2010
I'm getting the following messages sent to my root account mailbox. It appears to be reporting an issue finding ntpdate, however when running the following command:
aptitude show ntpdate | grep State
It shows as installed and any ntpdate commands work with no issues, so I have no idea why this is getting regularly reported?
From root@mydomain.co.uk Wed Feb 03 18:20:01 2010
Return-path: <root@mydomain.co.uk>
Envelope-to: root@mydomain.co.uk
Delivery-date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:20:01 +0000
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Jan 31, 2010
The user "abimail" has a mailbox specified in /home/abimail/.spop3d which is /var/mail/abimail. The permissions of /var/mail/abimail are:
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rwxrwx--- 1 abimail mailgroup 192113 2010-01-28 20:24 /var/mail/abimail. When logging in to solid-pop3d as user abimail and attempting to fetch mails, the login works but it will pop up the error "can't open mailbox file"; syslog entries:
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Jan 31 17:38:10 h1347290 solid-pop3d[23857]: user abimail authenticated - 87.176.220.50
Jan 31 17:38:10 h1347290 solid-pop3d[23857]: mailbox: can't open mailbox file: /var/mail/abimail
Jan 31 17:38:10 h1347290 solid-pop3d[23857]: mailbox: open: Permission denied
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Sep 27, 2010
im using postfix with amavis and spamassassin as spam/virus filtering and its working great.However, i get a "lot"(1-5/day) of "bad header" messages beeing quarantined by the server. And most of theese bad headers are false positives that i manually have to deliver to the correct mailbox.How can i make amavis/spamassassin deliver bad header messages to the correct mailbox and not place them in quarantine?Theese are my amavis settings. (which file is used, 20-debian or 21-ubuntu??)
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Apr 12, 2011
I have an odd issue with postfix 2.5.5 trying to relay email internally to a range of mail servers and it keeps ignoring the transport map [ ] and instead always doing mx lookups.
Essentially the server is only allowing connections from an internal network and only for certain domains that it will relay to other mail servers.
It has no local delivery and yet every time I get email passed to it, it will check the local network DNS server for MX information or with diable_dns_lookups enabled (as below) the A record for the domain, and try to deliver to that instead of the transport map destination.
Here's the main.cf
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no
disable_dns_lookups = yes
# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
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Jun 16, 2010
I have a setup wth postfix, dovecot and sasl. It is setup to relay all my email through my gmail a/c mainly because my port 25 is blocked by ISP. I just setup postfix and dovecot with ssl/tls and according to docs I read it will now be connecting on port 465 for smtp. If I need to test if my setup is working do I need to change anything anything other than commenting out the relay line in main.cf. Am hoping I don't have to deletehe sasl_password file in case I need to revert back to old setup.
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Feb 28, 2010
I have a Ubuntu server running in my house.Server name UshaMain PC name HomeLaptop 1 Named BooLaptop 2 Names Bobevery one is running Ubuntu 9.10The server is running Bind9 and Samba and is working from any other PC i can type ping usha and it will give me teh ip address of the server.This has been working for 4 months now.I just installed PostFix and nowthe only PC that is working with i ping the name USHA "server name " Is the server.The other three pc come back with the IP address of the domain for USHA.I have removed the Postfix from the server but the DNS is still not working for the other pc on the network.Ho do I get Bind working again form the rest of the PC.
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