I have triple (trippple) checked the recommended configuration and it is per
the how-to.
The SQL is likely fine. I'm not a SQL maven, but I'm not dumb about SQL, and it
passed a couple of inspections.
You're right that telnet localhost 110 doesn't work.
postconf -a reports that it knows about cyrus and dovecot.
I don't really trust this ISPConfig thing, as it likes to do its own stuff that
flies in the face of reason, and introducing a DB into the mix just made things
an order of magnitude more complicated. I'd rather use OpenLDAP, since I can
write JNDI code to figure out what's going on with a directory and even
add/modify/delete entries to/in the directory.
I will blow this VM away and start from scratch. Unless anyone has any concrete
suggestions I can implement before then that I can use to salvage a day's worth
of work.
Is there a best possible OS for running Dovecot/Postfix? That would be a step
in the right direction. Ubuntu is great for running WordPress, but I recognize
there are different OSes out there. I don't care if it's Linux-based or a BSD
distribution.
Will Dovecot/Postfix scale without a RDBMS backing it up? Or will OpenLDAP
suffice?
Thanks much.
Kris
On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 21:43 -0700, Kris Magnusson wrote:
>
>> Hi folks. I have set up a Ubuntu 12.04 VM with Dovecot, Postfix, MySQL,
>> amavisd, and ISPConfig 3.
>
>
>
>
>> tatic IP. I followed the instructions at howtoforge.com to set up and
>> configure this
>
>
> Somebody else recently used some howto from there and had no end of
> troubles.
>
>
>
>> But if I run alpine on mail, I can send and receive mail all day long.
>> Here's a log entry that demonstrates this:
>>
>> Apr 15 01:20:01 mail postfix/smtpd[4284]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
>> Apr 15 01:20:01 mail postfix/smtpd[4284]: lost connection after CONNECT from
>> localhost[127.0.0.1]
>> Apr 15 01:20:01 mail postfix/smtpd[4284]: disconnect from
>> localhost[127.0.0.1]
>
>
>
>> Apr 15 01:20:01 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in
>> 0 secs): user=<>, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured,
>> session=<FGhS62HaIwB/AAAB>
>
>
>
> eh? that says you did not log in pop3, and postfix by default will
> relay for localhost, well, with most configs in mynetworks having
> localhost it will.
>
> telnet mail 110
> user username
> pass password
> list
> quit
> ... does that work? I bet it doesn't.
>
>
>
>> root@mail:/etc/dovecot# more dovecot.conf
>
> dovecot -n output is best
>
>
>
>
>> listen = *,[::]
>> protocols = imap pop3
>
>
> you use sieve below, but now in proto?
>
>> auth_mechanisms = plain login
>> disable_plaintext_auth = no
>> log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
>> mail_privileged_group = vmail
>> ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/smtpd.cert
>> ssl_key = </etc/postfix/smtpd.key
>
>
>
>> passdb {
>> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>> driver = sql
>> }
>
>
> verify your sql is valid by using mysql shell
>
>
>> userdb {
>> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>> driver = sql
>> }
>> plugin {
>> quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/.quotausage
>> sieve=/var/vmail/%d/%n/.sieve
>> }
>> service auth {
>> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>> group = postfix
>> mode = 0660
>> user = postfix
>> }
>> unix_listener auth-userdb {
>> group = vmail
>> mode = 0600
>> user = vmail
>> }
>> user = root
>> }
>> protocol imap {
>> mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
>> }
>> protocol pop3 {
>> pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
>> mail_plugins = quota
>> }
>> protocol lda {
>> mail_plugins = sieve quota
>> }
>>
>
>
> You need to check your postconf -n output as well to make sure it
> knows dovecot.
>
> postconf -a should show dovecot (maybe cyrus as well, but it needs to
> know dovecot)
>
>
>> Any thoughts or recommendations?
>
> If you followed whatever guide it was in full, and have triple checked
> that, ummm, find another guide?
>
