Hi Steffen, The following are links I did use before to create a postfix.dovecot.mysql system, but on Fedora, but maybe some help.
http://wiki.rbcollins.net/index.php/Postfix_backend_server#Postfix.2BMySQL.2BDovecot.2BSquirrelMail.2BSpamAssassin.2BAmavisd-new.2BClamAV_on_Fedora_Core_5|RB http://happystoddards.com/neildocs/index.php/Fedora_Core_6_Postfix_Smart-hosting_with_SASL_and_MySQL#Install_Postfix_with_SASL_and_MySQL_Support And these are our own config files incase we had a server failure, I could not afford the time to relearn what I did ;) http://wiki.enrogen.org/index.php/Setup_MailServer Please note some of the data has been tweaked, some is outdated. I am just about to update our info following a recent upgrade to F10... so maybe a few weeks and newer build info will be here. I will try to update this info this weekend. If you need me to dump some sql table structures, config files and so on, just drop a mail.. probably directly so I pickup on it. James On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:40 +0100, Steffen Schaumburg wrote: > >> The only thing postfix put in my log is the startup: > >> Mar 27 13:46:40 davserver postfix/postfix-script[24448]: starting the > >> Postfix mail system > >> Mar 27 13:46:40 davserver postfix/master[24449]: daemon started -- > > version > >> 2.5.6, configuration /etc/postfix > >> > >> I know you said non-verbose, but since the above was useless I tried > >> activating verbose for all lines in master.cf (except the dovecot one) > > but > >> the log still says nothing about my attempt to send a mail?? I did > > double > >> check my thunderbird config, and it does use schaumburger.info as SMTP > >> server - I'm really confused now :( > > If Postfix does not log a connect, then Postfix is not receiving one. > > But then how can thunderbird give the error message about the virtual > mailbox table? > > > When you telnet to your mail server, what is the banner response? > > grkni...@mx1 ~ $ telnet localhost 25 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to localhost. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > 220 mx1.scent-team.com ESMTP Postfix > > > > > > Try this from both localhost and where you're attempting to send the > > mail from. > > Tried, and that did produce log messages. Very very verbose lol. > So I removed the verboseness again and tried telnet again and it connected. > > Now comes the weird part - now suddenly it works. > The only things that changed: > - I reinstalled (remerged) mysql with debug on (but haven't restarted since > so I don't think that's what fixed it) > - I installed telnet-bsd. I just tried removing it again and it still works > so that shouldn't be it. > - I had started a reinstall of everything, but aborted it after a few > packages. > > So my best guess is that somewhere during install it had screwed up. I > don't understand why - I did update glibc, but I did also reinstall > everything after that so I really don't see why reinstalling now should've > suddenly fixed things. > Very, very, very weird. In any case, thanks for all your help, I'd put this > down to freak install problem potentially due to updating core libraries > and/or GCC. I don't think it'd be possible to reproduce this error so I > don't think it's possible to investigate the root cause. Personally I'm > prepared to put this away into the "unexplained mysteries" shelf unless > someone would like to take it further. > > So thanks again - you guys give MUCH better support than certain commercial > mail server developers that I had to deal with at work ;) > Steffen >
