On 1/16/2014 12:47 PM, rolf wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm stuck...any help is appreciated. I am by no means a postfix
> expert but I have it working fine for local accounts, trying now to
> add an account for a different domain. Apologies in advance for
> what will be a lengthy email, I am trying to include sufficient
> debugging information.
>
> Summary:
> My host name is grimdar.com, where I can successfully send and
> receive email. I have recently stood up a new domain, sqlyfe.com,
> which is hosted on the grimdar box. I want to be able to receive
> (and send) email @sqlyfe.com. As of now, receiving email gets top
> priority (because no matter what I do on my side, I cannot send
> mail via ATT until I acknowledge their verification email sent to
> sql...@sqlyfe.com).
>
> There is a local account sql...@grimdar.com, which works fine for
> receiving email on the grimdar.com domain. I am not interested in
> sending email from this particular address, I only created the
> account as part of trying to get sql...@sqlyfe.com working. It is a
> disposable account from my perspective, it serves no purpose other
> than a vain trouble shooting attempt by me. At some point I'll go
> back and delete that account.
>
> postfix is running on debian (squeeze). i'm using thunderbird as my
> mail client.
>
> Error Messages:
> I get no sqlyfe log entries. I figure this is directly related to
> my issues, though a big mystery to me.
>
> That aside, here is the message I get when I try to receive email
> via thunderbird as sqlyfe.com:
>
> Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server mail.sqlyfe.com
> responded: authorization failed. Check your server settings.
>
> I do verify the password is correct. I verify that thunderbird
> appears to be checking mail.sqlyfe.com on port 110 for POP, though
> what is generating the above error message is beyond me.
>
> Here are my dns entries:
>
> A record:
> host: www.sqlyfe.com
> IP: 107.205.141.167
>
> CNAME:
> host: mail
> points to: www.sqlyfe.com
>
> MX:
> host: sqlyfe.com
> points to: www.sqlyfe.com
>
> The above mirrors my dns entries for grimdar.com.
>
> Debugging info:
>
> postfinger:
> postfinger - postfix configuration on Thu Jan 16 13:34:08 EST 2014
> version: 1.30
>
> --System Parameters--
> mail_version = 2.9.6
> hostname = eee
> uname = Linux eee 3.4.2 #1 SMP Sat Jun 9 21:43:04 EDT 2012 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> --Packaging information--
> looks like this postfix comes from deb package: postfix-2.9.6-2
>
> --main.cf non-default parameters--
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> append_dot_mydomain = no
> biff = no
> home_mailbox = Maildir/
> local_recipient_maps =
> luser_relay = rolf@localhost
> mailbox_size_limit = 0
> mydestination = grimdar.com eee.grimdar.com, localhost.grimdar.com,
> localhost
> myhostname = mail.grimdar.com
> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
> myorigin = /etc/mailname
> readme_directory = no
> recipient_delimiter = +
> relayhost = [smtp.att.yahoo.com]:587
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_policy_service
> inet:127.0.0.1:10023, permit_sasl_authenticated,
> reject_unauth_destination, reject_invalid_hostname,
> reject_unauth_pipelining, reject_non_fqdn_sender,
> reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
> reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
> smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain
> smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
> smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
> smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
> smtpd_use_tls = yes
> smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic
> smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = plain, login
> smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
> smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
> smtp_tls_security_level = may
> smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
> --master.cf--
> smtp inet n - - - - smtpd
> pickup fifo n - - 60 1 pickup
> cleanup unix n - - - 0 cleanup
> qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr
> tlsmgr unix - - - 1000? 1 tlsmgr
> rewrite unix - - - - - trivial-rewrite
> bounce unix - - - - 0 bounce
> defer unix - - - - 0 bounce
> trace unix - - - - 0 bounce
> verify unix - - - - 1 verify
> flush unix n - - 1000? 0 flush
> proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
> proxywrite unix - - n - 1 proxymap
> smtp unix - - - - - smtp
> relay unix - - - - - smtp
> -o smtp_fallback_relay=
> showq unix n - - - - showq
> error unix - - - - - error
> retry unix - - - - - error
> discard unix - - - - - discard
> local unix - n n - - local
> virtual unix - n n - - virtual
> lmtp unix - - - - - lmtp
> anvil unix - - - - 1 anvil
> scache unix - - - - 1 scache
> maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
> uucp unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender - $nexthop!rmail
> ($recipient)
> ifmail unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient)
> bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -t$nexthop
> -f$sender $recipient
> scalemail-backend unix - n n - 2 pipe
> flags=R user=scalemail argv=/usr/lib/scalemail/bin/scalemail-store
> ${nexthop} ${user} ${extension}
> mailman unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
> ${nexthop} ${user}
>
> -- end of postfinger output --
>
> cat /etc/postfix/virtual:
> sqlyfe.com domain
> @sqlyfe.com sqlyfe
>
> Any insight is appreciated!
>
> -rolf
Forget about thunderbird and your POP software for the moment and
concentrate on postfix.
Looks as if you've set up a wildcard virtual alias domain. All mail
addressed to *@sqlyfe.com aliased to sqlyfe@$myorigin. That's that
account you'll need to use in your POP software.
Postfix logs something when you send mail to @sqlyfe.com. Check the
logs and see what's there.
-- Noel Jones
