Postfix SMTP on Ubuntu 9.04

Thanks for you help. I will try them tonight. I hope it works. Otherwise I will post a detailed analysis of my problem

Sounds like a plan!

:) It is! I just drove 5 hours to pickup my server cabinet, exhausted!

Next time install a VNC remote admin! WOW! :)

I have disabled tls and sasl from postfix config and modifies the main.cf to the parameters listed in http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/. Still nothing, I try to connect throught telnet but never get the banner.

How can I complete remove sasl, tls and postfix so I can do a clean installation from the beginning? (just apt-get remove package?).

Since Courier Imap is working against the mysql tables would deleting postfix make the imap inaccessible and mess the current configuration?

Thanks for the help. I think you got thing a bit wrong. I drove far to pickup a Server cabinet. I have physical access to both of my HP Proliants.

So far I managed to get courier imap to login using mysql tables and also confiured squirrelmail to login.

My problem is with smtp. I am trying to configure postfix smtp with sasl and tls. I pretty much do all the necessary configuration only to keep getting an error in /var/log/autd.log that sql_select option missing auxpropfunc error no mechanism available.

I think I might have messed up eveything badly will trying to solve other problems. I am going to start a clean installation and try setting up everything.

Since i am doing the whole thing again, I just want to ask your opinion on which apps to use for the mail server. I want to manage multiple fqdn domains setup as virtual domains on 1 server. I decided to use Postfix Courier-Imap Sasl, TLS, Mysql and Squirrelmail.

Am I missing out anything here? I just need a secure authentication for my users but I couldn't figure out sasl and tls.

Please advise

rpm command

rpm command

# apt-get remove libsasl2-modules-sql

                                              

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if I remove that, will sasl be able to authenticate using the mysql tables?

Btw I am running Ubuntu 9.04 server

Yikes.. sorry I just copied and pasted the context from those links without looking at the language.

This should apply to your OS setup as well.

But I want SASL to use the mysql module so it can authenticate over the tables.

my smtpd.conf has

pwcheck_method: auxprop
auxprop_plugin: sql
mech_list: plain login cram-md5 digest-md5
sql_engine: mysql
sql_hostnames: 127.0.0.1
sql_user: postfix
sql_passwd: yourpassword
sql_database: postfix
sql_select: select password from mailbox where username='%u@%r' and active = 1

I am satisfying the sql_select but no luck. That's what I am trying to fix

still the same

nano /var/log/auth.log
May 31 15:15:15 mail saslauthd[4977]: server_exit     : master exited: 4977
May 31 15:15:15 mail saslauthd[5470]: detach_tty      : master pid is: 5470
May 31 15:15:15 mail saslauthd[5470]: ipc_init        : listening on socket: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux
May 31 15:16:12 mail postfix/smtpd[5483]: sql_select option missing
May 31 15:16:12 mail postfix/smtpd[5483]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
May 31 15:16:12 mail postfix/smtpd[5483]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql

/var/log/mail.log
May 31 15:15:14 mail postfix/master[4878]: terminating on signal 15
May 31 15:15:15 mail postfix/master[5371]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, configuration /etc/postfix
May 31 15:15:15 mail authdaemond: stopping authdaemond children
May 31 15:15:15 mail authdaemond: modules="authmysql", daemons=5
May 31 15:15:15 mail authdaemond: Installing libauthmysql
May 31 15:15:15 mail authdaemond: Installation complete: authmysql
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: Connection, ip=[::1]
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: LOGIN, user=xristos@sheshes-world.com, ip=[::1], port=[57344], protocol=IMAP
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: LOGOUT, user=*****@*********.com, ip=[::1], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=30, sent=238, time=0
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: Connection, ip=[::1]
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: LOGIN, user=*****@***********.com, ip=[::1], port=[57346], protocol=IMAP
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: LOGOUT, user=*****@******.com, ip=[::1], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=659, sent=2227, time=0
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: Connection, ip=[::1]
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: LOGIN, user=*****@************.com, ip=[::1], port=[57348], protocol=IMAP
May 31 15:16:03 mail imapd: LOGOUT, user=******@***********.com, ip=[::1], headers=575, body=0, rcvd=296, sent=2426, time=0
May 31 15:16:12 mail postfix/smtpd[5483]: warning: ::1: address not listed for hostname localhost
May 31 15:16:12 mail postfix/smtpd[5483]: connect from unknown[::1]
May 31 15:16:12 mail postfix/smtpd[5483]: warning: unknown[::1]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure
May 31 15:16:12 mail postfix/smtpd[5483]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[::1]
May 31 15:16:12 mail postfix/smtpd[5483]: disconnect from unknown[::1]
                                              

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I am going to close this question as I received a lot of help and redo the whole process again having in mind the things you spotted.

I will open a new one if the problems still persist.

Thanks again for your help