[ILUG] Setting Up Postfix and Courier

[Conor Mac Aoidh]

Hi,

Resolved the problem. Was happening because I didn't have a required
package installed called cyrus-sasl-plain

Thanks for the help
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Conor Mac Aoidh

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Conor Mac Aoidh <conormacaoidh at gmail.com>wrote:

> HI,
>
> Thanks for the response. Actually yes, I forgot to add it to the iptables
> config. It's always something simple! But after adding it I'm still getting
> the same refused connection. The mail log shows the following:
>
> Mar  8 21:36:38 hosting postfix/smtpd[7744]: connect from
> localhost[127.0.0.1]
> Mar  8 21:36:38 hosting postfix/smtpd[7744]: warning:
> xsasl_cyrus_server_get_mechanism_list: no applicable SASL mechanisms
> Mar  8 21:36:38 hosting postfix/smtpd[7744]: fatal: no SASL authentication
> mechanisms
> Mar  8 21:36:39 hosting postfix/master[7639]: warning: process
> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 7744 exit status 1
> Mar  8 21:36:39 hosting postfix/master[7639]: warning:
> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> It looks like its something to do with saslauthd. Going to look into it
> now.
>
> Thanks
> ---
> Conor Mac Aoidh
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:28 PM, David Pintor <painterman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> By the way, you can also check the error log in /var/log/maillog
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 March 2012 21:26, David Pintor <painterman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I assume your port 25/tcp is open? I haven't seen a mention on your link
>>> and by default it should be closed.
>>>
>>> To open it, in the server, do:
>>>
>>> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 March 2012 21:17, Conor Mac Aoidh <conormacaoidh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying to setup Postfix and Courier on my server ( running
>>>> Fedora
>>>> 15 ). It's my first time trying to do something like this on a live
>>>> server,
>>>> so if anyone wants to add any advise/recommendation they are welcome.
>>>> I've
>>>> been following a guide located here:
>>>>
>>>> http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/courier-mysql-fedora-13
>>>>
>>>> I've pretty much got everything installed/configured as it says in the
>>>> guide but I'm still having a few problems. I've set my hostname in
>>>> postfix
>>>> as mail.mydomain.ie ( where mydomain is an actual domain ) and I added
>>>> an
>>>> MX record for this ( and I think this may be where the problem lies )
>>>> which
>>>> looks like this:
>>>>
>>>> Record Host: mail.mydomain.ie
>>>> Record Data: mail.mydomain.ie
>>>> Preference: 20
>>>>
>>>> When I try and issue the command 'telnet localhost smtp' on the server I
>>>> get the response "Connection closed by foreign host.", though it is
>>>> working
>>>> for pop3 and imap. So there has to be something going wrong with the
>>>> smtp
>>>> setup. What I'm looking for is advice on how to troubleshoot the
>>>> problem,
>>>> are there any error logs or anything I could be using to find out what's
>>>> going wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any input
>>>> ---
>>>> Conor Mac Aoidh
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