Howto: set up a mail server in Ubuntu

[wwinfrey]

Great tutorial, thanks for the update for Dapper.

However, I'm wondering, how would I set up server-side mail filtering? I come from a qmail/vpopmail background, where I'm able to use .qmail files to pipe the incoming mail into a Perl script employing Mail::Audit that will sort my mail into different destination folders. Mail::Audit works just fine with Maildir directories so that's not an issue.

TIA

[Criocaps]

Hello,

I'have follow the first part of Flurdy tutorial (excluding the security part) and try to make it works (receive, send e-mail...)

I've the following problem :

I can send e-mail with postfix from server to another adress
I can send e-mail from outside to the server and i see that it comes in because i see it in the queue and the aliases working well too...

But :
I can connect to the server with a mail client to fetch the mails.
It prompt me for user/password and refuse it.

Any clue ?

Thanks a lot,

Didier.

[NeoFax]

Postfix is not delivering my email to the /var/spool/mail/virtual/user directory. It is just dropping all of the email to /var/spool/mail/terry mbox file. Where should I change my main.cf to make it deliver to the maildir folder?

[jjtechno]

Thanks you saved me a bunch of trouble.
regards

[NeoFax]

Hello,

I'have follow the first part of Flurdy tutorial (excluding the security part) and try to make it works (receive, send e-mail...)

I've the following problem :

I can send e-mail with postfix from server to another adress
I can send e-mail from outside to the server and i see that it comes in because i see it in the queue and the aliases working well too...

But :
I can connect to the server with a mail client to fetch the mails.
It prompt me for user/password and refuse it.

Any clue ?

Thanks a lot,

Didier.

For the username are you using user@domain? I had problems until I did this.

[Criocaps]

I finally found and correct the problem...

1° Indeed i need to use user@domain as user in pop3 login, thanks Neofax !
2° I found also somes typos

But how can i use the real username in place of user@domain ?

[crilen007]

I'm getting a Maildir invalud, no 'cur' directory error when trying to check mail

Any ideas on whats causing this or where I can create a cur directory?
Where I can see if one exists?

[crilen007]

Well I fixed that (Ran makemaildir) and now pop3 and squirrelmail work ok.

However, I can't seem to send messages to the server.

it tells me the mailbox is unavailable.

I checked mysql and the entries are ok for maildir and home and all that.

I did chown to the maildir, and the users folder inside that folder with the virtual:virtual thing.

Any ideas? Do you need to see any file logs?

[bonyari]

How can I integrate procmail and spamassassin per virutal domain/users. I see that there was a procmailrc and spamassassinrc field added to the users table. Any pointer to documentation is appreciated.

Thanks

[Kurdt]

Hi, i made a question here http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=245165 about a problem with foreign bounces and FQDN i am experiencing, maybe someone or flurdy can help me and that's why i post it also here.

Thanks!!