Howto: setup a mail server in Ubuntu

**cllsr** · November 29th, 2005

Originally Posted by pcolomes

OK, i have answered myself again jejeje
the problem I had with SASL was HALF-solved by reinstalling postfix-tls package
I say HALF-solved because now i've eliminated the SASL warning but still I'm getting this:

Code:

Nov 25 17:46:52 webserver postfix/smtpd[7738]: connect from inet.electrored.net[200.55.215.61]
Nov 25 17:46:52 webserver postfix/smtpd[7738]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from inet.electrored.net[200.55.215.61]: 554 <xxx@codiner.cl>: Relay access denied; from=<xxx@electrored.net> to=<xxx@codiner.cl> proto=ESMTP helo=<PAULO>
Nov 25 17:46:54 webserver postfix/smtpd[7738]: disconnect from inet.electrored.net[200.55.215.61]

Are you sure you have these Cyrus packages installed.
#
Cyrus SASL:

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libsasl2
*
libsasl2-modules
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libsasl-modules-plain
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libsasl2-modules-sql
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libsasl7
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libauthen-sasl-perl
*
libauthen-sasl-cyrus-perl

**dcostelloe** · November 29th, 2005

I am ready to try agin to upgrade to breezy from Hoary. Last time I experienced issue with the mail server setup etc.

Has anyone managed to setup with breezy?

If so what things will I need to mainatin the Mail setup to Breezy.

Thanks

**Stryker777** · November 30th, 2005

Originally Posted by pcolomes

and my dns zone file says this:

Code:

mail  	   	IN  	A  	200.55.215.62
@  	   	IN  	MX  	10 mail.domain.net.
mail  	   	IN  	MX  	10 mail.domain.net.

This is probably going to sound silly but it was the case with mine. When you do your mx, put it above all your a records just under your ns records. My isp was seeing my mx as a subdomain thus the change. Now my mx works properly. Just move up the mx there. Also you have 2 10s. since both mx records go to the same place, just use one mx 10. Mail servers will lookup your domain name for mx so whether your A is mail or jeepers one mx will work. If you have a secondary mx us mx 20 mail2.domain.net. or something like that.
Stryker777

ex.

Code:

			NS	ns1.domain.net.
			NS	ns2.domain.net.
                        MX  	   10 mail.domain.net.
mail  	   	      A  	   200.55.215.62

**lorenco** · November 30th, 2005

Originally Posted by dcostelloe

I am ready to try agin to upgrade to breezy from Hoary. Last time I experienced issue with the mail server setup etc.

Has anyone managed to setup with breezy?

If so what things will I need to mainatin the Mail setup to Breezy.

Thanks

Yip, you will have some troubles. I am having some.

Nov 30 18:01:33 mail postfix/master[13361]: daemon started -- version 2.2.4, configuration /etc/postfix
Nov 30 18:01:33 mail postfix/pickup[13364]: ...
Nov 30 18:01:33 mail postfix/cleanup[13366]: warning: connect to mysql server localhost: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
Nov 30 18:01:33 mail postfix/cleanup[13366]: warning: 24FF7xxxx: virtual_alias_maps map lookup problem for xxx
Nov 30 18:01:33 mail postfix/pickup[13364]: warning: maildrop/6690113xxx: Error writing message file

But will keep you posted...

**flurdy** · November 30th, 2005

Originally Posted by pcolomes

OK, i have answered myself again jejeje
the problem I had with SASL was HALF-solved by reinstalling postfix-tls package
I say HALF-solved because now i've eliminated the SASL warning but still I'm getting this:

Code:

Nov 25 17:46:52 webserver postfix/smtpd[7738]: connect from inet.electrored.net[200.55.215.61]
Nov 25 17:46:52 webserver postfix/smtpd[7738]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from inet.electrored.net[200.55.215.61]: 554 <xxx@codiner.cl>: Relay access denied; from=<xxx@electrored.net> to=<xxx@codiner.cl> proto=ESMTP helo=<PAULO>
Nov 25 17:46:54 webserver postfix/smtpd[7738]: disconnect from inet.electrored.net[200.55.215.61]

codiner.cl is not in your virtual domains list ?

**N6REJ** · November 30th, 2005

Its pre-included in the postfix main file....
Package: postfix
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 2140
Maintainer: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.2.4-1ubuntu2
Replaces: postfix-doc (<< 1.1.7-0), postfix-tls
Provides: mail-transport-agent, postfix-tls
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libdb4.2, libsasl2 (>= 2.1.19), libssl0.9.7, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, netbase, adduser (>= 3.48), dpkg (>= 1.8.3), lsb-base (>= 1.3-9ubuntu3)
Recommends: mail-reader, resolvconf
Suggests: procmail, postfix-mysql, postfix-pgsql, postfix-ldap, postfix-pcre
Conflicts: mail-transport-agent, smail, libnss-db (<< 2.2-3), postfix-tls
Filename: pool/main/p/postfix/postfix_2.2.4-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
Size: 910878
MD5sum: 4b6c5c034d750e894d6f198e6c2f2256
Description: A high-performance mail transport agent
Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail transport agent that started life as an
alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to
be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being
sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside
has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

**flurdy** · December 2nd, 2005

I created a new thread in the breezy customize forums as I ve updated the howto to edition 4 to cater for Breezy Badger

Click here to read the new thread

**SleightfulMind** · December 4th, 2005

When I try to install libsasl2-modules-sql, I get the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libsasl2-modules-sql: Depends: libsasl2 (=2.1.19-1.5ubuntu1) but 2.1.19-1.5ubuntu4 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Now, I have everything working except the SASL. How can I fix this problem?

Also, when I do telnet 127.0.0.1 25 and enter EHLO gmail.com the server doesn't respond with 250-AUTH. This seems to indicate that the server thinks it can't auth. Will installing libsasl2-modules-sql fix this issue?

Thanks for any help.
- Nate

**wannabelinuxconvert** · January 12th, 2006

Is it possible to use this kind of setup with a dynamic ip address using something like dyndns.org !?

I read a similar article that did accomodate this, but it was using ArchLinux

http://www.hypexr.org/linux_mail_server.php

Thanks

Mic

**sleepkreep** · February 17th, 2006

Someone please help me. I have an interesting setup and need to it work just a certain way. I use Kubuntu Breezy. I have KMail fetching all of my mail for me and am quite happy with it. The directory where the mail is saved is ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/ . I am setting up an imap server so I can use squirrelmail to read the mail on my machine. Courier seems to require that the there be a ~/Maildir directory in order for it to work. How do I change that to KMail's directory? For the time being I created a symlink from ~/Maildir ---> ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail . However, now when I try to access the imap server, I get a error saying "Unable to open this mailbox." Why can't I open the INBOX?

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