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In a fresh Virtualmin installation on Ubuntu 12, Postfix should work okay out of the box. Maybe you're experiencing a memory issue or similar. Is this a VPS or a physical host? If VPS, is it a Virtuozzo system? How much memory do you have?
What output do you get for this in a shell: (please enclose screen listings in
[code][/code] tags)Howdy,
In addition to Locutus's excellent thoughts, you may also want to take a look in your mail logs, in /var/log/mail.log, to see if there's any errors or other helpful information in there.
Also, if you're using an OpenVZ or Virtuozzo VPS, can you paste in the contents of your /proc/user_beancounters file?
Thanks!
-Eric
As I wrote, please enclose shell listings in
[code][/code] tags to preserve monospace font and line breaks. Otherwise your text is unreadable.sorry Im trying to paste it in the correct format I will try again
* Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix sed: can't read /var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid: Permission denied jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ netstat -tpln | grep :25 (No info could be read for "-p": geteuid()=1000 but you should be root.) tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 :::25 :::* LISTEN - jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ netstat -tpln | grep :26 (No info could be read for "-p": geteuid()=1000 but you should be root.) jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ netstat -tpln | grep :25 (No info could be read for "-p": geteuid()=1000 but you should be root.) tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 :::25 :::* LISTEN - jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ ps aux | grep postfix root 2097 0.0 0.0 4580 1472 ? Ss 14:48 0:00 /usr/lib/postfi x/master postfix 2113 0.0 0.0 4600 1424 ? S 14:48 0:00 pickup -l -t fi fo -u -c postfix 2114 0.0 0.0 4648 1344 ? S 14:48 0:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u root 2132 0.0 0.0 12068 836 ? Ss 14:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/sasla uthd -a pam -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 root 2133 0.0 0.0 12068 520 ? S 14:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/sasla uthd -a pam -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 root 2134 0.0 0.0 12068 520 ? S 14:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/sasla uthd -a pam -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 root 2135 0.0 0.0 12068 520 ? S 14:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/sasla uthd -a pam -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 root 2136 0.0 0.0 12068 520 ? S 14:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/sasla uthd -a pam -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 postfix 2151 0.0 0.1 7196 2620 ? S 14:48 0:00 tlsmgr -l -t un ix -u -c postfix 3559 0.0 0.0 4600 1328 ? S 15:11 0:00 anvil -l -t uni x -u -c postfix 3711 0.0 0.1 7136 2072 ? S 15:13 0:00 smtp -t unix -u -c postfix 3739 0.0 0.0 4628 1360 ? S 15:13 0:00 bounce -z -n de fer -t unix -u -c jorge 4205 0.0 0.0 4388 832 pts/0 R+ 15:16 0:00 grep --color=au to postfix jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ (No info could be read for "-p": geteuid()=1000 but you should be root.) -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN </span>Seems you're not performing these commands as root. You might want to retry them as root. Also, please fix your second post with the mail.log and add the code tags.
this is with root
Please perform ALL those commands I listed as root. Also, I repeat, please fix the code tags in your post with the mail.log excerpt.
Dear Locutus, I really want to tell you THANKS for all your patience with me. Really appreciated. I did not change the lasts messages because was the same that I fixed before, now I did all of them for you, promise I was not ignoring you, sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Also I am copying the results with root access. Thanks for helping me out.
Okay, so it looks like Postfix is running okay after you start it with the "service" command. Not sure why Virtualmin would assume it to still be down; might be that it's configured to look in the wrong place for its process ID file.
The key problem message in your mail log seems to be this one:
Dec 21 12:35:48 sipeicenet postfix/trivial-rewrite[3567]: warning: do not list domain sipeicenet.iownyour.org in BOTH mydestination and virtual_alias_domainsThis usually occurs when you create the domain part or the full text of your server's FQDN as a Virtualmin server. This is not recommended. What output do you get for these:
Also, please post the outputs of these:
If that information does not help, please repeat the process that gives you errors, and tell us precisely what you did (send/receive mail from where to where using which IPs etc.), and post log excerpts of the attempt.
Thanks for all the replies, this is the info you ask me to produce
jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ hostname sipeicesrv jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ hostname -f hostname: Name or service not known jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases allow_percent_hack = no append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes config_directory = /etc/postfix home_mailbox = Maildir/ inet_interfaces = all mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail-wrapper -o -a $DOMAIN -d $LOGNAME mailbox_size_limit = 0 mydestination = sipeicenet.iownyour.org, sipeicesrv.home, localhost.home, localhost myhostname = sipeicesrv.home mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 myorigin = /etc/mailname readme_directory = no recipient_delimiter = + relayhost = sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/bcc smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache smtpd_use_tls = yes virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 sipeicenet.iownyour.org sipeice localhost 127.0.1.1 sipeicenet.iownyour.org # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ cat /etc/hostname sipeicesrv jorge@sipeicesrv:~$ cat /etc/mailname sipeicenet.iownyour.orgOkay, there seem to be several discrepancies between your various configuration files. For one, you should decide on one FQDN for your server. You have a variety of "sipeicenet", "sipeicesrv" and "sipeice" in your config files.
Let's say your FQDN is "australis.mydomain.de", and the server's external IP is "1.2.3.4". Then you need the following contents: (postconf output is only an excerpt of the relevant lines)
Also, do not create the FQDN of your host as a Virtualmin virtual server! It will result in the Postfix warning that you received.
Ok I will follow this example, what can I do if I have a dynamic external IP? Im using a DNS services
Dynamic external IP... are you forwarding to Virtualmin via NAT? Then use the LAN IP instead. Make sure though to use an externally resolvable name as your FQDN.
You'll run into trouble though if you try to operate your own public nameserver on a dynamic IP. You should get a static one or a hosted server for that, or use external nameservers.
NAT / home connections / dynamic IPs make server hosting with Virtualmin (and in general) a lot more complicated.