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Ok to send emails out, no emails reaching in, no encryption on outgoing mail even though set

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#1 Sat, 04/01/2017 - 14:51

pawelkosi

Ok to send emails out, no emails reaching in, no encryption on outgoing mail even though set

Hi Guys,

I haven't been using Virtualmin for a while now. I decided to set one of my dedicated hosting servers with it to ease the setup process of new sites.

The problem: I can send emails from my virtual server but not receive them. Also emails sent out show as not encrypted .

The setup: - I have domain bought with GoDaddy. - Server is setup on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on amazon EC2 instance - A, CNAME, MX records are set at GoDaddy to point at the server. The domain itself points at the server IP. MX records point at mail.mydomain.co.uk - Website works as it should. You can access all the files - I tried to use Virtualmin scirpt to setup SSL by use of LetsEncrypt but the browsers reported ssl problem, so I used https://certbot.eff.org/#ubuntutrusty-apache certbot automatic tool to generate and install certs and now my website works on SSL - Security group on EC2 is set up to open all the ports necessary for email (both encrypted and non encrypted)

I installed Postfx and Dovecot through Virtualmin I can log in to Roundcube with the email account created in virtualmin, I can send emails from there. But like mentioned above - they do not appear to be encrypted and I cannot receive any emails.

I felt like I looked everyhwere and I cant seem to find anything in configs or in logs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

#2 Sat, 04/01/2017 - 15:00

pawelkosi

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In mail error log Now I've found this:

dovecot: doveadm(my email address here): Error: Sync: User had no mail_replica in userdb

#3 Sun, 04/02/2017 - 05:05

pawelkosi

UPDATE:

I've made a rookie error with my A records and my mail.domain didn't resolve properly to the server. I can now send and receive emails but there still no encryption on outgoing mail even though it was set up in Postfix.

#4 Sun, 04/02/2017 - 21:28

andreychek

Howdy,

How was the encryption setup in Postfix?

For that, you'd typically want to add a line like this:

smtp_tls_security_level = may

Note that some folks add a "d" to smtp, but that would cause it not to work as expected.

-Eric

#5 Mon, 04/03/2017 - 12:04 (Reply to #4)

pawelkosi

Hi Erik! That was it, the line was missing actually - I was following standalone tutorial on Postfix config and either it was missing some info or I did miss this line.

Thanks for your help!

Pawel

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