Virtualmin GPL, sendmail, dovecot

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#1 Tue, 10/23/2007 - 01:47
krime777

Virtualmin GPL, sendmail, dovecot

Ok, I have Webmin/Virtualmin GPL installed on my Centos 5, and (probably since I'm a beginner in linux) I'm trying for the last 2 days to make my email work.

Sendmail stores stuff in /var/mail (/var/spool/mail) in files named username1, username2 and so on.

I tried adding in dovecot config default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u but it didn't help, what I'm getting when trying to retrieve mail via POP3 being :

Oct 23 05:26:38 mydomain dovecot: POP3(username1): open(/var/spool/mail/username1/inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Not a directory Oct 23 05:26:38 mydomain dovecot: POP3(username1): mkdir_parents(/var/spool/mail/username1/.imap/INBOX) failed: Not a directory Oct 23 05:26:38 mydomain dovecot: POP3(username1): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-10-23 05:26:38] Oct 23 05:26:38 mydomain dovecot: POP3(username1): No INBOX for user top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0

Any idea about what I'm doing wrong here ?

That's one. When trying to send mail, I get a Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed [x.x.x.x] x.x.x.x is the IP from which I'm trying to connect, which does not reverse resolve (damn ISP). From what I understood, I can bypass that check by adding a SMTP Auth.

Any pointers how to set this up ? I have a service called saslauthd running.

Thank you for your patience with a noob :)

Sat, 10/27/2007 - 02:42
krime777

Anyone ?

Tue, 10/30/2007 - 05:43 (Reply to #2)
DanLong

Hi,
Quicky on the relay. You can add the IP directly in the Relay Domains module. I'm still trying to figure out how to get SMTP auth to work, it's not a VM problem, it's a sendmail issue.

For Dovecot, make sure you at least select <u>something</u> in the UIDL format of the mail files module. I use the &quot;old dovecot,new Cyrus&quot; selection. THen detect automatically for location, You shouldn't need to change anything else in config.

Tue, 10/30/2007 - 00:53
krime777

Still hoping :)

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