Mail server stopped working when I changed the hostname and hosts file

Submitted by santiazpi on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 03:52 Pro Licensee

I had deliverability issues with the email sent from the server, so while trying fix them I changed the hostname and hosts file, and rebooted the computer.

Now my email does not work, I cannot connect to it, and on the usermin acces it gives me this error:

https://i.imgur.com/6CGoqvG.png

Can you help?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by santiazpi on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 04:05 Pro Licensee

I tried to activate admin access to our server...

Please make sure you have good notes to give me when you are able to fix this issue.

Thanks.

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Submitted by Ilia on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 04:29

Hi,

You would also need to fix host name for Postfix in Webmin/Servers/Postfix/General Options/Internet hostname of this mail system.

Besides, check /etc/mailname as well, and for the future, it's better to change your hostname using Webmin / Networking / Network Configuration.

Submitted by andreychek on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 09:22

In addition to what Ilia said - the error you received with Usermn above suggests that Dovecot may not be running.

You may want to try restarting Dovecot with "service dovecot restart".

That may generate an error -- if so, look in /var/log/mail.log to see what error is being generated when attempting to start Dovecot.

Submitted by santiazpi on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 11:41 Pro Licensee

Great, I am back up with mail. Andrey, the last comment was spot on, an the error was that it could not find the SSL certificate of a deleted server, that is why dovecot count, so you might want to look at that routine.

Yesterday, before my changes, I deleted 2 selected servers from List Virtual Servers page, to immediately recreate one of them. The following entry was present at /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf for the deleted server, that is what prevented dovecot to start:

local_name sub.server.name{
  ssl_cert = </home/username/domains/sub.server.name/ssl.cert
  ssl_key = </home/username/domains/sub.server.name/ssl.key
}

Also, there are double entries for the one that I recreated in that file...

QUESTION: Probably best to delete the double entries?

Although I marked it as private, feel free to publish if it helps,

Frankly, I am very new to Webmin and it seems quite awesome, but the documentation sucks. I am so glad that the support is apparently quite goood! Thanks guys!

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 21:18

FYI, the bug that could cause those leftover dovecot.conf entries will be fixed in the next Virtualmin release.

Submitted by IssueBot on Thu, 03/12/2020 - 22:30

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.