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I have tried for about 7 days to get my mailserver working. It's Freebsd 6.2.
Updated the ports with cvsup. I installed apache server. I followed the instructions here: http://www.openaddict.com/node/33
I have installed sendmail, saslauthd, compiled sendmail with saslauth and I installed squirrelmail. When checking squirrelmail I get this message:
Message not sent. Server replied:
I installed spamassasin, etc. following instructions from every source I was willing to search, I'm just beyond frustrated. Generally server configuration has become almost second nature to me, but this has me stumped. If anyone knows of a howto I should use, or anything I have misconfigured, or more cfgs I can post please let me know.
Last edited by Joe_Bogarde; 03-12-2008 at 12:17 AM.
Reason: To Edit.
Hello sir.. I'm not sure if I can really help but are you sure you have properly configured your squirrelmail? Perhaps after running config/conf.pl? Does other mail clients also don't work with dovecot? I mean with IMAP? If some clients do work, try to know their configuration difference with squirrelmail. Perhaps if you need help with that you can also post your squirrelmail config if you like. Also please note that the predefined settings for servers in squirrelmail (gotten by the selecting D submenu in conf.pl) does not work all the time.
is this an error from a message sending request to an smtp server or from a login attempt command to an imap server? where you trying to send a message or trying to log-in from the server? most probably it's the latter right?
When checking squirrelmail I get this message:
Message not sent. Server replied:
if it's imap, it's an error because your squirrelmail script and your imap server simply do not understand each other.. here are the possibilities:
(a) you were not able to properly configure squirrelmail to use the proper methods to act with your server (basically both configuration of dovecot and squirrelmail should be consistent with each other)
(b) dovecot is configured to use a different authentication method and is ignoring less secure methods like use sasl and ignore plain.. something like that., still similar to 'a' though.
Not sure if i can help with your problem, but I may have another solution. i'm currently working on a live DVD email server disc. It runs Qmail, squirrelmail, spamassassin, clamav etc. It's based on slackware 12 and runs KDE Desktop to give new users, students, teachers a familiar face to look at and to administer the email system. Runs a full website using Tinyportal and SMF forums.
It can also be installed ( by script only ) , although the iso is not available just yet, i'm hoping to have it available in the next few days to a week. Currently trying to iron a few bugs out. Check out my website and see if it suits your needs. This is my first real website so it's not too fancy, but that will change in the future.
that's probably a whole procedure that won't work because of this:
Code:
Mar 12 19:21:37 gameserver sendmail[68416]: daemon IPv4: problem creating SMTP socket
Mar 12 19:21:42 gameserver sendmail[68416]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv4: cannot bind: Address already in use
I see 2 possibilities here: 1 is that an application is already using the port that need's to be used .. 2 is that sendmail is trying to create another instance of itself in which an old instance is already using it.. perhaps an old instance that has been waiting for a response forever. I don't see why this should happen in sendmail anyway.
Perhaps sendmail runs in this way:
if there is no stream
open it
else
reuse it
fi
But sometimes a problem occurs
if there is no stream (actually there is but can't detect it)
open it (and there goes the already in use error)
...
It's only opinion.. still it's only probably just a misconfiguration.
Btw please show your /etc/hosts. I'm kind of confused why get the gethostbyaddr problem.
Last edited by konsolebox; 03-12-2008 at 11:23 PM.
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.16 2003/01/28 21:29:23 dbaker Exp $
#
# Host Database
#
# This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that
# share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your
# machine.
#
# In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may
# not be consulted at all; see /etc/nsswitch.conf for the resolution order.
#
#
::1 192.168.1.22 gameserver.homenetwork
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.22 gameserver.homenetwork
#
# Imaginary network.
#10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname
#10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend
#
# According to RFC 1918, you can use the following IP networks for
# private nets which will never be connected to the Internet:
#
# 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
# 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
# 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
#
# In case you want to be able to connect to the Internet, you need
# real official assigned numbers. Do not try to invent your own network
# numbers but instead get one from your network provider (if any) or
# from your regional registry (ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, RIPE NCC, or AfriNIC.)
#
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
(END)
I'm not so good with /etc/hosts despite being linux/unix junkie for 8 years, I just have never done servers till this last year.
Code:
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.16 2003/01/28 21:29:23 dbaker Exp $
#
# Host Database
#
# This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that
# share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your
# machine.
#
# In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may
# not be consulted at all; see /etc/nsswitch.conf for the resolution order.
#
#
::1 192.168.1.22 gameserver.homenetwork
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
127.0.0.1 localhost gameserver.homenetwork
192.168.1.22 gameserver gameserver.homenetwork
192.168.1.16 vista vista.homenetwork
192.168.1.19 tony tony.homenetwork
#
# Imaginary network.
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