[SOLVED] Openwebmail Virtual Domain + Sendmail Issue

mail4vijay · 12-10-2009, 08:50 PM

Hi,

I have configured openwebmail + Sendmail on CentOS 5.4,. I configured as per the help giving in the url http://www.bluelavalamp.net/owmvirtual/
I setup admin account for virtual domain to manage virtual domain users
my settings per url

Quote:

enable_vdomain yes
vdomain_admlist admin_tom
vdomain_vmpop3_pwdpath /etc/virtual
vdomain_vmpop3_pwdname passwd
vdomain_vmpop3_mailpath /var/spool/virtual
vdomain_postfix_aliases /etc/aliases
vdomain_postfix_virtual /etc/mail/virtusertable
vdomain_postfix_postalias /usr/sbin/newaliases
vdomain_postfix_postmap /usr/sbin/makemap

I am using sendmail but settings by default with postfix. And my problem is that when i create new user account from openwebmail url. New user account does not work at all. Looks like some issue as follow:

1. It gives error /etc/aliases need to change the ownership to mail user instead of root and then only it gets updated.

2. By default virtual users map gets updated via /usr/sbin/postmap command in my case sendmail makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable..

Whe i use openwebmail portal ,my virtusertable database would not get updated and when i send email to newly added virtual users via openwebmail portal it shows me in /var/log/maillog
Username not found / .forward file is not group writable error.

Exact erro i m geting

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1st error
>>> Net::SMTP(2.29)
>>> Net::Cmd(2.26)
>>> Exporter(5.58)
>>> IO::Socket::INET(1.29)
>>> IO::Socket(1.29)
>>> IO::Handle(1.25)
<<< 220 mailserver.ozone-india.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:04:21 +0530
>>> EHLO ozonesafes.com
<<< 250-mailserver.ozone-india.com Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
<<< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
<<< 250-PIPELINING
<<< 250-8BITMIME
<<< 250-SIZE
<<< 250-DSN
<<< 250-ETRN
<<< 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN
<<< 250-DELIVERBY
<<< 250 HELP
>>> MAIL FROM:<ravi.g@ozonesafes.com>
<<< 250 2.1.0 <ravi.g@ozonesafes.com>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT TO:<test6@ozonesafes.com>
<<< 550 5.1.1 <test6@ozonesafes.com>... User unknown

2) Error if i updated virtusertable vi makemap hash command manually
then i got below error

----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.2.4 :include:/var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/users/ozonesafes.com/test4/.forward... Cannot open /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/users/ozonesafes.com/test4/.forward: Group writable directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

mail4vijay · 12-11-2009, 07:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mail4vijay

Hi,

I have configured openwebmail + Sendmail on CentOS 5.4,. I configured as per the help giving in the url http://www.bluelavalamp.net/owmvirtual/
I setup admin account for virtual domain to manage virtual domain users
my settings per url

I am using sendmail but settings by default with postfix. And my problem is that when i create new user account from openwebmail url. New user account does not work at all. Looks like some issue as follow:

1. It gives error /etc/aliases need to change the ownership to mail user instead of root and then only it gets updated.

2. By default virtual users map gets updated via /usr/sbin/postmap command in my case sendmail makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable..

Whe i use openwebmail portal ,my virtusertable database would not get updated and when i send email to newly added virtual users via openwebmail portal it shows me in /var/log/maillog
Username not found / .forward file is not group writable error.

Exact erro i m geting

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I got this resolution somehow .....
I did change some settings in sendmail...as below.

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1)Remove directory writable permission...
ls -ld /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/users
drwxr-xr-x 3 root mail 4096 Dec 10 18:50 /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/users

2)Change permission for virtusertable* to as below
ls -l virtusertable*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 364 Dec 11 18:25 virtusertable
-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 12288 Dec 11 18:26 virtusertable.db

3) Change permission for /etc/aliases
ls -l /etc/aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 mail root 2381 Dec 11 18:25 /etc/aliases
4) After adding users via openwebmail url.. i have to run
/etc/init.d/sendmail reload
as i have changed permission to mail user /etc/aliases file to write from openwebmail...

Finally my user unknown error / group writeable dir resolved... But only thing i have to reload sendmail service at the end. as because my aliases user database cant not update automaticallly..

If any body have any suggestions / comments how to update aliases automatically through openwebmail that are welcomed.

Till then i am in good shape..

Cheers!!