outgoing mail server : timeout error

billymayday · 11-10-2008, 09:29 PM

Went back to post 1 and I see it's F8.

Do you have saslauthd running?

bittus · 11-11-2008, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

Went back to post 1 and I see it's F8.

Do you have saslauthd running?

Yes buddy it is FC8 and I can see saslauthd is running. . . . .

Code:

# ps -ef | grep saslauth
root     15154     1  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd -a getpwent
root     15155 15154  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd -a getpwent
root     15156 15154  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd -a getpwent
root     15157 15154  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd -a getpwent
root     15158 15154  0 Oct26 ?        00:00:00 saslauthd -a getpwent
root     26341 26310  0 15:43 pts/0    00:00:00 grep saslauth

billymayday · 11-11-2008, 06:03 PM

Can you respond to post #60 pls

bittus · 11-11-2008, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

Can you show "postconf -a"

Did you build postfix yourself? If not what distro are you on?

Sorry that I dint see this post.

Quote:

# postconf -a
dovecot

Postfix was built by me. Version as per conf is (mail_version = )2.5.1

billymayday · 11-11-2008, 08:26 PM

Looks like you didn't build saslauth in (it's cyrus). See http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#build_postfix

bittus · 11-12-2008, 08:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

Looks like you didn't build saslauth in (it's cyrus). See http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#build_postfix

Thats true, I dint build cyrus at the time of installation of postfix. But later I tried upgrading postfix with cyrus. Everything went on fine at the time of upgradation. But now when u told this, I doubt if it is succesful or not. How can I confirm it ?

If not successful, can I upgrade/update existing postfix with cyrus ?

billymayday · 11-12-2008, 08:09 PM

You should just have to rebuild with the flags given in that link, ie:

Code:

% make tidy # if you have left-over files from a previous build
% make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL \
    -I/usr/local/include/sasl" AUXLIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lsasl2"

(actually, the paths are probably /usr/include and /usr/lib), and check with "postconf -a". I'd be conservatrive and use a "make clean" as well.

Code:

# postconf -a
cyrus
dovecot

bittus · 11-12-2008, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

You should just have to rebuild with the flags given in that link, ie:

Code:

% make tidy # if you have left-over files from a previous build
% make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL \
    -I/usr/local/include/sasl" AUXLIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lsasl2"

(actually, the paths are probably /usr/include and /usr/lib), and check with "postconf -a". I'd be conservatrive and use a "make clean" as well.

Code:

# postconf -a
cyrus
dovecot

Ok buddy. Did all those and my postconf -a is exactly what you mentioned. Now shall I try enabling sasl in main.cf ?

Meanwhile, I didn't understand what the command

make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL \
-I/usr/local/include/sasl" AUXLIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lsasl2"

does. Is there any detailed information on this ?

billymayday · 11-12-2008, 09:18 PM

Try sasl again.

The short answer is you are generating a makefile and telling it what arguments you want passed to the compiler.

The alternative answer is, aside from the link I already gave you, not that I have.

bittus · 11-13-2008, 05:44 PM

Now I get a msg "Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname"

Maillog

Quote:

# tail -f /var/log/maillog
Nov 13 16:45:00 MYHOST postfix/postfix-script[21317]: starting the Postfix mail system
Nov 13 16:45:00 MYHOST postfix/master[21318]: daemon started -- version 2.5.1, configuration /etc/postfix
Nov 13 16:45:00 MYHOST postfix/nqmgr[21320]: warning: please update the /etc/postfix/master.cf file; the new queue manager
Nov 13 16:45:00 MYHOST postfix/nqmgr[21320]: warning: (old name: nqmgr) has become the standard queue manager (new name: qmgr)
Nov 13 16:45:00 MYHOST postfix/nqmgr[21320]: warning: support for the name old name (nqmgr) will be removed from Postfix
Nov 13 16:45:00 MYHOST postfix/nqmgr[21320]: warning: bounce_queue_lifetime is larger than maximal_queue_lifetime - adjusting bounce_queue_lifetime

billymayday · 11-13-2008, 06:36 PM

Can you show the exact message and those around it.

What is the hostname you are using? You blanked it out earlier.

bittus · 11-13-2008, 06:52 PM

Outlook reports:

The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was 'bimal@MYDOMAIN.com'. Subject 'test', Account: 'mail.MYDOMAIN.com', Server: 'mail.MYDOMAIN.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '554 5.5.2 <simi>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 554, Error Number: 0x800CCC79

bittus · 11-13-2008, 06:53 PM

The hostname given is MYHOST.MYDOMAIN.com. Its not blanked.

The outputs of commands

1) hostname
2) hostname -f
3) postconf -n | grep hostname

are all the same.

billymayday · 11-13-2008, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bittus

The hostname given is MYHOST.MYDOMAIN.com. Its not blanked.

I was looking at the output of postconf -n on page 3.

Anyway, what's the story with your master.cf? Did you copy it from an older installation - may be worth starting with a fresh copy and replacing what you have. That's the real problem though.

Read 3.6 of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

I doubt you are meeting the requirement from the sender side.

You may want to reconsider the HELO restriction.

bittus · 11-13-2008, 07:19 PM

You are right. I copied master.conf from my old server. Is it okay that I just create a new one using vi or vim ?