Mail setup from YaST2 console

luftwaffe · 09-01-2010, 08:34 AM

Hi There,

I have a virtual machine what I just started to setup and causing me quite a bit of headache with the mail server setup. What I did so far:
- Start yast
- Network Services
- Mail Server
- Advanced (I would like to get postfix); get packages installed
...Next

" Your computer is configured as an LDAP client and the LDAP server is local.
We suggest you adapt the LDAP server configuration for the mail server...."

[x] Create certificates.
[x] Set up a local LDAP server.
[x] Configure dedicated LDAP server.
...Next

CA Selection
I created a new CA so CA Tree contains just one element.
.. Finish

LDAP Server Configuration
Start LDAP Server
(x) Yes
Protocol Listeners
[x] LDAP
[x] LDAP over IPC (ldapi)
.. OK

Error
Connection to the LDAP server cannot be established.

After checking ([x]) Show Details, it shows:
Protocol error
unsupported extended operation

Then it asks for LDAP server password, and then shows:
Error
A problem occured while connecting to the LDAP server.
init

I am not a big guru with this (a c++ sw engineer who tries to setup a mail server for his own use) and have this trouble for a few days. Would someone be able to help me out please? I expected yast to do the configurations right but am really sad that it does not work...

Thanks

jamrock · 09-01-2010, 09:54 AM

It is best to learn Postfix in stages. When you have understood each stage you can move on to the next one. I would recommend the following approach:

Install Postfix
Do a basic configuration using Linux accounts
Configure Postfix to work with OpenLDAP
Configure Postfix to work with SSL

Step 3 is optional. You will need to have a reasonable understanding of OpenLDAP to do it.

Please use the following document to do the basic configuration:

http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html

hua · 09-01-2010, 02:29 PM

From site: http://man.sourcentral.org/SLES11/8+slapd

Quote:

The URLs should be of the LDAP, LDAPS, or LDAPI schemes, and generally without a DN or other optional parameters (excepting as discussed below). Support for the latter two schemes depends on selected configuration options.

Did you tried to disable the "LDAP over IPC (ldapi)" parameter?
I did use YAST several years ago on SuSE 10. I encountered several bugs in its configuration utilities ... so it looks like that doesn't changed.
Under bugs I mean - it do not check the consistency of the configuration you selected. So it can happen that you are required to configure some other services for using LDAP over IPC, which (I think) you does not really need.