Question setting up linux server for email

nlraley · 10-29-2009, 01:50 PM

I was setting up a ubuntu server for testing a new email setup, our users are currently getting a ton of emails and/or getting false blocks from SORBS which the previous administrator here had set up, so I've been looking to try out a few alternatives.

I was following a guild for setting this all up with a system with as much similarities as possible to our current email system.

However, when I was almost finished with the guide I reached the step on page 4 To see if Postfix is ready for SMTP-AUTH and TLS, run telnet localhost 25 After you have established the connection to your Postfix mail server type ehlo localhost.

I connect but I cannot issue the ehlo commands.

I've followed this guide step by step but during the setups there were several steps that required me to enter password = mail_admin_password. Now do I literally type the mail_admin_password or do I actually type out the password I created for the mail_admin account?

This is about the only thing I can think of that I hadn't followed 100% throughout this setup.

If this isn't the cause does anyone have any ideas as to what may be wrong?
I found the guide here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-us...-ubuntu9.04-p2

Thanks in advance.

EricTRA · 11-08-2009, 04:18 AM

Hello,

When you setup the database in MySQL following the instructions from that howto it told you to execute the following:

Code:

mysqladmin -u root -p create mail

Next to grant permissions to that database using:

Code:

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON mail.* TO 'mail_admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mail_admin_password';
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON mail.* TO 'mail_admin'@'localhost.localdomain' IDENTIFIED BY 'mail_admin_password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Normally it's the goal that you substitute mail_admin and mail_admin_password for your own, for example harry as user and potter123 as password.

Those are the user name and password that you had to use throughout the entire howto if asked.

Did you do it like that?

Kind regards,

Eric