Comments on: Debian Mail Server Setup with Postfix + Dovecot + SASL + Squirrel Mail

By: Raveesh Garg

Raveesh Garg — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:28:32 +0000

We are working on RHEL 5 platform on webmail server(Davecot server) and we are facing the problem like when our clients are going to attach the files on their mails it is showing the error message like

Could not move/copy file. File not attach.

So could you please assist us to fix this issue.

By: Lamech De Seth

Lamech De Seth — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:09:52 +0000

Great Tutorial

By: some1

some1 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:52:38 +0000

hi, i already follow instruction, but when I want to login this message appear,

>> Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost:143.
111 : Connection refused

then i used telnet localhost 143, but it connection refused,

anyone can help me?

thanx..

By: Pimmy

Pimmy — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:20:23 +0000

Same as @GioMBG here..

I can send, but I cannot receive. Any guess where to look?

Thanks,

Pimmy

By: alin neaga

alin neaga — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:06:43 +0000

The all configuration went just well on Debian Squeeze! Thanks allot!

By: GioMBG

GioMBG — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:24:54 +0000

I all,
I can send email but I can’t receive and this is the error that I receive from 2 days…
what I can to do?
from email return rejected:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at anothersite.anothersite.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. : 123.9.0.123 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied Giving up on 123.9.0.123.
my postfix logs:
from= to= proto=ESMTP helo= Jul 29 00:12:18 server postfix/smtpd[2635]: disconnect from ns.giombg.net[100.100.100.100] Jul 29 00:15:16 server postfix/smtpd[2640]: connect from ns.giombg.net[100.100.100.100] Jul 29 00:15:16 server postfix/smtpd[2640]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ns.giombg.net[100.100.100.100]: 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied; from= to= proto=ESMTP helo= Jul 29 00:15:16 server postfix/smtpd[2640]: disconnect from ns.giombg.net[100.100.100.100]
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suggestions?
respect
GioMBG

By: Andrei

Andrei — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:01:08 +0000

You roundcube instead iof squirrelmail. You gonna love it.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:26:41 +0000

Aziz you are a legend. I tried everything for 3 days solid. mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir worked magic. Thanks mate.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:41:20 +0000

Have to agree with @Gondo, the send function is only working with the addition of the two lines:

smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

Thanks anyway for the great tutorial.

By: tony

tony — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:49:56 +0000

I installed Dovecot and use Thunderbird to check the connection. I can’t create account in thunderbird.

By: Omar

Omar — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:43:49 +0000

hy, all working squirrel is ok but when i try to use another client setted up with my imap server i receive connection refused, imapd is up and running

pop3 works but i want to use imap any suggestion?

By: Prakash

Prakash — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:15:11 +0000

Hello,
anybody tell me how to connect randomly generated email to Squirrelmail server.
Please reply me thankx.

By: wolfy

wolfy — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:01:16 +0000

hy boys. i have a little problem. I modify the dovecot.conf. after i try restarting dovecot. but the answer is : dovecot error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 831: Unknown setting: mechanisms Fatal: invalid configuration in etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
Please help me.

By: Huan

Huan — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:04:29 +0000

What if you just peruse the logfile manually, perhaps using the “less” command and jumping to the end of the file, rather than grepping for “dovecot”?

By: gondo

gondo — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:12:37 +0000

hi, thanks for tutorail, i am trying to make it work right now, following couple tutorials and just found out that you are missing this settings in main.cf:
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
without this i wans not able to sent any email from my account via thunderbird.

By: misc

misc — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:06:12 +0000

The connection to the server has failed. Account: ‘mail.saudivalves.com’, Server: ‘mail.saudivalves.com’, Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

By: misc

misc — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:00:07 +0000

before configuring the sasl everything working fine but after configuring this I get the error on client outlook:
error message from the outlook express:

By: Rashid Iqbal

Rashid Iqbal — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:51:10 +0000

before configuring the sasl everything working fine but after configuring this I get the error on client outlook:
error message from the outlook express:

By: Rashid Iqbal

Rashid Iqbal — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:46:40 +0000

Thanks for the help

I reconfigure the postfix and can successfully send/receive the emails within the internal network now after configuring the SASL
I configure the outlook express “My server required authentication” and after that I tried to send/receive the eamil from outlook express but the getting the below error:

error message from the outlook express:

after that I configure the mail client on my mail server and send/receive the email and then tries to send an email to my hotmail account but getting below error under the /var/log/maillog file

taill -f /var/log/maillog

Jul 15 08:24:39 localhost postfix/smtpd[9308]: connect from mail.saudivalves.com[127.0.0.1]
Jul 15 08:24:51 localhost postfix/smtpd[9308]: ACE851C0377: client=mail.saudivalves.com[127.0.0.1], sasl_method=PLAIN, sasl_username=rashid
Jul 15 08:24:51 localhost postfix/cleanup[9429]: ACE851C0377: message-id=
Jul 15 08:24:51 localhost postfix/qmgr[8881]: ACE851C0377: from=, size=1478, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 15 08:24:51 localhost postfix/smtp[9430]: connect to saudivalves.com[192.168.12.4]: Connection refused (port 25)
Jul 15 08:24:51 localhost postfix/smtp[9430]: ACE851C0377: to=, relay=none, delay=0.15, delays=0.13/0.02/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to saudivalves.com[192.168.12.4]: Connection refused)

Kindly help me to sort out this problem

Regards,

Rashid

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:35:49 +0000

Like Vera & Yasin, I too am getting the dreaded:
Message not sent. Server replied:

Service not available, closing channel
421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfo5LDR9UQ022336 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=110): No such file or directory

From sending inside Squirel Mail (attached to ISPConfig 3.x).
Any assistance or direction pointing would be much appreciated.
Thank you,

Edward.