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Topic: ireEmail on Digital ocean

so i am having a hard time with iRedmail. I am not sure what is missing. I think i followed the right instrcttions to install the software. Now when i try to send email, i get and error message (smpt -1) and the emails are not sent. I am not sure if it is some kind o networking thing or some thing else.
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- iRedMail version: Latest
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- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: ubuntu
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Re: ireEmail on Digital ocean

Any related error message in log files on iRedMail server? e.g. Postfix log file /var/log/mail.log.

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Re: ireEmail on Digital ocean

Hi ..
I see this on mail.err file

Feb 23 06:35:32 domain postfix/smtpd[12808]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

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Re: ireEmail on Digital ocean

*) Did you enable smtp authentication in your mail client program (Outlook/Thunderbird/etc)?
*) What's your Postfix version? You can get it with command "postconf mail_version".
*) And please show us output of command "postconf -n" to help troubleshoot.

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Re: ireEmail on Digital ocean

*) Did you enable smtp authentication in your mail client program (Outlook/Thunderbird/etc)?
I am using roundcube. I didn't really installed it separately.. It was installed when i installed when i followed this tutorial

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ … -12-04-x64

the only other thing i have on my server is LAMP. I believe the smtp gets enabled on it when i create a new user? not sure


*) What's your Postfix version? You can get it with command "postconf mail_version".

version is 2.9.6


*) And please show us output of command "postconf -n" to help troubleshoot.
Here is the output


alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
allow_min_user = no
allow_percent_hack = no
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
bounce_queue_lifetime = 4h
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
delay_warning_time = 0h
disable_vrfy_command = yes
dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1
enable_original_recipient = no
home_mailbox = Maildir/
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = ipv4
mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
mailbox_size_limit = 0
maximal_backoff_time = 4000s
maximal_queue_lifetime = 4h
message_size_limit = 15728640
minimal_backoff_time = 300s
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost, localhost.localdomain, localhost.$myhostname
mydomain = domain.com
myhostname = domain.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mynetworks_style = host
myorigin = domain.com
proxy_read_maps = $canonical_maps $lmtp_generic_maps $local_recipient_maps $mydestination $mynetworks $recipient_bcc_maps $recipient_canonical_maps $relay_domains $relay_recipient_maps $relocated_maps $sender_bcc_maps $sender_canonical_maps $smtp_generic_maps $smtpd_sender_login_maps $transport_maps $virtual_alias_domains $virtual_alias_maps $virtual_mailbox_domains $virtual_mailbox_maps $smtpd_sender_restrictions
queue_run_delay = 300s
readme_directory = no
recipient_bcc_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/recipient_bcc_maps_user.cf, proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/recipient_bcc_maps_domain.cf
recipient_delimiter = +
relay_domains = $mydestination, proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/relay_domains.cf
relayhost =
sender_bcc_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/sender_bcc_maps_user.cf, proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/sender_bcc_maps_domain.cf
smtp-amavis_destination_recipient_limit = 1
smtp_data_init_timeout = 240s
smtp_data_xfer_timeout = 600s
smtp_tls_CAfile = $smtpd_tls_CAfile
smtp_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining
smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions = check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10031
smtpd_helo_required = yes
smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname, reject_invalid_helo_hostname, check_helo_access pcre:/etc/postfix/helo_access.pcre
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unlisted_recipient, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:7777, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10031, permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient = yes
smtpd_reject_unlisted_sender = yes
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = no
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_path = ./dovecot-auth
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sender_login_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/sender_login_maps.cf
smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_sender_login_mismatch, permit_sasl_authenticated
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/iRedMail_CA.pem
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/iRedMail_CA.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/iRedMail.key
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 0
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtpd_use_tls = yes
swap_bangpath = no
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
transport_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/transport_maps_user.cf, proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/transport_maps_domain.cf
virtual_alias_domains =
virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/virtual_alias_maps.cf, proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/domain_alias_maps.cf, proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/catchall_maps.cf, proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/domain_alias_catchall_maps.cf
virtual_gid_maps = static:2000
virtual_mailbox_base = /var/emails/mails
virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/virtual_mailbox_domains.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
virtual_minimum_uid = 2000
virtual_transport = dovecot
virtual_uid_maps = static:2000

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Re: ireEmail on Digital ocean

posffix authenticates SASL users via dovcot. And it doesn't work on your system.

Does dovecot socket exist? See output of:

ls -l /var/spool/postfix/dovecot-auth

The problem seems to be in dovecot (not running/misconfigured) - try to restart dovecot

service restart dovecot

and investigate in dovecot log - in /var/log/dovecot.log

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kfjiwani wrote:

the only other thing i have on my server is LAMP. I believe the smtp gets enabled on it when i create a new user? not sure

This might be the problem.
It's clearly mentioned in iRedMail installation guide that iRedMail requires a fresh server.