Have all these plus dkim-milter.
Was running everything on Mandriva 2009.1 and having no problems. I host my own web, mail, DNS, ftp, etc, plus the same for my brother-in-law's small business, and a couple of friends and local non-profits. I hit my pop3 from work, and use squirrelmail when traveling. My Sister sends and receives pop3 using a dial-up connection on the other side of the country, and uses squirrelmail from work.
Auto updated to Mandriva 2010.0. The update process crashed the first time and locked up the console. After I made sure the process was toast I killed it. Mandriva said update complete and went on as if all was normal. This caused problems because half the software was one version and the rest was older, plus there were boot issues.
Booted manually by twiddling with grub at startup and finished the upgrade with urpmi --auto-update. Kernel files were messed up so downloaded that off my PC and ftp'd it over to the server and installed all that.
Rebooted and everything was fine - everything that was supposed to be running was running. Checked configuration files to make sure nothing was fiddled with. Thought things were OK.
Have discovered several problems. Did basic troubleshooting but unable to determine the cause.
1) The first time a pop3 client (Outlook, Thunderbird) connects and logs in to an account lock files are created in the var/spool/mail directory for the mailboxes accessed. Through some process I don't understand this causes the mail client's receive process to fail with a "mailbox in use" error. If I go in manually with putty and delete those lock files everything on MY network will be fine and live happily ever after - as long as I do not exit and restart the mail client (read exit to go to work so I can see my personal mail at work - home deletes it off the server). This is consistent and 100% repeatable. I thought it was just my Outlook 2007 because it can be flaky, but my 2003 does it at work too, and T-bird does it for my Sister.
2) SquirrelMail will read messages (no lock files, uses IMAP to read), but whether you are on or off my network it will not allow you to send mail to anyone who is not local to my server. It gives a "Relay Access Denied" message. SquirrelMail runs off my server and is accessed via the web without problems. I can send messages to others on my server but no one else off of it. My Sister logging in from her dial-up connection has the same problem and it makes it tough to do business! The system has run flawlessly for years and it was only after the upgrade that problems began.
3)My Sister via her dial-up connection can read her mail if I clear the lock files, but she cannot send out - gets Relay Access Denied. This is using T-bird, and she had no problems before.
One other thing is that I am running AVG 8.5 for linux on there. It is chatting on port 54321. When I look at syslog it appears that AVG is working just fine, and everyone is getting their mail as far as I know, but I occasionally see "127.0.0.1:54321 AVG Connection Refused" (syntax from memory) messages in the log.
My first suspect was an issue with pop-before-smtp because I know if it isn't running I have had issues in the past. I checked it's config and it looks like it is running and keeping the database current. I restarted it on several occasions.
Next suspect was changes to the postfix config files, but I compared them to the rpmnew files and nothing that matters to me looks any different. Restarted that several times.
Next suspect was new load didn't have all the same ports open in the firewall as previously. Checked that and it's OK.
Checked to make sure my Sister's ISP was still reversing out to the same syntax I whitelisted in postfix - no problem there. IP changes every time, but the '@server.bogus.net' part always stays the same and that's what I whitelisted (yeah, I know it's a hole, but a low risk one on a major ISP).
I know there are differences in my /etc/hosts file because it was regenerated with the upgrade. I know that takes precedence over DNS (although I could change that - I prefer not to). I am wondering if the order my aliases appear for 127.0.0.1 and my static IP are having some affect - trying to experiment along those lines. May try reverting that file to a backed-up version.
I checked permissions on all of the mail and other related directories - they are all as they should be.
Anyone have any other ideas for places I haven't looked yet, etc?? Thanks.
Was running everything on Mandriva 2009.1 and having no problems. I host my own web, mail, DNS, ftp, etc, plus the same for my brother-in-law's small business, and a couple of friends and local non-profits. I hit my pop3 from work, and use squirrelmail when traveling. My Sister sends and receives pop3 using a dial-up connection on the other side of the country, and uses squirrelmail from work.
Auto updated to Mandriva 2010.0. The update process crashed the first time and locked up the console. After I made sure the process was toast I killed it. Mandriva said update complete and went on as if all was normal. This caused problems because half the software was one version and the rest was older, plus there were boot issues.
Booted manually by twiddling with grub at startup and finished the upgrade with urpmi --auto-update. Kernel files were messed up so downloaded that off my PC and ftp'd it over to the server and installed all that.
Rebooted and everything was fine - everything that was supposed to be running was running. Checked configuration files to make sure nothing was fiddled with. Thought things were OK.
Have discovered several problems. Did basic troubleshooting but unable to determine the cause.
1) The first time a pop3 client (Outlook, Thunderbird) connects and logs in to an account lock files are created in the var/spool/mail directory for the mailboxes accessed. Through some process I don't understand this causes the mail client's receive process to fail with a "mailbox in use" error. If I go in manually with putty and delete those lock files everything on MY network will be fine and live happily ever after - as long as I do not exit and restart the mail client (read exit to go to work so I can see my personal mail at work - home deletes it off the server). This is consistent and 100% repeatable. I thought it was just my Outlook 2007 because it can be flaky, but my 2003 does it at work too, and T-bird does it for my Sister.
2) SquirrelMail will read messages (no lock files, uses IMAP to read), but whether you are on or off my network it will not allow you to send mail to anyone who is not local to my server. It gives a "Relay Access Denied" message. SquirrelMail runs off my server and is accessed via the web without problems. I can send messages to others on my server but no one else off of it. My Sister logging in from her dial-up connection has the same problem and it makes it tough to do business! The system has run flawlessly for years and it was only after the upgrade that problems began.
3)My Sister via her dial-up connection can read her mail if I clear the lock files, but she cannot send out - gets Relay Access Denied. This is using T-bird, and she had no problems before.
One other thing is that I am running AVG 8.5 for linux on there. It is chatting on port 54321. When I look at syslog it appears that AVG is working just fine, and everyone is getting their mail as far as I know, but I occasionally see "127.0.0.1:54321 AVG Connection Refused" (syntax from memory) messages in the log.
My first suspect was an issue with pop-before-smtp because I know if it isn't running I have had issues in the past. I checked it's config and it looks like it is running and keeping the database current. I restarted it on several occasions.
Next suspect was changes to the postfix config files, but I compared them to the rpmnew files and nothing that matters to me looks any different. Restarted that several times.
Next suspect was new load didn't have all the same ports open in the firewall as previously. Checked that and it's OK.
Checked to make sure my Sister's ISP was still reversing out to the same syntax I whitelisted in postfix - no problem there. IP changes every time, but the '@server.bogus.net' part always stays the same and that's what I whitelisted (yeah, I know it's a hole, but a low risk one on a major ISP).
I know there are differences in my /etc/hosts file because it was regenerated with the upgrade. I know that takes precedence over DNS (although I could change that - I prefer not to). I am wondering if the order my aliases appear for 127.0.0.1 and my static IP are having some affect - trying to experiment along those lines. May try reverting that file to a backed-up version.
I checked permissions on all of the mail and other related directories - they are all as they should be.
Anyone have any other ideas for places I haven't looked yet, etc?? Thanks.
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