Re: Debian Newbie: Postfix & cyrus-imapd question HELP PLEASE
Quoting James Marcinek <jmarc1@jemconsult.biz>:
> Hello everyone,
>
Hi. There is no need to put "HELP PLEASE" in your subject. The assumption
around here is typically that those people asking questions do so because
they need help.
> I'm in the process of getting an OpenGroupware install on a Debian system.
> I'm
> using Postfix and cyrus-imapd as I've had success in the past on Red
> Hat/Fedora.
> This is my first experience with a Debian release and with the exception of
> getting cyrus configured (and accessible), everything is up and running. The
> MTA
> is configured and tested. The default Debian was to run in a chrooted
> environment. I modified the postfix configuration files (master.cf) to
> change
> this to a non-chrooted environment as I'm using lmtp.
>
It would be very helpful if you were to specify which release of Debian
and/or what versions of cyrus, postfix, and opengroupware you are using.
> Now I'm neither a Debian Postfix or cyrus expert to start, but I do have
> this
> running on my RHEL 3 system and I haven't really had any issues. I have the
> autoquotacreate set to -1 which will allow the addition of mailboxes
> automatically, so I've never had to manually add mailboxes.
>
You have autoquotacreate set to -1 on RHEL, Debian or both? Also, on which
systems does it function as expected?
> One of the problems I've had is I can't access cyradm with the cyrus user
> account? Per some of the system doc's I added the cyrus user with the:
> saslpasswd2 -c cyrus
Was the cyrus user not added to the system for you by the install scripts?
> command and verified this with the: sasldblistusers2. When I try to use
> cyradmin
> this still doesn't allow connection. I know that those commands are part of
> cyrus-sasl but at this point I'm reaching because I've compared settings to
> my
> working configuration of Postfix and cyrus... I've tried starting the
> saslauthd
> directory but no processes are running after I issue the command, and the
> exit
> code I get is 0 with no errors.
>
Check your saslauth configuration and /etc/inetd/conf. If it is set to
run as a deamon, you will alwyas see the process running. If it is set to
run from inetd, then you will see a process when a connection is active.
Also check your /etc/hosts.allow to make sure that the connections are
allowed.
> Can someone help me out here? In addition to the above:
>
> - How do I get into the cyradmin with the cyrus account? I've set a password
> up
> for the user ID but I can't login?
>
Try this (as root):
# su - cyrus -c "cyradm -user cyrus localhost"
It should prompt you for the password.
> - Do I still have to add the imap and pop3 lines to /etc/inet.d or is this
> controlled by cyrmaster? I seen docs indicating to put the lines in and
> ones
> stating to remove (from inetd.conf)
>
On my system, they are in inetd.conf
> - Do I have to use saslauthd?
>
Depends on what for. There are a number of different ways to authenticate
users.
> - Is there a way I can verify if postfix is not running chrooted?
>
Check /etc/postfix/master.cf. If the line for smtp has a y in the chroot
column, then yes it is, otherwise not.
> I've been all of the place reviewing docs and what not. Any help would
> relieve
> my growing headache!
If you tell us which docs you have tried, we might be able to give you
better alternatives.
>
> thanks,
>
> James
-Roberto Sanchez
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