From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 16:23:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E1B37B405 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:23:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E4A43E54 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Received: from getafix.perimeter.co.za (ndf-dial-196-30-125-143.mweb.co.za [196.30.125.143]) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6ANNOT19885; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:23:25 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Patrick O'Reilly" Reply-To: bsd@perimeter.co.za Organization: Perimeter Networks CC To: Stephen Hovey Subject: Re: Courier Authentication problems - Anyone? Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:31:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207110131.57312.bsd@perimeter.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen, thanks for responding so quickly... On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:09, Stephen Hovey wrote: > I know I had a problem if the user didnt have any inbox dir > structure. So when I make a user, I send them an email first - then > it logs in fine.. Ok - this gets stranger. I tried sending mail from root, and from=20 another user on the localhost. The mail dissappears. In=20 /var/log/maillog I see this (sorry - it is a bit long and the wrapping=20 will probably be a mess) : --- Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: newmsg,id=3D0010504B.3D2CBF93.00000125 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd:=20 id=3D0010504B.3D2CBF93.00000125,from=3D,addr= =3D:=20 550 User unknown. Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd:=20 id=3D0010504B.3D2CBF93.00000125,from=3D,addr= =3D,status:=20 failure Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: completed,id=3D0010504B.3D2CBF93.0000012= 5 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd:=20 started,id=3D0010504B.3D2CBF93.00000125,from=3D<>,module=3Ddsn,host=3D,ad= dr=3D Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=3Dnone, wakeup=20 time=3Dnone, queuedelivering=3D1, inprogress=3D1 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: newmsg,id=3D00105206.3D2CBF93.00000127 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd:=20 id=3D00105206.3D2CBF93.00000127,from=3D<>,addr=3D:=20 550 User unknown. Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd:=20 id=3D00105206.3D2CBF93.00000127,from=3D<>,addr=3D,status:=20 failure Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: completed,id=3D00105206.3D2CBF93.0000012= 7 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=3Dnone, wakeup=20 time=3Dnone, queuedelivering=3D2, inprogress=3D1 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd:=20 started,id=3D00105206.3D2CBF93.00000127,from=3D<>,module=3Ddsn,host=3D,ad= dr=3D Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: completed,id=3D0010504B.3D2CBF93.0000012= 5 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=3Dnone, wakeup=20 time=3Dnone, queuedelivering=3D1, inprogress=3D1 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: newmsg,id=3D0010520E.3D2CBF93.00000129 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd:=20 id=3D0010520E.3D2CBF93.00000129,from=3D<#@[]>,addr=3D:=20 550 User unknown. Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd:=20 id=3D0010520E.3D2CBF93.00000129,from=3D<#@[]>,addr=3D,status:=20 failure Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: completed,id=3D0010520E.3D2CBF93.0000012= 9 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=3Dnone, wakeup=20 time=3Dnone, queuedelivering=3D1, inprogress=3D1 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: completed,id=3D00105206.3D2CBF93.0000012= 7 Jul 11 01:13:23 obelix courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=3DThu Jul 11=20 01:59:14 2002, wakeup time=3DThu Jul 11 01:59:14 2002, queuedelivering=3D= 0,=20 inprogress=3D0 --- Notice that all accounts, even root, return an error 550!!! > Also, are you doing virtual email? For that you have to remember the > @domain in the login. I dunno? The accounts you see above (peri & testpop3 & root) are all in=20 /etc/passwd! I've only put testpop3 in /usr/local/etc/userdb for=20 testing purposes - but still no cigar. Should I try=20 'testpop3@perimeter.co.za' in userdb? Or, any other ideas? --=20 Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. Perimeter Networks CC. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message