thanks for your quick reply.
I don’t know if the connection string is correct.. how can i check it?
I only know that dbuser, dbname, dbpass and other variables for connection are ok…

yeah, the DB structure changed from the Etch to the Lenny ISPMail tutorial, so some changes in the db queries are necessary. I’m still running this setup and didn’t have time yet to write a follow-up tutorial.

To the script issue: it’s using the standard PEAR_Db class, which should work fine, db.inc.php is just a simple wrapper around the class. Are you sure your connection string is correct?

Regards,
Mathias


vmail@serverino:/home/stefano$ php /var/vmail/mailserverscripts/fetchmail.php
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'DB_DSN_Exception' with message 'DB Error: connect failed' in /var/vmail/mailserverscripts/db.inc.php:35
Stack trace:
#0 /var/vmail/mailserverscripts/db.inc.php(18): MailserverDB->__construct()
#1 /var/vmail/mailserverscripts/config.inc.php(14): MailserverDB::getInstance()
#2 /var/vmail/mailserverscripts/fetchmail.php(4): require_once('/var/vmail/mail...')
#3 {main}
thrown in /var/vmail/mailserverscripts/db.inc.php on line 35
vmail@serverino:/home/stefano$


ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column ‘virtual_users.user’ in ‘field list’

What’s wrong?!?!

Regards

toni

Recently, I found a problem when I try to use postfix as an smtp server in the same server.

Say, there are some email accounts below I am handling in this server:
andy@gmail.com
peter@gmail.com
mary@gmail.com

When I send email to andy@gmail.com via the smtp server in the same server, the email can reach immediately without going to gmail official server.

That’s great with this kind of instand action.

However, when I send email, via the smtp server, to other account other than the account i manage in this server, say watermelon@gmail.com, I got an error message something like:
“User unknown in virtual mailbox table.”

If I send to watermelon@hotmail.com, there is no problem.

In my understand, after the setting, my server treat “gmail.com” is my own domain. For all the email sending via my server to gmail.com, it will directly deliver to the user in my server.

This make me headache.
At this moment, I am not able to send email via my server to any other friends’ gmail account.

Are there any way to solve this problem?

I was lookin’ for a fetchmail-mysql-backend, but your way is nice, too.

This made my day :-)

– Mathias

So I’ trying at the moment to use only the fetchmail options ;-)

So I deleted .dovecot.sieve and re-run the php commands under vmail and it works. No more error.

The last thing (I hope) that needed to be fixed is that spams are still being quarantined and not sieved to spam folder (as it was supposed to according to the ISP Mailserver’s globalsieverc script… Any ideas?

I’m a bit thick when it comes to this linux thing (I’ve been using linux for almost a year now)…

I’m having issues with the permission of .dovecot.sieve that keeps being denied. I checked using “ln -l” and it says the file is owned by root.
Should I change it? What should I change it to?

The fetchmail & sieve cron is also generating permission error. I’m getting these errors via email It says:

fopen(/home/vmail/mydomain/myuser/.dovecot.sieve): failed to open stream:
Permission denied in /home/vmail/mailserverscripts/sieve.php on line 37

fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
/home/vmail/mailserverscripts/sieve.php on line 38

fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
/home/vmail/mailserverscripts/sieve.php on line 39

chmod(): Operation not permitted in /home/vmail/mailserverscripts/sieve.php
on line 41

Thanks so much for helping

– Mathias

And Thank You for the google script too. I’ll give this a go.

set syslog
set postmaster postmaster@example.com
set no bouncemail

defaults:
timeout 300
sslproto ssl23

# -------------------------

poll pop.googlemail.com
        proto pop3
        port 995
        user "username@gmail.com"
        pass "password"
        is username@example.com
        ssl

Meanwhile you can help yourself by editing the .fetchmailrc manually, I’ll update the script as soon as possible (or don’t hesitate to send me your patches if you get your hands dirty )

– Mathias

Regarding you fetchmail problem: I was experiencing problems with a specific host (an exchange server with a self-signed certificate) too. Altough the login data was correct and I could login via telnet or a mail client without problems the server still claimed the username/password was wrong and the fetchmail call ended up with AUTHFAILED. The only solution I found to solve this was adding the line auth password (as found on this german thread: http://www.ureader.de/msg/1198736.aspx) to the account config. Unfortunately, the script can’t do this at the moment, but as soon as I got some spare time I’ll add the functionality to the script. Meanwhile you could try to add the line manually to your generated .fetchmailrc to try if this makes the difference. If not, please try to post the full (anonymized) log from a fetchmail call. I’m not really familiar with fetchmail either, just got this to work as wanted with the described config. But maybe we could investigate further with the logfile.

Concerning the general howto: I just implemented sieve rule management with Dovecot’s ManageSieve server and Horde/Thunderbird as frontend…works really nice and is much more comfortable than the solution descibed here. I’ll post a howto on this blog as soon as I find the time to document the setup.

– Mathias

Can I ask you 1 question though? I’ve followed the how to from end to end. I’ve read it several times, and it seems that my setup is working except that I’m getting (in /var/log/mail.log):
fetchmail: Server CommonName: my-ssh.com:mydomain.com ….
and ended up with AUTHFALIED everytime I run fetchmail.

Can you tell me what I’m, doing wrong? I’ve also tried this on gmail, but was unable to retrieve anything.

No everything works again fine – but it was hard to find this error. I started the original tutorial again from beginning to find this problem.

protocol lda {
    log_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log
    auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
    postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com
    mail_plugins = cmusieve
    global_script_path = /home/vmail/globalsieverc
}