[SLE] Seeking help with mail-server setup

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Date: 08/29/05

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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:03:32 -0400

    Hello list.

    SuSE 9.3.

    I've been using my tower PC as a desktop, getting my mail directly from my
    ISP's POP server with Kmail and sending directly from Kmail to the ISP's
    SMTP server. I acquired an old laptop that I intend to use for regular
    desktop stuff, and want to move the tower to a server role.

    So, I thought I'd set fetchmail to get my mail from the ISP onto the tower,
    then use CyrusIMAP to serve my mailreader on the laptop. I understand that
    postfix has to be in there somewhere (at least for the outgoing mail being
    sent to the ISP's SMTP server, and probably for some other part of handling
    - not clear on that.
    By the way, I don't have static IP from my ISP (I can get for an extra ten
    or twenty bucks per month if that will make a difference.)

    I've never done anything with mail servers before.

    I used YaST and invoked "Network Services > Mail Transfer Agent".
    I filled in my best guesses of what it was asking for, as it went through
    configuring a few apps. I did that twice because the first time, I didn't
    have CyrusIMAP installed.

    I'm still using KMail on that same computer until I get the server stuff
    working, so I left Fetchmail set to the default interval of 600 seconds, and
    set Kmail to fetch at a longer interval of 30 minutes, to ensure that
    fetchmail would usually find something to fetch.
    At 16:03 yesterday, two messages from another mailing list were grabbed and
    put into /var/spool/mail (also /var/mail) in a file called "elefino" (my ID
    on that computer... I'm writing from my work account "mlist" at this
    moment). That's the only mail I've seen that fetchmail might have handled.

    The fetchmail log says that it has retrieved several more messages in the
    hours since four o'clock yesterday afternoon, but I don't know where they
    are going. I looked in /var/spool/postfix, and it has a nice structure of
    directories
    including active, bounce, corrupt, defer, deferred, flush, hold, incoming,
    maildrop... Half of them were created/modified in March (when this
    version of SuSE was released) and the rest were created yesterday. They
    all appear empty. I have to view them as root, because of the permissions.

    My thought was that after I re-did the YaST "Network Services > Mail
    Transfer Agent" setup, with CyrusIMAP available, the destination where
    fetchmail puts incoming messages might have changed... but where?

    Does fetchmail hand off directly to CyrusIMAP? or is it Postfix that handles
    it between fetchmail and CyrusIMAP? I looked in a couple of fetchmail text
    files but didn't see anything about setting the drop location for fetched
    mail.

    Somewhere I read about port 25? But how does that translate to where files
    would go? I'm not clear about what application is now watching the place
    where fetchmail puts things, and what that application would be doing. Is it
    CyrusIMAP itself? or is it some intermediary? Where do I find out?

    Here's my postconf output, if that's any help.

    inux:~ # postconf -n
    alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
    biff = no
    canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical
    command_directory = /usr/sbin
    config_directory = /etc/postfix
    daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
    debug_peer_level = 2
    defer_transports =
    disable_dns_lookups = no
    html_directory = /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/html
    inet_interfaces = all
    inet_protocols = all
    mail_owner = postfix
    mail_spool_directory = /var/mail <-- only two messages ever went there
    mailbox_command =
    mailbox_size_limit = 0
    mailbox_transport =
    mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
    manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
    masquerade_classes = envelope_sender, header_sender, header_recipient
    masquerade_domains = chip.monk.ca <-- a joke... did I break anything?
    masquerade_exceptions = root
    message_size_limit = 10240000
    mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain,$mydomain
    myhostname = linux.site
    newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
    queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
    readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/README_FILES
    relayhost = mail.magma.ca
    relocated_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relocated
    sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/samples
    sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical
    sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
    setgid_group = maildrop
    smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
    smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
    smtp_sasl_security_options =
    smtp_use_tls = no
    smtpd_client_restrictions =
    smtpd_helo_required = no
    smtpd_helo_restrictions =
    smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
    smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no
    smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access
    smtpd_use_tls = no
    strict_rfc821_envelopes = no
    transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
    unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550

    Anybody see anything informative? Anything that needs to change?
    Is there a good HowTo that tells how these programs connect to each other in
    the simple config that I'm trying to set up?

    Thanks,

    Kevin (who has mail..... somewhere)

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