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User profile for user: FlorianLeo
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Mail Service is strangely interrupted

Hello everybody,

since the Upgrade from 10.7 to 10.8 the mailservice isn't working like it used to. After the Upgrade Mail-Application on the Apple-Laptops show a green dot when verifying connectivity but the users can't send mails any more 😕



Some interesting output from the CLI

macmini:/ admin$ sudo serveradmin start mail -d

Sending to mail



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>command</key>

<string>setState</string>

<key>state</key>

<string>START</string>

</dict>

</plist>



2012-07-29 21:02:42.507 serveradmin[16849:a07] Error executing: postfix set-permissions: with error: /usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

2012-07-29 21:02:42.970 serveradmin[16849:a07] Error executing: postfix check: with error: /usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: virus_db_update_enabled=1

mail:state = "STARTING"



Not that I wouldn't understand the words - I can find the variable in the main.cf file - still, what does this message exactly mean?


Shell this variable be set to a different value? What are the values?

Shell this variable be removed?


I wonder if this would solve the issue of not being able to use the SMTP via Mail-Application any more.....


Please, somebody who knows what to do, would you mind and help me out?

OS 10.6 and 10.7

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 12:45 PM

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User profile for user: FlorianLeo
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User level: Level 1
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Posted on Jul 30, 2012 4:31 AM

I was able to solve the issue myself 🙂


I spent some time figuring out what is written in the file:

/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/main.cf


and took a closer look to the directories:

  • /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix
  • /private/etc/postfix.




And then I saw that something was different and so I edited the main.cf in the following ways:


change:

smtpd_client_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/smtpdreject cidr:/etc/postfix/smtpdreject.cidr permit_mynetworks

to:

smtpd_client_restrictions = hash:/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/smtpdreject cidr:/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/smtpdreject.cidr permit_mynetworks


change:

alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases

to:

alias_maps = hash:/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/aliases


remove (because there's no such file):

virtual_alias_maps = $virtual_map

add:

virtual_alias_domains = hash:/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/virtual_domains



I hope this will help others, too.

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User profile for user: FlorianLeo
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User level: Level 1
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Aug 11, 2012 1:45 PM in response to Stefan R

Hello Stefan,



Stefan R wrote:


I have created and instered the text into the file. :-)


What character us inbetween "delete ... and ... REJECT"? Speces i guess?



Also... the postmap smtpdreject created the smtpdreject.db but shouldn't it be ".cidr"? Is it just to rename it?



The character used inbetween is TABULATOR 🙂




➖I don't know why some files are available als .db only and others are available as .cidr, too.


⚠The command postmap <path of file> - as far as I know - will produce (depending on your default setting which is usally hash) a .db file. You can change this behavior by explicitly specifieing the datatype at the moment of issuing the postmap-command or by changing the default-behavior of the system - BUT - if you change the default-behavior then this might mean you have to change the values from a lot of variables in the main.cf, too! Details can be found on www.postfix.org.


However, I am happy to hear that you made it!! 😎


Like I said earlier - please - get yourself a book about postfix - you might very well need it if things continue to go on like this with Apple-Servers. I have opened a bugreport-case on this but I don't think that there will be much outcome 😐


I have meanwhile copied both main.cf files to my desktop, deleted ALL comments, alphabetically ordered the variables, and then compared them 😮 what a mess. Some variables are in one file which aren't in the other - some variables have different values then the same variable in the other file - some variables have no value (= so why are they there at all?!)


If some info of mine helped you solving your issue, too, please rate them. Thank you!

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