Hi Everyone!

I'm a newb when it comes to linux of any flavor at least on the administration end so please pardon my lack of knowledge

I am running CentOS 6 and using Virtualmin control panel. I am having an email problem that I haven't found any real documentation on in a google search. My SMTP works just fine but I can not connect to POP3 with my email client.

Anyone have any idea where I can begin to diagnose this problem?

Alan

You can start by checking the following log for errors -
/var/log/maillog

Hope that helps.

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This is my error log for today. If anyone knows what it is telling me I would greatly appreciate it.

Aug 21 03:20:58 li181-199 postfix/smtpd[1447]: fatal: open database /etc/aliasess
.db: No such file or directory
Aug 21 03:20:59 li181-199 postfix/master[24168]: warning: process /usr/libexec/pp
ostfix/smtpd pid 1447 exit status 1
Aug 21 03:20:59 li181-199 postfix/master[24168]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/ss
mtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Aug 21 03:21:59 li181-199 postfix/smtpd[1450]: fatal: open database /etc/aliasess
.db: No such file or directory
Aug 21 03:22:00 li181-199 postfix/master[24168]: warning: process /usr/libexec/pp
ostfix/smtpd pid 1450 exit status 1
Aug 21 03:22:00 li181-199 postfix/master[24168]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/ss
mtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Aug 21 03:23:00 li181-199 postfix/smtpd[1454]: fatal: open database /etc/aliasess
.db: No such file or directory
Aug 21 03:23:01 li181-199 postfix/master[24168]: warning: process /usr/libexec/pp
ostfix/smtpd pid 1454 exit status 1
Aug 21 03:23:01 li181-199 postfix/master[24168]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/ss
mtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Aug 21 03:24:01 li181-199 postfix/smtpd[1458]: fatal: open database /etc/aliasess
.db: No such file or directory
Aug 21 03:24:02 li181-199 postfix/master[24168]: warning: process /usr/libexec/pp
ostfix/smtpd pid 1458 exit status 1

There sseem to be ssome extra 'ss'ess in the passte that are either ssignificant or ssome ssort of passte error.

Running "newaliases" should create the /etc/aliases.db file and make it happy.

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Okay I have done some playing around and so far everything works....EXCEPT...POP3 is still refusing my login from an outside email client. The log file information from /var/log/maillog is listed below. Any ideas would be helpful.

Aug 22 14:07:37 li181-199 postfix/postfix-script[6230]: starting the Postfix maii
l system
Aug 22 14:07:37 li181-199 postfix/master[6232]: daemon started -- version 2.6.6,,
configuration /etc/postfix
Aug 22 14:08:40 li181-199 postfix/smtpd[6980]: fatal: open database /etc/aliasess
.db: No such file or directory
Aug 22 14:08:41 li181-199 postfix/master[6232]: warning: process /usr/libexec/poo
stfix/smtpd pid 6980 exit status 1
Aug 22 14:08:41 li181-199 postfix/master[6232]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smm
tpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Aug 22 14:09:41 li181-199 postfix/smtpd[7596]: fatal: open database /etc/aliasess
.db: No such file or directory
Aug 22 14:09:42 li181-199 postfix/master[6232]: warning: process /usr/libexec/poo
stfix/smtpd pid 7596 exit status 1
Aug 22 14:09:42 li181-199 postfix/master[6232]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smm
tpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Aug 22 14:10:42 li181-199 postfix/smtpd[7742]: fatal: open database /etc/aliasess
.db: No such file or directory
Aug 22 14:10:43 li181-199 postfix/master[6232]: warning: process /usr/libexec/poo
stfix/smtpd pid 7742 exit status 1
Aug 22 14:10:43 li181-199 postfix/master[6232]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smm
tpd: bad command startup -- throttling
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Thanks!

Alan

Oh yeah I did create that file as you had suggested but it did nothing. Is it looking for some sort of database? If so why wouldn't Virtualmin have created that upon install? I guess I don't understand the errors.

P.S. The "s" thing going on is some kind of paste error between my console and this forum.

Alan

Is dovecot running? I had to turn that on manually after installing virtualmin.

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Hmm, so you ran "newaliases" and it did not generate /etc/aliases.db? Hrm. Weird. You can also try "postalias /etc/aliases" which is the postfix-specific command for regenerating that map.

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