Hi OK ... but I did do some more invesitigation as you suggested ... this is what my logs are saying... when I send from stay_athome at hotmail.com to my courier account liamp at 212.212.6.230
Nov 3 18:01:40 newyork2 courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:216.33.148.171] Nov 3 18:01:45 newyork2 courieresmtpd: error,relay=::ffff:216.33.148.171,from=<stay_athome at hotmail.com>,to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 550 User unknown. the hotmail bounces with: Reporting-MTA: dns;hotmail.com Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com Arrival-Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 10:05:49 -0800 Final-Recipient: rfc822;liamp at 212.212.6.230 Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 User unknown. As I said previously I can authenticate successfully with that use using IMAP - so something is up. I based my install on http://www.tonybibbs.com/courier-howto.html which is wrong in places but it got me started. I am using /home/courierusers for the location for my virtual mailboxes. it containf the following directory: liamp at 212.212.6.230 (note replacing at -> @ but then again you probably figured that out ;-) ) according to his how to I configured maildrop as instructed: You will need to edit /usr/lib/courier/etc/courierd and search for DEFAULTDELIVERY and make sure it is set to /usr/lib/courier/bin/maildrop esmtpacceptmailfor has amongst other things the following entries: newyork2 212.212.6.230 If there is anything else you need to help me - or I have missed please shout and I will provide! Thanks for the help so far L. >OK, well send us some logs as mail arrives to the system and send us any relevant .courier >iles or maildrop files. > Typically everything you need to know is logged. > The problem is when i send say from a hotmail account to the courier server the mail never arrives - and I can't figure out what its doing... Do you have incoming esmtp enabled? Telnet to your port 25, see what happens. > Hi > > I have been struggling with getting my courier install up and running > for the past few days - I think I am nearly there but am missing > something small - I think. > > My config - Clean Redhat 7.3 install. > courier-0.39.3, authdaemon, maildir/maildrop, using couriers sendmail > > Currently - courier is succefully up - with IMAP and smtp. > I can send mail from my mail client (outlook and NS7) by playing the > mail in the Outbox folder - which it then sends (using the IMAP > protocol - which I think is very neat as I don't have to worry about > opening the SMTP port). > > The problem is when i send say from a hotmail account to the courier > server the mail never arrives - and I can't figure out what its > doing... > > I'm assuming I haven't configured maildir/maildrop correctly... but > i can't figure out where I went wrong: > > ANy pointers appreciated!!! > > Thanks > > L. > > my configuration settings: > > userdb - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > home=/home/courierusers|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|systempw=9 To.CxnAU8BXc|gid=502|uid=502 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > home=/home/courierusers|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|systempw=iD6l3Jw H9imIY|gid=502|uid=502 > > imapd - > > ##VERSION: $Id: imapd.dist.in,v 1.14 2002/06/12 13:55:10 mrsam Exp $ > ADDRESS=0 > PORT=143 > > ##NAME: AUTHSERVICE:0 > # > MAXDAEMONS=40 > > ##NAME: MAXPERIP:0 > > MAXPERIP=4 > > ##NAME: PIDFILE:0 > > PIDFILE=/usr/lib/courier/var/tmp/imapd.pid > > ##NAME: TCPDOPTS:0 > > TCPDOPTS="-nodnslookup -noidentlookup" > > ##NAME: AUTHMODULES:0 > > AUTHMODULES="authdaemon" > > ##NAME: AUTHMODULES_ORIG:0 > # For use by webadmin > > AUTHMODULES_ORIG="authdaemon" > > ##NAME: IMAP_CAPABILITY:0 > IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT > THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA" > > ##NAME: IMAP_CAPABILITY_ORIG:0 > > IMAP_CAPABILITY_ORIG="IMAP4rev1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE > THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT AUTH=CRAM-MD5 > AUTH=CRAM-SHA1 IDLE" > > ##NAME: IMAP_IDLE_TIMEOUT:0 > > ##NAME: IMAP_CAPABILITY_TLS:0 > > IMAP_CAPABILITY_TLS="$IMAP_CAPABILITY AUTH=PLAIN" > > ##NAME: IMAP_TLS_ORIG:0 > > IMAP_CAPABILITY_TLS_ORIG="$IMAP_CAPABILITY_ORIG AUTH=PLAIN" > > ##NAME: IMAP_DISABLETHREADSORT:0 > > ##NAME: IMAP_CHECK_ALL_FOLDERS:0 > > IMAP_CHECK_ALL_FOLDERS=0 > > ##NAME: IMAP_OBSOLETE_CLIENT:0 > IMAP_OBSOLETE_CLIENT=0 > > ##NAME: IMAP_ULIMITD:0 > > IMAP_ULIMITD=65536 > > ##NAME: IMAP_USELOCKS:0 > > IMAP_USELOCKS=0 > > ##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0 > # > IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7 > > ##NAME: IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH:0 > # > > IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH=0 > > > ##NAME: OUTBOX:0 > > #liammc commented out > OUTBOX=.Outbox > > ##NAME: SENDMAIL:0 > # > > SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail > > ##NAME: HEADERFROM:0 > > HEADERFROM=X-IMAP-Sender > > ##NAME: IMAPDSTART:0 > > IMAPDSTART=NO ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
