On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martin Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > I want to use courier-mta to handle my incoming mails and courier-pop and > imap for clients connecing to my server. system is ubuntu 10.04. following > some tutorials i have accomplished that users can login via pop and imap. > nevertheless on port 25 one can't login (Authentication failed) and every > time a mail is sent to an address that is in hosteddomains and > esmtpacceptmailfor.dir i get an error entry in the log like that: > > May 8 20:24:55 india896 courieresmtpd: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: > Permission denied
What is your output if you run the following command from the commandline authtest [email protected] > Has someone got an idea what i can try to solve this poblem I would suspect that your authentication backend isn't running > (btw why does > accepting mail need a login anyway?) ? It is not necessarily authenticating the sender, it needs to know that the user exists before accepting the email thus eliminating the need for a backscatter bounce, and it also needs to find the users homedir to deliver the mail to. Harry. > Thanks for answers in advance, > > Martin. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
