Saturday, June 12, 2010

Mailarchiva Error

If you have received this error message  from Mailarchiva

"There are messages available in the no archive queue. This could mean that something is misconfigured. Total queued messages"

Make sure all configuration are correct based on the configuration document.Double check whether you have added volume for mail archiving .And make sure ,changes to be made to the configuration files of the Mail servers (postfix) are modified based on the document.

Open source tool for mail archiving - MailArchiva

Use MailArchiva for mail archiving.

Basic requirements .Postfix and fetchmail

Download location :  Download based on your OS


http://www.mailarchiva.com/downloads.php

For administration Guide  download here
http://docs.ipswitch.com/_Messaging/Archiving/MailArchivaAdminGuideV2.1.pdf

For postfix add these 2 lines into main.cf

milter_default_action=tempfail
smtpd_milters=inet:{arhiva servers IP:8092}

Now you can archive your mails effectively.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Not able to send mails

If you have received below mentioned messages in your log.

============================================
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

    The mail system
    ===========

    ************s@vsnl.com>: host m**.***.*et[203.200.235.142] said: 550 5.7.1 Mail
    from 122.165.*.* blocked using Trend Micro Email Reputation database.
    Please see :
    ******@vsnl.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)
    Reporting-MTA: dns; ama*.**********i.net
    X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 2382***8065
    X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; ************@**********i.net
   Arrival-Date: Thu,  3 Jun 2010 11:22:46 +0530 (IST)
   Action: failed
   Status: 5.7.1

   ======================================================

Then your mailing system has been listed in Realtime Blockhole List (RBL). Try to remove your static ip from this site www.mail-abuse.com.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Download mails to Outlook express using postfix,fetchmail,Dovecot

Configure Postfix, Fetchmail and Dovecot .Check all these services are running.Configure Outlook express with this mail server. Now you download mails from your pop3 mail server.

For configuration,testing  and error corrections check other related postings.

Installing Dovecot

Find your linux version

#uname -a     - gives you the version of the OS  x86 or X86-64

Based on that sdownload Dovecot from here  http://www.dovecot.org/download.html

If it needs   libmysqlclient .so.15  download it's RPM from here http://rpm.pbone.net/

Edit /etc/dovecot.conf
========================================================
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s

auth default {
mechanisms = plain login
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}
}
=========================================================

Not able to add printer in windows 2003

Change this group policy.

Group policy  -- User configuration -- Administrative templates -- control panel -- Printer -- Prevent addition for printers   >>> Disable this settings  .

Now add printers

Mutt - Not a mailbox error

If you have received " Not a mailbox" error from mutt .Try to set MAIL environmental variable to correct directory location.If your are using Postfix and Fetchmail.Then mail fetched by Fetchmail will be available at /home/postfix/Maildir.

So set  #export MAIL=/home/postfix/Maildir

This will solve the problem