CentOS 6 & Virtualmin POP3 Problem

You can start by checking the following log for errors -

/var/log/maillog

Hope that helps.

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

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

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 :D

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

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.