Postfix on Mandriva Gateway for Exchange

10-24-2007	#1 (permalink)
gregnottage Just Joined! Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4	Postfix on Mandriva Gateway for Exchange Hi, I'm running Mandriva 2008 One and I've attempted to follow this how-to guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/mandriva_p...virus_exchange I'm trying to configure Postfix to scan inbound and outbound smtp mail on my network. We use Exchange 2003 internally on a Windows 2003 domain. I also have an ISA firewall sat at the border, so the Mandriva machine is behind this ISA box. I have email flowing just fine without using the Mandriva box. So when I have Exchange setup to route external SMTP through the ISA server using the IP of the ISA server as a smarthost, it all works fine inbound and outbound. As soon as I set the smarthost IP on the Exchange server to point to the Mandriva machine, email stops flowing. I'm a total newb with Linux, so please be gentle I don't even know where to look on the Mandriva box to see if mail is being received into any of the queues? I have tried telnetting to the Mandriva box using port 25, and I think it connects - I don't see any message saying it couldn't establish a connection - but I also don't see what I would class as an SMTP connected notice? I have disabled the firewall on the Mandriva box - as a temporary measure, to see if that made a difference but unfortunately it hasn't so far. Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated!!! Thanks and kind regards, Greg.

10-25-2007

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gregnottage

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Hi Guys,

After a bit more digging around, I've found the following information contained in the Postfix logs:

/var/log/mail/info.log:

Code:

Oct 25 09:28:16 tlvmmail1 spamd[5868]: prefork: child states: II 
Oct 25 09:28:16 tlvmmail1 spamd[5868]: prefork: child states: II 
Oct 25 09:28:16 tlvmmail1 postfix/postfix-script[7445]: stopping the Postfix mail system 
Oct 25 09:28:16 tlvmmail1 postfix/master[6961]: terminating on signal 15 
Oct 25 09:29:47 tlvmmail1 postfix/postfix-script[5684]: starting the Postfix mail system 
Oct 25 09:29:47 tlvmmail1 postfix/master[5685]: daemon started -- version 2.4.5, configuration /etc/postfix 
Oct 25 09:29:48 tlvmmail1 amavis[5146]: starting.  /usr/sbin/amavisd at tlvmmail1 amavisd-new-2.5.2 (20070627), Unicode aware 
Oct 25 09:29:48 tlvmmail1 amavis[5146]: Perl version               5.008008 
Oct 25 09:29:50 tlvmmail1 spamd[4948]: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf": use_dcc1 
Oct 25 09:29:50 tlvmmail1 spamd[4948]: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf": dcc_timeout 10 
Oct 25 09:29:50 tlvmmail1 spamd[4948]: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf": dcc_home /var/lib/dcc 
Oct 25 09:29:50 tlvmmail1 spamd[4948]: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf": dcc_path /usr/bin/dccproc 
Oct 25 09:29:51 tlvmmail1 spamd[4948]: logger: removing stderr method 
Oct 25 09:30:00 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: rules: meta test FM_DDDD_TIMES_2 has dependency 'FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D' with a zero score 
Oct 25 09:30:00 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: rules: meta test FM_SEX_HOSTDDDD has dependency 'FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D' with a zero score 
Oct 25 09:30:00 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: rules: meta test HS_PHARMA_1 has dependency 'HS_SUBJ_ONLINE_PHARMACEUTICAL' with a zero score 
Oct 25 09:30:01 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: spamd: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.2.3) 
Oct 25 09:30:01 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: spamd: server pid: 5818 
Oct 25 09:30:01 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 6048 
Oct 25 09:30:01 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 6049 
Oct 25 09:30:01 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: prefork: child states: II

/var/log/mail/warnings.log:

Code:

Oct 25 09:29:47 tlvmmail1 postfix/postfix-script[5603]: warning: group or other writable: /etc/postfix/./main.cf 
Oct 25 09:29:47 tlvmmail1 postfix/postfix-script[5625]: warning: group or other writable: /etc/postfix/./main.cf~ 
Oct 25 09:29:47 tlvmmail1 postfix/postfix-script[5641]: warning: group or other writable: /etc/postfix/./main.cf.orig 
Oct 25 09:29:53 tlvmmail1 spamd[5818]: razor2: razor2 check failed: No such file or directory razor2: Can't read conf file: /root/.razor/razor-agent.conf at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/Razor2.pm line 326.

The /var/log/mail/errors.log file was empty

I assume that this means the config is not quite right yet?

Any advice based on the above logfile contents is greatly appreciated!

Thanks and kind regards,

Greg.

10-25-2007	#3 (permalink)
gregnottage Just Joined! Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4	OK, I've fixed all those errors and I'm making some progress It now appears as though my problem lies with Amavisd. Having Googled for this, I should be able to telnet to 127.0.01 on port 10025 - but this is not working. I've tried to amend the amavisd.conf file and now when I issue the command amavisd reload, I get the following error: The amavisd daemon is apparently not running, no PID file /var/lib/amavis/amavisd.pid Any ideas why that's occurring and how I should fix it? Should I just re-install Amavisd and start over? Thanks, Greg.

10-26-2007

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gregnottage

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OK, I did manage to get Amavisd to run now after using the amavisd debug command and fixing what was wrong there. I can telnet to 127.0.0.1 10025, but it seems like the email relaying is not configured correctly. I now get the following error in the /var/log/mail/info/log file:

Code:

Oct 26 14:24:15 tlvmmail1 postfix/smtpd[7868]: connect from tlvsmail1.tlab.local[172.xxx.xxx.xxx] 
Oct 26 14:24:18 tlvmmail1 postfix/smtpd[7868]: D54D730AA1: client=tlvsmail1.tlab.local[172.xxx.xxx.xxx] 
Oct 26 14:24:18 tlvmmail1 postfix/cleanup[7871]: D54D730AA1: message-id=<3927C4FEE97FAF4F9BF223B02624190E24FC@TLVSMAIL1.tlab.local> 
Oct 26 14:24:18 tlvmmail1 postfix/qmgr[7235]: D54D730AA1: from=<gregn@myaddress.com>, size=2510, nrcpt=1 (queue active) 
Oct 26 14:24:18 tlvmmail1 postfix/smtpd[7868]: disconnect from tlvsmail1.tlab.local[172.xxx.xxx.xxx] 
Oct 26 14:24:20 tlvmmail1 amavis[7103]: (07103-03) Blocked MTA-BLOCKED, [172.xxx.xxx.xxx] <gregn@myaddress.com> -> <gregnottage@gmail.com>, Message-ID: <3927C4FEE97FAF4F9BF223B02624190E24FC@TLVSMAIL1.tlab.local>, mail_id: YB4u1Zy7PilA, Hits: 2.176, size: 2510, 1956 ms 
Oct 26 14:24:20 tlvmmail1 postfix/smtp[7872]: D54D730AA1: to=<gregnottage@gmail.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10025, delay=2.1, delays=0.08/0.02/0.09/1.9, dsn=4.5.0, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 From MTA([127.0.0.1]:10026) during fwd-connect (Negative greeting:  at (eval 52) line 442, <GEN8> line 504.): id=07103-03 (in reply to end of DATA command))

Any ideas what needs changing?

Thanks,

Greg.

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