[nflug] Postfix-MySQL/Amavisd-New/Ubuntu Feisty

[Robert Wolfe]

The Courier POP3 daemon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darin Perusich" <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [nflug] Postfix-MySQL/Amavisd-New/Ubuntu Feisty


> You need to edit /etc/amavisd.conf and set $myhostname for the fully 
> qualified host name of the server, or the IP address.
> 
> Which POP daemon are you running?
> 
> Wolfe, Robert wrote:
>> Hi all, and good morning!
>> 
>> Trying to set up the combination mentioned in the subject line.
>> However, when I go to start amavisd, I get the following:
>> 
>> root at userver7:/var/spool/mail# amavisd-new hostname: Unknown host The
>> value of variable $myhostname is "", but should have been a fully
>> qualified domain name; perhaps uname(3) did not provide such. You
>> must explicitly assign a FQDN of this host to variable $myhostname in
>> amavisd.conf, or fix what uname(3) provides as a host's network name!
>>  root at userver7:/var/spool/mail#
>> 
>> Where is amavisd-new pulling the $myhostname value from?  I have
>> tried setting it up in as many places as I have been told to (via
>> various pieces of documentation), however I am still getting this
>> error.
>> 
>> Another question I have is about the Courier POP3 daemon.  When I go
>> to telnet to the pop3 server and log in, I get the following:
>> 
>> root at userver7:/var/spool/mail# telnet localhost 110 Trying
>> 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK
>> Hello there. USER root +OK Password required. PASS ******** -ERR
>> chdir Maildir failed Connection closed by foreign host.
>> 
>> My question is simple:  Where should the maildir files be located on
>> the server?
>> 
>> TIA for any assistance anyone can provide!
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corporation
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