Difference between revisions of "Mails are not being sent"
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I had the problem that mails were not sent. The mails could be seen with the command mailq like this: | I had the problem that mails were not sent. The mails could be seen with the command mailq like this: | ||
| + | root@mail:/etc# lsb_release -d | ||
| + | Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS | ||
root@mail:~# mailq | root@mail:~# mailq | ||
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- | -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- | ||
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Ok, /var/log/mail.err had a million entries | Ok, /var/log/mail.err had a million entries | ||
Jan 2 17:17:35 mail postfix/smtp[24439]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter | Jan 2 17:17:35 mail postfix/smtp[24439]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter | ||
| − | + | I had /etc/postfix as config directory for mail, and I had a backup of older configurations in /etc/postfix-1 and /etc/postfix-2. The command | |
| + | diff -rup /etc/postfix /etc/postfix-2 | ||
| + | showed me that I had made changes in /etc/postfix/main.cf: | ||
| + | -smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes | ||
| + | -smtp_sasl_security_options = | ||
| + | So I copied this file back and restarted postfix: | ||
| + | root@mail:/etc# cp -r /etc/postfix-2/main.cf /etc/postfix | ||
| + | root@mail:/etc# /etc/init.d/postfix restart | ||
| + | Then the command mailq only delivered 2 requests that had failed. And this due to a wrong recipient address. | ||
[[Category:Mail]] | [[Category:Mail]] | ||
[[Category:Troubleshooting]] | [[Category:Troubleshooting]] | ||
Revision as of 17:24, 2 January 2016
I had the problem that mails were not sent. The mails could be seen with the command mailq like this:
root@mail:/etc# lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS root@mail:~# mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- C3580220AC* 32415 Wed Dec 30 07:49:01 thorsten@example.com
Ok, /var/log/mail.err had a million entries
Jan 2 17:17:35 mail postfix/smtp[24439]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter
I had /etc/postfix as config directory for mail, and I had a backup of older configurations in /etc/postfix-1 and /etc/postfix-2. The command
diff -rup /etc/postfix /etc/postfix-2
showed me that I had made changes in /etc/postfix/main.cf:
-smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes -smtp_sasl_security_options =
So I copied this file back and restarted postfix:
root@mail:/etc# cp -r /etc/postfix-2/main.cf /etc/postfix root@mail:/etc# /etc/init.d/postfix restart
Then the command mailq only delivered 2 requests that had failed. And this due to a wrong recipient address.
