From: Noel Jones (njonesmegan.vbhcs.org)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2010 - 18:41:09 CDT

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On 4/22/2010 6:19 PM, webmasteraus-city.com wrote:
>
> Seems its plesk and not logging everything in the logs. It uses its own
> logging for mail, I could not find my successful login (below). The
> saslauthd is not running, but plesk must start use another process to do
> this, but its is running:

Logs are important for solving problems and tracing what
happened to mail. If you can't find logs, ask on a plesk
support forum.

Without proper logging, it's far more difficult to diagnose
problems and offer correct solutions.

>
> But it is running and verifies (I did this on a remote server)
>
> telnet xxx 587
> Trying xxx...
> Connected to xxx.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 xxx ESMTP Postfix
> ehlo xxx.
> 250-xxx
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-SIZE 20480000
> 250-VRFY
> 250-ETRN
> 250-STARTTLS
> 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250 DSN
> mail from: <xxx>
> 250 2.1.0 Ok
> quit
> 221 2.0.0 Bye
> Connection closed by foreign host.

This shows that postfix is listening and offering AUTH on port
587, but not much else. It would be more interesting to try
to authenticate as described in SASL_README (warning: don't
post base64 encoded username/password to the list; they are
trivially decoded.)

>
> I will have to check out my client as its only local to him alone. Also
> as I did say he runs multiple OS on the same machine and one works
> perfectly.
>
> Lastly digging in my logs, I found this:
>
> Apr 23 04:23:28 server postfix/smtpd[24755]: connect from
> unknown[xx.xx.xx.xx]
> Apr 23 04:23:28 server postfix/smtpd[25116]: warning: 127.0.0.1: address
> not listed for hostname localhost
> Apr 23 04:23:28 server postfix/smtpd[25116]: connect from
> unknown[127.0.0.1]
>
> Any idea why? Its listed in the /etc/hosts file:
>
> ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
> 127.0.0.1 xx.xx.xx.xx xx.xx.xx server localhost.localdomain localhost

Maybe check your /etc/nsswitch.conf? This has no relation to
any other problems you may be having.

   -- Noel Jones

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