I am having serious problems with virtualmin ever since a Centos upgrades were applied.
The problem was apparently MYSQL and PHP upgrades that broke everything!
After excess of 40 hours trying to rebuild the system, I have all the Virtual clients and sites up and running, by downgrading the PHP and MySql.
Now the final problem that has taken 16 of the 40 hours is that NOBODY can receive emails, and yet everyone can send.
I’ve been through dozens of fixes and I’ve run checks and logs etc and everything checks okay.
I had to uninstall and reinstall postfix, mailman, and associated software numerous times to end up with the exact same problem.
I have noted one peculiarity that may mean something to a linux guru and that when I go into webmin>Servers->Read User Mail and select an email the message up top states This user has no message in : /var/mail/theUser@theirDomain.com
When I select the down arrow ALL other options are ~theUser@theirDomain.com/Maildir/.sent or .draft or .spam etc
It may be correcy but seemed odd to me.
I have run VirtualMin->System Settings->Recheck Configuration and initially it had al sorts of problems with postfix and webalizer and spam and av etc but now it all states the its all good!
IF anybody knows a direct solution then I would be forever in your debt. BUT do not tell me to restart the services, or reconfig as I believe I have been through every “Can Send but can’t receive” problem on this site and near everywhere else.
THE FINAL QUESTION
The crunch really is that I have had enough of the problem and it seems that Postfix and Virtualmin are temprmental at times. I am thinking about getting the provider to RESET the VPS and I’ll install a basic virtualmin again until I can at least get an alternative server running.
I HAVE backups of all the virtual servers BUT those backups MAY also be done whilst the server has had these dramas.
IF I reinstall which I unfortunately believe I’ll have to, can I restore these backups, and WILL they mess up a fresh system with POSTFIX etc. If these backup simply restore the settings in the system that are corrupt then there is no point and I’ll simply have to start migrating each domain away from this system.
The system I run is Centos 6.5
Virtualmin version 4.08gpl
Webmin Version 1.69
Its a VPS with 1 Gig ram and 50 Gig storage.
I should note that I am not a linux guru, but am computer literate and can get around the system
Was there by chance a third party software repository that was enabled? That could cause the problems you’re seeing.
What is the output of this command:
ls /etc/yum.repos.d
It’s possible that somewhere in the process you’ve been through, the config may have been altered, or even reverted back to the default, which could be breaking some things.
What is the output of this command:
postconf -n
That will show your current Postfix config, which will help in troubleshooting the issues you’re seeing.
It’s unlikely that restoring your backups would cause any problems in Postfix, if it came to that.
Thankyou to andreychek, and you were correct in where the problem lied.
It all started with a request to upgrade php:
The repos were :
CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo epel.repo lxcenter.repo
CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Vault.repo epel-testing.repo virtualmin.repo remi.repo
The postconf -n results in:
… ALL
… GOOD
… UNTIL
recipient_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual <- Deleted this line
And
sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
Changed this to:
sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/bcc
I believe I have finally sorted why and how the problem started.
Initially there was a request for a php upgrade to enable the newer Joomla to run.
This update is only available for centos 6.5 through the remi.repo.
When upgrades were done with remi, it had also updated mysql and other files
These upgrades obviously weren’t compatible with virtualmin.
Files were then downgraded and even though websites began to work. No joy with postfix and friends.
remi has now been removed.
The final way I finally got all the bits sort of working is I bought another VDS - installed centos, upgraded and installed virtualmin etc and compared the config files etc.
The only thing different from my new server is the server host name “Server1.XYZ.com” etc and I noticed that my new setup DOESN’T have localhost in the mydestination setting. ?
I AM going to remove all domains to the new server as the new VDS has 2GB mem and then reset the old VPS and hopefully set that up as a backup possible failsafe for the new. (More headaches coming)