Hello
I cant seem to get clients to work with my emails
Not sure if there set up right tbh ive allways had problems with emails
Am not sure what to put here but here i go
I created a Virtual Server lets say example.com
than i went to thunderbird and added
you name = mike
email = webmaster@example.com
password =123456
imcoming mail.example.com
outgoing smtp.example.com
Is this right is that all i have to do (in virualmin also?)
Because nothing seems to work for me
Thanks
Howdy,
What problems are you having specifically? Can you send emails, or receive emails? What errors do you see when it doesn’t work?
One thing you may want to do is view the email logs, in /var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail.log.
Also, you may want to verify that your DNS is correct by inputting your domain at intodns.com.
-Eric
i cant even add my email to a client
i get on thunderbird
mail.myanimeisland.com : server does not support RFC 5746, see CVE-2009-3555
i googled that code and give this error
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3555
on outlook i get "log onto incoming mail server pop3 your email server rejected your user name. Verify your user name for this account in account settings. The Server responded: =ERR plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure connections.
but am Sure my Username is Right
Howdy,
Whenever things aren’t working, I’d recommend taking a look in the mail logs… those would typically offer some clues as to what the problem is.
In the above – one issue I see is this error:
“plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure connections.”
That’s an issue that can occur if Dovecot isn’t configured to accept plaintext logins. To fix that, edit /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, and make sure “disable_plaintext_auth” is set to “no”.
After making that change, restart Dovecot (with “/etc/init.d/dovecot restart”), and try your email client again… does that work now?
-Eric
Hey i will check them log i used to have a “explore type client” to view and edit files on my server as i suck with putty but ive lost the program. Do you know any i could get? i know you prob done use them but for me they made life alot easyer. Also sorry to post this here jus ti need to check them logs ^^
Its cool i found that program “WinSCP” it was called anyway here is the log
http://myanimeisland.com/nositeimages/email_log.txt
I changed the Dovecot also to no and its still says the same tho and i also did the restart command
Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecot.
Thanks
Okay, so you have one problem fixed, it looks like there’s still another to tackle there though. It looks like it’s indexes/control files aren’t being created properly.
You can fix that by editing the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file again, look for the “mail_location” line, and set it to read:
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
Restart Dovecot again, and see if that does the trick 
-Eric
Hi it seems to be allready what you said here is the file as a txt
http://myanimeisland.com/nositeimages/dovecot.txt
Thanks
Actually, right now, your config has mail_location set to this:
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/lib/dovecot/index/%u:CONTROL=/var/lib/dovecot/control/%u
My recommendation is to change that to this:
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
Opps sorry about that i didnt see the 2nd one
ok i changed that and restart still same tho 
Thanks
Also that disable_plaintext_auth = no you told me about has a # at the start if thats right ?
ok i tryed without the # and that error is now gone
but i cant seem to send emails
Cannot find the e-mail server it says 
The change to the mail_location should have corrected the problems making the index and control files. Can you post a new copy of your mail log so we can check out what error you’re getting now?
As far as the disable_plaintext_auth line goes – the only lines in the config file that matter are those that don’t begin with a “#” mark. The # is a comment, meaning anything after it is ignored.
-Eric
Here you go sir ive updated the link with the new log
http://myanimeisland.com/nositeimages/email_log.txt
Thanks
Yea i thought as much with the # i removed it from that line
Also on thunderbird now i get “Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent using SMTP server mail.myanimeisland.com for an unknown reason. Please verify that your SMTP server settings are correct and try again, or contact your network administrator.” when i try to send a email
I tryed to send a email to it also from my live.co.uk email and it returned with this error
This is the mail system at host ks312361.kimsufi.com.
I’m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It’s attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system
webmaster-myanimeisland.com@ks312361.kimsufi.com (expanded from
webmaster@myanimeisland.com): unknown user: “webmaster-myanimeisland.com”
–Forwarded Message Attachment–
From: vodkaholic27@live.co.uk
To: webmaster@myanimeisland.com
Subject: tesst
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:54:16 +0000
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One thing you’d want to check, is to make sure that your config files have your hostname correct.
First, log into your server over SSH using Putty, and run the command “hostname”.
Whatever name that’s returned – do you see that name next to your external IP address in /etc/hosts?
Also, in /etc/postfix/main.cf, look for the “mydestination” line – do you see your hostname listed on that line?
-Eric
Ok when i typed hostname in putty it came up with
ks312361:~# hostname
ks312361.kimsufi.com
My hosts file give this
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
188.165.217.101 ks312361.kimsufi.com
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
#(added automatically by netbase upgrade)
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
feo0::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhostsSo am guessing thats right
/etc/postfix/main.cf give this on that line
mydestination = ks312361.kimsufi.com, localhost.kimsufi.com, , localhost
Thanks
Still have problems with this Eric if you have time to look
Thanks
Yeah, all the info you have there looks good.
That’s odd that it’s not working…
So just to clarify – it looks like from the above, that you had added an email user named “webmaster@myanimeisland.com” in Edit Mail and FTP Users? One thing you may want to do is double-check the spelling of that particular username, just to be sure it’s not a simple problem
-Eric
Seems right mate
Wait a sec username?
so my email is myanimeisland@myanimeisland.com?
Or did i read that wrong
Cheers