Also, if you look in the mail log on the server, do you see any errors or other clues in there? The mail log is located in /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/maillog.
Iām not really seeing any errors in your output that would suggest a Postfix problem.
A lot of ISPās these days block port 25ā¦ it may be that your ISP is preventing you from connecting to the usual SMTP port. You may need to enable SMTPS and/or Submission, and connect on the alternate port.
My suggestion would be to go into /etc/postfix/master.cf, and uncomment the lines near the top that begin with āsmtpsā and āsubmissionā. Then, restart Posfix, and try connecting changing your SMTP port from 25 to either 465 or 587 in Outlook/Thunderbird.
tho thunderbird locks on to 587 SMTP but incoming jsut keeps trying over and over again
Edit jsut seen on āVirtualmin Virtual Servers (GPL)ā tab this
Available features Mail for domain, BIND DNS domain, Apache website, Webalizer reporting, Log file rotation, MySQL database, Webmin login
Disabled features SSL website, PostgreSQL database, ProFTPd virtual FTP, Spam filtering, Virus filtering
Disk quotas Not active on home directories filesystem.
Mail server Sendmail
Okay, so incoming email isnāt working? What do you have Outlook/Thunderbird setup to use, IMAP or POP?
Also, you can check that IMAP is running by typing this command:
netstat -an | grep :143
And you can verify that POP is running with this:
netstat -an | grep :110
Iām not sure what to make of that āSendmailā youāre seeing above, though what you use to retrieve email is actually not related to Sendmail or Postfix, itās a daemon called Dovecot.
What distro are you using? And how did you install Virtualmin, did you use the install.sh script?
I didnt install it mate someone did it for me
Do you have msn if you have some time to chat
i will send you some paypal when i next get some for helping as am realy stuck and dont want to make things worse than they are
If you donāt see anything in Putty when you execute those commands, it may mean that Dovecot isnāt running.
You can launch Dovecot by running this command:
/etc/init.d/dovecot start
If youāre looking to pay someone to look into server issues, you can always post a comment in the āJobsā forum ā thereās a number of folks available to assist on things like that.
It sounds like you may be missing some of the dependencies for a fully functional web/email serverā¦ itās possible that whoever performed your install didnāt use the install.sh script, but instead just installed the Virtualmin module.
If thatās the case, youād have to perform all configuration manually ā which definitely is the hard way
If possible, you might consider starting over and performing an installation with the install.sh script, but you only want to do that if you donāt have any live domains on your server.