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[Postfix+Dovecot+Ubuntu] Cannot receive any mails from Google,Yahoo,Outlook... to my @xxx.com account
- Posted on January 3, 2015
Asked by merubuntu
Let me say that for now I send mails (for Yahoo, Google, Outlook). Listening on port 587 for SMTP I send mails from @xxxx.com account to N acounts. :)
But for IMAP case, I do not have a clear reason why I cannot receive any mails from other accounts (Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) to my @xxxx.com account.
I checked mail.err (empty) and mail.log report me this:
Jan 2 22:15:43 mail dovecot: imap(miguel@yrma.biz): Disconnected: Logged out in=4128 out=9425
Jan 2 22:15:43 mail dovecot: imap(miguel@yrma.biz): Disconnected: Logged out in=1862 out=5645
Jan 2 22:15:43 mail dovecot: imap(miguel@yrma.biz): Disconnected: Logged out in=1043 out=3632
Jan 2 22:16:00 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<miguel@yrma.biz>, method=PLAIN, rip=181.67.17.135, lip=104.236.108.28, mpid=1553, TLS, session=<70Vr4$
Jan 2 22:16:33 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<miguel@yrma.biz>, method=PLAIN, rip=181.67.17.135, lip=104.236.108.28, mpid=1559, TLS, session=<q3Vf4$
Jan 2 22:16:35 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<miguel@yrma.biz>, method=PLAIN, rip=181.67.17.135, lip=104.236.108.28, mpid=1561, TLS, session=<Br1+4$
Jan 2 22:18:30 mail postfix/anvil[1538]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (submission:181.67.17.135) at Jan 2 22:15:08
Jan 2 22:18:30 mail postfix/anvil[1538]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (submission:181.67.17.135) at Jan 2 22:15:08
Jan 2 22:18:30 mail postfix/anvil[1538]: statistics: max cache size 1 at Jan 2 22:15:08
Hope anyone can help me. Thanks! R2
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Ok guys, now this is my answer.
The problem was that, while I was following this guide -which is very similar to this other one my error was in the virtual_aliases table.
Its use was not meaningful for me until the explanation I read was clear:
“This lets you forward mail from one email address to another. This command will create a table called virtual_aliases. It has an id field, a domain_id field which will associate each entry with a domain, a source field for the original email address, and a destination field for the target email address”
Ok, so an alias account is not saved in the server, just used to forward all their incoming messages to (i) another @example.com account or (ii) any other mail. Be careful because in case you put an account that is not considered as an alias type, none of their incoming messages will be stored in the server.
Two days of hard thinking… #WhyME!!!
I see the mail.log address
Notice that on line 6, instead of appear any dovecot line, just showing the postfix activities. So postfix is not calling to dovecot for manage the incoming mails…
Why? Now I’m checking the dovecot config’s but in case you have any suggestions I would appreciate.
Well, in fact for the two users I’ve registered in mysql tables, the folder:
are still empty. I mean, no Yahoo or Gmail messages are not coming to those folders…
. .