Hi Thanks i resloved the issuce i just created a favicon.ico and plavced it in my document root and the erroe was gone .....bu that was part of the problem lies with postfixadmin... i have configured postfix on my linux system and have configured postfixadmin ( connected to mysql databases) . To administer the virtual domaina, when i log to the main admin pannel and add a mail box to a domain it says "unable to create mailbox! " however when i check the mysql datatbase, there is an entry in the mailbox table. there are no logs genereated in my /var/log/maillog . or any where else .......

can some one help me with this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am really stuck

On 8/29/07, Vipul Mathur vipul@linux-delhi.org wrote:

On 8/29/07, Agnello George agnello.dsouza@gmail.com wrote:

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However there is the following log generated in /var/log/httpd/error_log [Wed Aug 29 16:18:21 2007] [error] [client 192.168.0.208] File does not exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico

[snip]

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can some one tell me what does this mean

No reason for alarm. This is normal. Browsers request for the favicon.ico file for every new website you visit. This is the file that is displayed beside the URL in the address bar of the browser. If you want to avoid this error from cluttering up your logs, create an empty file (or put an actual .ico) there.

~ViM

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On 8/29/07, vivek khurana mailing.vivek@gmail.com wrote:

On 8/29/07, Agnello George agnello.dsouza@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi

I Have a query , i have configured postfix on my linux system and have configured postfixadmin ( connected to mysql databases) . To administer

the

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virtual domaina, when i log to the main admin pannel and add a mail box

to

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a domain it says "unable to create mailbox! " however when i check the

mysql

What uid/user is runing postfix ? Does the uid/user has sufficient rights to create maildir ? Looks like the uid/user does not have rights to create maildir under your mail home.

My instalation instruction are as follows

create a user and group called vmail with the home directory /home/vmail. This is where all mail boxes will be stored.

groupadd -g 5000 vmail

useradd -g vmail -u 5000 vmail -d /home/vmail -m

chown -R vmail:vmail /home/vmail

chmod 771 /home/vmail

my postfix------------> main.cf looks like this

vi main.cf

queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix

command_directory = /usr/sbin

daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix

mail_owner = postfix

# The hostname is preferably the hostname you get from your ISP.

# Otherwise take the one from your primary domain

myhostname = server.isp-domain.tld

# Let this point to your primary registered domain

mydomain = domain.tld

# receive mail on all network interfaces.

inet_interfaces = all

# reject all mail for unknown users.

unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550

debug_peer_level = 2

#

# my additions for the virtual domain administration

# to use the MySQL database.

virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf

virtual_gid_maps = static:5000

virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail

virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf

virtual_mailbox_limit = 51200000

virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf

virtual_minimum_uid = 5000

virtual_transport = virtual ========================================> or ===> vmail

virtual_uid_maps = static:5000

#

# The settings for the SASL authentication using the autdaemon.

smtpd_recipient_restrictions =

permit_mynetworks,

permit_sasl_authenticated,

reject_non_fqdn_hostname,

reject_non_fqdn_sender,

reject_non_fqdn_recipient,

reject_unauth_destination,

reject_unauth_pipelining,

reject_invalid_hostname,

reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org,

reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,

reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org

enable_server_options = yes

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes

smtpd_sasl2_auth_enable = yes

smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

smtpd_sasl_application_name = smtpd

smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname

broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

smtpd_use_pw_server = yes

smtpd_pw_server_security_options = plain,login,cram-md5

server_enabled = 1

#

# OPTIONAL PART

#smtpd_helo_required = yes

#disable_vrfy_command = yes

#smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining

#smtpd_etrn_restrictions = reject

##############################################

smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination

smtpd_use_tls = yes

smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert

smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.key

my authmysqlrc looks like this

MYSQL_SERVER localhost

MYSQL_USERNAME postfix

MYSQL_PASSWORD postfix

# if you used the MySQL package from Server Logistics use the

# following settings otherwise check your MySQL installation.

MYSQL_SOCKET /private/tmp/mysql.sock

MYSQL_PORT 3306

# The name of the MySQL database we will use:

MYSQL_DATABASE postfix

# the table in the database with the users

MYSQL_USER_TABLE mailbox

# which field in the table has the password

MYSQL_CRYPT_PWFIELD password

# the numerical userid of the postfix account

MYSQL_UID_FIELD '5000'

#the numerical groupid of the postfix account

MYSQL_GID_FIELD '5000'

# the username as defined in the table mailbox

MYSQL_LOGIN_FIELD username

# the location of the mailboxes on the server

# Please change this is you are going to use a different location.

MYSQL_HOME_FIELD '/home/vmail'

# The user's name (optional)

MYSQL_NAME_FIELD name

# The location where the user mailbox is defined in the table.

MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD maildir ################################################

Could some one pls help me out here ......

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My instalation instruction are as follows

create a user and group called vmail with the home directory /home/vmail. This is where all mail boxes will be stored.

I am just curious to know from a security point of view. If all mailboxes are in one user folder, how do the individual mailbox users maintain privacy? Shouldn't each mail box be located in each user's home dir?

-- Regards,

Rony.

I was resolved th issue .... i reinstalltion worked just fine .....