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Mailserver troubles

Posted on July 7, 2005September 9, 2009 by vivin

I was running portupgrade -a on my FreeBSD machine when I discovered some problems. The first problem had to do with the size of my mail queue. I kept getting a "452 Insufficient system storage" message from Microsoft Outlook, along with an error code of 0x800CCC0F. I am running Postfix, and so had to edit main.cf to read:

[sourcecode]
message_size_limit = 51200000
mailbox_size_limit = 51200000
queue_minfree = 102400000
[/sourcecode]

Those sizes may seem rather large, but I've got room to spare. This got rid of the "Insufficient storage" errors, but then I got a new error. Outlook said that the connection to the mailserver was "unexpectedly interrupted" when trying to receive mail. This was a problem with my POP3 daemon. I wasn't unable to telnet to port 110, so it seemed like it wasn't running. I use Courier-IMAP, which comes with a POP3 daemon. I tried to rebuild the port, but it complained that the port was broken. So I had to figure out how to downgrade it (and then upgrade it):

[sourcecode]
[email protected] ~
$ pkg_delete courier-imap\*
[email protected] ~
$ pkg_add -r courier-imap
[email protected] ~
$ portupgrade courier-imap
[/sourcecode]

The last step gave me some trouble. It actually didn't install (it should - but I don't know why it didn't), so I had to go in and manually install it from the ports tree. I don't know what happened, but running portupgrade on all the installed ports caused some sort of problem.

Once the port was installed, I still wasn't able to get it to run. I tried looking for documentation, but I couldn't find any really. The problem had to do with the authdaemond daemon. It wasn't starting up. However, once I added courier_authdaemond_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, it started working fine.

I don't know what it is with setting up MTA's - I've always had trouble setting mine up. They're the first things to break, and the last things to get fixed.

12 thoughts on “Mailserver troubles”

  1. edo says:
    July 10, 2005 at 2:01 pm

    dude……how about something exciting….like, after doing some boring programming, I got laid with this hot chick before I go to Iraq….and then we had an orgy with three other hot chicks……where are the exciting news

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  2. vivin says:
    July 10, 2005 at 2:42 pm

    Eh… ever since I graduated and got a house, and a job, and a new car, my life has been lame.

    I do dance with hot girls every week… though I guess it’s only news for you if I bring them home… right?

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  3. edo says:
    July 11, 2005 at 1:08 pm

    so how come I do not ready about those things online, but only about programing codes? Which one is more exciting?

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  4. edo says:
    July 11, 2005 at 1:09 pm

    ***read not ready

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  5. vivin says:
    July 13, 2005 at 7:53 pm

    Well, I don’t bring any of them home… that’s why you don’t read about it online! I’m a nice boy that way ;). But I do dance with them.

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  6. edo says:
    July 14, 2005 at 9:13 am

    DUDE, EVEN DANCING WITH THEM IS MORE EXCITING ON YOUR UPDATES THAN PROGRAMMING CODE…..SO WRITE ABOUT THE DANCING AND WHAT HER BOOTY LOOKS WHILE SHE DANCES AND AT LEAST THAT YOU DANCED. BUT I DON’T THINK THAT ME NOR SADHANA FOR EXAMPLE HAVE A CLUE WHAT THOSE PROGRAMMING THINGS MEAN.

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  7. vivin says:
    July 14, 2005 at 7:56 pm

    My website! I will write what I want! But besides you there are many others who actually like the programming stuff I write – shocking isn’t it?

    Anyway, I am going dancing tonight. I will write about the many booties that I will see.

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  8. ed says:
    July 19, 2005 at 3:57 pm

    soooo? how was dancing?

    Reply
  9. MYA, PRYA, and ME says:
    July 22, 2005 at 3:16 pm

    uppy is squishy sometimes!!!!!!

    mya: look there is uppy everywhere
    prya: i am home!!!! i want smoothie!!
    me: lalalala

    Reply
  10. Sam says:
    July 26, 2005 at 1:40 pm

    text to be colored
    Chundi’s are also very enormous and explode with uppy. What a beautiful world.

    Reply
  11. 5401108 says:
    July 26, 2005 at 1:40 pm

    Wassup Viv!

    Reply
  12. Sam says:
    July 26, 2005 at 1:41 pm

    UPPY!

    Reply

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