Mac OSX 10 Intel, Send/Receive mail

[toddgeist]

Hello,

I am picking my way through installing Zimbra 4.5 on a Intel, Mac Mini, with 2 gigs of ram. This is just a test run to see if I can install this, I am not very strong with command line stuff, but given clear instructions I can do Okay.

I have been able to launch the admin console, and create an account. But I can't Send/Receive mail.

I have turned OSX firewall off temporarily. and I believe that my dns is set up correctly. At least it does resolve to my test domain and that it turn points to my server.

When I do a port scan of the server, port 25 seems like it is NOT open. Even if with the firewall off.

if I "tail" the log I do not see anything that looks like incoming connections, but there does seem to be something that looks like postfix trying to send mail but timing out.

Jan 27 09:14:59 todd-geists-computer-2 postfix/smtp[29515]: connect to mx1.balanced.spunky.mail.dreamhost.com[208.97.132.47]: Operation timed out (port 25)

Is there anything else I am missing. Could there be a problem with Postfix?

Thanks

Todd

[jholder]

Do you have another MTA running? How about the firewall?

What does zmcontrol status return?

[toddgeist]

Thanks for your reply

zmcontrol status returns

Host 69-12-178-35.dsl.static.sonic.net
antispam Running
antivirus Running
ldap Running
logger Running
mailbox Running
mta Running
snmp Running
spell Running
69-12-178-35:~ zimbra$

I am not sure how to check for another MTA. This is a clean Brand New Mac Mini. I know that I Made sure to turn OFF Personal Web Sharing. The only service that I turned on is Apple Remote Desktop.

does that give you any ideas?

Thanks

[jholder]

Did you set up your hosts file? (Do a search on that, or go to the wiki)

how about:
telnet mx1.balanced.spunky.mail.dreamhost.com 25

[toddgeist]

I did a search for Host File in both the forum and the wiki, but I didn't find anything that made sense to me.

What is the purpose of the Hosts File? Why isn't setting it up handled by the Setup scripts?

Thanks

[toddgeist]

When I go to Mail Queues in the Admin Console I get an error

Message: system failure: exception during auth {RemoteManager: 69-12-178-35.dsl.static.sonic.net->zimbra@69-12-178-35.dsl.static.sonic.net:22}
com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException: system failure: exception during auth {RemoteManager: 69-12-178-35.dsl.static.sonic.net->zimbra@69-12-178-35.dsl.static.sonic.net:22}
at com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException.FAILURE (ServiceException.java:175)
at com.zimbra.cs.rmgmt.RemoteManager.getSession(Remot eManager.java:197)
at com.zimbra.cs.rmgmt.RemoteManager.execute(RemoteMa nager.java:134)
at com.zimbra.cs.service.admin.GetMailQueueInfo.handl e(GetMailQueueInfo.java:56)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatchRequest(SoapEng ine.java:262)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatch(SoapEngine.jav a:162)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatch(SoapEngine.jav a:84)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapServlet.doPost(SoapServlet.jav a:223)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:709)
at com.zimbra.cs.servlet.ZimbraServlet.service(Zimbra Servlet.java:162)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.in ternalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.do Filter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invo ke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invo ke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke( StandardHostValve.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke (ErrorReportValve.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invok e(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(A ccessLogValve.java:541)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.servic e(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(H ttp11Processor.java:869)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11 ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProt ocol.java:667)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.process Socket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThr ead.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlR unnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: There was a problem while talking to 69-12-178-35.dsl.static.sonic.net:22
at ch.ethz.ssh2.Connection.connect(Connection.java:64 2)
at ch.ethz.ssh2.Connection.connect(Connection.java:46 0)
at com.zimbra.cs.rmgmt.RemoteManager.getSession(Remot eManager.java:188)
... 24 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl .java:333)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSoc ketImpl.java:195)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.j ava:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.j ava:430)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:507)
at ch.ethz.ssh2.transport.TransportManager.initialize (TransportManager.java:299)
at ch.ethz.ssh2.Connection.connect(Connection.java:59 1)
... 26 more

Error code: service.FAILURE
Method: ZmCsfeCommand.prototype.invoke
Details:soap:Receiver

Not sure what this means, but I think it related...

[jholder]

Different Problem-likely related.

The hosts file is what allows the computer to know what localhost is.

Please take a look here: UnknownHostException - how should /etc/hosts look like?

And insure that your hosts file looks like that.

How did the telnet thing work out?

[toddgeist]

Didn't try the telnet thing... What will that tell me?

I changed the host file and restarted the machine. But I am still getting the error. hmmm I just saw I may not have put FQDN in the host file. I will check...

But in the meantime... Do I need to re-install Zimbra after the Host File change? Or just re-start it?

Thanks

Todd

[jholder]

Well, we still havn't established that is the only problem. . . so i dunno.

Just to clairify:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
205.250.054.1 mail.domain.com mail

Also, make sure SELinux is off.

the Telnet thing will tell you if 1) your DNS is working and 2) if your MTA is online.

[toddgeist]

So here are the results

69-12-178-35:~ zimbra$ telnet mx1.balanced.spunky.mail.dreamhost.com 25
Trying 208.97.132.47...
telnet: connect to address 208.97.132.47: Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host