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FreeBSD 10 Exim Dovecot RoundCube Spamassasin

FreeBSD 10.0. domain.com is the external domain name. In DNS: A - mx.domain.com; MX - mx.domain.com; A - mail.domain.com for user client configuration; CNAME - webmail.domain.com for user web access.

localhost.localdomain is the host name. In DNS: CNAME mail.localdomain.

Use the configuration from the previously working Exim 4.73 installation.

Disable Sendmail

In /etc/rc.conf:

# DISABLE sendmail
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

Edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf:

sendmail         /usr/local/sbin/exim
send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/exim
mailq          /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
newaliases     /usr/local/sbin/exim -bi
hoststat        /usr/local/sbin/exim
purgestat      /usr/local/sbin/exim

The server must have: mysql56-server php55 php55-extensions apache24 phpmyadmin

Imported the exim database into MySQL from a backup. Copied config.inc.php for Postfix. Postfix Admin started successfully.

Exim

Select SPF in the configuration. Restored configuration files from backup. It worked. Fixed this in routers.conf:

#-----------------------------------------
# Email aliases
#-----------------------------------------
email_aliases:
    driver = redirect
    allow_fail
    allow_defer
    data = ${lookup mysql{SELECT `goto` FROM `alias` WHERE \
                `address`='${quote_mysql:$local_part@$domain}' OR \
                `address`='${quote_mysql:@$domain}'} \
            }

#-----------------------------------------
# Aliases for system users
#-----------------------------------------
system_aliases:
  driver = redirect
  data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}}

Roundcube

Edit /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd/conf:

#DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/apache22/data"
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/roundcube/"

Add a configuration file to Apache:

root@v09:/usr/local # cat /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/roundcube.conf

    Options None
    AllowOverride Limit
    Require all granted

Restart Apache. Open http://webmail and receive this error:

CONFIGURATION ERROR
config.inc.php was not found.
Please read the INSTALL instructions!

Open http://webmail/installer/. Use the installer interface to complete setup. Added to config.inc.php:

$config['mime_types'] = '/usr/local/etc/apache24/mime.types';

Install /usr/ports/sysutils/php55-fileinfo. IMAP does not respond because Dovecot is not installed yet.

When sending mail through the web interface, Return-path was set to [email protected]. Fix it in /usr/local/www/roundcube/config/defaults.inc.php:

// For example %n = mail.domain.tld, %t = domain.tld
$config['smtp_server'] = 'mail.domain.com';

Dovecot 2.2.13

cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot2/
make install clean
# Select MySQL; disable PGSQL.
echo 'dovecot_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf 

Copy the contents of /usr/local/etc/dovecot/ from the backup. Start it:

root@v09:/usr/ports/mail/dovecot2 # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot start
Starting dovecot.
doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 12: ssl_cert: Can't open file /etc/dovecot/ssl/dovecot.crt: No such file or directory
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot: WARNING: failed to start dovecot

Create certificates:

# edit
mcedit /usr/local/share/examples/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf
# create directories
mkdir /etc/ssl/certs /etc/ssl/private 
# create certificates
sh mkcert.sh 
# set permissions
chmod -R 0444 /etc/ssl/certs/
chmod -R 0400 /etc/ssl/private/ 

Start it:

root@v09:/usr/ports/mail/dovecot2 # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot start
Starting dovecot.
Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: No such file or directory
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot: WARNING: failed to start dovecot

Create a log directory:

mkdir /var/log/dovecot
chown dovecot:dovecot /var/log/dovecot/

Start Dovecot successfully.

Test

Sign in to webmail as a user. An error occurs. Logs show: Could not connect to mail:143: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed. Fix it by adding this to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1  mail

Sign in again. A different error occurs:

# log Roundcube
IMAP Error: Login failed for [email protected] from 192.168.112.155. AUTHENTICATE PLAIN: * BYE Internal error occurred.
# log Dovecot
2014-10-15 12:26:00 imap: Error: user [email protected]: Relative home directory paths not supported: domain.com/test/
2014-10-15 12:26:00 imap: Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

A known PostfixAdmin issue. Update the relative mailbox path to an absolute path in the database. The directory does not exist, so create it:

mkdir /var/mail/exim
chown mailnull:mail /var/mail/exim

Sign in to webmail once more. Successful. Send a test message externally. Successful.

When trying to send mail from the local Exim host:

echo "test message body" | mail -v -s "subject test" [email protected]
tail /var/log/exim/main.log
remote host address is the local host: hostname (while verifying  from host localhost (hostname) [127.0.0.1])
H=localhost (hostname) [127.0.0.1] sender verify defer for : remote host address is the local host
H=localhost (hostname) [127.0.0.1] F= temporarily rejected RCPT : Could not complete sender verify

Check delivery to a local user. It fails.

exim -bt root
[email protected] is undeliverable: Unknown user or alias

Cause: /etc/mail/mailer.conf had incorrect values and there was no [email protected] alias.

Test from an adjacent MSExchange 2010: Mail from Exchange 2010 on the adjacent LAN does not arrive. The log shows:

2014-10-15 17:45:54 H=(MX.EXTERNAL.DOMAIN) [192.168.112.59] F= temporarily rejected RCPT : host lookup deferred for reverse lookup check

Cause: The OS could not resolve 192.168.112.59 to a DNS name. Solution: configure the LAN DNS server so IP-to-DNS-name resolution works:

host 192.168.112.59
59.112.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer MAILHOST.FIRMA.LOCAL.

SpamAssassin: /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin is obsolete; /usr/ports/mail/spamassassin/ is correct.

Uncomment the line in /usr/local/etc/exim/configure:

spamd_address = 127.0.0.1 783

Add to the end of /etc/syslog.conf:

!spamd
*.*    /var/log/spamd.log

Restart Exim and start SpamAssassin. Check the logs. This appears:

2014-10-16 14:31:52 1XejHc-000HxY-9f SA: Debug: SAEximRunCond expand returned: '0'
2014-10-16 14:31:52 1XejHc-000HxY-9f SA: Action: Not running SA because SAEximRunCond expanded to false (Message-Id: 1XejHc-000HxY-9f). From  (host=v09.domain.local [192.168.112.59]) for [email protected]

There is another configuration file: /usr/local/etc/sa-exim.conf. Change it as follows:

#SAEximDebug: 1
SAEximDebug: 0

# SAEximRunCond: 0
SAEximRunCond: 1

Restart Exim. The log shows:

2014-10-16 14:56:59 1Xejfv-000I1Q-1S SA: Action: scanned but message isn't spam: score=-0.3 required=5.0 (scanned in 0/0 secs | Message-Id: [email protected]). From  (host=mailhost.firma.local [192.168.112.59]) for [email protected]

The log also shows that outgoing mail is scanned.