how-to-test-and-troubleshot-the-setup.md

How to test the setup

Sending test email

You can use telnet at port 25 and use via normal smtp protocal, or use helper script like

bash tests/smpt.bash

Testing dovecot

# test authentication
doveadm auth test [email protected]

# show informations about the user (user attributes)
doveadm user -u [email protected]

# show quota for a specific user
doveadm quota get -u [email protected]

# see all received emails
doveadm fetch -u [email protected] "text" ALL

Checking the postfix-dovecot mysql data

password=supersecret
mysql -u root -p$password -e "select * from mailserver.virtual_domains"
mysql -u root -p$password -e "select * from mailserver.virtual_users"
mysql -u root -p$password -e "select * from mailserver.virtual_aliases"

Troubleshooting

To see only postfix non default config values

postconf -n

To see only dovecot non default config values

doveconf -n

Logs

/var/log/mail.log

/var/log/dovecot.log

dovecot writes logs here as well

/var/log/auth.log