File Manager

Frequently Asked Questions:


1) Why isn't PostfixAdmin creating my mailbox?

 - PostfixAdmin is only a web interface for storing configuration settings. 
   It does not (by default!) have the ability to create mail folders on disk. 
   In a normal setup, sending the 'Welcome' email accomplishes this task - 
   as Courier/Cyrus/etc do it (and have permission to do so)


2) I've deleted the mailbox from PostfixAdmin, yet it still exists on disk? Why?

 - This is related to #1 above - namely, PostfixAdmin (which is a php web 
   application) does not have permission to modify the mailbox files on disk.
   You need to either manually remove the directories 
   (e.g. rm -Rf /var/spool/mail/vmail/something@example.org) 
   or install the postfixadmin-mailbox-postdeletion.sh script (See ADDITIONS/)
   and modify config.inc.php appropriately.


3) How do I have to setup sudo to run the $CONF['*_script'] scripts?

 - run   visudo   to edit the sudo configuration file
 - add a line like this for every script you want to run:
      wwwrun  ALL = (courier) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/postfixadmin-mailbox-postcreation.sh
   (replace usernames and path according to your setup)


4) I try and create a mailbox, but it keeps saying "Invalid email address"... ?

 - Postfixadmin, by default, attempts to verify an email address is valid, partly by
   checking that the domain exists. For most people this works as expected, but
   if it doesn't for you, try editing $CONF['emailcheck_resolve_domain'] to 'NO' in 
   config.inc.php and try again.


5) Postfixadmin is telling me an error occurred, and I should look at the server error logs for more details. Where do I look?

 - This depends on your server setup (distribution, how PHP is executed etc).

 - Postfixadmin typically calls PHP's error_log() function to log some detail about errors. This may write to : 

    * /var/log/syslog
    * /var/log/apache2/error.log 
    * /var/log/php7.4-fpm.log (or equivalent for your PHP version)
    * or somewhere you may have manually configured.

  You can change where it logs by adding something like :
  
```PHP
    ini_set('error_log', '/tmp/postfixadmin.log'); // example only
```

  into config.local.php, or you can change your PHP configuration.

  See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5127838/where-does-php-store-the-error-log-php5-apache-fastcgi-cpanel