Email not working

Michael Hooker m.hooker at live.com
Tue Apr 4 23:29:22 UTC 2023


Hi,

First of all may I say I am not an expert on Dovecot so please forgive me if the answer to my query is obvious.

After upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 my email is not working.

root at mail:~# doveconf -n
# 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328)
# OS: Linux 5.15.0-60-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
# Hostname: mail.odysseytours.nz
auth_debug = yes
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_username_format = %{if;%d;eq;mail.odysseytours.nz;%Ln;%Lu}
listen = *, ::
mail_debug = yes
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_privileged_group = mail
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin {
  sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
}
protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3"
service stats {
  unix_listener stats-reader {
    group = vmail
    mode = 0660
    user = vmail
  }
  unix_listener stats-writer {
    group = vmail
    mode = 0660
    user = vmail
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list = EECDH+CHACHA20:EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH
ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs
ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
userdb {
  args = blocking=no
  driver = passwd
}

root at mail:~# doveadm user -f 'username' '*'
nobody
mike
systemd-coredump
sogo
vmail
mlmmj
iredadmin
iredapd
snapd-range-524288-root
snap_daemon
Error: auth-master: userdb list: User listing returned failure
Fatal: user listing failed

root at mail:~# doveadm index -A -q \*
doveadm(nobody): Error: mkdir(/nonexistent/mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup))
doveadm(systemd-coredump): Error: mkdir(//mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=999(systemd-coredump) egid=999(systemd-coredump) missing +w perm: /, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755)
doveadm(snapd-range-524288-root): Error: mkdir(/nonexistent/mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=524288(snapd-range-524288-root) egid=524288(snapd-range-524288-root))
doveadm(snap_daemon): Error: mkdir(/nonexistent/mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=584788(snap_daemon) egid=584788(snap_daemon))
doveadm(3015804): Error: auth-master: userdb list: User listing returned failure
doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some use

Contents of /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf with all comments removed:
auth_username_format=%{if;%d;eq;mail.odysseytours.nz;%Ln;%Lu}
#https://serverfault.com/questions/260488/dovecot-user-lookup-fails-when-using-usernamedomain-format
auth_mechanisms = plain login
!include auth-system.conf.ext

Contents of /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext with all comments removed:
passdb {
  driver = pam
  }

userdb {
    driver = passwd
    ##https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/passwd/#authentication-passwd
    args = blocking=no
}

It says "Authentication failure (Password mismatch?)" but its definitely the correct password.
root at mail:/home/mike# doveadm log errors
Feb 22 02:43:48 Error: auth: passwd(postmaster at odysseytours.nz): getpwnam() failed: Address

Don't know what this error means.

root at mail:/home/mike# doveadm log errors
Feb 22 02:43:48 Error: auth: passwd(postmaster at odysseytours.nz): getpwnam() failed: Address family not supported by protocol

Don't know what this error means. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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