[Dovecot] Re: Fedora Core 2, dovecot, and Outlook Express

[Joe Hartford]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:01:11 -0400, Joe Hartford <jhartford at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:09:51 -0400, Joe Hartford <jhartford at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After the aging harddrive in my Redhat 7.2 server died, I decided it
> > was time to upgrade.  I bought a new harddrive and did a fresh install
> > of Fedora Core 2.  I've managed to get www, ssh and sendmail
> > reconfigured, but I'm having a heck of a time with imap.
> >
> > I first fooled around with cyrus-imapd, and couldn't make head or tail
> > of it, so I downloaded a fedore core 1 imapd rpm and installed it.
> > That almost worked, but I could only see the INBOX.  Next I tried
> > dovecot.
> >
> > Via Outlook Express from my winXP box, I can Refresh the IMAP folder
> > list, and see the INBOX and the sent-mail and saved-messages folders
> > that were created when I first ran pine.  However, if I try and mark
> > sent-mail or saved-messages as Visible, I get an "Invalid mailbox
> > name: saved-message/" error.  And when I try and view the contents of
> > Inbox, I get "Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/".
> >
> > I tried running evolution on the server, and I could subscribe and
> > view the INBOX.  But when I try and make a new folder, it gives me a
> > "Cannot create the specified folder.  Generic error"
> >
> > I'm hoping I just have something misconfigured, potential due to
> > messing around with cyrus-imapd and imapd, or perhaps even pine.
> > Anyone have any suggestions?  I'm pretty close to giving up on fedora
> > core 2 and installing core 1, or perhaps mandrake.
> >
> > --Joe Hartford
> >
> 
> 
> Here are a few more details:
> 
> * dovecot version (from rpm -q dovecot):  dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2
> 
> * output of "grep '^[^#]' /etc/dovecot.conf""
> login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login
> login = imap
> login = pop3
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> mbox_locks = fcntl
> auth = default
> auth_mechanisms = plain
> auth_userdb = passwd
> auth_passdb = pam
> auth_user = root
> 
> I tried changed auth_passdb to 'passwd', but then I can't log into the
> imap server at all from Outlook Express.
> 
> Also, I don't see much useful in /var/log/maillog.  All I see are
> "imap-login: Login: <username> [<ip>]"  and "last message repeated 2
> times"  (this happens when I keep trying to view Inbox from Outlook
> Express).
> 
> --Joe Hartford
> 

So after getting home from work last night and rebooting both the
linux box and my winXP laptop, things started working.

dovecot seems nice and fast so far.  Any word on when version 1.0 is
planned for release?

--Joe Hartford