[Dovecot] Newbie Questration

[Dillon]

You probably need to set default_mail_env

Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote:
> Actually, it is a frustration: The client does not work, have tried 
> Opera mail and Outlook, to receive mail. the client can send, but not 
> receive. I know the mail is sitting in the user account Maildir ready 
> to be picked up. Dovecot "compiles" fine. What am I doing wrong? 
> Someone please help me, I know it is something simple. I have racked 
> the net trying to find a solution, but no 2 mail setups are the same. 
> My setup is the simplest I can make it.
>
> I have  Postfix and Dovecot installed on Linux. All recent versions. 
> Plain text authentication off shadow passwords and login user 
> accounts. Mail is configured as Maildir, IMAP. As you can see below, I 
> have turned logs on and there is nothing in them that shows an error. 
> I am on a real static IP behind a firewall. I have opened the SMTP and 
> IMAP ports. BTW, Postfix can send and receive local and outside. IMAP 
> does not work to/fro outside or locally.
>
> I have also logged into Dovecot like so:
>
> telnet localhost imap
> 1 login test testing
> 2 select INBOX
>
> It lets me login and I have tried it with root, which it rejects and 
> with another account which works. It selects the INBOX and I hit the 
> return key multiple times to exit because I don't know what else to 
> type. So, it looks like it is authenticating.
>
> Postfix is working fine, it can send and receive mail both locally and 
> the outside world. It puts the messages in the Maildir directories as 
> it is supposed to.
>
> Here is my dovecot.conf file:
>
> protocols = imap imaps
>
> listen = *
> ssl_listen = *
> ssl_disable = no
>
> ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168
>
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info
>
> verbose_ssl = yes
>
> protocol imap {
> }
> auth_verbose = yes
>
> auth default {
>   # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
>   #   plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi
>   mechanisms = plain login
>   userdb passwd {
>   }
>   passdb shadow {
>   }