[Dovecot] Help with logging in and getting mail
Andrew Falanga
af300wsm at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 23:00:05 EET 2007
Hi,
Very new to dovecot and to using POP3/IMAP (from this perspective anyway).
First things first, per the instructions from the web site:
dovecot version: 1.0.5
dovecot config:
# 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
protocols: imap pop3
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_gid: 0
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle
pop3_uidl_format(default):
pop3_uidl_format(imap):
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
mechanisms: plain digest-md5
user: vmail
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb:
driver: sql
args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
Please help me diagnose what is causing the following problem. Essentially,
this user is a virtual user. I have it so that the system user, vmail, is
the basket into which all virtual users e-mail goes. If my understanding is
correct (and please enlighten me if it's not), mail aliases are setup
to "map" aliased names into a real account. From there, dovecot will return
e-mail to the virtual user based upon the "To" field of the e-mail, correct?
I have some aliases in my sendmail config that do just this. From the error
below, it would seem that dovecot is actually authenticating the virutual
user "jdunkin" in this case, but can't get some directories made. I've seen
on my FreeBSD system that each system user has a "mail" file in the
directory, /var/mail/<userid>.
What needs to be done further? Also, how do I ensure that virtual users are
able to get their mail as well as system users?
Dec 29 15:01:54 whitbap dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jdunkin>,
method=PLAIN, rip=71.221.168.29, lip=192.168.2.23
Dec 29 15:01:54 whitbap dovecot: POP3(jdunkin):
mkdir_parents(/var/mail/vmail//mail) failed: Not a directory
Dec 29 15:01:54 whitbap dovecot: POP3(jdunkin): Failed to create storage with
data: mbox:/var/mail/vmail//mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/jdunkin
Dec 29 15:01:54 whitbap dovecot: child 61793 (pop3) returned error 89
Thanks,
Andy
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