[Dovecot] New admin, not much success

[Pascal Volk]

On 06/16/2010 07:26 AM Chuck McManis wrote:
> …
> I've got qmail delivering into a file named 'Mailbox' in user's home
> directories.
                                               ^^^^^^^
> …
> So, I can't get dovecot to work at all. In an unusual turn about I got the
> SSL stuff working but not the mailbox handling. I'm running 2.0beta6
> 
> Output from dovecot -n
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # 2.0.beta6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 i386  nfs
> auth_debug = yes
> auth_verbose = yes
> default_internal_user = nobody
> default_login_user = nobody
> listen = *
> mail_full_filesystem_access = yes
> mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/:INBOX=/home/%u/
                             ^^^^^             ^^^^^^?
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> protocols = pop3
> service pop3-login {
>   inet_listener pop3s {
>     port = 995
>     ssl = yes
>   }
> }
> service pop3 {
>   process_limit = 1024
> }
> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> A typical failure looks like this in maillog:
> Jun 15 22:19:20 eeebox dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.beta6 starting up
> Jun 15 22:20:29 eeebox dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<cmcmanis>,
> method=PLAIN, rip=66.125.189.27, lip=66.125.189.30, mpid=78871, TLS
> Jun 15 22:20:29 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Error: Opening INBOX failed:
> Mailbox isn't selectable
> Jun 15 22:20:29 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Error: Couldn't open INBOX:
> Mailbox isn't selectable
> Jun 15 22:20:29 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0,
> retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Home directories are mounted via NFS and root doesn't have access, but if
> dovecot accesses the Mailbox as the user it should work fine.
> 
> I'm about ready to start hacking in additional logging into mail-storage.c
> to figure out what "mailbox isn't selectable" means.


what happens when you set:
    mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/Mailbox:INBOX=/home/%u/Mailbox
or:
    mail_location = mbox:~/Mailbox:INBOX=~/Mailbox

Dovecot should have logged, where it is looking for mails. If you can't
find such information in your logs, set also mail_debug = yes in your
conf.d/10-logging.conf


Regards,
Pascal
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