[Dovecot] Having trouble getting Dovecot to read a ~/Maildir configuration

[Julio C. Ortega]

Murray Collingwood <murray at focus-computing.com.au> escribió:

> Hi folks
>
> Setting up a new server, hence a few software packages have been upgraded /
> changed.  On my old server (only 2 years old)  I was using Dovecot and
> RoundCube (web mail app) and had a good experience so was keen to use these
> again.  The only major change is I have switched from sendmail to exim4
> (which was installed by default on this Debian server).  Exim4 appears to be
> doing the right thing, however read on and see if you can spot the error.
>
> I've tried two email clients, RoundCube (via apache) as a local connection
> and Evolution as a remote connection.  Both appear to login to the Dovecot
> IMAP connection okay (log entries included further down), although they
> don't see any email.  The INBOX is completely empty.  Although when I check
> out /home/postmaster/Maildir/new it has many messages waiting to be read.
>
> It's like Exim4 is delivering the email into the ~/Maildir folder but
> Dovecot is not seeing it....
>
> I've tried these three combinations in dovecot.conf but they give the
> same result:
> #mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir   (ie this one I commented the line out
> to see if Dovecot would work it out automatically)
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir     (I think this one should work)
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs   (Now I'm just desperate and
> will try anything)
>
> The dovecot log gives no indication of any errors:
>
> This is the version I am running - it was the default version for Debian
> installed via apt-get:
> 2011-04-21 08:55:22 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.15 starting up (core dumps
> disabled)
>
> This connection is using Evolution email client on Linux:
> 2011-04-21 08:40:05 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<postmaster>,
> method=PLAIN, rip=122.148.149.28, lip=202.125.41.111
>
> This connection is using roundcube via apache on the same server:
> 2011-04-21 08:40:41 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<postmaster>,
> method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> 2011-04-21 08:40:41 IMAP(postmaster): Info: Disconnected: Logged out
> bytes=39/443
>
> And finally a look at the ~/Maildir content for my "postmaster" user:
> root at ds5683:/etc/dovecot# ls -al /home/postmaster/Maildir
> total 148
> drwx------ 6 postmaster postmaster  4096 Apr 21 08:55 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 postmaster postmaster  4096 Apr 19 08:12 ..
> drwx------ 2 postmaster postmaster 12288 Apr 21 08:40 cur
> -rw------- 1 postmaster postmaster 89088 Apr 21 08:40 dovecot.index.cache
> -rw------- 1 postmaster postmaster  2376 Apr 21 08:40 dovecot.index.log
> -rw------- 1 postmaster postmaster  5208 Apr 21 08:40 dovecot-uidlist
> -rw------- 1 postmaster postmaster     8 Apr 21 08:55 dovecot-uidvalidity
> -rw------- 1 postmaster postmaster     0 Apr 21 08:34
> dovecot-uidvalidity.4daf5f73
> drwx------ 5 postmaster postmaster  4096 Apr 21 08:56 INBOX
> drwx------ 2 postmaster postmaster 12288 Apr 21 09:39 new
> drwx------ 2 postmaster postmaster  4096 Apr 21 09:39 tmp
>
> So, can somebody help me get Dovecot to recognise the messages in this
> mailbox please?
> You can suggest anything you like.... upgrades, conf changes, low level
> formating of HDD... at this stage I'm ready to try anything!
>
> Cheers
> Murray
>
>
>
> --
> Murray Collingwood
> Focus Computing
> p +61 415 24 26 24
> http://www.focus-computing.com.au
>

Hello Murray.

Weird that your migration from dovecot caused this.

You could try configuring a namespace for the INBOX folder (if you  
effectively migrated before from Courier)

something like:

namespace private {
   separator = .
   prefix = INBOX.
   inbox = yes
}

Greetings.


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