[Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6

[Spyros Tsiolis]

--- On Wed, 10/8/11, DT <nbw0313 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: DT <nbw0313 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6
> To: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 10 August, 2011, 17:12
> [SOLVED]
>  
> For some reason I had to give up compiling/working
> with beta version - it seems to have some issue with the
> storages. Instead I compiled last stable version and all is
> working fine - funny thing is that I had to compile with
> both mbox and maildir storage drivers (probably for postfix
> compatibility)
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> --- On Wed, 8/10/11, DT <nbw0313 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> From: DT <nbw0313 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 4:49 PM
> 
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> Still couldn't solve this mbox problem... Is there anyone
> who can assist me with this?
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> --- On Sat, 8/6/11, DT <nbw0313 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: DT <nbw0313 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Date: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 10:12 AM
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> Thank you Thomas for opening my eyes on that matter, I
> fixed that area as bellow and it solved the Postfix problem
> 100%
>  
> service auth {
>     unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth  {
>         mode = 0600
>         user = postfix
>         group = postfix
>     }
> }
>  
> Now I only have same old issue with Dovecot only:
> 2011-08-05 07:52:21 imap(contact at mydomain.com):
> Debug: Effective uid=901, gid=12,
> home=/vmail/mydomain.com/contact
> 2011-08-05 07:52:21 imap(contact at mydomain.com):
> Error: user contact at mydomain.com:
> Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from
> mail_location setting failed: Unknown mail storage driver
> maildir
> 2011-08-05 07:52:21 imap(contact at mydomain.com):
> Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more
> information.
>  
> Somehow it doesnt like what I have in mail_location or
> so... but I tried so many other folders, tried maildir also,
> error keeps showing, I can login to IMAP but once I do I'm
> dropped :* BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log
> for more information.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>  
> Thank you again for any oppinion or advice.
> 
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>  
> >In the config posted 'service auth' is not configured:
> >
> >http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
> >
> >Thomas
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>  
> >> No I noticed Postfix isnt running anymore :(
> >> Aug  4 14:49:25 hostname postfix/smtpd[6414]:
> connect from mail-fx0-f51.google.com[209.85.161.51]
> >> Aug  4 14:49:25 hostname postfix/smtpd[6414]:
> warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: Connection
> refused
> >> Aug  4 14:49:25 hostname postfix/smtpd[6414]:
> fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
> >>  
> >> All I did was a simple system reboot
> >>  
> 


If you don't mind me ask; What version of dovecot were you trying
to build ?

Were you trying to buld/compile from sources ?
Didn't you use the rpms for CentOS that exist ?

Regards,

s.


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