[Dovecot] doesn't work at all

[David Drexler]

Hi,

I can't seem to get dovecot to work.  When I connect with thunderbird,
tbird complains that it can't find the settings for my email.  When I
connect with evolution, it seems to go through all the motions but it
doesn't pick up the waiting messages.  Those messages are marked Status: O
s if it had read them.

The log file for tbird looks like this:

Jul 18 17:03:21 why dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227
Jul 18 17:03:22 why dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts):
rip=68.12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227

The log file with evolution is:

Jul 17 19:36:43 why dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ddrex>, method=PLAIN,
rip=68.
12.110.134, lip=184.176.6.227, mpid=22717, TLS
Jul 17 19:36:43 why dovecot: imap(ddrex): Debug: Effective uid=500,
gid=500, home=/
home/ddrex
Jul 17 19:36:43 why dovecot: imap(ddrex): Debug: fs: root=/home/ddrex/mail,
index=,
 control=, inbox=/var/mail/ddrex
Jul 17 19:46:17 why dovecot: imap(ddrex): Error: Next message unexpectedly
corrupte
d in mbox file /var/mail/ddrex at 1504

My conf file:

# 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail  "
listen = *
mail_debug = yes
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_privileged_group = mail
mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
protocols = imap pop3
service imap-login {
  vsz_limit = 64 M
}
service pop3-login {
  vsz_limit = 64 M
}
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
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Thanks for any clues.

dd