unable to see mail when using telnet / open ssl

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Dave Myers wrote:

> I'm setting up my own VPS and working through getting mail to work.

would you post the commands you use via telnet and the logs you get.

> Here is my dovecot -n
>
> $dovecot -n
> maildir:%h/%d/%n/mail : layout=fs

^^ were does this string come from?

> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3
> auth_debug = yes
> auth_debug_passwords = yes
> auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5
> auth_verbose = yes
> auth_verbose_passwords = plain
> lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
> mail_debug = yes
> mail_gid = 1002
> mail_home = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%n
> mail_location = maildir:~/mail: layout=fs
> mail_uid = 1002
> namespace inbox {
>  inbox = yes
>  location =
>  mailbox Drafts {
>    special_use = \Drafts
>  }
>  mailbox Junk {
>    special_use = \Junk
>  }
>  mailbox Sent {
>    special_use = \Sent
>  }
>  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>    special_use = \Sent
>  }
>  mailbox Trash {
>    special_use = \Trash
>  }
>  prefix =
> }
> passdb {
>  args = scheme=SHA512-CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
>  driver = passwd-file
> }
> protocols = imap
> service auth {
>  unix_listener auth-client {
>    mode = 0660
>    user = mail
>  }
> }
> service imap-login {
>  inet_listener imap {
>    port = 143
>  }
>  inet_listener imaps {
>    port = 993
>    ssl = yes
>  }
> }
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>  args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
>  driver = passwd-file
> }
> userdb {
>  driver = passwd
> }
> verbose_ssl = yes
>
>
> I can successfully log into dovecot using telnet and open ssl from a remote 
> terminal, so authentication and everything is working fine.
>
> From the above dovecot -n I asume that mails should be going to
> /var/mail/virtual/domain/user/mail
>
> However when I view this directory I can see a number of test mails that I 
> have sent using
>
> echo "Hello me" | mail -s "Dovecot test" $USER
>
> (see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/FindMailLocation)
>
> Why am I not seeing them when I use telnet / openSSL to log in?
>
> All help is greately appreciated.
>
>

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Steffen Kaiser
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