Question on setting up dovecot

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Am 11.02.2016 um 18:09 schrieb Jeffery Small:
> Many thanks to Joseph Tam and Steffen Kaiser for pointing me to the logging
> information that I should have been using in the first place.  Now that
> I have separate log files and debugging information, I'm still at a loss
> to see why the mail is not being pulled over from the Linux system to the
> Windows 7 machine.  To recap, here is the output from doveconf -n:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 (0c4ae064f307+)
> # OS: Linux 4.2.0-27-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 15.10
> auth_debug = yes
> auth_verbose = yes
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot
> mail_debug = yes
> mail_location = mbox:~/lib/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Is the mail_location setting correct? I'm not sure about the mbox format 
an notation.
So check the dovecot wiki for further infos.
> passdb {
>    driver = pam
> }
> protocols = imap pop3
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>    driver = passwd
> }
> userdb {
>    driver = passwd
> }
> verbose_ssl = yes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here is the configuration logging/debug info:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info
> auth_verbose = yes
> auth_debug = yes
> mail_debug = yes
> verbose_ssl = yes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And here is the complete set of Debug/Info information logged when Outlook
> on the Win7 system attempts a Send/Receive operation.  Long lines broken
> for readability:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: \
> 		/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from \
> 		/var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=7861)
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH    1   PLAIN \
> 		service=pop3    session=dF2ST4ErtQDMa1sC \
> 		lip=<server_IP>    rip=<client_IP> \
> 		lport=110 rport=54453 resp=<hidden>
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth-worker(7864): Debug: Loading modules from directory: \
> 		/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth-worker(7864): Debug: pam(sherril,<client_IP>): \
> 		lookup service=dovecot
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth-worker(7864): Debug: pam(sherril,<client_IP>): \
> 		#1/1 style=1 msg=Password:
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth: Debug: client passdb out: OK  1   user=sherril
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 1975517185  7861    1 \
> 		b48910c85f39498e2fe83277d7e94028    session_pid=7866
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth-worker(7864): Debug: pam(sherril,<client_IP>): lookup
> Feb 11 08:47:49 auth: Debug: master userdb out: USER    1975517185 \
> 		sherril system_groups_user=sherril  uid=1001 gid=1001 \
> 		home=/u/sherril
> Feb 11 08:47:49 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<sherril>, method=PLAIN, \
> 		rip=<client_IP>, lip=<server_IP>, mpid=7866, \
> 		session=<dF2ST4ErtQDMa1sC>
> Feb 11 08:47:49 pop3(sherril): Debug: Effective uid=1001, gid=1001, \
> 		home=/u/sherril
> Feb 11 08:47:49 pop3(sherril): Debug: fs: root=/u/sherril/lib/Mail, \
> 		index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/sherril, alt=
Check both directories "/u/sherril/lib/Mail", "/var/mail/sherril" for 
correct ownership and permissions.
> Feb 11 08:47:49 pop3(sherril): Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, \
> 		retr=0/0, del=0/3, size=36928
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> There are no errors.  We have a pop3 connection.  The user's name,
> uid, gid, password, home directory are all correct.  The inbox is
> listed as /var/mail/sherril which is correct, and this file has the
> correct ownership and permissions:
>
> # ls -l /var/mail/sherril
> -rw-rw---- 1 sherril mail 194900 Feb 11 09:00 /var/mail/sherril

Are there any mails in that directory?
Check if it is possible to walk thought the directory tree. If the user 
doesn't have the right to read /var , he will never reach 
/var/mail/sherril.
>
> Yet, no mail is pulled over.  Are there any clues here?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jeff
>
Philipp