First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

[Marnaud]

Le 14 oct. 2016 à 16:06, mick crane <mick.crane at gmail.com> a écrit:

> On 2016-10-14 13:43, Moi wrote:
>> Hello,
>> First of all, I'm sorry if you received this mail twice; I haven't received
>> it the first time so I think it was lost. Second attempt.
>> I've made some more tests and I still can't receive mails.
>> Outlook doesn't complain about anything, no error message; the mails that
>> are supposed to be received just won't appear.
>> In the mail logs, I find this line (other lines are irrelevant):
>> dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 2 secs): user=<>
>> [...]
>> Is this a problem that looks familiar?
>> It's a bit clueless without an error message.
>> Any idea welcome.
> 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation

Thank you. I’m at the “Check that it finds INBOX” section and am getting:
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT

(the remaining text being the same as the example). So it looks like the mailbox doesn’t exist…