Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

[Dave McGuire]

On 1/8/22 12:28 AM, Ken Wright wrote:
>>>>> When I try to log in to my mail server (ubuntu 20.04, Postfix
>>>>> 3.4.13, Dovecot 2.3.7.2) I get a response saying "Source stream
>>>>> returned no data”.  At least to me, that's not particularly
>>>>> informative.  Is it any more informative to anyone else?
>>>>
>>>>      The last time I hit that, I'm pretty sure it was because I
>>>> was going to port 80 instead of port 443 to reach Roundcube.
>>>
>>> I'm using port 143 for receiving and 587 for sending; I didn't
>>> think 443 was for email.  Am I mistaken?  (Not at all unlikely!)
>>
>>     Nono, for your web browser's connection to Roundcube.  I could be
>> barking up the wrong tree here, but I'm pretty sure that's the error
>> I hit.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  I just tried Roundcube again, and got
> the error "Connection to storage server failed."  I also checked the
> nginx script for Roundcube and commented out the references to port 80,
> then restarted nginx.  Same error.  So I tend to think it's a server
> issue, not a client issue.  Does that make any sense?

   It makes sense, but that's a different error than the one you got 
before.  This new error looks like a Roundcube configuration problem, 
having to do with either its connection to Dovecot or possibly a 
back-end database server. (MySQL?)

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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