On 7/10/2013 9:22 AM, Tommy Wareing wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 08:42:20AM -0400, Tom Talpey wrote:
On 7/10/2013 8:09 AM, Tommy Wareing wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 06:33:55AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2013-07-10 5:28 AM, Tommy Wareing tommyw@ntlworld.com wrote:
I'm trying to install Dovecot onto my QNAP NAS.
Did you create the "dovenull" user, which is needed by 2.1+? I ran dovecot 2.1.7 on my stock SS-439 quite successfully, until I completely gave up on the QNAP firmware and reinstalled it with Ubuntu.
Yes, I've got dovecot and dovenull users. In fact (just to check), doveconf for 2.0.21 complains if dovenull's not there: doveconf: Error: default_login_user doesn't exist: dovenull doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /opt/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: default_login_user doesn't exist: dovenull
Interestingly, it doesn't complain about the absence of dovecot.
I guess I'd suggest configuring both log_path and info_log_path to point somewhere, and look for additional clues in the output. Maybe a missing home directory or a permissions problem on one of the sockets in /var/run/dovecot, something like that. Remember the QNAP firmware puts a bunch of that stuff in a very small ramdisk.
Tom.