(repost gmane message as list member)
I need some help with Dovecot-1.0rc2 on Gentoo Linux. My test harness is one Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 client, storage using legacy mbox directories ported over from an old UW-IMAP/sendmail combo running on RHL 8.
Config is intended to be passwd/pam, plaintext login allowed (until I migrate everyone to ssl). After this is working, postfix and dspam are to be added, unless someone can recommend a 'dovecot of smtp' to use.
I'll tail the mail.log to illustrate the problem, then excerpt what I think are the relevant directory and config file listings. I'm paying particular attention to file ownership, but am loathe to just chown dovecot things unless I know why.
Let me know if you want to see any other config info to help spot the problem. Thanks!
# tail -n 30 /var/log/mail.log
dovecot: Jul 05 18:35:25 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN
service=IMAP lip=123.456.789.012 rip=098.765.432.109
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1
AGplZmYua293YWxjenlrAHdvcmRwYXNzMQ==
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1
user=namefirst.namelast
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1
25692 1
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1
namefirst.namelast system_user=namefirst.namelast uid=501 gid=12
home=/home/namefirst.namelast
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: stat(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast) failed:
No such file or directory
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Effective uid=501,
gid=12
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox:
data=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast:INDEX=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: INBOX defaulted
to /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox:
root=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast, index=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast,
inbox=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox
dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: imap-login: Login: user=
# ls -al /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1472 Jul 2 19:20 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 168 Jul 3 14:19 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 18:46 .keep -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 36243879 Jul 1 17:52 namefirst.namelast (...)
# ls -al /var/dovecot/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jul 5 10:30 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 360 Jun 29 09:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 10:30 .keep
# ls -al /var/run/dovecot/ total 5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 176 Jul 5 18:35 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 504 Jul 3 14:45 .. srw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 auth-worker.25687 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 dict-server drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 136 Jul 5 18:35 login -rw------- 1 root root 6 Jul 5 18:35 master.pid
# ls -al /home/namefirst.namelast/ total 17791 drwxr-xr-x 2 namefirst.namelast mail 248 Jul 5 18:29 . drwxr-xr-x 76 root root 2512 Jul 2 20:21 .. -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 3293785 Sep 23 2005 Sent
# grep dovecot /etc/group dovecot:x:97:
# grep dovecot /etc/passwd dovecot:x:97:97:added by portage for dovecot:/dev/null:/usr/sbin/nologin
# grep mail /etc/passwd mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false
# grep mail /etc/group mail::12:mail
# grep namefirst.namelast /etc/passwd namefirst.namelast:x:501:12:First Last:/home/namefirst.namelast:/bin/bash
# cat /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so
# cat /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/mail.log info_log_path = /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root }
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