A. Timo, with mail debug=yes , the log is as below... ............................................................................
Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=::ffff:60.54.174.146 rip=::ffff:192.168.10.96 resp=<hidden> Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(fizan@mesara.biz,::ffff:192.168.10.96): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'fizan@mesara.biz' Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=fizan@mesara.biz Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 20628 1 Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(fizan@mesara.biz,::ffff:192.168.10.96): SELECT maildir, 89 AS uid, 89 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'fizan@mesara.biz' Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 fizan@mesara.biz maildir=fizan@mesara.biz/ uid=89 gid=89 Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<fizan@mesara.biz>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.10.96, lip=::ffff:60.54.174.146 Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: POP3(fizan@mesara.biz): Effective uid=89, gid=89 Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: POP3(fizan@mesara.biz): maildir: data=/home/vmail/mesara.biz/fizan Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: POP3(fizan@mesara.biz): maildir: root=/home/vmail/mesara.biz/fizan, index=/home/vmail/mesara.biz/haifizan,control=, inbox= Feb 22 13:21:53 fwgw dovecot: POP3(fizan@mesara.biz): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
B. The /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf file ; ( copied from http://www.campworld.net/thewiki/pmwiki.php/LinuxServersCentOS/Cent5VirtMail...) ( similar syntax for the user_query shown in other sites as well, such as opensuse howto... ) ( also in postfixadmin2.3's dovecot.txt file) .......................................................................................................................................................................................................
driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=kasdf default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 89 AS uid, 89 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'
In dovecot.conf, my default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n, So from the log , i can see that dovecot is accesing the right area ( yes? ) . . . BUT . . When i go to /home/vmail, i can see that the test emails i sent are going to folder "fizan@mesara.biz" instead of "mesara.biz/fizan"
[root@fwgw ]# cd /home/vmail [root@fwgw vmail]# ls -l total 16 drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 4096 Feb 21 18:49 fizan@meswara.biz drwx------ 3 postfix postfix 4096 Feb 21 21:07 mesara.biz
I guess the culprit is the settings in postfixadmin's config.inc.php
// Mailboxes // If you want to store the mailboxes per domain set this to 'YES'. // Examples: // YES: /usr/local/virtual/domain.tld/username@domain.tld // NO: /usr/local/virtual/username@domain.tld
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'NO';
// If you don't want to have the domain in your mailbox set this to 'NO'. // Examples: // YES: /usr/local/virtual/domain.tld/username@domain.tld // NO: /usr/local/virtual/domain.tld/username // Note: If $CONF['domain_path'] is set to NO, this setting will be forced to YES.
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
I am gonna try to set the first to YES and the second to NO and will report back to the list.
Also, timo , i am hopeless at sql statements and i am not able to fully understand the sql statement that u have given. Sorry. I am hoping to either
- make postfix/ LDA store emails at /home/vmail/mesara.biz/username
OR
- make imap read emails from /home/vmail/username@mesara.biz
Comments/help most welcome.
----- Original Message ----
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Cant Receive Email from dovecot pop -typos corrected....
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 05:28 -0800, Linux Advocate wrote:
A. Still can't retrieve mail..... the mailliog shows.....
Set mail_debug=yes. It'll show where Dovecot is looking for the mail.
Feb 21 21:16:23 fwgw dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(fizan@mesara.biz,::ffff:60.50.250.8): SELECT maildir, 89 AS uid, 89 AS gid FROM mailb ox WHERE username = 'fizan@mesara.biz'
The "maildir" doesn't do anything. Dovecot doesn't look for "maildir" field.
Feb 21 21:16:23 fwgw dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 4
fizan@mesara.biz maildir=fizan@mesara.biz/ uid=89 gid=89Also the maildir is relative to some other directory apparently? That's not going to work. Perhaps you want something like:
user_query = SELECT concat('/var/vmail/', maildir) AS home, ...
and in dovecot.conf set mail_location = maildir:~
Feb 21 21:16:23 fwgw dovecot: POP3(fizan@mesara.biz): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 No idea what the above means though..... " Disconnected "
"Logged out" means that the client had successfully logged in and then used QUIT command to log out.