--- On Wed, 10/8/11, DT <nbw0313@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: DT <nbw0313@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6 To: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot@dovecot.org>, "Spyros Tsiolis" <stsiol@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Wednesday, 10 August, 2011, 20:05 I initially ran dovecot 2.0.13 from CentOS 6 base repository. Then I switched to beta 9 (source) because I found most articles saying it's stable with the stuff I wanted compiled - compiling it was actually a pain. Now I successfully compiled and installed 2.0.13 from source. Works like a charm. Still I can't pinpoint exactly where the problem was: could be a bug OR could be a problematic package in centos6 repository... can't say - maybe I will test more in depth on a dev box. All the best
--- On Wed, 8/10/11, Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
From: Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6 To: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot@dovecot.org> Cc: nbw0313@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 7:30 PM
--- On Wed, 10/8/11, DT <nbw0313@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: DT <nbw0313@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6 To: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot@dovecot.org> Date: Wednesday, 10 August, 2011, 17:12 [SOLVED] For some reason I had to give up compiling/working with beta version - it seems to have some issue with the storages. Instead I compiled last stable version and all is working fine - funny thing is that I had to compile with both mbox and maildir storage drivers (probably for postfix compatibility)
--- On Wed, 8/10/11, DT <nbw0313@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: DT <nbw0313@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6 To: dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 4:49 PM
Still couldn't solve this mbox problem... Is there anyone who can assist me with this?
--- On Sat, 8/6/11, DT <nbw0313@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: DT <nbw0313@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6 To: dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 10:12 AM
Thank you Thomas for opening my eyes on that matter, I fixed that area as bellow and it solved the Postfix problem 100% service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0600 user = postfix group = postfix } } Now I only have same old issue with Dovecot only: 2011-08-05 07:52:21 imap(contact@mydomain.com): Debug: Effective uid=901, gid=12, home=/vmail/mydomain.com/contact 2011-08-05 07:52:21 imap(contact@mydomain.com): Error: user contact@mydomain.com: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: Unknown mail storage driver maildir 2011-08-05 07:52:21 imap(contact@mydomain.com): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Somehow it doesnt like what I have in mail_location or so... but I tried so many other folders, tried maildir also, error keeps showing, I can login to IMAP but once I do I'm dropped :* BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. Thank you again for any oppinion or advice.
In the config posted 'service auth' is not configured:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
Thomas
No I noticed Postfix isnt running anymore :( Aug 4 14:49:25 hostname
Aug 4 14:49:25 hostname
Aug 4 14:49:25 hostname
postfix/smtpd[6414]: connect from mail-fx0-f51.google.com[209.85.161.51] postfix/smtpd[6414]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: Connection refused postfix/smtpd[6414]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
All I did was a simple system reboot
If you don't mind me ask; What version of dovecot were you trying to build ?
Were you trying to buld/compile from sources ? Didn't you use the rpms for CentOS that exist ?
Regards,
s.
"I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise"
- Vangelis
Hi DT,
Have you tinkered with debug switches on dovecot ? They are pretty straightforward and down to the point (see: not cryptic :-)
I build dovecot from sources too. Not relaying on CentOS repos. I currently have two mailservers with dovecot and have no problems.
Then, I am not using v2.x but v1.x (I can't remember the exact version at the moment).
HTH
s.
"I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise"
- Vangelis