Sorry for having lost the original chain of this problem. It's been a very long day.
New output from 'dovecot -n output', including the contents of dovecot.conf, conf.d/10-master.conf, conf.d/10-mail.conf and conf.d/10-ssl.conf:
# 2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.21 (92477967) # OS: Linux 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes first_valid_gid = 109 first_valid_uid = 105 last_valid_gid = 109 last_valid_uid = 105 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_gid = postfix mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n mail_uid = postfix namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = " imap lmtp" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } ssl = required ssl_cert =
The two key files are where it says they are, although the hidden one isn't shown, it's there and properly owned and permissioned.
Here's the only thing from tailing the log:
Oct 22 07:24:50 master: Info: Dovecot v2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec) starting up for imap, lmtp (core dumps disabled)
This may help - from a message delivery failure email:
*** Begin ***
Message Delivery Failure This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently:
* rock@theglobalvoice.info
Reason: There was an error while attempting to deliver your message with [Subject: "Testing again"] to rock@theglobalvoice.info. MTA p3plsmtpa11-09.prod.phx3.secureserver.net received this response from the destination host IP - 95.142.174.193 - 550 , 550 5.1.1 rock@theglobalvoice.info: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table .
Reporting-MTA: dns; p3plsmtpa11-09.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [68.178.252.101] Received-From-MTA: dns; [192.168.1.140] [108.41.57.11] Arrival-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:39:25 -0700
Final-recipient: rfc822; rock@theglobalvoice.info
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.1.1 rock@theglobalvoice.info: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
Last-attempt-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:23:38 -0700
Received: from [192.168.1.140] ([108.41.57.11]) by :SMTPAUTH: with ESMTPSA id MnpFiaSdxUnHgMnpFiYE6m; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:39:25 -0700 To: rock@theglobalvoice.info
From: Steve Matzura number6@noisynotes.com
Subject: Testing again Message-ID: 61b4f0c2-89fa-c4de-8288-871a8708f2d0@noisynotes.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 02:39:26 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfC8H5kkZhXB1zicGDqvcQlC1Tl3lMTOcElvh0Efz70YGRgQalgb4N6/9XVLjnqOVd5XtxwgTWuvuCEhwp/JZ2oHrdLkl4d7unSyOefbSkgcd/M5tlQn5 m+FMjUC5HJopO89WJXHQNp0ruK6VmVwHwxMAn0YDVu4FQQqVIUkN6KVyOfdC/TYD6t6vxOqv2OUxKQ==
Subject: Testing again From: Steve Matzura number6@noisynotes.com Date: 10/22/2019, 2:39 AM To: rock@theglobalvoice.info Let's see what happens now.
*** End ***
There is no user 'rock', it's just a Postfix mailbox.