On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:09:51 -0400, Joe Hartford jhartford@gmail.com wrote:
After the aging harddrive in my Redhat 7.2 server died, I decided it was time to upgrade. I bought a new harddrive and did a fresh install of Fedora Core 2. I've managed to get www, ssh and sendmail reconfigured, but I'm having a heck of a time with imap.
I first fooled around with cyrus-imapd, and couldn't make head or tail of it, so I downloaded a fedore core 1 imapd rpm and installed it. That almost worked, but I could only see the INBOX. Next I tried dovecot.
Via Outlook Express from my winXP box, I can Refresh the IMAP folder list, and see the INBOX and the sent-mail and saved-messages folders that were created when I first ran pine. However, if I try and mark sent-mail or saved-messages as Visible, I get an "Invalid mailbox name: saved-message/" error. And when I try and view the contents of Inbox, I get "Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/".
I tried running evolution on the server, and I could subscribe and view the INBOX. But when I try and make a new folder, it gives me a "Cannot create the specified folder. Generic error"
I'm hoping I just have something misconfigured, potential due to messing around with cyrus-imapd and imapd, or perhaps even pine. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty close to giving up on fedora core 2 and installing core 1, or perhaps mandrake.
--Joe Hartford
Here are a few more details:
dovecot version (from rpm -q dovecot): dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2
output of "grep '^[^#]' /etc/dovecot.conf"" login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root
I tried changed auth_passdb to 'passwd', but then I can't log into the imap server at all from Outlook Express.
Also, I don't see much useful in /var/log/maillog. All I see are "imap-login: Login: <username> [<ip>]" and "last message repeated 2 times" (this happens when I keep trying to view Inbox from Outlook Express).
--Joe Hartford