Hi everyone. Nice to meet you.
I’m new to dovecot and i came across a problem it seems.
I setup a new user called sales with useradd, and gave it a password. Although it has a home directory, i set login to /sbin/nologin.
When logging into the pop server on port 110 (with telnet) i get this in the logs:
dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<sales>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=12938, secured, session=<94SotWVRoAB/AAAB> Jun 7 21:49:24 www dovecot: pop3(sales): Error: user sales: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/sales Jun 7 21:49:24 www dovecot: pop3(sales): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.
Did i have to initialise the mailbox in the homedirectory? What did i forget. I didn't change anything to the default dovecot.conf, i just installed the package with yum install dovecot (so latest version). This error also shows up when logging into port 143. Thanks for your help.
My dovecot -n output if that helps is : [ec2-user@www log]$ dovecot -n # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.9.20-10.30.amzn1.x86_64 x86_64 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } ssl = required ssl_cert =
Thanks a lot. -atv