Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

Marnaud anic297@mac.com writes:

"mailtest", the new user, is in group mail(8). In addition, I've added write permission for "others" to /var/mail. Now, I'm trying to send a message to "mailtest" from another, working, e-mail account and nothing happens. This time, "doveadm log errors" is empty.

In short, I don't get any error but no mail either.

Two things to check:

# What does dovecot think user "mailtest" has?
doveadm user mailtest

# The sticky bit should be set on /var/mail (you didn't mention
# setting it.  It probably doesn't have bearing on this problem,
# but it will make it a little more secure.
chmod 1777 /var/mail

Since "doveadm log errors" returns an empty result, where should I look for the problem?

I usually don't use this command, I look at the log file which seems to have more details. Try looking there for more diagnostics. Also, look at your MTA's logs as well.

Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com