On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, Bill Cole wrote:
At 5:14 PM +0000 1/24/08, Anne Wilson imposed structure on a stream
of electrons, yielding:
I'm setting up a replacement mail server on a CentOS 5.1 box. The dovecot version is 1.0.rc15. 'dovecot -n' returns
# /etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd
I can telnet localhost 143 and log in.
I have given kmail the address of the server and an Inbox has been created, but no option to create sub-folders. If I attempt to send a message kmail freezes. Clearly something's wrong.
I am using configuration files from the old server, modified only to the new server details. I have alias and transport hashes. What else should I be looking at?
Your MTA. Your references to alias and transport hashes makes me suspect that it is Postfix.
Dovecot has nothing to do with sending mail.
You're right, of course. Sorry - I was over-tired when I wrote that. You'll have seen that in my reply to mouss, the problem was in dovecot.conf. It's fixed now, thanks.
Anne