Re: [Dovecot] question about /var/mail/xxx

Am 19.06.2015 um 08:29 schrieb Mickael Choisnard:

Hi, I need your help to use dovecot with sendmail I use a fresh debian 8 jessie and i installed sendmail and dovecot 2. Sendmail works fine.

All mails go to /var/mail/xxx

this is problem for dovecot. dovecot cannot get it.

# 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 8.1 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 116 last_valid_uid = 116 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_home = /srv/mail/%u mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail 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 { args = scheme=SHA-CRYPT /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } postmaster_address = root@arpagon protocols = " imap pop3" service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail user = vmail } } ssl = no userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/srv/vmail/%d/%n driver = static }

cat /var/log/dovecot.log

Jun 19 08:14:18 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<mc110771>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.11.12.30, lip=88.179.182.93, mpid=18799, session= Jun 19 08:14:18 imap(mc110771): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=8 out=395 Jun 19 08:14:26 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<mc110771>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.11.12.30, lip=88.179.182.93, mpid=18801, session= Jun 19 08:14:26 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<mc110771>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.11.12.30, lip=88.179.182.93, mpid=18803, session= Jun 19 08:14:26 imap(mc120771): Error: open() failed with mbox file /var/mail/mc120771: Permission denied Jun 19 08:14:57 imap(mc120771): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=137 out=640 Jun 19 08:14:57 imap(mc120771): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=74 out=547 Jun 19 08:18:47 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=10.11.12.45, lip=88.179.182.93, session= Jun 19 08:18:47 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=10.11.12.45, lip=88.179.182.93, session=<2gOX5dgYigAKCwwt> Jun 19 08:18:47 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=10.11.12.45, lip=88.179.182.93, session=<ojeY5dgYjQAKCwwt> You have to configure Sendmail to "give" mails to Dovecot, so it can save them itself: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail