Hello all. Have spent several days following the excellent tutorial:
http://www.binarytides.com/install-postfix-dovecot-debian/
but still fail to have the user recognized and am getting log entries that the mail directories are 0755 when I can clearly see that they are 0774.
Very puzzling, any help would be deeply appreciated.
Best regards, Andy =========== Details =========== • I can add directories under IMAP, so my IMAP login and permissions must be correct.
• I can create an outgoing message under IMAP, but clicking SEND just hangs. Logs do not indicate problem.
• I clearly can send it a message with smtp. The message is delivered to postfix, but then dovecot fails to deliver it to a mailbox. ------------------------------------ Log Entries ---------------------
# tail /var/log/mail
postfix/qmgr[16390]: 9D6E8C1A77: from=<alavarre@gmail.com>,size=2794, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Message has been received
postfix/lmtp[16770]: C218DC197D: to=<alavarre@privustech.com>,relay=mail.privustech.com[private/lmtp], delay=2560, delays=2260/0.01/300/0, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (conversation with mail.privustech.com[private/lmtp] timed out while receiving the initial server greeting) lmtp is not working ------------------------------------ # tail /var/log/dovecot.log
auth-worker(16612): Info:pam(alavarre@privustech.com,98.179.190.111): unknown user
imap-login: Info: Login: user=<alavarre@privustech.com>,method=PLAIN, rip=98.179.190.111, lip=70.186.159.22, mpid=16615, TLS,
session=
imap(alavarre@privustech.com): Error:mkdir(/var/mail/vhosts/privustech.com/alavarre/cur) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +w perm: /var/mail/vhosts/privustech.com/alavarre, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) However, the mail directory /var/mail/vhosts/privustech.com/alavarre is -rwxrwxr-- vmail:vmail and I have restarted both postfix and dovecot.
========================= System is openSUSE Leap 42.1 (64). postfix and dovecot with SASL authentication, connecting through a Unix socket: /etc/postfix/main.cf: virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/lmtp /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.cf: service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp { mode = 0600 user = postfix group = postfix
}The lmtp socket is owned by postfix, while the mail system is owned by vmail, per the tutorial.
I am using virtual users (not system users) defined in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-users: alavarre@privustech.com:{plain}ksaj;flkasjd;ds;f
Thanks in advance, Andy