Hi,
through various trial and errors i've found the solution to my problem, i disabled the mbox_min_index_size, it was set to 200 ( i think i read in some tutorial that this will increase performance)
#mbox_min_index_size = 200
After disabling it the errors stopped though i still have a niggling issue still unresolved
Where do the error messages go ??? i read through the debuging tutorial,, the dovecot --log-error command doesn't work,,, or maybe i am not executing it properly
# dovecot --log-error Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>] [-p] [-n] [-a] [--exec-mail <protocol>] [--version] [--build-options] Fatal: Unknown argument: --log-error
That is what i get after command execution, how do i find out where the error messages are logged ???
Hi,
I am new to this list although i have been using dovecot for some time now, i've come accross this error when a user tries to log in
- OK Dovecot ready. 1 login username password 1 OK Logged in. 1 select inbox 1 NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-12-07 12:51:56]
there are no errors reported in the log files related to that issue for both dovecot.log and maillog
what i do receive in the log files is
dovecot: Dec 07 12:55:46 Info: imap-login: Login: user=username@domain, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Dec 07 12:55:46 Info: IMAP(username@domain): Effective uid=500, gid=500 dovecot: Dec 07 12:55:46 Info: IMAP(aadu@uccmail.co.tz): mbox: data=/var/spool/mail/vmail/domain/username:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/vmail/domain/username/Inbox:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/vmail/domain/username:home=/var/spool/mail/vmail/domain/username/.imap/.imap dovecot: Dec 07 12:55:46 Info: IMAP(aadu@uccmail.co.tz): mbox: root=/var/spool/mail/vmail/domain/username, index=/var/spool/mail/vmail/domain/username, inbox=/var/spool/mail/vmail/domain/username/Inbox dovecot: Dec 07 12:55:46 Info: IMAP(username@domain): Disconnected
i can't seem to pinpoint what is going wrong, some things to note
i have existing users who can read email succesfully, its when i create a new user via postfixadmin, one should note that all directories are created and owned by vmail whose gid and uid is 500 and for the new users the directories and mboxes are created succesfully, but even if i copy over a working inbox of previous user to new user i still get an error so i don't think it is an mbox formatting issue
another thing is that i can successfully check mail using mutt facility, even sending using mail clients (outlook express) is possible
other configurations that might be helpful
# dovecot --version 1.0.rc15
#cat /etc/group |grep vmail dovecot:x:97:vmail vmail:x:500:dovecot
# /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_disable: yes 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_location: mbox:/var/spool/mail/vmail/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/vmail/%d/%n/Inbox:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/vmail/%d/%n:home=/var/spool/mail/vmail/%d/%n/.imap/.imap mail_debug: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mbox_min_index_size: 200 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: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: