Edgar, thank you for your help:
I have solved gaining access from a client (Evolution) via IMAP to the server: I can refresh, add folders, and delete folders. But I am still confounded, as IMAP does not see any mailboxes. Neither we from the command line (telnet, openssl, login, select) nor the system can find the mailbox, despite following FindMailLocation:
telnet, openssl, login, then
b select inbox
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
and postfix fails with
2016-07-23T21:22:37.312039-04:00 lavarre postfix/error[17088]: A8DA2C1BB2: to=<andy@privustech.com>, orig_to=<andy>, relayBut the mailboxes do exist in /var/mail/vhosts/privustech.com/andy and we point to them in /etc/dovecot/users.
doveconf -n is attached.
Two issues are: permissions you also must change that file.
file permissions and ownership
virtual versus system users
It appears that having the correct ownership and permissions on various files is critical (of course), but those parameters must also be included in the interior of the /etc/dovecot/user. So if you change
For example, you said:
i also noticed your certificate chain is broken.http://wiki2.dovecot.org/testinstallation
I worked through this link, thank you. Changing permissions for the directories /var/mail/* to
root:mail ($UID:$GID = 1000:12)and then changing /etc/dovecot/users correspondingly to
user@privustech.com :{plain}actualpassword: 1000:12 ::/var/mail/vhosts/privustech.com/usernow allows a normal login. and we can create a new folder (e.g., work) and delete it. However, this is at variance with http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/SimpleVirtualInstall
which says to set the ownership to vmail:vmail ($UID:$GID = 100: 5000). Doing so breaks dovecot.
- The various links suggest that having virtual users is preferable to setting system users. The former do not require directories under /homebut they do require a directory in the mail system, which I have provided under /var/mail/vhosts. It also turns out that for virtual users you must include the domain (andy@privustech.com). Making that change allowed the success reported above. But despite that, we still cannot find the mailboxes on login.
Any thoughts on how to have IMAP find the mailboxes (beyond FindMailLocation, which doesn't seem to work for me) would be most appreciated.
Kind regards, Andy