At 3:24 PM +0100 12/19/07, Isaak wrote:
Hey,I have recently set up Dovecot on my server but I have trouble with using it.
I'm using Dovecot 1.0.rc15, SQL password and user database with the SQL config files provided on the home page.
You should start by using a more modern version: at least the final 1.0 release, preferably 1.0.9.
I'm using Thunderbird to connect to Dovecot.
When trying to connect it gives me an internal server error: User not found
Is there anything else I need to do before I can use Dovecot?
You need to validate the SQL config *for your system* and make sure that the username/password combination that you are using really exists in your database and is really is returned by the query defined in the conf file you tell Dovecot to use. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/SQL
Here's my configuration, any help would be appreciated.
# /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info.log [...] mail_debug: yes [...] auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes
That combination ought to yield useful messages in the logs about the failure.
If your database server logs queries as well, you may get useful info from those logs as well.
-- Bill Cole bill@scconsult.com