On Dec 14, 2010, at 12:41 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Daniel Senie wrote:
I am attempting to test out dovecot on a server on a separate IP address from the live, functioning UW-IMAP. I am having mixed results with dovecot. An entirely new account that's never been used with UW-IMAP seems to work fine, but that's really not the point of the exercise.
If I try changing over an existing account to use dovecot, I get a variety of issues. Testing with Apple Mail.app, if I synchronize the account, the INBOX stops displaying. So off to plan B, and debug via command line commands.
I tried connecting to Dovecot. It was able to list the mailboxes for me. I asked for status on INBOX. Sometimes I get an error back in the IMAP stream, sometimes not. Either way, the log shows complaints about creating mail/.imap and below (we use mbox format, plus /var/mail/%u for inbox).
I have active namespace compatibility recommended by the Wiki so that clients specifying "mail/" and clients not specifying an imap path both work. With the test account, I proved this functionality is working.
At this point I clearly have some issues, and could use some help figuring out what to ask for help with, i.e. how to proceed to debug this without damaging the existing UW-IMAP setup in the process. The goal is to cut over to dovecot once I can be sure it really is working compatibly, but until then I have a large user base and can't blow everything up.
And yes, I really, truly have RTFM (i.e. read the Wiki, the troubleshooting pages, the migration pages).
Please supply output of: dovecot -n
Follows, with a few items XXX out that needn't be public.
# dovecot -n # 2.0.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.4.21-57.ELsmp i686 CentOS release 3.9 (Final) auth_username_format = %Lu disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = mail/ separator = / } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = ~/mail/ separator = / } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = ~%u/mail/ separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert =