[Dovecot] Dovecot LDAP Auth strange mailbox behavior
Hello everyone.
I have setup a Debian Sarge server, with openldap, postfix, and Dovecot.
I have been able to fix all the problems that have been logged thus far, and it seems to work.
I am able to use a mail client to login to the pop3 server. The authentication works, and it logs as a successful login, but no messages download. I get a response: No New Messages.
I have checked the user's maildir directory, and there are mails sitting in the new directory, so it should download.
Anyone have any clues?
Thanks in advance, Ryan
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:32:51 -0500 Ryan Bloch rbloch@4dnets.com wrote:
I am able to use a mail client to login to the pop3 server. The authentication works, and it logs as a successful login, but no messages download. I get a response: No New Messages.
I have checked the user's maildir directory, and there are mails sitting in the new directory, so it should download.
Anyone have any clues?
See if your system really does have POP3 mails waiting:
$ telnet your-system 110 ..then log in with: USER your-username PASS your-password LIST
If you get a list of mails then you do have POP3 mails waiting; if you don't, then you don't.
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:32, Ryan Bloch wrote:
I am able to use a mail client to login to the pop3 server. The authentication works, and it logs as a successful login, but no messages download. I get a response: No New Messages.
I have checked the user's maildir directory, and there are mails sitting in the new directory, so it should download.
Is default_mail_env set correctly, so it's actually looking into ~/Maildir instead of somewhere else? Has Dovecot created ~/Maildir/.INBOX/ directory? If not, it's looking into wrong place.
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:32, Ryan Bloch wrote:
I am able to use a mail client to login to the pop3 server. The authentication works, and it logs as a successful login, but no messages download. I get a response: No New Messages.
I have checked the user's maildir directory, and there are mails sitting in the new directory, so it should download.
Is default_mail_env set correctly, so it's actually looking into ~/Maildir instead of somewhere else? Has Dovecot created ~/Maildir/.INBOX/ directory? If not, it's looking into wrong place.
Yes, this was part of the problem. I was trying to use maildir. I discusses this with another Linux admin, and he advised against using maildir for incoming messages, that mbox would suit my needs better.
Once I configured the mail env correctly, it worked fine.
The part I don't understand, is that I am using maildir on another server at my office, and it works fine with Dovecot using the same config.
I must have done something different last time, but it works for now.
Thanks for your help gentlemen!
-Ryan
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Keith Edmunds
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Ryan Bloch
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Timo Sirainen