Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:

Any idea on these issues? I have a once-per-week window to migrate this mailserver, and I hoped to do it this weekend. Thanks if anyone spots the trouble. (FWIW, I don't think the missing .subscriptions file is the hold-up in this case. The permissions errors happen elsewhere)

(repost gmane message as list member)

I need some help with Dovecot-1.0rc2 on Gentoo Linux. My test harness is one Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 client, storage using legacy mbox directories ported over from an old UW-IMAP/sendmail combo running on RHL 8.

Config is intended to be passwd/pam, plaintext login allowed (until I migrate everyone to ssl). After this is working, postfix and dspam are to be added, unless someone can recommend a 'dovecot of smtp' to use.

I'll tail the mail.log to illustrate the problem, then excerpt what I think are the relevant directory and config file listings. I'm paying particular attention to file ownership, but am loathe to just chown dovecot things unless I know why.

Let me know if you want to see any other config info to help spot the problem. Thanks!

# tail -n 30 /var/log/mail.log dovecot: Jul 05 18:35:25 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=123.456.789.012 rip=098.765.432.109 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1
AGplZmYua293YWxjenlrAHdvcmRwYXNzMQ== dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1
user=namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1
25692 1 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1
namefirst.namelast system_user=namefirst.namelast uid=501 gid=12 home=/home/namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: stat(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Effective uid=501, gid=12 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: data=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast:INDEX=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: root=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast, index=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast, inbox=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: imap-login: Login: user=, method=plain, rip=098.765.432.109, lip=123.456.789.012 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): open() failed with subscription file /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/.subscriptions: Not a directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:12 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): open(/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Not a directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:12 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mkdir_parents(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:14 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Disconnected: Logged out

# ls -al /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1472 Jul 2 19:20 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 168 Jul 3 14:19 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 18:46 .keep -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 36243879 Jul 1 17:52 namefirst.namelast (...)

# ls -al /var/dovecot/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jul 5 10:30 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 360 Jun 29 09:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 10:30 .keep

# ls -al /var/run/dovecot/ total 5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 176 Jul 5 18:35 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 504 Jul 3 14:45 .. srw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 auth-worker.25687 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 dict-server drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 136 Jul 5 18:35 login -rw------- 1 root root 6 Jul 5 18:35 master.pid

# ls -al /home/namefirst.namelast/ total 17791 drwxr-xr-x 2 namefirst.namelast mail 248 Jul 5 18:29 . drwxr-xr-x 76 root root 2512 Jul 2 20:21 .. -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 3293785 Sep 23 2005 Sent

# grep dovecot /etc/group dovecot:x:97:

# grep dovecot /etc/passwd dovecot:x:97:97:added by portage for dovecot:/dev/null:/usr/sbin/nologin

# grep mail /etc/passwd mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false

# grep mail /etc/group mail::12:mail

# grep namefirst.namelast /etc/passwd namefirst.namelast:x:501:12:First Last:/home/namefirst.namelast:/bin/bash

# cat /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so

# cat /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/mail.log info_log_path = /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root }