Email not working

5 Apr 2023


      Hi,
First of all may I say I am not an expert on Dovecot so please forgive me if the answer to my query is obvious.
After upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 my email is not working.
root@mail:~# doveconf -n
# 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328)
# OS: Linux 5.15.0-60-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
# Hostname: mail.odysseytours.nz
auth_debug = yes
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_username_format = %{if;%d;eq;mail.odysseytours.nz;%Ln;%Lu}
listen = *, ::
mail_debug = yes
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_privileged_group = mail
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
plugin {
sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
}
protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3"
service stats {
unix_listener stats-reader {
group = vmail
mode = 0660
user = vmail
}
unix_listener stats-writer {
group = vmail
mode = 0660
user = vmail
}
}
ssl_cert = 
root@mail:~# doveadm user -f 'username' '*'
nobody
mike
systemd-coredump
sogo
vmail
mlmmj
iredadmin
iredapd
snapd-range-524288-root
snap_daemon
Error: auth-master: userdb list: User listing returned failure
Fatal: user listing failed
root@mail:~# doveadm index -A -q \*
doveadm(nobody): Error: mkdir(/nonexistent/mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup))
doveadm(systemd-coredump): Error: mkdir(//mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=999(systemd-coredump) egid=999(systemd-coredump) missing +w perm: /, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755)
doveadm(snapd-range-524288-root): Error: mkdir(/nonexistent/mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=524288(snapd-range-524288-root) egid=524288(snapd-range-524288-root))
doveadm(snap_daemon): Error: mkdir(/nonexistent/mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=584788(snap_daemon) egid=584788(snap_daemon))
doveadm(3015804): Error: auth-master: userdb list: User listing returned failure
doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some use
Contents of /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf with all comments removed:
auth_username_format=%{if;%d;eq;mail.odysseytours.nz;%Ln;%Lu}
#https://serverfault.com/questions/260488/dovecot-user-lookup-fails-when-usin...
auth_mechanisms = plain login
!include auth-system.conf.ext
Contents of /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext with all comments removed:
passdb {
driver = pam
}
userdb {
driver = passwd
##https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/passwd/#authenti...
args = blocking=no
}
It says "Authentication failure (Password mismatch?)" but its definitely the correct password.
root@mail:/home/mike# doveadm log errors
Feb 22 02:43:48 Error: auth: passwd(postmaster@odysseytours.nz): getpwnam() failed: Address
Don't know what this error means.
root@mail:/home/mike# doveadm log errors
Feb 22 02:43:48 Error: auth: passwd(postmaster@odysseytours.nz): getpwnam() failed: Address family not supported by protocol
Don't know what this error means. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Michael Hooker

Narcis Garcia

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