Dear dovecot users.
I have an odd issue in that when I connect to my dovecot server from either a local or remote system I can't see my test emails (I have the impression that is is looking at the wrong location on disk).
here are some details....
# dovecot -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 1002 mail_home = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail/: mail_uid = 1002 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 { args = scheme=SHA512-CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 user = mail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_ssl = yes
when I connect (via openSSL from a remote system)
openssl s_client -connect mail.exsportee.biz:993 CONNECTED(00000003) depth=0 C = fr, ST = coupvray, L = paris, O = exsportee, OU = facilitee, CN = scibearspace, emailAddress = david.myers@scibearspace.org verify error:num=18:self signed certificate verify return:1 depth=0 C = fr, ST = coupvray, L = paris, O = exsportee, OU = facilitee, CN = scibearspace, emailAddress = david.myers@scibearspace.org verify return:1 [.... security stuff removed....]
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. auth login "websales@exsportee.biz" "testPassword" auth OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE] Logged in a list "" "*"
- LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" a OK List completed. a select INBOX
- FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
- OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted.
- 0 EXISTS
- 0 RECENT
- OK [UIDVALIDITY 1411042633] UIDs valid
- OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
- OK [NOMODSEQ] No permanent modsequences a OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
So I seem to have no mails in the inbox... so I check the dovecot log for the where it thinks it should be looking for the mail
Sep 19 07:37:59 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<websales@exsportee.biz>, method=PLAIN, rip=85.170.90.200, lip=92.39.247.92, mpid=26570, TLS, session=<Cf4uLmYDlgBVqlrI> Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales@exsportee.biz): Debug: Effective uid=1002, gid=1002, home=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales@exsportee.biz): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/: Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales@exsportee.biz): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail, alt=
So I can see that the directories that Dovecot is looking at are: home=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales location=maildir:~/mail/
So if I understand, dovecot is looking at [ /var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail/ ] for my mail. When I run a listing of the directory I get the following....
# ls -al /var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail/ total 44 drwx--S--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:46 . drwxr-sr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:00 .. drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 cur -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 248 Sep 18 12:23 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 51 Sep 18 12:23 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8 Sep 18 12:17 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 Sep 18 12:17 dovecot-uidvalidity.541acd49 drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 new -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 561 Sep 18 12:22 q1XUaj8-5382575 -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 517 Sep 18 12:00 q1XUaOD-5382570 -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 513 Sep 18 12:46 q1XUb60-5382584 drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 tmp
the 3 files q1xu[....] are test mails that I sent to myself, either internally from the localhost CLI, mutt or from my google mail account. I should note the following: ~ SWAKS can send mails out to external addresses also. ~ I cannot connect to my mail from any external clients (thunderbird) ~ I cannot connect to my mail localy using MUTT ~ I use exim4 (v4.7.2) as my MTA (if you want to see a config just ask).
please help me resolve these issues.
thanks in advance.
David
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Dave Myers wrote:
a select INBOX permitted.
- FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
- OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags
- 0 EXISTS
- 0 RECENT
that's correct for your case
So I seem to have no mails in the inbox... so I check the dovecot log for the where it thinks it should be looking for the mail
Sep 19 07:37:59 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<websales@exsportee.biz>, method=PLAIN, rip=85.170.90.200, lip=92.39.247.92, mpid=26570, TLS, session=<Cf4uLmYDlgBVqlrI> Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales@exsportee.biz): Debug: Effective uid=1002, gid=1002, home=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales@exsportee.biz): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/: Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales@exsportee.biz): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail, alt=
So I can see that the directories that Dovecot is looking at are: home=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales location=maildir:~/mail/
So if I understand, dovecot is looking at [ /var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail/ ] for my mail. When I run a listing of the directory I get the following....
# ls -al /var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail/ total 44 drwx--S--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:46 . drwxr-sr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:00 .. drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 cur -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 248 Sep 18 12:23 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 51 Sep 18 12:23 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8 Sep 18 12:17 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 Sep 18 12:17 dovecot-uidvalidity.541acd49 drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 new -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 561 Sep 18 12:22 q1XUaj8-5382575 -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 517 Sep 18 12:00 q1XUaOD-5382570 -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 513 Sep 18 12:46 q1XUb60-5382584 drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 tmp
the 3 files q1xu[....] are test mails that I sent to myself, either internally from the localhost CLI, mutt or from my google mail account. I should note the following: ~ SWAKS can send mails out to external addresses also. ~ I cannot connect to my mail from any external clients (thunderbird) ~ I cannot connect to my mail localy using MUTT ~ I use exim4 (v4.7.2) as my MTA (if you want to see a config just ask).
The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
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@Steffen,
Thanks for your input, and please excuse my clearly stupid questions.. ;)
The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
where / how do I get that to work ?
I've added the required stuff to the dovecot and exim configs, but clearly I need to install dovecot-lmtpd (error message about not finding the executable)
However I needed to install dovecot from source (as I couldn't get the server to accept backports ?). Any advice on upgrading / changing the install ?
Can I simply make a copy of the whole of my config (which otherwise works), then do the same install from a /deb source file for lmtpd, then copy my config back to this location?
Or do you advise some other path for the upgrade ?
thanks.
David
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Dave Myers wrote:
Thanks for your input, and please excuse my clearly stupid questions.. ;)
The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
where / how do I get that to work ?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Exim&titlesearch=Titles See LDA or LMTP
I've added the required stuff to the dovecot and exim configs, but clearly I need to install dovecot-lmtpd (error message about not finding the executable)
Maybe, you should begin with the LDA then.
However I needed to install dovecot from source (as I couldn't get the server to accept backports ?). Any advice on upgrading / changing the install ?
Can I simply make a copy of the whole of my config (which otherwise works), then do the same install from a /deb source file for lmtpd, then copy my config back to this location?
Or do you advise some other path for the upgrade ?
Usually, you see how Debian compiles the source - the ./configure options . But I wonder if you want to overwrite the system places. That's you decision. I would: use the LDA now, in order to get the server to work. Then use a test system for the LMTP stuff.
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On 19/09/14 11:42, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
Usually, you see how Debian compiles the source - the ./configure options . But I wonder if you want to overwrite the system places. That's you decision. I would: use the LDA now, in order to get the server to work. Then use a test system for the LMTP stuff.
Ok thanks for the advice....
David
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Hi dovecot users,
I've decided to re-install my dovecot-imapd server with lmtp functionality
I've been looking at my dovecot source, it certainly contains an lmtp sub folder.
I've looked at the details for the config of lda, and I wonder why (particularly as I installed from source) dovecot does not install with lmtp by default ? this is particularly in respect to the details on the wiki2 page: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA
Nowadays you should probably use the LMTP server
<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP> instead, because it's somewhat
easier to configure (especially related to permissions) and gives
better performance.I've looked through to see how to build dovecot with ldmp support, and I don't find anything in the install doc page http://wiki2.dovecot.org/CompilingSource that explains what switch I need to use to add compatibility for lmtp.
I will admit I've not looked very far outside of the official dovecot site, but then most of the google hits return me straight to the above mentioned pages.
I should also note that when I downloaded the 'newest version' of dovecot using : wget http://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.13.tar.gz
Everything goes fine, after doing the stuff a dovecot -n returns
# 2.2.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3Which is pleasing, as previously it return 2.1.7 I haven't changed any of my config files, looking at the upgradeing page on the wiki it would seem I haven't set any configs that require it.
I now restart the process.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotFatal: service(lmtp)
access(/usr/lib/dovecot/lmtp) failed: No such file or directory
failed!I can confirm that the file it is looking for doesn't exist, but how do I configure the install of dovecot to include it?
thanks in advance for your advice
David
I include below a part of the original converstion that has led me to decide to add lmtp support to my install.
On 19/09/14 11:42, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Exim&titlesearch=Titles
See LDA or LMTP
I've added the required stuff to the dovecot and exim configs, but clearly I need to install dovecot-lmtpd (error message about not finding the executable)
Maybe, you should begin with the LDA then.
However I needed to install dovecot from source (as I couldn't get the server to accept backports ?). Any advice on upgrading / changing the install ?
Can I simply make a copy of the whole of my config (which otherwise works), then do the same install from a /deb source file for lmtpd, then copy my config back to this location?
Or do you advise some other path for the upgrade ?
Usually, you see how Debian compiles the source - the ./configure options . But I wonder if you want to overwrite the system places. That's you decision. I would: use the LDA now, in order to get the server to work. Then use a test system for the LMTP stuff.
I've been looking at my dovecot source, it certainly contains an lmtp sub folder.
I've looked at the details for the config of lda, and I wonder why (particularly as I installed from source) dovecot does not install with lmtp by default ? this is particularly in respect to the details on the wiki2 page: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA
Nowadays you should probably use the LMTP server
<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP> instead, because it's somewhat
easier to configure (especially related to permissions) and gives
better performance.I've looked through to see how to build dovecot with ldmp support, and I don't find anything in the install doc page
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Dave Myers wrote:
# 2.2.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ^^^^^^^^ # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3
Which is pleasing, as previously it return 2.1.7 I haven't changed any of my config files, looking at the upgradeing page on the wiki it would seem I haven't set any configs that require it.
I now restart the process.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotFatal: service(lmtp) access(/usr/lib/dovecot/lmtp) failed: No such file or directory ^^^^^^^ failed!
I can confirm that the file it is looking for doesn't exist, but how do I configure the install of dovecot to include it?
I'd say that the application is wrong:
did you've updated the /etc/init.d script? Maybe it points to Debian's build still. Maybe you have some setting in your config you copied from Debian's build?
Otherwise: does your config.log indicates that you have set a prefix or "dir"?
I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/....
and everything is down there.
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Thanks for the quick reply,
Finaly I retried with ./configure --with-lmtp=yes
and suddenly I have lmtp in the /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ directory.
On 19/09/14 15:34, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
I'd say that the application is wrong:
did you've updated the /etc/init.d script? Maybe it points to Debian's build still. Maybe you have some setting in your config you copied from Debian's build?
I have built from source, I did apt-get purge dovecot (or whatever it is) before this, just to be sure I then removed any other dovecot directories that I found.
And then of course there is a distinct lack of an init.d script for lmtp ? I'm not sure where I need to set the details for the location of the lmtp file. I guess I should be setting it in the service lmtp{....} section. alternatively what should the contents of the lmtp init.d script be?
Otherwise: does your config.log indicates that you have set a prefix or "dir"?
I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/....
and everything is down there.
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Am 19.09.2014 um 15:17 schrieb Dave Myers:
Everything goes fine, after doing the stuff a dovecot -n returns
# 2.2.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3Which is pleasing, as previously it return 2.1.7
Dovecot 2.1.7 comes via the squeeze-backports repository. My guess is that you added configuration for LMTP but didn't install the dovecot-lmtpd package.
-- Alex JOST
Dave Myers skrev den 2014-09-19 11:30:
where / how do I get that to work ?
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