New subject: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

18 Jul 2018

      /var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail
I tried both, neither works.
I just wiped out the server, reinstalled from scratch this time I
selected e-mail server while selecting packages after specifying
GUI-server on the CentOS install.
I had previously installed Dovecot after the initial server build.
This time Dovecot was installed and active at boot but still can't find
my mail in /var/spool/mail.
On 7/13/2018 11:44 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
...
Should your INBOX path be /var/spool/mail/%u then?

Aki Tuomi
Dovecot oy
-------- Original message --------
From: John Rowan rowan@rownetco.com
Date: 13/07/2018 17:44 (GMT+02:00)
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble
I've been struggling trying to get Thunderbird to read e-mail off a
CentOS 7 server.
Sendmail writes mail in /var/spool/mail
I've configured dovecot to try to read from there using Thunderbird
(POP3/SMTP).
The firewall allows ports 25/110.
I verified I have mail in /var/spool/mail
but Thunderbird is unable to retrieve that mail.
I've googled sendmail / dovecot config, I've looked a the wiki but I
just can't figure this out.
Please don't suggest using postfix, I just want to get sendmail /
dovecot working.
[@mail conf.d]# dovecot --version
2.2.10
[root@mail conf.d]# dovecot -n
# 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.i686 i686 CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511
(AltArch)
auth_mechanisms = plain login
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
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
}
protocols =
ssl_cert = 

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