Hi list,

I've yet to figure out what's the issue with my installation, why I can't see the mails

that are definitely there.

I've updated with last package: dovecot-2.0.9-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm and performed the

following test:

1. send a simple 2 lines test mail from "root" to user "testdvct" with alpine

2. login under "testdvct" + run alpine + list (only list, not read) the mail:

+------------------------------ Alpine Output --------------------------------------+

| ALPINE 2.02(1266) MESSAGE INDEX Folder: INBOX Message 1 of 1 NEW |

| |

| + N 1 17:43 root (881) |

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------+

 so it tells me I've got one mail from root

3) I issue the command: "strace -o strace-dovecot.txt -p 2218"

 where 2218 is the /usr/sbin/dovecot PID

4) telnet into pop3:

telnet localhost pop3

Trying 127.0.0.1...

Connected to localhost.

Escape character is '^]'.

+OK Dovecot ready.

user testdvct

+OK

pass <my-password>

+OK Logged in.

list

+OK 0 messages:

.

quit

+OK Logging out.

Connection closed by foreign host.

5. kill strace

Still no joy! Is there anything else I can do to debug this issue?

Thanks,

JF

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There are not dovect entries in the syslog

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ls -lhR /var/run/dovecot

/var/run/dovecot:

total 12K

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 anvil

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 anvil-auth-penalty

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 auth-client

srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Jan 19 17:38 auth-login

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 auth-master

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 auth-userdb

srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Jan 19 17:38 auth-worker

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 config

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 dict

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 director-admin

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 director-userdb

srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 dns-client

srw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 doveadm-server

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 19 17:38 dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 18 12:30 empty

srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 lmtp

drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 4.0K Jan 19 17:38 login

-rw------- 1 root root 5 Jan 19 17:38 master.pid

/var/run/dovecot/empty:

total 0

/var/run/dovecot/login:

total 0

srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 dns-client

srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 imap

srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 login

srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 pop3

srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 17:38 ssl-params

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dovecot -n

2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

OS: Linux 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)

auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = mbox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb {

driver = pam

}

pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh service imap-login {

group = dovenull

}

service pop3-login {

group = dovenull

}

ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem

ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem

userdb {

driver = passwd

}

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-----Original Message-----

From: dovecot-bounces+joach_ferr=yahoo.co.uk@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+joach_ferr=yahoo.co.uk@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Joachim Ferreira

Sent: 06 January 2011 19:46

To: dovecot@dovecot.org

Subject: [Dovecot] dovecot can't see mail that is there

I used to install dovecot on any Fedora fresh installation and I could fetch my internal mail

few minutes later. Now I've been struggling for two days and I haven't got my mail working yet.

I have Fedora 14 with sendmail. Some application on the same machine send mail to an account

on the same machine (hence all is confined to one machine) and I want to retrieve it from a laptop

on the same LAN via Outlook.

If I login into the account and check the mail with the alpine (ex pine) client, I see that there are 10 mails.

When I "telnet localhost pop3" and login into the account, the "list"

command says there are 0 mails.

Various suggestions found on the internet for slightly different configuration did not help.

All the help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Joachim

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The output of dovecot -n

---

dovecot -n

2.0.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

OS: Linux 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)

auth_debug = yes

auth_debug_passwords = yes

auth_verbose_passwords = plain

disable_plaintext_auth = no

mail_location = mbox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

mbox_write_locks = fcntl

passdb {

driver = pam

}

pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh

ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem

ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem

userdb {

driver = passwd

}

NOTE - I don't use ssl, but disabling ssl + certificate did not change behaviour.

THE OUTPUT OF /var/log/maillog

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Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from

directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:

/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:

/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:

/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(joachim,192.168.0.88):

lookup service=dovecot

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(joachim,192.168.0.88):

#1/1 style=1 msg=Password:

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: client out:

OK#0111#011user=joachim

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: master in:

REQUEST#0113019243521#01112409#0111#0116f7f83729469c6158f08283ec2e20067

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(joachim,192.168.0.88):

lookup

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: master out:

USER#0113019243521#011joachim#011system_groups_user=joachim#011uid=500#011gi

d=500#011home=/home/joachim

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<joachim>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.88, lip=192.168.0.2, mpid=12414

Jan 6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: pop3(joachim): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0