Hello,

First of all, I'm sorry if you received this mail twice; I haven't received it the first time so I think it was lost. Second attempt.

I've made some more tests and I still can't receive mails. Outlook doesn't complain about anything, no error message; the mails that are supposed to be received just won't appear. In the mail logs, I find this line (other lines are irrelevant): dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 2 secs): user=<> [...]

Is this a problem that looks familiar?

It's a bit clueless without an error message. Any idea welcome.

doveconf -n: # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-042stab116.1 x86_64 Debian 8.6 mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u 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 = " imap" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl = required ssl_cert =

And doveadm log errors: Oct 13 05:56:28 imap(webuser): Error: open(/var/mail/webuser) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(webuser) egid=1000(ftpusers) missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail), dir owned by 0:8 mode=0775) Oct 13 05:56:28 imap(webuser): Error: Failed to autocreate mailbox INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-10-13 05:56:28] Oct 13 05:56:33 imap(webuser): Error: open(/var/mail/webuser) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(webuser) egid=1000(ftpusers) missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail), dir owned by 0:8 mode=0775) Oct 13 05:56:33 imap(webuser): Error: Failed to autocreate mailbox INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-10-13 05:56:33] Oct 13 06:52:45 imap(webuser): Error: open(/var/mail/webuser) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(webuser) egid=1000(ftpusers) missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail), dir owned by 0:8 mode=0775) Oct 13 06:52:45 imap(webuser): Error: Failed to autocreate mailbox INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-10-13 06:52:45] Oct 13 07:12:41 imap(webuser): Error: open(/var/mail/webuser) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(webuser) egid=1000(ftpusers) missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail), dir owned by 0:8 mode=0775) Oct 13 07:12:41 imap(webuser): Error: Failed to autocreate mailbox INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-10-13 07:12:41] Oct 13 07:12:50 imap(webuser): Error: open(/var/mail/webuser) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(webuser) egid=1000(ftpusers) missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 8(mail), dir owned by 0:8 mode=0775) Oct 13 07:12:50 imap(webuser): Error: Failed to autocreate mailbox INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2016-10-13 07:12:50]

I checked, using ls -l /var, and I get this: drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Apr 27 11:27 mail so the group looks to be correctly set to 'mail', despite what the log says, right?

Thanks for your answer. The second command is nice to know. -----Message d'origine----- De : dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] De la part de Aki Tuomi Envoyé : 14 October 2016 14:58 À : dovecot@dovecot.org Objet : Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

Please post

doveconf -n

doveadm log errors

Aki Tuomi

Le 14 oct. 2016 à 15:54, Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi a écrit:

In your configuration, dovecot uses whatever user/group returned by PAM.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is PAM?

Since the web user has never logged in, it has no directory under /var/mail.

Hmm… So it can’t log in because it has no directory and it has no directory as long as he does not log in, correct?

If you want, you can

a) override mail_uid and mail_gid in userdb/passdb b) pre-create /var/mail/webuser and chown it to webuser:ftpusers c) you can let ftpusers write to /var/mail.

Step b and c are ok for me, I believe. I should override mail_uid and mail_gid to what?

Le 14 oct. 2016 à 16:06, mick crane mick.crane@gmail.com a écrit:

On 2016-10-14 13:43, Moi wrote:

...

Hello, First of all, I'm sorry if you received this mail twice; I haven't received it the first time so I think it was lost. Second attempt. I've made some more tests and I still can't receive mails. Outlook doesn't complain about anything, no error message; the mails that are supposed to be received just won't appear. In the mail logs, I find this line (other lines are irrelevant): dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 2 secs): user=<> [...] Is this a problem that looks familiar? It's a bit clueless without an error message. Any idea welcome.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation

Thank you. I’m at the “Check that it finds INBOX” section and am getting:

• 0 EXISTS
• 0 RECENT

(the remaining text being the same as the example). So it looks like the mailbox doesn’t exist…

Le 15 oct. 2016 à 9:56, mick crane mick.crane@gmail.com a écrit:

I assume this means there are no emails in the INBOX. send yourself a mail.

This is actually one of the first thing I tried when I saw outgoing mails worked. I also tried sending mails from another address, hoping to receive an error message back, but nothing got received. I now think the INBOX itself doesn’t exist, as logs seem to mention and someone else already told. Then, of course, I’d get 0 existing mails since the INBOX doesn’t exist.

Thanks.

Le 15 octobre 2016 à 07:35, mick crane mick.crane@gmail.com a écrit:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/FindMailLocation

Ok, there are non-standard facts about my user. When I do:

eval echo ~webuser I'm getting:

/var/www/html/

This is because webuser is for an FTP account in that directory. I'm now trying with a "regular" user.

Thank you for the link.