OS: CentOS release 5.4 (Final) Postfix: postfix-2.5.1-1.mysql.sasl2.vda.rhel5 Postfixadmin: 2.3 Dovecot: 1.2.11 Squirrelmai: 1.4.20

Configuration based on http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/DovecotLDAPostfixAdminMySQL which I have updated a few time ;)

Using postfixadmin I have create a virtual domain and created testing users (test1 ­ test6). With Squirrelmail these users can login but issues arise when composing an email to any destination every time. Squirrlemail responds with:

ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Server responded: Error in IMAP command FROM: Unknown command.

Log file shows:

2010-05-25 17:42:20 ²imap-login: Info: Login: user=<test3@corp.letsengage.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured ³2010-05-25 17:42:20 ²IMAP(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3: mode=0700 gid=-1 ³2010-05-25 17:42:20 ²IMAP(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: Disconnected: Logged out bytes=79/681 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: Effective uid=101, gid=12, home=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²imap-login: Info: Login: user=<test3@corp.letsengage.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3: mode=0700 gid=-1 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: Disconnected: Logged out bytes=79/681 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: uid=101 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: gid=12 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: home=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2@corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: uid=101 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2@corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: gid=12 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2@corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: home=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2@corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2@corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3: mode=0700 gid=-1 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Error: open(/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3/tmp/1274773412.M416972P6942./root) failed: No such file or directory ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3@corp.letsengage.com): Info: msgid=<20100525062437.BA0EC5D806B@CORP.LETSENGAGE.COM>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-05-25 17:43:32] ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2@corp.letsengage.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2: mode=0766 gid=-1 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2@corp.letsengage.com): Error: open(/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2/tmp/1274773412.M420197P6943./root) failed: No such file or directory ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2@corp.letsengage.com): Info: msgid=<d6669a63009a904eaf4d268b3a1c9598.squirrel@dkpadmmail1.corp.letsengage .com>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-05-25 17:43:32]

# dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log log_timestamp: ³%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ² protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 101 last_valid_uid: 101 mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 900 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@corp.letsengage.com sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: user: nobody passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=101 gid=12 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: mail plugin: quota: maildir:storage=10240:messages=1000 acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls trash: /etc/dovecot/trash.conf

#grep -v '^ *\(#.*\)\?$' /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=##REMOVED## default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'