dovecot (+sendmail) fails to get email into thunderbird
I ain't able to get emails into my email application (thunderbird).
I use 143 Imap to connect which i have tested with telnet and was able to login. But if i select the inbox with telnet it returns "0 EXISTS"
like so:
telnet 192.168.1.13 143 Trying 192.168.1.13... Connected to sub.domain.net. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. oper1 login update.site1 1234 oper1 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 oper2 select INBOX
- FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
- OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted.
- 0 EXISTS
- 0 RECENT
- OK [UIDVALIDITY 1513093097] UIDs valid
- OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
- OK [NOMODSEQ] No permanent modsequences oper2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
My dovecot -n gist.pastebin <https://gist.github.com/anonymous/db5c7d81e18cff8180f6484c8dcb2a54>
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/db5c7d81e18cff8180f6484c8dcb2a54
Mail location set to: /var/mail/
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, jo land wrote:
Well, /var/mail typically contains a bunch of mbox files, one per local users. They are considered an INBOX for each user.
You have configured this for Dovecot:
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox
Each user, that logs in successfully, uses the same files in /var/mail as mbox storage. The "INBOX" is empty, because there does not exist "/var/mail/inbox", I guess. See 2nd example.
If you see /var/mail/username, you should at least configure 1st example:
%u is replaced with the username that logs in
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Note the %u and ~ and make sure, each user has an unique home directory. You could replace ~ with some specific user-specific path using %u as well.
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%u is replaced with the username that logs in
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
if i change the mail location into: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail.log says:
Dec 14 14:24:26 pie dovecot: imap(update.site1): Error: user update.site1: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file: /var/spool/mail/mail
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