[Dovecot] Can't get it working
I get dovecot to work and answer when telnet to 110 both local and from another computer.
But it shows nothing in the log files except it's running. Here's the log and other info:
/var/log/maillog:
Jan 25 16:49:32 widgeteye dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.9 starting up (core dumps disabled)
dovecot --version 2.0.9
dovecot -n output
# 2.0.9: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.33.4-smp i686 Slackware 13.1.0 default_internal_user = myusername default_login_user = myusername disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/mail mail_privileged_group = mail passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } protocols = pop3 service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } ssl = no userdb { args = username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file }
When I try get mail from my machine from another computer I get nothing What's up?
Thanks
llwyble@suddenlink.net put forth on 1/25/2011 4:52 PM:
I get dovecot to work and answer when telnet to 110 both local and from another computer.
When I try get mail from my machine from another computer I get nothing What's up?
Those two statements are contradictory. The first says it works, the second says it doesn't. It appears you killed the telnet session as soon as the Dovecot POP daemon responded. If you had attempted to login and read a message, the responses would have helped both you, and us, in troubleshooting your problem. At this point you've not provided us enough information to do anything but guess and speculate. Most people's time is more valuable than that.
So, my recommendation is to test more thoroughly via telnet and copy/paste any errors. Use this as a guide:
http://www.anta.net/misc/telnet-troubleshooting/pop.shtml
-- Stan
On 1/25/2011 7:11 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I get dovecot to work and answer when telnet to 110 both local and from another computer. When I try get mail from my machine from another computer I get nothing What's up? Those two statements are contradictory. The first says it works, the second says it doesn't. It appears you killed the telnet session as soon as the Dovecot POP daemon responded. If you had attempted to login and read a message,
llwyble@suddenlink.net put forth on 1/25/2011 4:52 PM: the responses would have helped both you, and us, in troubleshooting your problem. At this point you've not provided us enough information to do anything but guess and speculate. Most people's time is more valuable than that.
So, my recommendation is to test more thoroughly via telnet and copy/paste any errors. Use this as a guide:
-- Stan, the guy doesn't know english very well; cut him a break.
The reason, llwyble, that dovecot only shows that iit has started is due to it not processing any mailings, if used as LDA, or noone is trying to login. If you are actually trying to login, when you "tail -f /var/log/mail", is because you most likely have a configuration error in the auth service.
Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin
Jerrale G put forth on 1/25/2011 7:34 PM:
-- Stan, the guy doesn't know english very well; cut him a break.
And you don't know how to reply to an email. See that "-- "? That tells an MUA to ignore everything after the signature in a reply. Thus, my reply to you may not be threaded properly unless my manual edit is correct. Your MUA apparently doesn't mind, as you just added a comma to my sig, and started composing your email. Please don't do this in the future.
I find it hard to believe the OP doesn't "know English very well":
~$ whois suddenlink.net
Registrant: Suddenlink Communications 12444 Powerscourt Dr St. Louis, MO 63131 US
-- Stan
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Jerrale G put forth on 1/25/2011 7:34 PM:
-- Stan, the guy doesn't know english very well; cut him a break.
And you don't know how to reply to an email. See that "-- "? That tells an MUA to ignore everything after the signature in a reply. Thus, my reply to you may not be threaded properly unless my manual edit is correct.
AFAIK, threading is usually based on message-id and the References header.
Your MUA apparently doesn't mind, as you just added a comma to my sig, and started composing your email. Please don't do this in the future.
I find it hard to believe the OP doesn't "know English very well":
~$ whois suddenlink.net
Registrant: Suddenlink Communications 12444 Powerscourt Dr St. Louis, MO 63131 US
"Lives in country X" doesn't imply "speaks language of X very well". Plenty of expats around here to prove that :-(
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Per Jessen put forth on 1/26/2011 3:25 AM:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Jerrale G put forth on 1/25/2011 7:34 PM:
-- Stan, the guy doesn't know english very well; cut him a break.
And you don't know how to reply to an email. See that "-- "? That tells an MUA to ignore everything after the signature in a reply. Thus, my reply to you may not be threaded properly unless my manual edit is correct.
AFAIK, threading is usually based on message-id and the References header.
Wrong terminology on my part. Replace "threading" with "quoting".
Your MUA apparently doesn't mind, as you just added a comma to my sig, and started composing your email. Please don't do this in the future.
I find it hard to believe the OP doesn't "know English very well":
~$ whois suddenlink.net
Registrant: Suddenlink Communications 12444 Powerscourt Dr St. Louis, MO 63131 US
"Lives in country X" doesn't imply "speaks language of X very well". Plenty of expats around here to prove that :-(
Until recently I lived in St. Louis for 15 years, worked IT in St. Louis for 15 years. You don't find many expats or H1Bs working in St. Louis, and especially not ones that don't have a good grasp of English. The few I met were Indians, Kenyans, and Tanzanians, and all spoke and wrote nearly perfect Queen's English.
I re-read the OPs post twice and didn't notice any broken English. I didn't say with certainty he has no English issues. I said it's very unlikely given what he wrote, and where the RHS domain he sent from is registered.
But this is well off topic, so I suggest we end this aspect of this thread. The OP can tell us his background if he so chooses, though it's largely irrelevant. I'm not really sure why Jaralle brought this up in the first place.
-- Stan
El Tuesday 25 January 2011, llwyble@suddenlink.net dijo:
But it shows nothing in the log files except it's running. Here's the log and other info:
Maybe you're looking at the wrong file. With
doveadm log find
you'll get the actual log files.
HTH
Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, área de Explotación
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Jerrale G
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Joseba Torre
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llwyble＠suddenlink.net
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Per Jessen
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Stan Hoeppner