On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, Charles Marcus wrote:

Hi Anne,

Doubt if you're going to get much help with what little info you provided...

I didn't want to send reams that may be irrelevant, as I'm unsure where to start looking. If it's not authentication, I haven't a clue.

Exact version?

dovecot-1.0.rc26-1.1mdv2007.1

Dovecot -n output?

dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/mail/mail info_log_path: /var/log/mail/mail.info protocols: imap ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: ~/Maildir/ maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: /etc/passwd

Pertinent logs?

dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/anne/Maildir (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Failed to create storage with data: /home/anne/Maildir dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: child 25910 (imap) returned error 89

I tried adding maildir:, but it made no difference. Here is my dovecot.conf with all the comment lines stripped out:

base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/mail/mail info_log_path = /var/log/mail/mail.info ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_user = dovecot mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_extra_groups = mail maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol imap { login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login } protocol pop3 { } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com } auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb /etc/passwd { }

Anne

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:

userdb /etc/passwd { }

userdb passwd { }