Hi dovecotters

I am trying to install dovecot on a mail server I am provisioning for myself in AWS. I am following an ArsTechnica guide, and at some stage in the process the author recommends and provides instructions to configure Dovecot (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-par...)

So, now I have it installed and configured (I believe the way suggested) but when I try to connect via IMAP I am getting an error.

If I try : root@ip-10-0-0-244:~# telnet mail.myactualdomain.com 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to mail.myactualdomain.com. Escape character is '^]'.

• OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot (Ubuntu) ready. a1 LOGIN brian@myactualdomain.com plaintextpassword
• BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. root@ip-10-0-0-244:~#

If I go to /var/log/syslog I can see the following lines: Oct 31 05:31:06 ip-10-0-0-244 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<brian@myactualdomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=16934, secured, session=<oCTO2V8jUwB/AAAB> Oct 31 05:31:06 ip-10-0-0-244 dovecot: imap(brian@myactualdomain.com): Error: user brian@myactualdomain.com: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Unknown setting: /var/mail/vmail/myactualdomain.com/brian/mail Oct 31 05:31:06 ip-10-0-0-244 dovecot: imap(brian@myactualdomain.com): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

root@ip-10-0-0-244:~# dovecot --version 2.2.9

So, I don't know why it's giving me an error about : Initialization failed: Namespace '': Unknown setting: /var/mail/vmail/myactualdomain.com/brian/mail

The location is there, with the permissions with I believe the correct permissions. I'm a bit stuck as to where to even go from here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards Brian

root@ip-10-0-0-244:~# dovecot -n # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n/mail:LAYOUT=fs managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = username_format=%u scheme=ssha512 /etc/dovecot/passwd.db driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /var/mail/vmail/sieve-after sieve_before = /var/mail/vmail/sieve-before sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/ssl-chain-mail-myactualdomain.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/ssl-key-decrypted-mail-myactualdomain.key userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n driver = static } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = postmaster@myactualdomain.com quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 10 }