[Dovecot] Fedora Core 2, dovecot, and Outlook Express
After the aging harddrive in my Redhat 7.2 server died, I decided it was time to upgrade. I bought a new harddrive and did a fresh install of Fedora Core 2. I've managed to get www, ssh and sendmail reconfigured, but I'm having a heck of a time with imap.
I first fooled around with cyrus-imapd, and couldn't make head or tail of it, so I downloaded a fedore core 1 imapd rpm and installed it. That almost worked, but I could only see the INBOX. Next I tried dovecot.
Via Outlook Express from my winXP box, I can Refresh the IMAP folder list, and see the INBOX and the sent-mail and saved-messages folders that were created when I first ran pine. However, if I try and mark sent-mail or saved-messages as Visible, I get an "Invalid mailbox name: saved-message/" error. And when I try and view the contents of Inbox, I get "Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/".
I tried running evolution on the server, and I could subscribe and view the INBOX. But when I try and make a new folder, it gives me a "Cannot create the specified folder. Generic error"
I'm hoping I just have something misconfigured, potential due to messing around with cyrus-imapd and imapd, or perhaps even pine. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty close to giving up on fedora core 2 and installing core 1, or perhaps mandrake.
--Joe Hartford
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:09:51 -0400, Joe Hartford jhartford@gmail.com wrote:
After the aging harddrive in my Redhat 7.2 server died, I decided it was time to upgrade. I bought a new harddrive and did a fresh install of Fedora Core 2. I've managed to get www, ssh and sendmail reconfigured, but I'm having a heck of a time with imap.
I first fooled around with cyrus-imapd, and couldn't make head or tail of it, so I downloaded a fedore core 1 imapd rpm and installed it. That almost worked, but I could only see the INBOX. Next I tried dovecot.
Via Outlook Express from my winXP box, I can Refresh the IMAP folder list, and see the INBOX and the sent-mail and saved-messages folders that were created when I first ran pine. However, if I try and mark sent-mail or saved-messages as Visible, I get an "Invalid mailbox name: saved-message/" error. And when I try and view the contents of Inbox, I get "Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/".
I tried running evolution on the server, and I could subscribe and view the INBOX. But when I try and make a new folder, it gives me a "Cannot create the specified folder. Generic error"
I'm hoping I just have something misconfigured, potential due to messing around with cyrus-imapd and imapd, or perhaps even pine. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty close to giving up on fedora core 2 and installing core 1, or perhaps mandrake.
--Joe Hartford
Here are a few more details:
dovecot version (from rpm -q dovecot): dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2
output of "grep '^[^#]' /etc/dovecot.conf"" login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root
I tried changed auth_passdb to 'passwd', but then I can't log into the imap server at all from Outlook Express.
Also, I don't see much useful in /var/log/maillog. All I see are "imap-login: Login: <username> [<ip>]" and "last message repeated 2 times" (this happens when I keep trying to view Inbox from Outlook Express).
--Joe Hartford
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:01:11 -0400, Joe Hartford jhartford@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:09:51 -0400, Joe Hartford jhartford@gmail.com wrote:
After the aging harddrive in my Redhat 7.2 server died, I decided it was time to upgrade. I bought a new harddrive and did a fresh install of Fedora Core 2. I've managed to get www, ssh and sendmail reconfigured, but I'm having a heck of a time with imap.
I first fooled around with cyrus-imapd, and couldn't make head or tail of it, so I downloaded a fedore core 1 imapd rpm and installed it. That almost worked, but I could only see the INBOX. Next I tried dovecot.
Via Outlook Express from my winXP box, I can Refresh the IMAP folder list, and see the INBOX and the sent-mail and saved-messages folders that were created when I first ran pine. However, if I try and mark sent-mail or saved-messages as Visible, I get an "Invalid mailbox name: saved-message/" error. And when I try and view the contents of Inbox, I get "Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/".
I tried running evolution on the server, and I could subscribe and view the INBOX. But when I try and make a new folder, it gives me a "Cannot create the specified folder. Generic error"
I'm hoping I just have something misconfigured, potential due to messing around with cyrus-imapd and imapd, or perhaps even pine. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty close to giving up on fedora core 2 and installing core 1, or perhaps mandrake.
--Joe Hartford
Here are a few more details:
dovecot version (from rpm -q dovecot): dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2
output of "grep '^[^#]' /etc/dovecot.conf"" login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root
I tried changed auth_passdb to 'passwd', but then I can't log into the imap server at all from Outlook Express.
Also, I don't see much useful in /var/log/maillog. All I see are "imap-login: Login: <username> [<ip>]" and "last message repeated 2 times" (this happens when I keep trying to view Inbox from Outlook Express).
--Joe Hartford
So after getting home from work last night and rebooting both the linux box and my winXP laptop, things started working.
dovecot seems nice and fast so far. Any word on when version 1.0 is planned for release?
--Joe Hartford
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