I have come across a strange situation, involving new accounts. I am running Dovecot 0.99.10-5 on Fedora Core 2. Dovecot is configured to use pam for authentication, and the dovecot pam service is configured to use pam_mkhomedir.
When an account is created and the user logs in through SquirrelMail, there is no problem. The standard folders are available - Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items and Trash.
When logging in through Outlook Express first, it gives the following error:-
The server did not respond to this IMAP command before the connection was terminated.
Configuration: Account: mail.server Server: mail.server User name: username Protocol: IMAP Port: 143 Secure(SSL): 0 Code: 800ccc0f
A packet trace shows the following:-
<<< * OK dovecot ready.
008E CAPABILITY <<< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN <<< 008E OK Capability completed. 008F LOGIN "username" "password" <<< 008F OK Logged in. 008G IDLE <<< + idling DONE <<< 008G OK Idle completed. 008H LIST "" "*"
Connection to host lost.
My suspicion that Outlook Express is not intelligent enough to create the folders, although the sudden connection drop might indicate a bug.
If it is not a bug, is there a workaround?
Regards
-- Chris Hills IT Services North East Worcestershire College