[Dovecot] Newbie Questration
Dillon
turtle at loveturtle.net
Thu Aug 10 18:48:28 EEST 2006
You probably need to set default_mail_env
Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote:
> Actually, it is a frustration: The client does not work, have tried
> Opera mail and Outlook, to receive mail. the client can send, but not
> receive. I know the mail is sitting in the user account Maildir ready
> to be picked up. Dovecot "compiles" fine. What am I doing wrong?
> Someone please help me, I know it is something simple. I have racked
> the net trying to find a solution, but no 2 mail setups are the same.
> My setup is the simplest I can make it.
>
> I have Postfix and Dovecot installed on Linux. All recent versions.
> Plain text authentication off shadow passwords and login user
> accounts. Mail is configured as Maildir, IMAP. As you can see below, I
> have turned logs on and there is nothing in them that shows an error.
> I am on a real static IP behind a firewall. I have opened the SMTP and
> IMAP ports. BTW, Postfix can send and receive local and outside. IMAP
> does not work to/fro outside or locally.
>
> I have also logged into Dovecot like so:
>
> telnet localhost imap
> 1 login test testing
> 2 select INBOX
>
> It lets me login and I have tried it with root, which it rejects and
> with another account which works. It selects the INBOX and I hit the
> return key multiple times to exit because I don't know what else to
> type. So, it looks like it is authenticating.
>
> Postfix is working fine, it can send and receive mail both locally and
> the outside world. It puts the messages in the Maildir directories as
> it is supposed to.
>
> Here is my dovecot.conf file:
>
> protocols = imap imaps
>
> listen = *
> ssl_listen = *
> ssl_disable = no
>
> ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168
>
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info
>
> verbose_ssl = yes
>
> protocol imap {
> }
> auth_verbose = yes
>
> auth default {
> # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
> # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi
> mechanisms = plain login
> userdb passwd {
> }
> passdb shadow {
> }
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