[Dovecot] dovecot can't see mail that is there

[Joachim Ferreira]

I used to install dovecot on any Fedora fresh installation and I could fetch
my internal mail

few minutes later. Now I've been struggling for two days and I haven't got
my mail working yet.

 

I have Fedora 14 with sendmail. Some application on the same machine send
mail to an account 

on the same machine (hence all is confined to one machine) and I want to
retrieve it from a laptop 

on the same LAN via Outlook.

 

If I login into the account and check the mail with the alpine (ex pine)
client, I see that there are 10 mails.

 

When I "telnet localhost pop3" and login into the account, the "list"
command says there are 0 mails.

Various suggestions found on the internet for slightly different
configuration did not help.

 

All the help will be very much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Joachim

 

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The output of dovecot -n

------------------------

# dovecot -n

# 2.0.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

# OS: Linux 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)

auth_debug = yes

auth_debug_passwords = yes

auth_verbose_passwords = plain

disable_plaintext_auth = no

mail_location = mbox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

mbox_write_locks = fcntl

passdb {

  driver = pam

}

pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh

ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem

ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem

userdb {

  driver = passwd

}

 

NOTE - I don't use ssl, but disabling ssl + certificate did not change
behaviour.

 

THE OUTPUT OF /var/log/maillog

-----------------------------------------

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from
directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(joachim,192.168.0.88):
lookup service=dovecot

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(joachim,192.168.0.88):
#1/1 style=1 msg=Password:

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: client out:
OK#0111#011user=joachim

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: master in:
REQUEST#0113019243521#01112409#0111#0116f7f83729469c6158f08283ec2e20067

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(joachim,192.168.0.88):
lookup

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: auth: Debug: master out:
USER#0113019243521#011joachim#011system_groups_user=joachim#011uid=500#011gi
d=500#011home=/home/joachim

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<joachim>,
method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.88, lip=192.168.0.2, mpid=12414

Jan  6 19:14:26 BEATLES dovecot: pop3(joachim): Disconnected: Logged out
top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0