[Dovecot] postfix and dovecot - no emails in new folder

Don Hill dhill.novell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 17:43:05 EET 2013


quick note I added LDA in master.cf and everything is working fine now.
Thanks.


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Steffen Kaiser <
skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Don Hill wrote:
>
>  Yes. I am logged in as root and performing a ls -la /var/vmail/domain I
>> see the following
>>
>> folder - user - This file actually contains the emails sent to the account
>>
>> folder - user at domain.tld - and in the Maildir folder I see the following
>>  cd into user at domain.tld/Maildir
>>  ls
>>  cur
>>  dovecot-uidlist
>>  dovecot-uidvalidity
>>  dovecot-uidvalidity.528f6c45
>>  dovecot.index.log
>>  new
>>  tmp
>>
>
> So postfix and Dovecot disagree about the mail storage of the accounts,
> either:
>
> 1) reconfigure postfix to deliver message to Maildir in
> /var/vmail/domain/user at domain.tld, or
>
> 2) reconfigure postfix to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP, or
>
> 3) reconfigure Dovecot to use mbox:/var/vmail/domain/user as INBOX, but
> /var/vmail/domain/user at domain.tld/Maildir for mail home.
>
>
>>  Steffen Kaiser <mailto:skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>
>>>
>>> November 22, 2013 8:36 AM
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>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Don Hill wrote:
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>>>
>>> Are you sure, postfix delivers to the maildir of Dovecot? I would
>>> reconfigure Postfix to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
>>>
>>> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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>>> Don Hill <mailto:dhill.novell at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> November 21, 2013 8:59 PM
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I am working on setting up  Dovecot v2.0.9 and postfix  2.6.6 on centos
>>> 6.4. I have postfix configured with dovecot using virtual users. Everything
>>> seems to be working with the exception of no emails being delivered to the
>>> Maildir/new folder. If I touch a file into that folder then the file gets
>>> delivered to the email client using imap.
>>>
>>> I can also send email from the client with no problems. In fact if I
>>> look at the logs postfix says the email was delivered to the mailbox.
>>>
>>>  postfix/virtual[27270]: 8652F35C38A8: to=<user at domain.tld>,
>>> relay=virtual, delay=0.11, delays=0.1/0.01/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
>>> (delivered to mailbox)$
>>>
>>> Here is my dovecot -n output
>>>
>>> *doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with:
>>> doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf**
>>> **doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:85:
>>> protocol { ssl_listen } has been replaced by service { inet_listener {
>>> address } }**
>>> **# OS: Linux 2.6.32-042stab079.6 x86_64 CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
>>> reiserfs**
>>> **auth_mechanisms = plain login**
>>> **default_login_user = vmail**
>>> **first_valid_gid = 5000**
>>> **first_valid_uid = 5000**
>>> **listen = ***
>>> **mail_access_groups = vmail**
>>> **mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u/Maildir**
>>> **mbox_write_locks = fcntl**
>>> **passdb {**
>>> **  args = scheme=SHA1 /etc/dovecot/passwd**
>>> **  driver = passwd-file**
>>> **}**
>>> **protocols = imap pop3**
>>> **service auth {**
>>> **  unix_listener auth-client {**
>>> **    group = postfix**
>>> **    mode = 0660**
>>> **    user = postfix**
>>> **  }**
>>> **  user = root**
>>> **}**
>>> **service imap-login {**
>>> **  inet_listener imaps {**
>>> **    address = ***
>>> **  }**
>>> **  process_min_avail = 1**
>>> **  user = vmail**
>>> **}**
>>> **service pop3-login {**
>>> **  inet_listener pop3s {**
>>> **    address = ***
>>> **  }**
>>> **}**
>>> **ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem**
>>> **ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem**
>>> **userdb {**
>>> **  args = uid=5000  gid=5000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%u allow_all_users=yes**
>>> **  driver = static**
>>> **}*
>>>
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>
>>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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