[Dovecot] Dovecot - not pulling pop3s email from virtual mbox

Sat Jan 18 15:04:10 EET 2014

Hi,

Client is able to authenticate to the dovecot server using cram-md5
password, and I can see the file being created by dovecot server under
/var/spool/mail/ghhdomain.com/info/Inbox, having said it is 0 byte file and
no mails are found

any help is appreciated..

logs as below
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=5162)
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug: client in:
AUTH#0111#011CRAM-MD5#011service=pop3#011secured#011lip=10.0.0.12#011rip=10.0.0.12#011lport=995#011rport=60156
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug: client out:
CONT#0111#011PDA0NDM3NzgzNDMyODE4MzMuMTM5MDA0NTk3M0Bucy5tYXN0ZXItc2VydmVyPg==
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug: client in:
CONT#0111#011aW5mb0BnaGhkb21haW4uY29tIGJhMGYwMGEzZmZkMjU5YWJjZDA4ZTI5ZmIwZDY4Y2Mw
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug:
passwd-file(info at ghhdomain.com,10.0.0.12):
lookup: user=info at ghhdomain.com file=/etc/dovecot/users
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug:
password(info at ghhdomain.com,10.0.0.12):
Credentials:
8314fef5923bb513c7e8be9e663501bbc56ce1012aae68e4c68852be5ab8da76
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: OK#0111#011user=
info at ghhdomain.com
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug: master in:
REQUEST#011931659777#0115162#0111#011ec6a642974dcbb984952b19eb208d849
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug:
passwd-file(info at ghhdomain.com,10.0.0.12):
lookup: user=info at ghhdomain.com file=/etc/dovecot/users
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: USER#011931659777#
011info at ghhdomain.com#011uid=503#011gid=503#011home=/bin/false
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<info at ghhdomain.com>,
method=CRAM-MD5, rip=10.0.0.12, lip=10.0.0.12, mpid=5163, TLS
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: pop3(info at ghhdomain.com): Debug: Effective
uid=503, gid=503, home=/bin/false
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: pop3(info at ghhdomain.com): Error:
chdir(/bin/false) failed: Not a directory
Jan 18 17:22:53 ns dovecot: pop3(info at ghhdomain.com): Debug: mbox: INBOX
defaulted to /var/spool/mail/info at ghhdomain.com/inbox

the current config as below
# 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.i686 i686 CentOS release 6.5 (Final) ext4
auth_debug = yes
auth_debug_passwords = yes
auth_mechanisms = cram-md5
mail_debug = yes
mail_full_filesystem_access = yes
mail_gid = 503
mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/ghhdomain.com/%n
mail_uid = 503
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
passdb {
  args = scheme=cram-md5 username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
  driver = passwd-file
}
service pop3-login {
  inet_listener pop3 {
    port = 110
  }
  inet_listener pop3s {
    port = 995
    ssl = yes
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/newcert.pem
ssl_key = </etc/postfix/newkey.pem
userdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/users
  driver = passwd-file
}
userdb {
  args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
  driver = passwd-file
}

Thanks!

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Steffen Kaiser <
skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Ganesh Hariharan wrote:
>
>  I have two files , users and passwd
>>
>> cat /etc/dovecot/users
>> info at ghhdomain.com:501:501:/var/spool/mail/ghhdomain/info/:/bin/false:
>>
>> [sysopminds at ns ~]$ cat /etc/dovecot/passwd
>> info at ghhdomain.com:
>> {CRAM-MD5}e02d374fde0dc75a17a557039a3a5338c7743304777dccd376f332bee68d
>> 2cf6:503:503
>>
>
> See: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
> the syntax is: user:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):extra_fields
> so your user file is wrong. But this error would come later.
>
> The config shows that you have not configured no passdb. Re-check that
> you've included the appropriate auth*ext files, e.g. the
> auth-passwdfile.conf.ext.
>
>
>  On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Steffen Kaiser <
>> skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
>>
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>>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Ganesh Hariharan wrote:
>>>
>>>  Jan 16 09:27:04 ns dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/users:
>>>
>>>> User info at ghhdomain.com has invalid GID '/var/spool/mail/ghhdomain/
>>>> info/'
>>>> Jan 16 09:27:04 ns dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/users:
>>>> Read 0 users
>>>>
>>>>
>>>  Please see my configs
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  don't grab selected output from the conf files, use doveconf -n
>>>
>>>
>>>  users file look like this
>>>> info at ghhdomain.com:
>>>> {CRAM-MD5}e02d374fde0dc75a17a557039a3a5338c7743304777dccd376f332bee68d
>>>> 2cf6:503:503
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Do you have a line with "/var/spool/mail/ghhdomain/info/" in
>>> /etc/dovecot/users ? Post that line and, say, three lines before and
>>> three
>>> after it.
>>>
>>> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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