dovecot doesn't see my mails ?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Dave Myers wrote:

> a select INBOX
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags 
> permitted.
> * 0 EXISTS
> * 0 RECENT

that's correct for your case

> So I seem to have no mails in the inbox... so I check the dovecot log for the 
> where it thinks it should be looking for the mail
>
> Sep 19 07:37:59 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<websales at exsportee.biz>, 
> method=PLAIN, rip=85.170.90.200, lip=92.39.247.92, mpid=26570, TLS, 
> session=<Cf4uLmYDlgBVqlrI>
> Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales at exsportee.biz): Debug: Effective uid=1002, 
> gid=1002, home=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales
> Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales at exsportee.biz): Debug: Namespace inbox: 
> type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, 
> subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/:
> Sep 19 07:37:59 imap(websales at exsportee.biz): Debug: maildir++: 
> root=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail, index=, control=, 
> inbox=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail, alt=
>
> So I can see that the directories that Dovecot is looking at are:
> home=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales
> location=maildir:~/mail/
>
> So if I understand, dovecot is looking at  [ 
> /var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail/ ] for my mail. When I run a 
> listing of the directory I get the following....
>
> # ls -al /var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail/
> total 44
> drwx--S--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:46 .
> drwxr-sr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:00 ..
> drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 cur
> -rw------- 1 vmail vmail  248 Sep 18 12:23 dovecot.index.log
> -rw------- 1 vmail vmail   51 Sep 18 12:23 dovecot-uidlist
> -rw------- 1 vmail vmail    8 Sep 18 12:17 dovecot-uidvalidity
> -r--r--r-- 1 vmail vmail    0 Sep 18 12:17 dovecot-uidvalidity.541acd49
> drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 new
> -rw------- 1 vmail vmail  561 Sep 18 12:22 q1XUaj8-5382575
> -rw------- 1 vmail vmail  517 Sep 18 12:00 q1XUaOD-5382570
> -rw------- 1 vmail vmail  513 Sep 18 12:46 q1XUb60-5382584
> drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 tmp
>
> the 3 files q1xu[....] are test mails that I sent to myself, either 
> internally from the localhost CLI, mutt or from my google mail account.
> I should note the following:
> ~ SWAKS can send mails out to external addresses also.
> ~ I cannot connect to my mail from any external clients (thunderbird)
> ~ I cannot connect to my mail localy using MUTT
> ~ I use exim4 (v4.7.2) as my MTA (if you want to see a config just ask).

The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as 
Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.

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Steffen Kaiser
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