Can't receive email

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, lists at lazygranch.com wrote:

> No problem sending email, but I can't receive email. Diagnostics follow:

this is a pretty unspecific information. At which stage the message is 
stuck and not delivered to Dovecot? Which MTA do you use and how is it 
configurated? Or are the messages delivered to Dovecot and are spooled 
into the mail storage?

> a login user at domain.com password
> a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SPECIAL-USE] Logged in
> b select inbox
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted.
> * 9 EXISTS
> * 1 RECENT
> * OK [UNSEEN 9] First unseen.
> * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1439944213] UIDs valid
> * OK [UIDNEXT 10] Predicted next UID
> * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 2] Highest
> b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed (0.017 secs).
> c list "" *
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Trash) "." Trash
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." Queue
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Sent) "." Sent
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Drafts) "." Drafts
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." INBOX
> c OK List completed (0.001 secs).
> d lsub "" *
> * LSUB (\Trash) "." Trash
> * LSUB () "." Queue
> * LSUB (\Sent) "." Sent
> * LSUB (\Drafts) "." Drafts
> d OK Lsub completed (0.003 secs).
> e logout
> * BYE Logging out
> e OK Logout completed.

So you can login into Dovecot and query status information, your client 
did not tried to fetch any message.

> closed
> ---------------------------------------
> from dovecot.log
> Sep 19 23:35:13 imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1: before/accept initialization [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> Sep 19 23:35:13 imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: before/accept initialization [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> Sep 19 23:35:13 imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv2/v3 read client hello A [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> Sep 19 23:35:13 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth
> Sep 19 23:35:13 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat
> Sep 19 23:35:13 auth: Debug: passwd-file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users: Read 2 users in 0 secs
> Sep 19 23:35:13 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=1698)
> Sep 19 23:38:13 imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Inactivity (no auth attempts in 180 secs): user=<>, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, TLS handshaking, session=<MghMJCIgiACsOCYK>
> --------------------------------

The client connected to Dovecot, but did not sent any authentification 
information.

> # dovecot -n
> # 2.2.18: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 (0c4ae064f307+)
> # OS: FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p19 amd64
> auth_debug = yes
> auth_debug_passwords = yes
> auth_verbose = yes
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
> mail_debug = yes
> mail_gid = 1003
> mail_home = /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
> mail_location = maildir:~
> mail_privileged_group = vpostfix
> mail_uid = 1003
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate
> namespace inbox {
> inbox = yes
> location =
> mailbox Drafts {
> special_use = \Drafts
> }
> mailbox Junk {
> special_use = \Junk
> }
> mailbox Sent {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox Trash {
> special_use = \Trash
> }
> prefix =
> }
> passdb {
> args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users
> driver = passwd-file
> }
> service auth {
> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
> group = postfix
> mode = 0666
> user = postfix
> }
> unix_listener auth-userdb {
> group = postfix
> mode = 0600
> user = postfix
> }
> }
> ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/ipsec.d/certs/domain.com.crt
> ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/ipsec.d/private/domain.com.key
> userdb {
> args = username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users
> driver = passwd-file
> }
> verbose_ssl = yes
> #
> --------------------------
> # dovecot --version
> 2.2.18‎
> ‎
>
>

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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