First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

mick crane mick.crane at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 07:56:03 UTC 2016


On 2016-10-14 21:32, Marnaud wrote:
> Le 14 oct. 2016 à 16:06, mick crane <mick.crane at gmail.com> a écrit:
> 
>> On 2016-10-14 13:43, Moi wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> First of all, I'm sorry if you received this mail twice; I haven't 
>>> received
>>> it the first time so I think it was lost. Second attempt.
>>> I've made some more tests and I still can't receive mails.
>>> Outlook doesn't complain about anything, no error message; the mails 
>>> that
>>> are supposed to be received just won't appear.
>>> In the mail logs, I find this line (other lines are irrelevant):
>>> dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 2 secs): 
>>> user=<>
>>> [...]
>>> Is this a problem that looks familiar?
>>> It's a bit clueless without an error message.
>>> Any idea welcome.
>> 
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
> 
> Thank you. I’m at the “Check that it finds INBOX” section and am 
> getting:
> * 0 EXISTS
> * 0 RECENT
> 
> (the remaining text being the same as the example). So it looks like
> the mailbox doesn’t exist…

I assume this means there are no emails in the INBOX.
send yourself a mail.
http://www.binarytides.com/linux-mail-command-examples/

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