Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

[Aki Tuomi]

Should your INBOX path be /var/spool/mail/%u then?


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-------- Original message --------From: John Rowan <rowan at rownetco.com> Date: 13/07/2018  17:44  (GMT+02:00) To: dovecot at dovecot.org Subject: Sendmail Dovecot Trouble 
I've been struggling trying to get Thunderbird to read e-mail off a 
CentOS 7 server.

Sendmail writes mail in /var/spool/mail

I've configured dovecot to try to read from there using Thunderbird 
(POP3/SMTP).

The firewall allows ports 25/110.

I verified I have mail in /var/spool/mail

but Thunderbird is unable to retrieve that mail.

I've googled sendmail / dovecot config, I've looked a the wiki but I 
just can't figure this out.

Please don't suggest using postfix, I just want to get sendmail / 
dovecot working.


[@mail conf.d]# dovecot --version
2.2.10

[root at mail conf.d]# dovecot -n
# 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.i686 i686 CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 
(AltArch)
auth_mechanisms = plain login
disable_plaintext_auth = no

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

mbox_write_locks = fcntl
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 {
   driver = pam
}
protocols =
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
   driver = passwd
}


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