Sendmail Dovecot Trouble

[John Rowan]

Having reinstalled CentOS 7 including e-mail server in initial software 
configuration it installed Postfix/Dovecot.

I've been using Sendmail for 20 years and no experience with Postfix.  
Looked in Webmin -> servers -> Postfix and specified Maildir, changed 
the 10-mail.conf to specify

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

and everything's working.

Thanks for help.


On 7/13/2018 11:44 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> Should your INBOX path be /var/spool/mail/%u then?
>
>
>
> ---
> Aki Tuomi
> Dovecot oy
>
> -------- 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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