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Why did you self-compile several years old dovecot ? Please use 2.2.36 or 2.3.5 instead...
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On 17 March 2019 16:38 Rob De Langhe via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
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<p>hi all,<br><br>I have a successful (self-compiled from source code) Dovecot v2.2.16 setup active on my Solaris-10 server, with mails stored in user's $HOME/Maildir<br><br>The mails are fetched from the ISP with "<span style="font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;">fetchmail</span>", using a "cron" job<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;">fetchmail -f $HOME/etc/pop3.myisp</span><br><br>where the file "$HOME/etc/pop3.myisp" contains<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;">set logfile fetchmail.log<br>poll pop.myisp.be with proto POP3<br>user myIspmailLogin there with password myIspPwd is rob here nokeep<br>mda "/programs-3.2/amd64/64/libexec/dovecot/deliver"</span><br><br>Now I want to get it also running on a Debian server, with the same Dovecot version, and exactly the same config files, but here I get the following messages in "/var/log/mail.log" when launching a "fetchmail" attempt :<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;">Mar 17 14:36:20 apps_b dovecot: lda(rob): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/home/rob<br>Mar 17 14:36:20 apps_b dovecot: lda(rob): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Maildir<br>Mar 17 14:36:20 apps_b dovecot: lda(rob): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': Unknown mail storage driver maildir<br>Mar 17 14:36:20 apps_b dovecot: lda(rob): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.</span><br><br>So it seems to be complaining about "maildir" storage driver ?!<br><br>My config is:<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;"># /programs/3.4/x86_64/64/sbin/dovecot -n -c /usr/local/dovecot/dovecot.conf<br># 2.2.16: /usr/local/dovecot/dovecot.conf<br># OS: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 8.4<br>disable_plaintext_auth = no<br>first_valid_gid = 1000<br>first_valid_uid = 1000<br>last_valid_gid = 1500<br>last_valid_uid = 2000<br>mail_debug = yes<br>mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir<br>namespace inbox {<br> location =<br> mailbox Drafts {<br> special_use = \Drafts<br> }<br> mailbox Junk {<br> special_use = \Junk<br> }<br> mailbox Sent {<br> special_use = \Sent<br> }<br> mailbox "Sent Messages" {<br> special_use = \Sent<br> }<br> mailbox Trash {<br> special_use = \Trash<br> }<br> prefix =<br>}<br>passdb {<br> args = *<br> driver = pam<br>}<br>postmaster_address = rob@mydomain.be<br>ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem<br>ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem<br>userdb {<br> driver = passwd<br>}</span><br></p>
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