On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, Bill Cole wrote: > At 5:14 PM +0000 1/24/08, Anne Wilson imposed structure on a stream > > of electrons, yielding: > >I'm setting up a replacement mail server on a CentOS 5.1 box. The dovecot > >version is 1.0.rc15. 'dovecot -n' returns > > > ># /etc/dovecot.conf > >login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > >login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > >login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > >login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login > >mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap > >mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap > >mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 > >mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > >mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > >mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 > >auth default: > > passdb: > > driver: pam > > userdb: > > driver: passwd > > > >I can telnet localhost 143 and log in. > > > >I have given kmail the address of the server and an Inbox has been > > created, but no option to create sub-folders. If I attempt to send a > > message kmail freezes. Clearly something's wrong. > > > >I am using configuration files from the old server, modified only to the > > new server details. I have alias and transport hashes. What else should > > I be looking at? > > Your MTA. Your references to alias and transport hashes makes me > suspect that it is Postfix. > > Dovecot has nothing to do with sending mail.
You're right, of course. Sorry - I was over-tired when I wrote that. You'll have seen that in my reply to mouss, the problem was in dovecot.conf. It's fixed now, thanks. Anne
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