Mr. Seasoul,
What is your MDA?
Ok, maybe you don't have this answer right now, but it's pretty
important. MDA is a Mail Delivery Agent, it's responsible for delivery
an e-mail to the user e-mail folder. I tend to use maildrop, again, just
because I like it.
Apparently there is a misunderstood between your MDA and Dovecot. Your
MDA is delivering e-mail to a folder and Dovecot is trying to take
e-mail from another folder, that's probably your problem.
There are two ways to fix it, or your MDA starts to deliver e-maiil to
the correct folder or you reconfigure Dovecot to search for e-mail in
the same folder that your MDA deliver it.
To know what MDA you are using you have to look in postfix files. And if
you are using dovecot as your MDA I can't help you a lot since I don't
use it as MDA. :-( Sorry.
Att,
Fábio Catunda.
On 12/30/2010 12:58 AM, Seasoul wrote:
Hi Fabio,
Many thnaks for your prompt reply, I was typing the below :)
So my path for mail_location is /var/mail/vmail/%d/%u but apparently that's
not what happens..any idea why ?
My dovecot.conf:
# 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
first_valid_gid: 0
last_valid_gid: 12000
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
pop3_uidl_format(default):
pop3_uidl_format(imap):
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
passdb:
driver: pam
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb:
driver: passwd
userdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
My dovecot-sql.conf (although not sure this is relevant for my issue):
driver = mysql
connect = dbname=postfix user=**** password=**** host=localhost
default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5
password_query = SELECT password FROM mailox WHERE local_part= '%u'
user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u'
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Fabio Catunda
<fcatu...@contactnet.com.br>wrote:
Seasoul,
Right from dovecot.conf:
# Location for users' mailboxes. This is the same as the old
default_mail_env
# setting. The default is empty, which means that Dovecot tries to find the
# mailboxes automatically. This won't work if the user doesn't have any
mail
# yet, so you should explicitly tell Dovecot the full location.
#
# If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/%u)
# isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other mailboxes
are
# kept. This is called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first
# path given in the mail_location setting.
#
# There are a few special variables you can use, eg.:
#
# %u - username
# %n - user part in u...@domain, same as %u if there's no domain
# %d - domain part in u...@domain, empty if there's no domain
# %h - home directory
#
# See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/wiki/Variables.txt for full list. Some
# examples:
#
# mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
# mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
# mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n
#
#<doc/wiki/MailLocation.txt>
In my case:
mail_location = maildir:/var/virtual/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir
Just because I prefer this way.
In your case I believe that something like this would be good:
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%...@%ld
The "L" if for lowercase (I think). In e-mail RFC is specified that mail
should be case sensitive, but it might give you some problems where people
send e-mail to f...@domain.com and f...@domain.com, as we are working with
UNIX like OS, these are different folders and different mailboxes.
With best regards,
Fábio Catunda.
On 12/30/2010 12:40 AM, Seasoul wrote:
Hi,
I am running Dovecot Version 1.0.15on a Debian server, with postfix and
postfixadmin.
My mailbox base is /var/mail/vmail
When I send an email to a us...@domain.com for the first time, the user
"mail" creates a set of dovecot folders under /var/mail/vmail/
us...@domain.com/ and my new emails are found in /var/mail/vmail/
us...@domain.com/new
When I test my server using telnet (telnet domain.com 110), I can log in
fine as a user1, but when I type "LIST", it tells me there are no emails.
And I realize a new set of dovecot folders were created under
/var/mail/vmail/user1/ ! The folders are created by the user "user1".
Obviously the folder "new" under that is empty, since my emails received
are
in /var/mail/vmail/us...@domain.com/new and not /var/mail/vmail/user1/new
.
Therefore, connecting with an email client via POP also shows an empty
inbox.
I am lost as to what to do to fix this, and how to let the server know
that
pop access should be looking into /var/mail/vmail/us...@domain.com/instead
of /var/mail/vmail/user1/ .
Hopefully someone on this list will be able to save me from my misery :)
Cheers
Sea
