At 11:45 PM +0300 2011-05-10, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 6.5.2011, at 4.25, Dave Yost wrote:
A user on our server for some reason didn't have a home directory.
As a result, the pop3 server was complaining. Apple's Mail app
reported that the server said:
The attempt to send data to the server "(null)" failed.
It would be nice if the server would say something to the effect
that the connection failed because the user account has no home
directory.
I'm pretty sure Dovecot said something different. I don't know why
Apple Mail would only say (null). Dovecot also should have logged
something in its error log.
You could try reproducing it. But instead of connecting with Apple
Mail, connect directly with telnet and see what Dovecot really says:
telnet pop3.example.com 110
user foobar
pass secret
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestPop3Installation has more possibilities
I tried again just now with a user whose home dir doesn't exist.
Apparently I get no error message back. The connection just closes.
Perhaps Apple Mail's "(null)" is the result of the summary closing of
the connection.
Wed 0:16:39
0 222 Z% telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.
user xxxxx
+OK
pass xxxxx
Connection closed by foreign host.
Wed 0:17:05
1 223 Z%
/var/log/maillog says
May 11 00:17:05 xx dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<xxxxx>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
May 11 00:17:05 xx dovecot: POP3(xxxxx): mail_location: mbox:
mkdir(/home/xxxxx/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=11111(xxxxx)
egid=1111(ootbc) missing +w perm: /home)
May 11 00:17:05 xx ovecot: POP3(xxxxx): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
Thanks
