On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:43:31AM -0700, Farzad Mahdikhani wrote:
> Here is my environment:
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga)
> postfix-2.9.1-1.rhel5
> dovecot 1.0.7
You used a third-party RPM or SRPM for Postfix, why not for Dovecot?
Also, the latest in the Postfix 2.9 series is patchlevel 6 or so.
> I want to config a complete postfix-dovecot mail server. First I
> configured postfix to use procmail, its default LDA and dovecot for
FWIW, procmail is NOT the default LDA for Postfix. Postfix has its
own local(8) and [optional] virtual(8) LDAs. Procmail is very old and
unmaintained (it makes Dovecot 1.x look recent!) Only old and well-
established sites should be using procmail now. There are much better
options for new sites in A.D. 2013.
> pop3 and imap. I didn't changed main.cf a lot, just myhostname and
> a few other properties. I didn't set home_mailbox. About
> dovecot.conf here is the output of dovecot -n :
>
> # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
> log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
> protocols: imap pop3
> 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_debug: yes
> 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/lib64/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3
> auth default:
> mechanisms: plain login
> passdb:
> driver: pam
> userdb:
> driver: passwd
>
> As you can see mail_location is not set. At this time everything
> was OK and working. I was able to send email using SquirrelMail and
> thunderbird. I got two users, user1 and user2, in my linux machine
> and when I sent an email from us...@software.com to
> us...@software.com the sent mail was saved in /home/user1/mail/Sent
> and the received email was in /var/mail/user2. The log file for
> dovecot had entries like this for user1 and user2:
>
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:44:52 Info: IMAP(user1): maildir: couldn't find root dir
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:44:52 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: root exists
> (/home/user1/mail)
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:44:52 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: INBOX exists
> (/var/mail/user1)
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:44:52 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: root=/home/user1/mail,
> index=/home/user1/mail, inbox=/var/mail/user1
>
> At this point I tried to change the LDA from procmail to dovecot
> by the following settings:
>
> I added/changed the following in the main.cf:
>
> mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
This is used for the local domain class. It's not relevant for other
address classes.
> dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1
> virtual_mailbox_domains = software.com
This defines the virtual mailbox domain address class. This says that
addres...@software.com are virtual mailbox, NOT local, addresses. If
you're using passwd and PAM as userdb/passdb, this is not what you
want.
> virtual_transport = dovecot
And this is the default transport to be used for virtual mailboxes.
> I added the following in the master.cf:
>
> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender}
> -d ${recipient}
>
> But it didn't work. When I send email from from user2 to user1 the
> sent email is correctly saved in /home/user2/mail/Sent but it seems
> that user1 doesn't receive the incoming email. dovecot.log had
> entries like the following:
>
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN,
> rip=::ffff:172.27.7.8, lip=::ffff:172.16.100.183, TLS
That's a system user login (local user in Postfix terms.)
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): Effective uid=504, gid=504,
> home=/home/user1
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): maildir:
> access(/home/user1/Maildir, rwx): failed: No such file or directory
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): maildir: couldn't find root dir
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: root exists
> (/home/user1/mail)
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: INBOX exists
> (/var/mail/user1)
> dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: root=/home/user1/mail,
> index=/home/user1/mail, inbox=/var/mail/user1
>
> Setting home_mailbox = Maildir/ in main.cf and mail_location =
The home_mailbox setting IS relevant to local domains.
> maildir:~/Maildir in dovecot.cf didn't help. I have been googling
> and reading and testing for 4 or 5 days for this but there was no
> chance. Now, I am stuck and any help would be really really
> appreciated.
This is mostly a Postfix question, BTW, so I will point to to the
Postfix documentation. Don't confuse your address classes:
http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html
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