Steffen thank you. I shall attend to this as soon as possible. Today I
awoke to a system that cannot address the hard drive... :-( More
Screwtape...
Thank you, Andy
On 07/25/16 02:29, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, C. Andrews Lavarre wrote:
I have solved gaining access from a client (Evolution) via IMAP to the
server: I can refresh, add folders, and delete folders. But I am still
confounded, as IMAP does not see any mailboxes. Neither we from the
command line (telnet, openssl, login, select) nor the system can find
the mailbox, despite following FindMailLocation:
telnet, openssl, login, then
b select inbox
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
and postfix fails with
2016-07-23T21:22:37.312039-04:00 lavarre postfix/error[17088]:
A8DA2C1BB2: to=<a...@privustech.com>, orig_to=<andy>, relay
But the mailboxes do exist in /var/mail/vhosts/privustech.com/andy and
we point to them in /etc/dovecot/users.
Check:
doveadm user -u andy
then enable logging and see if Dovecot uses the desired mail location.
doveconf -n is attached.
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Two issues are:
1. file permissions and ownership
2. virtual versus system users
1. It appears that having the correct ownership and permissions on
various files is critical (of course), but those parameters must also
be included in the interior of the /etc/dovecot/user. So if you change
permissions you also must change that file.
For example, you said:
i also noticed your certificate chain is broken.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/testinstallation
I worked through this link, thank you. Changing permissions for the
directories /var/mail/* to
root:mail ($UID:$GID = 1000:12)
and then changing /etc/dovecot/users correspondingly to
u...@privustech.com :{plain}actualpassword: 1000:12
::/var/mail/vhosts/privustech.com/user
now allows a normal login. and we can create a new folder (e.g., work)
and delete it. However, this is at variance with
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/SimpleVirtualInstall
which says to set the ownership to vmail:vmail ($UID:$GID = 100:
5000). Doing so breaks dovecot.
2. The various links suggest that having virtual users is preferable to
setting system users. The former do not require directories under
/homebut they do require a directory in the mail system, which I have
provided under /var/mail/vhosts. It also turns out that for virtual
users you must include the domain (a...@privustech.com). Making that
change allowed the success reported above. But despite that, we still
cannot find the mailboxes on login.
Any thoughts on how to have IMAP find the mailboxes (beyond
FindMailLocation, which doesn't seem to work for me) would be most
appreciated.
Kind regards, Andy
- -- Steffen Kaiser
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