You sure the default internal group isnt _dovecot as well?
You are missing
mail_home = /Users/%{user}
Aki
On 31/01/2025 17:35 EET John Muccigrosso via dovecot
<dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
Thanks for the help. I run dovecot directly via a homebrew install.
As noted, 2.3 was working fine.
The getent command doesn't work on macOS, but the corresponding one
doesn't show the dovecot user in the dovecot group, so clearly I've
not set it up correctly. However, if I keep the following two lines
from my previous conf file, I don't get that error and can launch
dovecot:
default_internal_user = _dovecot
default_internal_group = mail
Starting from the conf file here: https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/core/
config/guides/quick.html, I've inserted my own username and group as
I had for 2.3, not the "vmail" in the model.
Now dovecot is running, but I'm still not connecting. I suspect it's
now either the password or the location of the mailbox. For the
latter, I had in 2.3.0:
mail_location = maildir:/Users/%u/Maildir
but 2.4.0 seems to use a different format with multiple lines for
this and I'm not quite sure how to configure it, though I think I
read this in the Docs as the way to go for Maildir:
mail_driver = maildir
mail_path = ~/Maildir
Still no luck. I even put in the explicit path for ~. But I don't
think it even gets to that point. Here's what the Mail.app log says
when I try to connect:
INITIATING CONNECTION Jan 31 16:09:49.358 host:127.0.0.1 -- port:587
-- socket:0x0 -- thread:0x6000038676c0
So no connection made, apparently.
For the password, I was using this in 2.3 (or something similar that
I may have edited yesterday):
passdb {
driver = static
args = password=<PASSWORD>
}
Not quite sure how to configure that now, but the conf file suggests
using the system authentication, and it may be that I have not set up
the dovecot file appropriately in pam.d, but I'm using the macOS
suggestion found at https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/core/config/auth/
databases/pam.html#pam-pam:
auth required pam_opendirectory.so try_first_pass
account required pam_nologin.so
account required pam_opendirectory.so
password required pam_opendirectory.so
My conf file has this from the default noted above:
# Authenticate as system users:
passdb pam {
}
It's my personal computer, so I'm happy to have the password setup be
via text, and I've tried a simple password as well, again following
the docs:
https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/core/config/guides/quick.html
passdb passwd-file {
passwd_file_path = /path/to/passwd
}
Still not working.
Anyway, this is quite long now, so thanks for any suggestions.
Jackie
On Jan 31, 2025, at 07:09, Aki Tuomi via dovecot
<dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
On 30/01/2025 20:05 EET John Muccigrosso via
dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
I got bitten by the upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4 on my
MacOS laptop. I know enough to be dangerous here
and had a set-up that was working fine, but now I
can't quite figure out how to modify my conf file
to work correctly.
The current error I'm getting is that there is no
group "dovecot" even though I've created one and
made the default user a member:
Fatal: service(dict) Group doesn't
exist: dovecot
More broadly I find the documentation hard to
follow, as others seem to have noted in the past.
Any help appreciated.
Jackie
Can you show output of
getent groups dovecot
getent passwd dovecot
Also, are you running dovecot is some container or directly
on your macos?
Aki
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