[Dovecot] unclear alias behaviour

2008-08-26 Thread andel
Hi all In /etc/aliases I have set up an alias for "root" pointing to "david" which is a unix account. Other email accounts are virtual dovecot accounts, one of them is "andel". They all work fine using /etc/postfix/virtual when used with the domain name wh

[Dovecot] Solved Re: IMAP clients generate user home folders one level higher than needed

2008-04-22 Thread andel
The solution is to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the passwd and %0.d instead of %d in userdb static. On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:35:53 +0200, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:25 +0200, andel wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:30:52 +0200, Johannes Berg >&

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP clients generate user home folders one l evel higher than needed

2008-04-22 Thread andel
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:30:52 +0200, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would guess that %d expands to "" (i.e. the empty string). Are your > clients logging in with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Yes, they do. How can I find out if this is the case and what can I do about it? David

[Dovecot] IMAP clients generate user home folders one level higher than needed

2008-04-22 Thread andel
Hi (Of course not the clinets generate the folders, dovecot does, but I wanted to have the title not be too long.) I am using static userdb: userdb static { args = uid=vmail gid=mail home=/srv/vmail/%d/%n } and I have configured the hostname in protocol lda. Now when mail arrives for a know

Re: [Dovecot] Internal login failure

2008-04-21 Thread David Andel
Answer to self: I did not set first_valid_uid explicitely. However: "Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above." And mine is below that. Now everything works fine. David

[Dovecot] Internal login failure

2008-04-21 Thread David Andel
Hi all My postfix/dovecot installation seems to be working fine - on the machine. But I cannot connect from the outside by IMAP. I am desperately searching for the reason of the following error: bit:/var/log# telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '