Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-03 Thread Nigel Smith
All's well that ends well Stan ! I've learnt how the list prefers its config specimens to be displayed, and the list has solved my original problem.  I've even managed to get Sieve and SOLR working without any issues whatsoever.   ;-) Guess that makes me a happy bunny so far.  Now I guess I nee

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/2/2013 4:34 AM, Nigel Smith wrote: >> Unfortunately you failed to provide 'dovecot -n' output which makes >> assisting you much more difficult. Providing this is standard operating >> procedure. > Sorry, but What on earth are you on about ? > > From the man page " -n Dump non-defau

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
> You should take this discussion off list. Tell me Dem which part of my original question was not fit for the list ?  It was a perfectly valid technical question relating to Dovecot, and according to the description of the mailing list "This is the main list for requesting help with Dovec

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 2 août 2013 à 14:17, Nigel Smith a écrit : > Axel, > > This seems to bring up a new problem. ;-( > > Before that change, I could see the new mails in both Telnet and Apple Mail. > > Now, I can only see the mail in Telnet and not in Apple Mail. No config > changes apart form your suggestio

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
> So, I'll now be a bit insisting, but could you now try with: > mail_location = maildir:~/mails Axel, This seems to bring up a new problem. ;-( Before that change, I could see the new mails in both Telnet and Apple Mail. Now, I can only see the mail in Telnet and not in Apple Mail.   No confi

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
Jerry, We drew a line in the sand over the Steve issue hours ago. Please keep this thread on-topic now, or post nothing at all.  I don't want to re-open that old debate. Thank you for your understanding. ;-)

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
> So, I'll now be a bit insisting, but could you now try with: > mail_location = maildir:~/mails Ok, will go try now. >If it works, this may prove useful in the future (for example, should you want >make use of sieve or easily avoid to have >the control/index files taken into >account for t

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 2 août 2013 à 13:30, Nigel Smith a écrit : > Looking more promising with the chroot commented out Axel (doveconf at the > bottom) . ;-) Indeed, looks faaar better. Fine! So, I'll now be a bit insisting, but could you now try with: mail_location = maildir:~/mails (or whathever

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:34:41 +0100 (BST) Nigel Smith articulated: > The configs are right there for both postifx and dovecot.   I was > being courteous by posting them on pastebin instead of pasting them > into an email which would become clutterd with lines of config ! The problem isn't the p

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
Looking more promising with the chroot commented out Axel (doveconf at the bottom) . ;-) # rm -rf /srv/mail/ops.example.com/test Aug  2 12:25:50 ukc-vm02-mx01 postfix/smtpd[4480]: connect from unknown[17.16.10.43] Aug  2 12:26:04 ukc-vm02-mx01 postfix/smtpd[4480]: 8E0454470E: client=unknow

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 2 août 2013 à 12:59, Nigel Smith a écrit : > Also re-ran Axel's test with a forward slash after the username, no better Ouch! Did I write such a thing? ;-) Anyway, could you now: - comment out all chroot-related settings in dovecot.conf - ensure you have reloaded dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
Also re-ran Axel's test with a forward slash after the username, no better Although unlike my original config, With Axel's new user home,  Dovecot seems to be creating an extra directory  /srv/mail/srv/mail/ops.example.com/test/ Messages are being delivered to the original path though  /srv

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
> Are you just saying I should test removing the "/./" chroot from the user > homedir ?  (I think I already tried this, but happy to try again if that's > what you're saying) > In a first time, yes, for various reasons: Per Axel's request, snippet from users.   1001:1001::/srv/mail/ops.ex

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 2 août 2013 à 12:13, Nigel Smith a écrit : > > >> I wanted to add before above question that I would at least try something >> like this: >> mail_location = maildir:~/mails >> t...@ops.example.com:{SSHA512}x:1001:1001::/srv/mail/ops.example.com/test::: > > > I'll admit I'm a li

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
> I'm not sure how Dovecot is supposed to interpret the ending "/./" part. Axel, Re: the above http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Chrooting "Insert "/./" inside the returned home directory, eg.: home=/home/./user to chroot into /home, or home=/home/user/./ to chroot into /home/user."

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
> I wanted to add before above question that I would at least try something > like this: >mail_location = maildir:~/mails > t...@ops.example.com:{SSHA512}x:1001:1001::/srv/mail/ops.example.com/test::: I'll admit I'm a little confused Axel ;-) Are you just saying I should test

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 2 août 2013 à 11:39, Axel Luttgens a écrit : > [...] > > Someone more knowledgeable than I am with maildir? I wanted to add before above question that I would at least try something like this: mail_location = maildir:~/mails t...@ops.example.com:{SSHA512}x:1001

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
Reindl, Can we please get this thread back on topic now ? Thank you Nigel

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.08.2013 11:47, schrieb Nigel Smith: >> thats fine *but* on mailing-lists you should paste the output *inline* >> >> nobody likes to c&p things for quoting from whatever online >> services nor is it useful in context of list-archives as well >> as nobody right on his mind clicks on tiny-urls

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
>thats fine *but* on mailing-lists you should paste the output *inline* > >nobody likes to c&p things for quoting from whatever online >services nor is it useful in context of list-archives as well >as nobody right on his mind clicks on tiny-urls Fine, but then just ask me to post them on the li

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
>> PS - Yes, Stan is right: always better to provide the output doveconf -n >> (and postconf -n), and even better in a message's body. :-) As I told Stan and I'll tell you the configs were right there from the start for all to see ;-)

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.08.2013 11:34, schrieb Nigel Smith: >> Unfortunately you failed to provide 'dovecot -n' output which makes >> assisting you much more difficult. Providing this is standard operating >> procedure. > > Sorry, but What on earth are you on about ? > From the ***TOP*** of my original email

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
To save Stan the inconvenience of clicking on a link, I hereby copy my configs from pastbin and paste to the list, apologies for the clutter... Happy now Stan ?  ;-) (1) Doveconf # 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.5.0-37-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS ext4 mail_chroot = /sr

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 2 août 2013 à 11:02, Nigel Smith a écrit : > Hello Axel, > > # id its-virtmail > uid=1001(its-virtmail) gid=1001(its-virtmail) groups=1001(its-virtmail) > > # grep 't...@ops.example.com' /etc/dovecot/users > t...@ops.example.com:{SSHA512}x:1001:1001::/srv/mail/ops.example.com/tes

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
>Unfortunately you failed to provide 'dovecot -n' output which makes >assisting you much more difficult.  Providing this is standard operating >procedure. Sorry, but What on earth are you on about ? From the man page " -n     Dump non-default settings to stdout and exit successfully.  The

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/2/2013 3:25 AM, Nigel Smith wrote: >> Probably a namespace issue. The imap daemon is telling you there's not >> new mail. So wherever it's looking it sees no mail. So either it's >> looking in the wrong place, and the configuration isn't correct. Error >> logs will inform you about the la

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
>Somewhat blindly, what's the output of: > >    id its-virtmail >    grep 't...@ops.example.com' /etc/dovecot/users >    ls -al >'/srv/mail/ops.ops.example.com/test/new/1375430267.M868397P2192.ukc-vm02-mx01\,S\=477\,W\=486' > >Axel Hello Axel, # id its-virtmail uid=1001(its-virtmail) gid=1001(i

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 2 août 2013 à 10:25, Nigel Smith a écrit : > [...] > > As demonstrated in my initial post, I can do : > > #cat > /srv/mail/ops.example.com/test/new/1375430267.M868397P2192.ukc-vm02-mx01\,S\=477\,W\=486 > > [...] Hello Nigel, Somewhat blindly, what's the output of: id its-virtmai

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
>Probably a namespace issue.  The imap daemon is telling you there's not >new mail.  So wherever it's looking it sees no mail.  So either it's >looking in the wrong place, and the configuration isn't correct.  Error >logs will inform you about the latter, 'dovecot -n' about the former. >Show dov

Re: [Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/2/2013 3:07 AM, Nigel Smith wrote: > Dovecot : 2.0.19 (see config at http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=KMaQ9Ccc) > Postfix : 2.9.6 (see config at http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=EEeevHfk) > > I'm trying to get Dovecot and Postfix working on Ubuntu 12.04LTS but am not > having much luck. > > The

[Dovecot] Mail being delivered but MUA showing empty inbox

2013-08-02 Thread Nigel Smith
Dovecot :  2.0.19 (see config at http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=KMaQ9Ccc) Postfix :  2.9.6 (see config at http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=EEeevHfk) I'm trying to get Dovecot and Postfix working on Ubuntu 12.04LTS but am not having much luck. The problem is that although mail gets delivered to the c