Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2011-01-28 Thread Jerrale G
On 12/29/2010 9:52 PM, Fabio Catunda wrote: Seasoul, Right from dovecot.conf: The "L" if for lowercase (I think). In e-mail RFC is specified that mail should be case sensitive, but it might give you some problems where people send e-mail to f...@domain.com and f...@domain.com, as we are wo

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2011-01-06 Thread Ed W
On 02/01/2011 12:40, Seasoul wrote: Thinking I should look into PAM , this is my config: .. Now, when I try to log to Dovecot via telnet using "us...@domain.com" as username, authentication fails and Dovecot log shows: .. Which makes sense because I don't have a "us...@domain.com" set up as

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2011-01-05 Thread Seasoul
Many thanks Daniel for your comment, I'll have another look at the Postfix wiki ! On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > On 12/30/2010 4:14 AM, Seasoul wrote: > >> When I send an email to us...@domain.com from a gmail account, this is >> the >> log record: >> >> postfix/qmg

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2011-01-03 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 12/30/2010 4:14 AM, Seasoul wrote: When I send an email to us...@domain.com from a gmail account, this is the log record: postfix/qmgr[28610]: 4E2EA70324: from=, size=5119, nrcpt=1 (queue active) postfix/virtual[2947]: 4E2EA70324: to=, relay=virtual, delay=0.51, delays=0.44/0.02/0/0.05, dsn=

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2011-01-02 Thread Seasoul
Sorry for all the consecutive emails, but thought I'd mention I'm using PostfixAdmin to create my users and mailboxes on virtual domains. Should I leave PAM authentication for another type of authentication, maybe SQL based ? On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Seasoul wrote: > Thinking I should loo

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2011-01-02 Thread Seasoul
Thinking I should look into PAM , this is my config: in /etc/pam.d/dovecot: #%PAM-1.0 @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session in common-auth: authrequiredpam_unix.so nullok_secure in common-account accountrequiredpam_unix.so in common-session

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2011-01-02 Thread Seasoul
Thanks Timo, set the dovecot log as suggested, and this is what a telnet session gives me now on dovecot.log: ssl-params: Info: Generating SSL parameters ssl-params: Info: SSL parameters regeneration completed auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Debug: auth c

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 31.12.2010, at 6.55, Seasoul wrote: > auth_debug = yes > auth_verbose = yes .. > When I try to login to dovecot via telnet, here's what the log records: >

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Seasoul
Hi, Now running Dovecot 2.0.8 and still having the same issue: Postfix sends emails to /var/mail/vmail/username (username is u...@domain.com) but Dovecot looks for email in /var/mail/vmail/user How to alignt he two ? Dovecot -n gives: -

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 20:53 +0800, Seasoul wrote: > Do you mean the dovecot-auth errors ? I mean if you have auth_debug=yes enabled, and assuming you also use sql (it wasn't clear if you're using pam, sql or both since you had both enabled in dovecot.conf), you should see messages such as: Dec 30

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Seasoul
Do you mean the dovecot-auth errors ? the only one I have in the auth log is: dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=user1 rhost=127.0.0.1 user=user1 That was when i typed my password wrongly. Aside from that and a bunch of random atta

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 20:14 +0800, Seasoul wrote: > When I try to get pop access via telnet, this is what the log records: > > dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, > lip=127.0.0.1, secured The auth_debug logs are missing above. They're the most important ones in figuri

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Seasoul
Thanks Charles for the advice, it "came" with Webmin like that so didn't try to change it. But you're right, maybe installing a more recent version will help.. On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-12-29 9:40 PM, Seasoul wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running Dovecot Version 1

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-12-29 9:40 PM, Seasoul wrote: > Hi, > I am running Dovecot Version 1.0.15on a Debian server, with postfix and > postfixadmin. The very first thinmg you should do is upgrade... 1.0.15 is very old... I'm sure there are other issues involved, but you will get much more meaningful help if you

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Seasoul
Hi, When I try to get pop access via telnet, this is what the log records: dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: POP3(user1): Effective uid=***, gid=*** dovecot: POP3(user1): maildir: data=/var/mail/vmail//user1 dovecot: POP3(user1): maild

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 12:20 +0800, Seasoul wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit confused now, I though Dovecot was the MDA ? Only if you've configured it that way: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA > >> mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%u So Dovecot should see the domain.. Set mail_debug=yes to see wh

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-29 Thread Seasoul
Hi, I'm a bit confused now, I though Dovecot was the MDA ? I'm only using Dovecot and Postfix so I think Dovecot is the MDA here. Thanks for the reply though, it tells me that something's wrong with either the email delivery or the email fetching (or both!). I just can't find in the different *.co

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-29 Thread Fabio Catunda
Mr. Seasoul, What is your MDA? Ok, maybe you don't have this answer right now, but it's pretty important. MDA is a Mail Delivery Agent, it's responsible for delivery an e-mail to the user e-mail folder. I tend to use maildrop, again, just because I like it. Apparently there is a misundersto

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-29 Thread Seasoul
Hi Fabio, Many thnaks for your prompt reply, I was typing the below :) So my path for mail_location is /var/mail/vmail/%d/%u but apparently that's not what happens..any idea why ? My dovecot.conf: # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 po

Re: [Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

2010-12-29 Thread Fabio Catunda
Seasoul, Right from dovecot.conf: # Location for users' mailboxes. This is the same as the old default_mail_env # setting. The default is empty, which means that Dovecot tries to find the # mailboxes automatically. This won't work if the user doesn't have any mail # yet, so you should explicitl