Hi, I have asked this question on many fora but no one seems to be able to put me on my way. Ik think this should be easy but really dont know where to look any more. My system user is Sander. Fetchmails succeeds in putting my email from mail.blablah.com into /var/mail/Sander (I cannot find the conf file for Fetchmail, if you tell me i'll post it) If I open /var/mail/sander i can see the mail has arrived After this, I installed Dovecot and uses some examples from the internet en the wiki.dovecot. What I want to accomplish is that I can use Imap to read my email from any computer in my network (both Linux/Windows) Dovecot.conf: Code: # Remove pop3 things if you don't want them protocols = imap imaps # It's nice to have separate log files for Dovecot. You could do this # by changing syslog configuration also, but this is easier. log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log # Disable SSL for now. ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no # We're using Maildir format(NOT) mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # Optimizations: # dotlock_use_excl=yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes # Authentication configuration: auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/passwd.dovecot } userdb passwd { } } my passwd.dovecot: Code: sander:{PLAIN}123456 When I try to log in by telnet telnet 192.168.1.110 I get Dovecot ready (WOW!) login sander 123456 ERROR! Can anyone help?
also tried locally: Code: Butler:/home/sander# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. login sander 123456 login BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
Dovecot uses Maildir format, while you're curreently using mbox (/var/mail/sander). That's why Dovecot can't find your emails. If you're using Postfix, do this: Code: postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/' postconf -e 'mailbox_command =' /etc/init.d/postfix restart
I am not using postfix but fetchmail. Fetchmail fetches my email from my internetprovider and puts it in var/mail/sander I only want dovecot to read my mail from/sander
I got it working (pretty unsafe) I'll try to strip my dovecot.conf so I can post it. pff what a file!!! grrr
When i strip it of all the commented Items it wont work any more. Then the most important items: Code: protocols = imap imaps disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_extra_groups = mail protocol imap { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login # IMAP executable location. Changing this allows you to execute other # binaries before the imap process is executed. # # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: # mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # # This would attach gdb into the imap process and write backtraces into # /tmp/gdbhelper.* files: # mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap # #mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Maximum IMAP command line length in bytes. Some clients generate very long # command lines with huge mailboxes, so you may need to raise this if you get # "Too long argument" or "IMAP command line too large" errors often. #imap_max_line_length = 65536 # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. #mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap # Send IMAP capabilities in greeting message. This makes it unnecessary for # clients to request it with CAPABILITY command, so it saves one round-trip. # Many clients however don't understand it and ask the CAPABILITY anyway. #login_greeting_capability = no # Override the IMAP CAPABILITY response. #imap_capability = # Workarounds for various client bugs: # delay-newmail: # Send EXISTS/RECENT new mail notifications only when replying to NOOP # and CHECK commands. Some clients ignore them otherwise, for example # OSX Mail. Outlook Express breaks more badly though, without this it # may show user "Message no longer in server" errors. Note that OE6 still # breaks even with this workaround if synchronization is set to # "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # netscape-eoh: # Netscape 4.x breaks if message headers don't end with the empty "end of # headers" line. Normally all messages have this, but setting this # workaround makes sure that Netscape never breaks by adding the line if # it doesn't exist. This is done only for FETCH BODY[HEADER.FIELDS..] # commands. Note that RFC says this shouldn't be done. # tb-extra-mailbox-sep: # With mbox storage a mailbox can contain either mails or submailboxes, # but not both. Thunderbird separates these two by forcing server to # accept '/' suffix in mailbox names in subscriptions list. # The list is space-separated. #imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } auth default { mechanisms = plain } I think thats it but with only this it wont run What are te differences? And why does it work now? The only thing I can see is that the passwd.dovecot is left out.
I'll Check. ISPConfig in NOT running on this machine, only Samba and fetchmail. netstat -tap Code: sander@Butler:~$ netstat -tap (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:mysql *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:imap2 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:39311 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:webmin *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:auth *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 localhost:smtp *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:microsoft-ds *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:imap2 192.168.1.100:1305 ESTABLISHED- tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:59092 digg.com:www ESTABLISHED4442/firefox-bin tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:36584 stat.onestat.com:www ESTABLISHED4442/firefox-bin tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:imap2 sanders-pit.nl:4381 ESTABLISHED- tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:imap2 sanders-pit.nl:4380 ESTABLISHED- tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:imap2 sanders-pit.nl:4379 ESTABLISHED- tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:imap2 sanders-pit.nl:4378 ESTABLISHED- tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:imap2 sanders-pit.nl:4377 ESTABLISHED- tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:38350 kr-in-f164.google.c:www ESTABLISHED4442/firefox-bin tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:38352 kr-in-f164.google.c:www ESTABLISHED4442/firefox-bin tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:58072 ro-in-f99.google.co:www ESTABLISHED4442/firefox-bin tcp 0 0 192.168.1.110:49014 webmail.versatel.n:pop3 TIME_WAIT - tcp6 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN - Telnet Code: sander@Butler:~$ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 Butler.MSHOME ESMTP Exim 4.63 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:54:35 +0200 Oh yes, I am browsing with te pc at this moment The Dovecot works at this moment but in my eyes unsafe. (no ssl, no passwd.dovecot, just using system users) Later on ISP config is to be installed here as well.
You have Exim installed. If you'd like to install ISPConfig, you must replace Exim with Postfix. Whic distribution do you use?
Exim gets installed by default on Debian. If you want to install ISPConfig later on, I highly recommend that you set up your syste, following this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch
I know and also did that on another computer which serves ISPconfig now. The point was that I want to merge these 2 pcs. I'll start another tread with more info. ok?
