dovecot issue

Good Day,

I installed the latest ISPConfig on a CentOS 6.5 in an OpenVZ VPS.

Once I finished, SuirelMail would give me an error. I checked and dovecot (IMAP) wansn't running and I couldn't start it? I noticed there was a simlink on /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf~ to ../dovecot.conf (in red not existing). I copied a dovecot.conf to ../ an now I get a 'ERROR : Unknown user or password incorrect.' in SquirelMail. Seems I have an identification issue?

How could I regenerate a good dovicot.conf file?

Thank you in advance for your help,

JP Cyrenne

PS: Odly enough I have Quota issues (no / in fstab) and could not compile suPHP. I'll deal with this later.

 

I ran the docecot script with no success.

# /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl


This was also recommended in the past (didn't help this time):

ln -s /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
ln -s /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.conf
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart
/etc/init.d/postfix restart


JP

 

Hi

Make back of your file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Delete old symlinks & replace the old dovecot.conf with this raw dovecot.conf

Further create the symlinks as follows

 

till,
Before I replace:

$ ls -la /etc/dovecot*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3455 May 8 17:56 /etc/dovecot.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 May 7 21:58 /etc/dovecot-sql.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf

/etc/dovecot:
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 10 12:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 94 root root 12288 May 10 15:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 7 20:37 conf.d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 10 12:46 dovecot.conf -> ../dovecot.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3455 May 7 21:39 dovecot.conf~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 945 May 7 21:39 dovecot.conf_orig
-rw------- 1 root root 5813 May 7 21:39 dovecot-sql.conf

 

After Srijan's recommendation. No success, same error (after I restart postfix and dovecot).

$ ls -la /etc/dovecot*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 May 12 15:37 /etc/dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3455 May 8 17:56 /etc/dovecot.conf.jpc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 May 7 21:58 /etc/dovecot-sql.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf

/etc/dovecot:
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 12 15:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 94 root root 12288 May 12 15:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 7 20:37 conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3448 May 12 15:37 dovecot.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3455 May 7 21:39 dovecot.conf~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 945 May 7 21:39 dovecot.conf_orig
-rw------- 1 root root 5813 May 7 21:39 dovecot-sql.conf

 

Not sure how to reconfigure servives?

$ ispconfig_update.sh

...

Select update method (stable,svn) [stable]:

There are no updates available for ISPConfig 3.0.5.4p1

 

Ran this again (in case) with no success:

/usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl

Command >> <-- D
Command >> <-- dovecot
Command >> Enter
Command >> Q

Made sure :
vi /etc/squirrelmail/config_local.php

//$default_folder_prefix = ;

 

B-I-N-G-O !

That did it. Thank you very much for the support once again.

JP Cyrenne