Problems Dovecot / ISPConfig3 , user not found

Hi

I have some problems with Dovecot.

When I add a mailbox in ISPConfig3 and try to login with webmail, it keeps saying username/password not correct .. but I double checked the username and password.

So I decided to do some loggin. So I found

Nov 24 20:12:39 auth-worker: Info: pam(<MY EMAIL>,127.0.0.1): unknown user

So I tried to lookup the username with doveadm ... and turns out ... the user doesn't exists ...

I have no idea what to look for. Can anybody help me?

 

Yes I do know that one

Is there somewhere Dovecot need to lookup for example mysql?

And if so, where can I check?

 

Yeah problem is

This error just occured and I don't know wich one I used.

also .. I had to remove dovecot, install courier, back to dovecot

Running dovecot 2.0.19

Also ... I noticed this after some digging

passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
}

userdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
}

so does this means it doesn't connect to mysql? but tryin to lookup in a passwordfile?

 

thnx I will try that

 

hmm okey

so just did the update ... and indeed ispconfig rewrote the dovecot configs

But now, I have a connection refused .. for example when I try to telnet localhost imap

 

I'm using : http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-12.04-lts-apache2-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3-p4

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise



# apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d dovecot-mysql dovecot-sieve
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
dovecot-imapd is already the newest version.
dovecot-pop3d is already the newest version.
dovecot-sieve is already the newest version.
dovecot-mysql is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

so all my dovecot packages are already newest.

My docvecot.conf:


listen = *, ::
protocols = imap pop3
auth_mechanisms = plain login
disable_plaintext_auth = no
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
mail_privileged_group = vmail
postmaster_address = [email protected]
ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/smtpd.cert
ssl_key = </etc/postfix/smtpd.key
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
driver = sql
}
userdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
driver = sql
}
plugin {
quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/.quotausage
sieve=/var/vmail/%d/%n/.sieve
}
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
unix_listener auth-userdb {
group = vmail
mode = 0600
user = vmail
}
user = root
}
service imap-login {
client_limit = 1000
process_limit = 500
}
protocol imap {
mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
}
protocol pop3 {
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
mail_plugins = quota
}
protocol lda {
mail_plugins = sieve quota
}

 

also what's puzzling me:

#/etc/init.d/dovecot stop
#/etc/init.d/dovecot start
dovecot start/running, process 3109

#ps auxw|grep "dovecot"
root 3162 0.0 0.0 8076 656 pts/0 S+ 10:19 0:00 grep --color=auto dovecot

#cat /var/log/dovecot.log


A tail from the mail.log
Nov 25 10:20:02 myservername postfix/smtpd[3206]: warning: TLS library problem: 3206:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:400:
Nov 25 10:20:02 myservername postfix/smtpd[3206]: warning: TLS library problem: 3206:error:140DC002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:system lib:ssl_rsa.c:722:
Nov 25 10:20:02 myservername postfix/smtpd[3206]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Nov 25 10:20:02 myservername postfix/smtpd[3206]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: Connection refused
Nov 25 10:20:02 myservername postfix/smtpd[3206]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Nov 25 10:20:03 myservername postfix/master[2023]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 3206 exit status 1
Nov 25 10:20:03 myservername postfix/master[2023]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling


#telnet localhost imap
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused



seems it's still not running? And can't find a reason why dovecot is not running

 

Ah finally an error:

/etc/init.d# dovecot
doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 8: ssl_cert: Can't open file /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert: No such file or directory

so now I will try and find why I don't have smtpd.cert

 

Ah so I'm guessing it's

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-12.04-lts-apache2-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3-p7

Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
...........+++
.....................+++
writing new private key to 'smtpd.key'
-----
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.



that part

does ispconfig have a script to regenerate them?

 

also ... if reinstall ispconfig (running de install.php) ... will ispconfig remove all my databases/websites?

 

YESSSSS it works!!! thnx

I went throught the install.php and found the part of the cert making and found

openssl req -new -outform PEM -out smtpd.cert -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -keyout smtpd.key -keyform PEM -days 3650 -x509

I put the output files in /etc/postfix

restarted postfix and started dovecot

and now it works....

Thanks everyone for the help!