Hi Here is my environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga) postfix-2.9.1-1.rhel5 dovecot 1.0.7 I want to config a complete postfix-dovecot mail server. First I configured postfix to use procmail, its default LDA and dovecot for pop3 and imap. I didn't changed main.cf a lot, just myhostname and a few other properties. I didn't set home_mailbox. About dovecot.conf here is the output of dovecot -n : Code: # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd As you can see mail_location is not set. At this time everything was OK and working. I was able to send email using SquirrelMail and thunderbird. I got two users, user1 and user2, in my linux machine and when I sent an email from [email protected] to [email protected] the sent mail was saved in /home/user1/mail/Sent and the received email was in /var/mail/user2. The log file for dovecot had entries like this for user1 and user2: Code: dovecot: Oct 14 14:44:52 Info: IMAP(user1): maildir: couldn't find root dir dovecot: Oct 14 14:44:52 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: root exists (/home/user1/mail) dovecot: Oct 14 14:44:52 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: INBOX exists (/var/mail/user1) dovecot: Oct 14 14:44:52 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: root=/home/user1/mail, index=/home/user1/mail, inbox=/var/mail/user1 At this point I tried to change the LDA from procmail to dovecot by the following settings: I added/changed the following in the main.cf: Code: mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_mailbox_domains = software.com virtual_transport = dovecot I added the following in the master.cf: Code: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} But it didn't work. When I send email from from user2 to user1 the sent email is correctly saved in /home/user2/mail/Sent but it seems that user1 doesn't receive the incoming email. dovecot.log had entries like the following: Code: dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:172.27.7.8, lip=::ffff:172.16.100.183, TLS dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): Effective uid=504, gid=504, home=/home/user1 dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): maildir: access(/home/user1/Maildir, rwx): failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): maildir: couldn't find root dir dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: root exists (/home/user1/mail) dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: INBOX exists (/var/mail/user1) dovecot: Oct 14 14:54:04 Info: IMAP(user1): mbox: root=/home/user1/mail, index=/home/user1/mail, inbox=/var/mail/user1 Setting home_mailbox = Maildir/ in main.cf and mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir in dovecot.cf didn't help. I have been googling and reading and testing for 4 or 5 days for this but there was no chance. Now, I am stuck and any help would be really really appreciated. Regards, Ferez
