> > The word 'namespace' does not appear in any file within the tree of > /etc/dovecot/ This was a suggestion that was offered to me from the Postfix > list when I was cleaning up my postfix installation, but I wasn't certain of > which file it should be in (or if it even matters from the software > perspective). I'm curious how so many other users could have gotten the HOWTO > to work for them without having to add this. This is maybe day 4 of my > experience with dovecot, so I am very cautious, but I can try adding this to > 10-mail.conf and restart the service... > > According to the mail.log, Postfix handed dovecot a message. Might have been > the test email from a couple days ago.
Wow, you actually need to set this namespace in 10-mail.conf > > Hey, there is content in the directory tree of > /var/mail/vhosts/example.com/bob/ That was empty before. > > > /var/mail/vhosts does exist and it's owned by vmail, which was a user and > group that was created during the process. > > drwxrwsr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 11 12:53 . > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Nov 7 18:39 .. > -rw------- 1 root vmail 0 Dec 11 12:53 root > drwxr-sr-x 4 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 8 00:14 vhosts > > Permissions seem to be good enough for writing to it. The privacy and > permissions of the subdirectories are good too. I'm not entirely certain why > an addition mail user vmail when I already have a user called postfix and > dovecot. Anyway, the directory has been written to by dovecot since the > subdirectories have changed since adding the change to 10-mail.conf and > starting the server > > And guess what, I can log into squirrelmail's interface just fine. No more > dropped connection to the IMAP server. > > And now that the panic is over, I'd like to get smart on dovecot. Well we are fixed. I thought it wasn't that. Try adding the namespace restart and tell me what it does. -- CHUNKZ.NET - script kiddie and computer technician Bertrand Caplet, Flers (FR) Feel free to send encrypted/signed messages Key ID: FF395BD9 GPG FP: DE10 73FD 17EB 5544 A491 B385 1EDA 35DC FF39 5BD9
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