[Dovecot] POP3 Setup help - more info

[Thomas I Higgins]

Well my last email went unaswered - I assume because I didn't provide
enough detailed information.  Not a surprise if that is the case.  Anyway,
I also noted that there is no dovecot/pop3 process like there is for IMAP.
Not certain that is wrong, but I am guessing it is.  I am enclosing the
output from a doveconf -an query - hopefully you can see a screenshot,
otherwise I have to figure out how to get it in text form (work disables cp
 scp traffic).  Hopefully this will provide information that will help
define what I am missing?




Thanks again,

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[Dovecot] POP3 Setup help

[Thomas I Higgins]

I am lost as to what I am missing.  I am setting up dovecot 2.0.9 on a RHEL
6.4 machine as provided by my provider.  I have IMAP up and running, and I
have POP3 up and running.  Testing confirms this.  Also, if it makes a
difference, I enabled dovecot as my LDA.  Sendmail was setup as well due to
our 1.x version using it and I though I had to.  Anyway, everything is
working perfectly with the services, except the mail is sending to the
wrong location for POP.  I am trying to use Maildir for both services, but
it keeps delivering the POP3 mail to /var/spool/mail/u% instead of to
Maildir as specified in the configuration files.  I have rechecked every
setting at least twice and still can't see what I am doing wrong.  I
suppose I can use mbox and redirect after making the appropriate namespace
changes, but that has it's own potential drawbacks and seems more like a
kludge than the correct way around this (unless I misunderstand how it
should work).  Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to fix
this?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas Higgins

Re: [Dovecot] Fw: POP3 issues

[Thomas I Higgins]

Nevermind - Due to your response, I was able to get the admin to agree to
upgrade the version to a 2.x version.  If the problem persists I will open
a new thread.  Thanks for reviewing.

[Dovecot] POP3 issues

[Thomas I Higgins]

I have been trying off and on for the better part of a year to get a
dovecot server migrated from one machine to another.  It is currently
working on CENTOS and we are trying to get it on Redhat.  Currently I have
everything migrated and working in IMAP, but we have one client device that
requires POP3 (doesn't support IMAP).  To this end, we have set up
everything to work in POP3 as far as I can tell.

In the dovecot.conf file, we show:

protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
protocol pop3 {
  pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}

The services running include:

dovecot-auth
imap-login
imap-login
imap-login
pop3-login
pop3-login
pop3-login

Everything else looks good including the logs which seem to show proper
connectivity - messages are being received, accounts are connecting and
disconnecting, etc. but the pop connections are not (apparently) passing
messages found in that box.  They are still just sitting there, not being
read, picked up, or otherwise delivered by dovecot.  Any ideas on what else
I can check or change to get this to pick up?

Thanks,
Tom Higgins

[Dovecot] Fw: POP3 issues

[Thomas I Higgins]

Sorry - forgot to mention it is on Dovecot version 1.0.7 and RHEL 5.6

Tom


I have been trying off and on for the better part of a year to get a
dovecot server migrated from one machine to another.  It is currently
working on CENTOS and we are trying to get it on Redhat.  Currently I have
everything migrated and working in IMAP, but we have one client device
that requires POP3 (doesn't support IMAP).  To this end, we have set up
everything to work in POP3 as far as I can tell.

In the dovecot.conf file, we show:

protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
protocol pop3 {
 pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}

The services running include:

dovecot-auth
imap-login
imap-login
imap-login
pop3-login
pop3-login
pop3-login

Everything else looks good including the logs which seem to show proper
connectivity - messages are being received, accounts are connecting and
disconnecting, etc. but the pop connections are not (apparently) passing
messages found in that box.  They are still just sitting there, not being
read, picked up, or otherwise delivered by dovecot.  Any ideas on what else
I can check or change to get this to pick up?

Thanks,
Tom Higgins

Re: [Dovecot] Fw: POP3 issues

[Thomas I Higgins]

Thanks for the fast response.  Here is the output:

[root@nocalert01 ~]# /usr/sbin/dovecot -n
# 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is now
deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead
ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/nocalert01.psc.uss.com.cert
ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/private/nocalert01.psc.uss.com.key
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_extra_groups: mail
mail_access_groups: mail
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
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
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /