[Dovecot] POP3 Setup help - more info
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, Thomas Higginsinline: 12445147.gif
Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Setup help - more info
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:16:06AM -0400, Thomas I Higgins wrote: Well my last email went unaswered Not so. You got two replies. If you are not going to read your replies, you cannot be helped. - I assume because I didn't provide enough detailed information. Both replies noted this. One asked for clarification. 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, No, I can't. (I could, but I won't, to be exact.) Please don't post binary attachments to public mailing lists. otherwise I have to figure out how to get it in text form Yes, you should. In addition to the ignored replies in the other thread, I'll ask this: why do you want to use POP3? IMAP can do everything POP3 can do, and it's superior in many ways. POP3 should have died out a decade ago. (work disables cp scp traffic). Hopefully this will provide information that will help define what I am missing? -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if /dev/rob0 is in the Subject:
Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Setup help - more info
Am 14.10.2013 18:58, schrieb /dev/rob0: In addition to the ignored replies in the other thread, I'll ask this: why do you want to use POP3? IMAP can do everything POP3 can do, and it's superior in many ways. POP3 should have died out a decade ago say who? you want to provide storage, backup and responsibility for every message all users ever received in their live and train them how to move messages to local folders instead have a typical POP3 setup with some days keep on server where the user must not all the time remember that he should act before quota warnings arrive? well, you can do so, many others won't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Setup help - more info
snip otherwise I have to figure out how to get it in text form Yes, you should. snip Try something like: #!/bin/sh ( dovecot -an echo) | /bin/mail -s Dovecot -an output y...@yourdomain.com Put the above two lines in an executable file (chmod 777 or something like that and erase after you run it) and run the file. It should send the output of dovecot -an to the email address y...@yourdomain.com with a subject line of Dovecot -an output. You might have to use a different /bin/mail command depending on what your mail server is. steve campbell
Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Setup help - more info
On 15/10/2013 02:58, /dev/rob0 wrote: In addition to the ignored replies in the other thread, I'll ask this: why do you want to use POP3? IMAP can do everything POP3 can do, and it's superior in many ways. POP3 should have died out a decade ago. Not sure what country he's in, but I'll comment on that comment :) Some countries, disks are not cheap, for instance in Australia, disks and most hardware is on average over 200% more expensive, than the U.S., I've been given some pricing that makes it 350% dearer. Most ISP's here, even the most largest ones, only offer pop3 - imap is reserved for those very few using webmail. Of the very few that do offer imap, the take up rate over the years is negligible, such that it is not worth the effort, likely due to privacy which most aussies take seriously. Although we are not as bad as the US with its publicised broad over reaching FISA warrants, it is still all too easy for law enforcement here to get warrants to secretly access your mail if on ISP servers, but bloody hard to do so if you use pop3 and have already d/l it to whatever device/client you choose to use. Then there's the other law, yes, those obnoxious jackass interfering govt #$E# with nothing else to do but regulate everything but thin air (give em time they'll do that too), IOW, imap, providing a service where every single email is stored on servers, you are accountable for, and must be recovered, even if idiot1234 deletes a message by mistake and when you say, no, you deleted it tuff luck, you can be sued for their loss of data. With pop3 that onus and risk is removed.
Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Setup help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Thomas I Higgins wrote: 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 Next to Noel's advice, please explain what it keeps delivering the POP3 mail shall mean. Who/what is it and why a mail retrieval protocol, like POP3, gets mail delivered? Do you mean that Dovecot uses the wrong location, when an user pops messages via the POP3 protocol? Kind regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBUlTyc13r2wJMiz2NAQJmpAgAsVIByWoXelEZ9uMN3FxToWl53toPFkqP zNkPMv4L4i3hMb2Ak26cbaYAg7h2lfUoT1y7jxbivx+vutqovDJeq1YKJ813Ah4C 7lsK+G3FqNeQ8AQrjsxDEGSf5Iw4gAfH1JOBwtgh/0fSFmpJ1aVN2SlLIcsM2+8f gjYELp4JDja8zRNlwuD+PH0ZYGGDZpo3NqKWS+Puk5XYYQlR9tPh+xXHDdNQmlbI 9pw+4DOgB5pYOiqDniNdOFFl8HH6XqPQ3Rd/ubRNhSP9camPSrs6ynOpeknicjI3 F0fTukiK7ype0OusnFq/Z2WmMeEMtv5sjMDa7s5+y5kef3S8q1sShQ== =xDsc -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Dovecot] POP3 Setup help
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] POP3 Setup help
On 09/10/2013 03:40, Thomas I Higgins wrote: 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 it's a lovely day here, but you must be far away and bad weather in between us, as my ESP doesnt seem to get through, so we'll have to revert to the old manual hard labour way by you executing doveconf -n , copy and pasting that output into a list reply.
