Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?
On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:19 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/anne/Maildir (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) .. I tried adding maildir:, but it made no difference. That should fix it. Did you forget to restart Dovecot? Or did you check if the error message had changed? You're right, of course - I had forgotten to restart. However, now I have telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused That means Dovecot didn't start. It most likely wrote an error message to logs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] program]# service dovecot status dovecot dead but subsys locked Hmm - dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:47 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver '/etc/passwd' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: child 30279 (auth) returned error 89 It's 10pm here, and I've wrestled with this most of the day. I'll be back to it in the morning, but I'm really tired now, and the brain is seizing up. :-) Any help you can give, I'll follow it up and report back. Thanks Anne pgpdGb1F6y2Bu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?
On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:19 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/anne/Maildir (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) .. I tried adding maildir:, but it made no difference. That should fix it. Did you forget to restart Dovecot? Or did you check if the error message had changed? You're right, of course - I had forgotten to restart. However, now I have telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused That means Dovecot didn't start. It most likely wrote an error message to logs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] program]# service dovecot status dovecot dead but subsys locked Hmm - dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:47 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver '/etc/passwd' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: child 30279 (auth) returned error 89 It's 10pm here, and I've wrestled with this most of the day. I'll be back to it in the morning, but I'm really tired now, and the brain is seizing up. :-) Any help you can give, I'll follow it up and report back. Thanks OK - I did the check, which returned dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl SQL drivers: mysql Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file sql static so it has to be my config file. I'll try again to read up on this, but I'll be glad of any help available. Anne pgpPTrikbt8kD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?
Hi Anne, Doubt if you're going to get much help with what little info you provided... Exact version? Dovecot -n output? Pertinent logs? -- Best regards, Charles
Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?
On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, Charles Marcus wrote:
Hi Anne,
Doubt if you're going to get much help with what little info you
provided...
I didn't want to send reams that may be irrelevant, as I'm unsure where to
start looking. If it's not authentication, I haven't a clue.
Exact version?
dovecot-1.0.rc26-1.1mdv2007.1
Dovecot -n output?
dovecot -n
# /etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
log_path: /var/log/mail/mail
info_log_path: /var/log/mail/mail.info
protocols: imap
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location: ~/Maildir/
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: /etc/passwd
Pertinent logs?
dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Ambiguous mail location setting,
don't know what to do with it: /home/anne/Maildir (try prefixing it with
mbox: or maildir:)
dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Failed to create storage with
data: /home/anne/Maildir
dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: child 25910 (imap) returned error 89
I tried adding maildir:, but it made no difference. Here is my dovecot.conf
with all the comment lines stripped out:
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
protocols = imap
disable_plaintext_auth = no
log_path = /var/log/mail/mail
info_log_path = /var/log/mail/mail.info
ssl_disable = yes
login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login
login_user = dovecot
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/
mail_extra_groups = mail
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes
protocol imap {
login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
}
protocol pop3 {
}
protocol lda {
postmaster_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth
auth default {
mechanisms = plain
passdb pam {
}
userdb /etc/passwd {
}
Anne
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Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/anne/Maildir (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) .. I tried adding maildir:, but it made no difference. That should fix it. Did you forget to restart Dovecot? Or did you check if the error message had changed? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
