Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-12-04 Thread Marnaud
Le 18 oct. 2016 à 13:32, Richard a écrit: > Assuming that "barbu.sytes.net" is the intended hostname (not > something made up to obscure the real name), there is an MX-record > for that that points to "mail.barbu.sytes.net", but there is no > A-record for the "mail." hostname. There is an A-reco

Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-10-17 Thread Marnaud
Sorry, my previous message got mangled. I'm re-writing it, quoting manually. I apologize for the traffic. (Sorry I read this list in digest form so frequently I'm half a step behind.) No problem. No, it's quite explicit. User "webuser" has uid/gid = 1001(webuser)/1000(ftpusers). Your m

Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-10-17 Thread Marnaud
Le 14 octobre 2016 à 14:28, Joseph Tam a écrit: (Sorry I read this list in digest form so frequently I'm half a step behind.) No problem.   No, it's quite explicit. User "webuser" has uid/gid = 1001(webuser)/1000(ftpusers). Your mail spool has permission uid/gid = root(0)/mail(8), neither

Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-10-17 Thread Marnaud
Le 15 octobre 2016 à 07:35, mick crane a écrit: http://wiki.dovecot.org/FindMailLocation Ok, there are non-standard facts about my user. When I do: eval echo ~webuser I'm getting: /var/www/html/ This is because webuser is for an FTP account in that directory. I'm now trying with a "reg

Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-10-15 Thread Marnaud
Le 15 oct. 2016 à 9:56, mick crane a écrit: > I assume this means there are no emails in the INBOX. > send yourself a mail. This is actually one of the first thing I tried when I saw outgoing mails worked. I also tried sending mails from another address, hoping to receive an error message back

Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-10-14 Thread Marnaud
Le 14 oct. 2016 à 15:54, Aki Tuomi a écrit: > In your configuration, dovecot uses whatever user/group returned by PAM. Excuse my ignorance, but what is PAM? > Since the web user has never logged in, it has no directory under /var/mail. Hmm… So it can’t log in because it has no directory and it

Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-10-14 Thread Marnaud
Le 14 oct. 2016 à 16:06, mick crane a écrit: > On 2016-10-14 13:43, Moi wrote: >> Hello, >> First of all, I'm sorry if you received this mail twice; I haven't received >> it the first time so I think it was lost. Second attempt. >> I've made some more tests and I still can't receive mails. >> Out

Re: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-10-14 Thread Marnaud
Le 14 oct. 2016 à 21:22, Joseph Tam a écrit: > Did you post doveconf -n (I didn't catch the head of this thread)? That > would be step 0. Yes (actually, twice). If you want to see it again, no problem, just ask. > I assume you allow plaintext communication, but if not, substitute telnet with >

First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

2016-10-13 Thread Marnaud
Hello, I'm new in Dovecot and am having troubles making it working. I'm trying using Outlook and Apple's Mail as the mail clients. Outlook says it can't establish a secured connection to the server (for the IMAP protocol). I'm guessing sending e-mails works but I can't check. This is my c