Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-31 Thread A. van Harten
Thank you very much, Timo! I apologise if you see me as being rude. It's more that I was getting insane. I can't speak about other IMAP server lists, but perhaps on some fora, I could have got some assistance :) But well, you solved one of my problems. Thank you very, very much in advance! I have

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:18 +0200, A. van Harten wrote: Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I am not a guru. I am just a nerd who just learned the basics of Linux. Everyone says I have to install Dovecot - but no-one is willing to give descent support... I'm pretty sure your questions would have

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 13:38 +0200, FraNL wrote: After a chown root:root /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user chmod 700 /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user Mails shouldn't be owned by root. You should probably pick out some user to use for your mails, such as vmail (and create it if it doesn't

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-26 Thread FraNL
And how do I implement that patch? [QUOTE] Timo Sirainen[/QUOTE] On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 13:38 +0200, FraNL wrote: After a chown root:root /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user chmod 700 /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user Mails shouldn't be owned by root. You should probably pick out some user

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
FraNL wrote: And how do I implement that patch? Grab the source, do a patch -P0 file and recompile. ~Seth

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-25 Thread FraNL
Well. actually the problem with the version number WAS solved, since the problem was, that I was running a mix - after I did what I did, I was no longer running a mix of two versions. But you're right, it's better to be up to date. Now I am running 1.2.1. # dovecot --version returns in 1.2.1 and

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-25 Thread A. van Harten
Actually I was wrong here. The problem is this: login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap It needs to be imap-login, not imap. In any case, I'd suggest using 1.2 and not 1.0. Thanks, that did the trick :)

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-25 Thread FraNL
The directory/files are owned by wrong user, or you have set wrong user to userdb. v1.2 gives better error messages here. http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds Yes, that is also what I figured out. But I am still not a Linux guru (don't tell me anything about Windows, but Linux is still very foggy

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-25 Thread FraNL
After a chown root:root /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user chmod 700 /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user I get the following error in my log: Jul 25 13:32:19 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user) failed: Permission denied (euid=0(root) egid=1000 UNIX perms seem ok, ACL

[Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-24 Thread FraNL
Hi, Running OS: CentOS 5.3 (2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) 1. My Linux distribution comes with Dovecot 1.0.7. After trying to make it running, I encoutnered many problems. So I decided to upgrade to 1.2.1. When running dovecot -r from CLI, it returns with version 1.2.1. But at the top of the log file it

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 00:07 +0200, FraNL wrote: Running OS: CentOS 5.3 (2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) 1. My Linux distribution comes with Dovecot 1.0.7. After trying to make it running, I encoutnered many problems. So I decided to upgrade to 1.2.1. When running dovecot -r from CLI, it returns with

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-24 Thread A. van Harten
Tried that, same result. dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:41 Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: imap-login:

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jul 24, 2009, at 6:58 PM, A. van Harten wrote: Tried that, same result. dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:41 Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up If it's logging this, it means you have v1.0 binaries around. If rpm - e dovecot didn't remove it, something else will. I can't really help you there.

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jul 24, 2009, at 8:19 PM, FraNL wrote: If this message again appear as new message - my apologies, but then a bit more info on how to reply on the mailing list would be appreciated. The problem with the version number is solved. Not really.. Solution: 1. # rpm -e dovecot 2. Remove

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jul 24, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: dovecot: Jul 25 01:59:55 Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up dovecot: Jul 25 01:59:56 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Jul 25 01:59:56 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing The only reason

Re: [Dovecot] Several errors

2009-07-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jul 24, 2009, at 8:19 PM, FraNL wrote: dovecot: Jul 25 02:00:26 Error: POP3(u...@mydomain.tld): file_dotlock_open() failed with file /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user/dovecot.index.log: Permission denied dovecot: Jul 25 02:00:26 Error: POP3(u...@mydomain.tld):