Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-14 Thread Jeffery Small
The problem is solved! A great thanks to everyone for all the valuable information and suggestions you offered. I learned quite a bit, especially about talking to the dovecot server using the telnet/openssl suggestions and the available POP3 commands. Many of you were correct about your diagnosis

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-12 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Przemysław Orzechowski wrote: Feb 11 08:47:49 pop3(sherril): Debug: Effective uid=1001, gid=1001, \ home=/u/sherril Feb 11 08:47:49 pop3(sherril): Debug: fs: root=/u/sherril/lib/Mail, \ index=, in

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-11 Thread Jeffery Small
I'm just getting around to reading all the helpful messages regarding my problem and will be trying out each of the suggestions. A very big thanks to everyone for the supportive help. I'll let you know what I discover. In the meantime I wanted to mention one additional thing. I am switching ma

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-11 Thread Joseph Tam
Jeffery Small writes: There are no errors. We have a pop3 connection. The user's name, uid, gid, password, home directory are all correct. The inbox is listed as /var/mail/sherril which is correct, and this file has the correct ownership and permissions: # ls -l /var/mail/sherril -rw-rw

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-11 Thread Oscar del Rio
On 02/11/16 12:09 PM, Jeffery Small wrote: Feb 11 08:47:49 pop3(sherril): Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, \ retr=0/0, del=0/3, size=36928 I think "retr=0/0, del=0/3" means that there are 3 messages but the client (Outlook) did not fetch any.

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-11 Thread Oscar del Rio
On 02/11/16 12:09 PM, Jeffery Small wrote: # ls -l /var/mail/sherril -rw-rw 1 sherril mail 194900 Feb 11 09:00 /var/mail/sherril Yet, no mail is pulled over. Are there any clues here? http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation Examples using openssl s_client: openssl s_client -connect ser

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-11 Thread Przemysław Orzechowski
W dniu 11.02.2016 o 18:09, Jeffery Small pisze: Many thanks to Joseph Tam and Steffen Kaiser for pointing me to the logging information that I should have been using in the first place. Now that I have separate log files and debugging information, I'm still at a loss to see why the mail is not b

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-11 Thread Test
Am 11.02.2016 um 18:09 schrieb Jeffery Small: Many thanks to Joseph Tam and Steffen Kaiser for pointing me to the logging information that I should have been using in the first place. Now that I have separate log files and debugging information, I'm still at a loss to see why the mail is not b

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-11 Thread Jeffery Small
Many thanks to Joseph Tam and Steffen Kaiser for pointing me to the logging information that I should have been using in the first place. Now that I have separate log files and debugging information, I'm still at a loss to see why the mail is not being pulled over from the Linux system to the Wind

Re: Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-10 Thread Joseph Tam
Jeffery Small writes: I'm new to dovecot and have a configuration question. I'm attempting to have a Windows 7 system on my secure LAN connect to the Ubuntu server using POP3 on channel 110 and retrieve mail from the /var/mail directory. The user is defined on the Ubuntu machine and when runnin

Question on setting up dovecot

2016-02-09 Thread Jeffery Small
Server OS: Ubuntu 15.10 Sendmail:8.14.9-4 # doveconf -n --- # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 (0c4ae064f307+) # OS: Linux 4.2.0-27-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 15.10 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = mbo