It worked very fine on my server (debian lenny), everything is ok.

great job dude.

Thanks in advance ;D

I have a poroblem

did like in instruction after editing dovecot and adding

“auth default {
mechanisms = plain login
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}

}”

have a fatal error and impap/pop3 has stop i try to fix it but still same, its last step to get works

i using debian 5.0 minimal

can somobody help me pls.

Thx

I work with a postfix server, dovecot imap server, postfixadmin, mysql and squirrelmail.

My new user creaded by postfixadmin, they can´t recieve emails, only send. my old user works perfect.

I am a new worker of this system, I think so that I failed when I created a news users, I don´t know, I created by postfixadmin.

Here my logs:

tail -f /var/log/mail.log | egrep ‘pepito’
Jun 27 12:01:38 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jun 27 12:01:38 mail dovecot: IMAP(pepito@MIDOMAIN.com): Disconnected: Logged out
Jun 27 12:01:42 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jun 27 12:01:42 mail dovecot: IMAP(pepito@MIDOMAIN.com): Disconnected: Logged out
Jun 27 12:01:55 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jun 27 12:01:55 mail dovecot: IMAP(pepito@MIDOMAIN.com): Disconnected: Logged out
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail dovecot: POP3(pepito@MIDOMAIN.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail postfix/smtpd[21704]: AFEBC107C7: client=localhost[127.0.0.1], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=rvidal@MIDOMAIN.com
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail postfix/qmgr[4507]: AFEBC107C7: from=, size=953, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail postfix/virtual[27245]: AFEBC107C7: to=, relay=virtual, delay=0.09, delays=0.06/0/0/0.03, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(pepito@MIDOMAIN.com): Disconnected: Logged out
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(pepito@MIDOMAIN.com): Connection closed
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jun 27 12:01:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(pepito@MIDOMAIN.com): Disconnected: Logged out

This is my configuration of my my.cf
Tambien dejo la configuracion de mi my.cf

root@mail:/etc/mysql# more my.cnf
#
# The MySQL database server configuration file.
#
# You can copy this to one of:
# – “/etc/mysql/my.cnf” to set global options,
# – “~/.my.cnf” to set user-specific options.
#
# One can use all long options that the program supports.
# Run program with –help to get a list of available options and with
# –print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use.
#
# For explanations see
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html

# This will be passed to all mysql clients
# It has been reported that passwords should be enclosed with ticks/quotes
# escpecially if they contain “#” chars…
# Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket location.
[client]
port = 3306
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

# Here is entries for some specific programs
# The following values assume you have at least 32M ram

# This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently parsed.
[mysqld_safe]
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
nice = 0

[mysqld]
#
# * Basic Settings
#

#
# * IMPORTANT
# If you make changes to these settings and your system uses apparmor, you may
# also need to also adjust /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld.
#

user = mysql
pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port = 3306
basedir = /usr
datadir = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir = /tmp
language = /usr/share/mysql/english
skip-external-locking
#
# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
#
# * Fine Tuning
#
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
thread_stack = 128K
thread_cache_size = 8
#max_connections = 100
#table_cache = 64
#thread_concurrency = 10
#
# * Query Cache Configuration
#
query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_size = 16M
#
# * Logging and Replication
#
# Both location gets rotated by the cronjob.
# Be aware that this log type is a performance killer.
#log = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log
#
# Error logging goes to syslog. This is a Debian improvement
#
# Here you can see queries with especially long duration
#log_slow_queries = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
#long_query_time = 2
#log-queries-not-using-indexes
#
# The following can be used as easy to replay backup logs or for replication.
# note: if you are setting up a replication slave, see README.Debian about
# other settings you may need to change.
#server-id = 1
#log_bin = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
expire_logs_days = 10
max_binlog_size = 100M
#binlog_do_db = include_database_name
#binlog_ignore_db = include_database_name
#
# * BerkeleyDB
#
# Using BerkeleyDB is now discouraged as its support will cease in 5.1.12.
skip-bdb
#
# * InnoDB
#
# InnoDB is enabled by default with a 10MB datafile in /var/lib/mysql/.
# Read the manual for more InnoDB related options. There are many!
# You might want to disable InnoDB to shrink the mysqld process by circa 100MB.
#skip-innodb
#
# * Security Features
#
# Read the manual, too, if you want chroot!
# chroot = /var/lib/mysql/
#
# For generating SSL certificates I recommend the OpenSSL GUI “tinyca”.
#
# ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/cacert.pem
# ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/server-cert.pem
# ssl-key=/etc/mysql/server-key.pem
wait_timeout = 60000

[mysqldump]
quick
quote-names
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
#no-auto-rehash # faster start of mysql but no tab completition

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 16M

#
# * NDB Cluster
#
# See /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-*/README.Debian for more information.
#
# The following configuration is read by the NDB Data Nodes (ndbd processes)
# not from the NDB Management Nodes (ndb_mgmd processes).
#
# [MYSQL_CLUSTER]
# ndb-connectstring=127.0.0.1

#
# * IMPORTANT: Additional settings that can override those from this file!
# The files must end with ‘.cnf’, otherwise they’ll be ignored.
#
!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/

I help your help please.

For Postfix + Dovecot + SASL + Squirrel Mail and with the help of Tomas V (POST 9) It’s working perfect.

Great Work ppl, with is help it’s amazing what all together can do!

Best Regards From Portugal!

i added this to line my problem solved
thanks for this great article .

: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2

what is wrong with my configuration ?

me too

My only problem is the folowing error message, and i dont understand what could be my error.
that’s when i change the file dovecot.conf for the authentication
Restarting mail server: dovecotError: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 801: Unknown setting: mechanisms

and here are the config lines:

“auth default {
mechanisms = plain login
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}

}”
with out the cot

if somebody can help me??? please i’m wating for him
Thanx again for this helpfull step-by-step article