uncomment dovecot.conf mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

I have setup my mail server using this tutorial but error login http://myip/squirellmail attempt and receive this error.

ERROR:
ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.

/var/log/mail.log is

Mar 4 16:03:49 debian dovecot: IMAP(deneme): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/deneme
Mar 4 16:03:49 debian dovecot: IMAP(deneme): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed

What can I do please help me

Service not available, closing channel
421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfo1Q4NwM0016357 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=127): No such file or directory

I have setup my mail server using this tutorial and I can send and receive mails. However, forwarding does not work. When mail is sent to an address that needs to be forwarded the email just doesn’t go through. (I think Greg outlined the same issue in post # 17). Is there any solution for this ?

Please help me,

I am new in linux .we have one mail server,which is having 50 address,it is hosted somewhere.we are going to put one mail server in our organisation.Because whenever local user trying to send e-mail to our colleague(ame organisation),we do not want to go outside,it should be delivered inside netwok through mail server.All other mail should go outside.What changes should we make in this tutorial for implementing this.Please help me.

i install ubuntu 9.10 server and config server like [ http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-9.10-ispconfig-3 ]

Mail server is SquirrelMail 1.4.19, my problem is i can mail send via SquirrelMail but i dont recive mail, and i send Gmail to faratar.net(mail server) and “Mail Delivery System” [ This is the mail system at host faratar.net.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The mail system

: unknown user: "vaheed"

Final-Recipient: rfc822; vaheed@faratar.net
Original-Recipient: rfc822;vaheed@faratar.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; unknown user: "vaheed" ]

Please Help me, for test …
http://www.faratar.net/webmail/src/login.php
Name: vaheed@faratar.net
Pass: vaheed

----------------------
vaheed khsohnoud
webmaster and network engineer
khoshnud [at] Gmail [dot] com

This has been breaking my head for ages, everything works for postfix relay denied unless authenticated however dovecot will return with an error when sasl is used normal login works fine

Unable to logon to the server using Secure Password Protocol: POP3, Server Response: ‘.’, Port: 995
Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: 0×800CCC18

cant seems to fix this one
info@cybrax.com

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 ?