I have postfix and dovecot installed on CentOS 6 (linode) along with MySQL.
sorry ,my english is poor...
ubuntu 12.04 server 64-bit
dovecot 2.0.19
posftix 2.9.3
#ls /etc/dovecot/
conf.d dovecot.conf dovecot-db.conf.ext dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext dovecot-ldap.conf.ext dovecot-sql.conf.ext README
#dovecot -n
# 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
auth_mechanisms = plain login
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_gid
I've tried every tutorial that I can get my hands on and I just can't seem to grasp the configuration of dovecot. These are the errors that I get when starting the service and they're the same entries in the log files. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on?
Got it working now.The permissions on the certificate /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem where wrong => chmod 0444Also the private key /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem has to have... [by Hellboy]
Below is my configuration
# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.0.0-17-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10
auth_mechanisms = plain login
mail_location = maildir:/nfs/users/%u/Maildir
passdb {
args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
driver = passwd-file
}
protocols = " imap pop3"
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode
Below is my configuration
# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.0.0-17-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10
auth_mechanisms = plain login
mail_location = maildir:/nfs/users/%u/Maildir
passdb {
args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
driver = passwd-file
}
protocols = " imap pop3"
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode
Followed this tutorial on rackspace.com exactly, but I am not able to start Dovecot.
# service dovecot restart
Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED]
Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(auth) User doesn't exist: postfix
(See service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { user } }
setting) [FAILED]
There is documentation around on how to make /usr/local/bin/procmail work with delivering to a maildir.
However, it is my understanding that it is also possible to avoid procmail altogether, and have sendmail's local_procmail FEATURE call /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver / dovecot-lda directly, instead of first calling procmail.
In such case, how would dovecot-lda know whether it needs to deli
I have recently purchased an SMTP server for my web app (I need to send account confirmation emails to my users and I don't want them to go into the SPAM folder, I will also be using it for email marketing.) and I'm following a guide found on this website.