A user on our server for some reason didn't have a home directory. As a result, the pop3 server was complaining. Apple's Mail app reported that the server said: The attempt to send data to the server "(null)" failed. It would be nice if the server would say something to the effect that the connection failed because the user account has no home directory. Thanks
On 11:59 AM, Dave Yost wrote:> A user on our server for some reason didn't have a home directory. As a > result, the pop3 server was complaining. Apple's Mail app reported that > the server said: > > The attempt to send data to the server "(null)" failed.Mail is sent via SMTP, not POP3. A client MUA delivers mail to a server via SMTP and presumably it is the MTA on the server, not Dovecot, that issued whatever failure resulted in the above. It is possible that Dovecot is involved, e.g. in processing SASL authentication, but Apple Mail would have been talking to the MTA on the server. -- Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 6.5.2011, at 4.25, Dave Yost wrote:> A user on our server for some reason didn't have a home directory. As a result, the pop3 server was complaining. Apple's Mail app reported that the server said: > > The attempt to send data to the server "(null)" failed. > > It would be nice if the server would say something to the effect that the connection failed because the user account has no home directory.I'm pretty sure Dovecot said something different. I don't know why Apple Mail would only say (null). Dovecot also should have logged something in its error log. You could try reproducing it. But instead of connecting with Apple Mail, connect directly with telnet and see what Dovecot really says: telnet pop3.example.com 110 user foobar pass secret http://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestPop3Installation has more possibilities