5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, documentation with examples that only show extracts of working configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel with dovecot. It should not be this hard and frankly almost impossible to understand and configure for such an incedibly simple configuration. /home/vmail/domain.name/username/cur /home/vmail/domain.name/username/new /home/vmail/domain.name/username/tmp 3 virtual users. All I want is a username and password to access my email. I have to have hit every error and problem there can be. No response at all from server, unable to find password file, unable to recognise user, invalid password. God it went on and on and on for five or more hours. For such a simple config. I know this is a totally unconstructive complaint and I should be taking the time to set out a careful explanation of my problem along with errors and logfiles but I just can't be bothered. I've tried so many many configurations and options and nothing works. How can it possibly be this hard to ghet some emails off the server with simple username/password configurations. Go ahead and flame me to a crisp. -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/An-unconstructive-grumble-tp42598.html Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:23:09AM -0700, dd wrote:> 5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, > documentation with examples that only show extracts of working > configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel with > dovecot. > > It should not be this hard ...Why not? You're really not in a position to make this claim. But having said that...> and frankly almost impossible to understand and configure for > such an incedibly simple configuration. > > /home/vmail/domain.name/username/cur > /home/vmail/domain.name/username/new > /home/vmail/domain.name/username/tmp > > 3 virtual users. All I want is a username and password to > access my email.... you complicated things by wanting virtual users. System users would have been much simpler to set up. Also, you missed the fact that virtual users should have a $HOME directory just like system users: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home The only constructive suggestion I can make here is to scrap it and start over with system users. Let PAM / your OS handle the username and password and other daunting tasks. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
dd skrev den 2013-06-03 15:23:> Go ahead and flame me to a crisp.why not join the fun of google apps mx ? :) dovecot is not for everyone if you like more help provide "dovecot -n" and if using postfix "postconf -n", what a combo ? -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver it to my own trashcan, so if you like to get reply, dont do it
Most problems like this can be attributed to trying to follow some $Random_HowTo from the internet, rather than reading the dovecot docs themselves. But yeah, ranting like you just did without providing any details at all is totally counter-productive, and is likely to get you flamed - or more probably just ignored. On 2013-06-03 9:23 AM, dd <dukedougal at gmail.com> wrote:> 5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, documentation > with examples that only show extracts of working configurations. I really > feel like throwing in the towel with dovecot. > > It should not be this hard and frankly almost impossible to understand and > configure for such an incedibly simple configuration. > > /home/vmail/domain.name/username/cur > /home/vmail/domain.name/username/new > /home/vmail/domain.name/username/tmp > > 3 virtual users. All I want is a username and password to access my email. > > I have to have hit every error and problem there can be. No response at all > from server, unable to find password file, unable to recognise user, invalid > password. God it went on and on and on for five or more hours. For such a > simple config. > > I know this is a totally unconstructive complaint and I should be taking the > time to set out a careful explanation of my problem along with errors and > logfiles but I just can't be bothered. I've tried so many many > configurations and options and nothing works. How can it possibly be this > hard to ghet some emails off the server with simple username/password > configurations. > > Go ahead and flame me to a crisp.
If you're hosting this on the domain where the users will have email, then do you have a good reason for wanting to use virtual stuff? If not, use system users. If you are hosting for another domain (or plan to) I don't have enough info to tell you more - I routinely set up virtual domains (I use postfixadmin for most of this maintenance. I probably followed the instructions in the dovecot virtual user readme file(s). H