dovecot - Sep 2004 - newbie question - no users can retrieve email (login works) pop3

not sure where to go from here....

OS : Red Hat Fedora  2.6.5-1.358 #1
sendmail: sendmail
dovecot version : 0.99.10.5

i can send email to the server.
the email is then appended to the /var/mail/{user} file.
i can view the /var/mail/{file} and see the email.  i cannot retrieve
the email from the local machine using Ximian Evolution (version
1.4.6).  however if i use good ole  #mail in a terminal it access the
file and reads all emails. also as an added twist if i type in an
incorrect email for the receiving email server it fails to login. 
however if i change it back it gets pass the login but it just hangs at
retrieving messages.  (again this is all on the local machine)
 
i am sure i am just leaving out a pointer or permissions, or something
crazy like that...

thanks in advance 

Jack Taffar

On 10.9.2004, at 20:43, Web Enabled Info Systems wrote:
> i can send email to the server.
> the email is then appended to the /var/mail/{user} file.
> i can view the /var/mail/{file} and see the email.  i cannot retrieve
> the email from the local machine using Ximian Evolution (version
> 1.4.6).  however if i use good ole  #mail in a terminal it access the
> file and reads all emails. also as an added twist if i type in an
> incorrect email for the receiving email server it fails to login.
> however if i change it back it gets pass the login but it just hangs at
> retrieving messages.  (again this is all on the local machine)
Is there anything in log file (/var/log/maillog or something)?

Also you should set default_mail_env correctly to have both "root mail 
directory" and INBOX. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VirtualUsers
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