dovecot - Apr 2005 - Dovecot 1.0 POP3 login but no mail

Dovecot is installed on the hosted FC1 server I have, it was working fine
until yesterday when they had to bounce the server. I can login fine from
Outlook or connect telnet <hostname> 110. But even though I can see
sendmail
has received mail into my %h/.maildir (via webmail's user mail facility)
when I log into dovecot via Outlook it does not retrieve any of it.

I tried from W2K "telnet <hostname> 110", it connects "+OK
dovecot ready.",
then I typed "LOGIN <username> <password>" and i get
"-ERR Unknown
command.". However with Outlook it logs in fine I see in maillog the
result,
no other errors in maillog. Cannot see what is wrong. Here are the important
bits of my dovecot.conf, everything else is std. i.e. commented out

protocols = pop3
login = imap
login = pop3
default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir
client_workarounds = outlook-idle
mbox_locks = fcntl
auth = default
auth_userdb = passwd
auth_passdb = pam
auth_user = root
auth_verbose = yes

Ideas on where to look next?

Thx

David

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:23:37 +0100 David Wynter <david at stpenable.com>
wrote:
> I tried from W2K "telnet <hostname> 110", it connects
"+OK dovecot ready.",
> then I typed "LOGIN <username> <password>" and i get
"-ERR Unknown
> command.". However with Outlook it logs in fine I see in maillog the
result,
> no other errors in maillog.
"LOGIN" is not a valid POP3 command -- it is an authentication method.

Depending on what auth methods you have enabled the password you have to
send during a login sequence may have to be CRYPTed before typing it in.

Here is the sequence for logging in via telnet to check what the server
thinks is in your mail directory.

(Yes, it says AVG POP3 Proxy server -- that's the virus gateway installed
on the windows machine I am doing this from -- it opens a clean pipe to the
Dovecot server at the other end of the "telnet myserver.domain.tld
110"
command.

telnet myserver.domain.tld 110
+OK AVG POP3 Proxy Server 7.0.307/7.0.308 [266.9.1]
user myuser at mydomain.tld
+OK
pass mypass
+OK Logged in.
stat
+OK 7 15831
list
+OK 7 messages:
1 1328
2 1280
3 945
4 1279
5 4671
6 3153
7 3175

I followed Geralds' instructions and dovecot returns "0 0" to stat
cmd and "0 messages:" to list. So it thinks there are zero when there
are over 40 in "%h/.maildir". I had not changed my config file before
reboot so how can this happen? It worked prior to reboot and not after. I get no
maillog errors, what next?

Thx.

David

"David Wynter" <david at stpenable.com> wrote
..
> Dovecot is installed on the hosted FC1 server I have, it was working fine
> until yesterday when they had to bounce the server. I can login fine from
> Outlook or connect telnet <hostname> 110. But even though I can see
sendmail
> has received mail into my %h/.maildir (via webmail's user mail
facility)
> when I log into dovecot via Outlook it does not retrieve any of it.
> 
> I tried from W2K "telnet <hostname> 110", it connects
"+OK dovecot ready.",
> then I typed "LOGIN <username> <password>" and i get
"-ERR Unknown
> command.". However with Outlook it logs in fine I see in maillog the
result,
> no other errors in maillog. Cannot see what is wrong. Here are the
important
> bits of my dovecot.conf, everything else is std. i.e. commented out
> 
> protocols = pop3
> login = imap
> login = pop3
> default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir
> client_workarounds = outlook-idle
> mbox_locks = fcntl
> auth = default
> auth_userdb = passwd
> auth_passdb = pam
> auth_user = root
> auth_verbose = yes
> 
> Ideas on where to look next?
> 
> Thx
> 
> David