Hey everyone... Thanks in advance for any help.
I seem to have the opposite problem that a lot of people have - I've been
running Dovecot v. 1.0.10 quite successfully for IMAP for several months.
However, one of our executives has her heart set on being able to get her
mail via POP3. It looks to me like I have both configured, but when trying
to log in via a POP3 or POP3s connection either via a client or through
telnet, the connection is created than immediately terminated.
Output of dovecot -n:
# 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
log_path: /var/log/dovecot
info_log_path: /var/log.dovecot.info
log_timestamp: %Y-%M-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: Dovecot ready
login_process_per_connection: no
valid_chroot_dirs: /var/spool/mail
max_mail_processes: 2048
mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_process_size: 1024
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
pop3_uidl_format(default):
pop3_uidl_format(imap):
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh oe6-fetch-no-new-mail
outlook-idle
auth default_with_listener:
mechanisms: plain login
verbose: yes
debug: yes
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
userdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /etc/dovecot/users
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
master:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode: 384
Output of telnet:
kat at server:~$ telnet localhost pop3
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready
user catherine at advancedmicrotargeting.com
+OK
pass <redacted>
+OK Logged in.
Connection closed by foreign host.
kat at server:~$ sudo tail /var/log/dovecot
dovecot: 2008-47-22 09:47:58 Error:
POP3(catherine at advancedmicrotargeting.com): Fatal: EOF while reading
environment from master
dovecot: 2008-47-22 09:47:58 Error: child 22734 (pop3) returned error 89
dovecot: 2008-48-22 09:48:30 Error:
POP3(catherine at advancedmicrotargeting.com): Error: Dovecot is already
running with PID 22317 (read from /var/run/dovecot//master.pid)
dovecot: 2008-48-22 09:48:30 Error:
POP3(catherine at advancedmicrotargeting.com): Fatal: Invalid configuration in
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
dovecot: 2008-48-22 09:48:30 Error:
POP3(catherine at advancedmicrotargeting.com): Fatal: EOF while reading
environment from master
dovecot: 2008-48-22 09:48:30 Error: child 22745 (pop3) returned error 89
dovecot: 2008-49-22 09:49:02 Error:
POP3(catherine at advancedmicrotargeting.com): Error: Dovecot is already
running with PID 22317 (read from /var/run/dovecot//master.pid)
dovecot: 2008-49-22 09:49:02 Error:
POP3(catherine at advancedmicrotargeting.com): Fatal: Invalid configuration in
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
dovecot: 2008-49-22 09:49:02 Error:
POP3(catherine at advancedmicrotargeting.com): Fatal: EOF while reading
environment from master
dovecot: 2008-49-22 09:49:02 Error: child 22747 (pop3) returned error 89
Let me know if there's anything else that you need/want to see... I have the
distinct feeling that I fat fingered something in the conf that I'm just
missing. Thanks for the extra set(s) of eyes.
Kat