dovecot - Aug 2010 - Can't get dovecot to see email folders

So I'm very frustrated, I've spent the better part of a day trying to 
get dovecot 2.0.1 working...Most of the documentation on the Wiki seems 
to think you are running an older version and therefore very little of 
it applies.

I'm running 2.0.1 on OpenSolaris.

I seem to have 2 remaining issues:

1) Dovecot is not able to determine the home directory
2) IMAP clients can not get to the mail folder directory.  One client is 
reporting that it can't open it in read only
mode.
3) I tried to get raw logging working, but apparently I couldn't because 
of #1.

The architecture of Dovecot makes it difficult to transition from 
another IMAP server.   If I force the MBOX to be /home/%u/mail, all of 
my clients think the folders are in /home/%u/mail/mail.  If I set mbox 
location to /home/%u, then dovecot tries to create .subscription and 
.imap files/directories in the users home dir which it doesn't have 
permission to do.  It would be nice if you could configure Dovecot in 
such a way as to make transition easier, such as the ability to strip 
off a duplicate trailing path, ie /home/%u/mail/mail becomes 
/home/%u/mail....Otherwise this necessitates visiting countless IMAP 
clients for reconfiguration...

Here is my config file:
  /opt/sbin/dovecot -n
# 2.0.1: /opt/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
mail_debug = yes
mail_gid = mail
mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_privileged_group = mail
mail_uid = dovecot
passdb {
   driver = pam
}
plugin {
   home = /home/%u
}
service imap-login {
   inet_listener imap {
     port = 143
   }
   inet_listener imaps {
     address = *
     port = 993
   }
}
service pop3-login {
   inet_listener pop3 {
     address = *
     port = 0
   }
   inet_listener pop3s {
     address = *
     port = 0
   }
}
ssl_cert = </usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </usr/local/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
gremlin [/opt/bin] #
gremlin [/opt/bin] #

Read up on namespace configuration some more. 

Dovecot makes the sort of thing you're talking about very easy if you
familiarize yourself with namespaces first. It can overcome most of the problems
caused by historical poor choices in client configuration.

-Brian


On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Blaster <blaster at 556nato.com> wrote:
> So I'm very frustrated, I've spent the better part of a day trying
to get dovecot 2.0.1 working...Most of the documentation on the Wiki seems to
think you are running an older version and therefore very little of it applies.
> 
> I'm running 2.0.1 on OpenSolaris.
> 
> I seem to have 2 remaining issues:
> 
> 1) Dovecot is not able to determine the home directory
> 2) IMAP clients can not get to the mail folder directory.  One client is
reporting that it can't open it in read only
> mode.
> 3) I tried to get raw logging working, but apparently I couldn't
because of #1.
> 
> The architecture of Dovecot makes it difficult to transition from another
IMAP server.   If I force the MBOX to be /home/%u/mail, all of my clients think
the folders are in /home/%u/mail/mail.  If I set mbox location to /home/%u, then
dovecot tries to create .subscription and .imap files/directories in the users
home dir which it doesn't have permission to do.  It would be nice if you
could configure Dovecot in such a way as to make transition easier, such as the
ability to strip off a duplicate trailing path, ie /home/%u/mail/mail becomes
/home/%u/mail....Otherwise this necessitates visiting countless IMAP clients for
reconfiguration...
> 
> Here is my config file:
> /opt/sbin/dovecot -n
> # 2.0.1: /opt/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc
> base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
> mail_debug = yes
> mail_gid = mail
> mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> mail_uid = dovecot
> passdb {
>  driver = pam
> }
> plugin {
>  home = /home/%u
> }
> service imap-login {
>  inet_listener imap {
>    port = 143
>  }
>  inet_listener imaps {
>    address = *
>    port = 993
>  }
> }
> service pop3-login {
>  inet_listener pop3 {
>    address = *
>    port = 0
>  }
>  inet_listener pop3s {
>    address = *
>    port = 0
>  }
> }
> ssl_cert = </usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </usr/local/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
> gremlin [/opt/bin] #
> gremlin [/opt/bin] #
> 
> 
>

Blaster wrote:
> Wiki seems to think you are running an older version and therefore very
> little of it applies.
Are you looking at the wiki for dovecot 1 or 2?

At the very top of the wiki for v1 (http://wiki.dovecot.org), it tells
you about the page for v2 (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/)

-- 

Best regards,

Charles