dovecot auth errors for a new user

Ruben Safir
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:49:19 -0000

2017-07-30T15:47:23.113000-04:00 www dovecot: pop3(facebook): Error:
user facebook: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Mail storage
autodetection failed with home=/home/facebook
2017-07-30T15:47:23.116805-04:00 www dovecot: pop3(facebook): Error:
Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.


On 07/30/2017 03:42 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> I've been running dovecott without trouble for quite a why and now when
> I added a new user, it is not accepting the user and I can not track the
> problem.  It says find more information in the server log, but it is not
> in /var/log/messages or /var/log/mail.err and nothing with lsof
> dovecot|grep log show anything to tail
>
> www:~ # dovecot -n
> # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.16.7-53-pae i686 openSUSE 13.2 (i586)
> base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
> encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
> relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
> environment mailbox date ihave
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location >   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix > }
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> plugin {
>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
> }
> protocols = pop3
> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
>
>
> www:/etc/dovecot # dovecot --version
> 2.2.13
>
>
> Sending of password for user facebook did not succeed. Mail server
> mrbrklyn.com responded: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for
> more information.
>
> 2017-07-30T15:41:58.803006-04:00 www dovecot: pop3-login: Login:
> user=<facebook>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.62, lip=96.57.23.82,
> mpid=25269, TLS, session=<D5J/G45VQgAKAAA+>
> 2017-07-30T15:41:58.812827-04:00 www dovecot: pop3(facebook): Error:
> user facebook: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Mail storage
> autodetection failed with home=/home/facebook
> 2017-07-30T15:41:58.816903-04:00 www dovecot: pop3(facebook): Error:
> Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.
>


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