dovecot auth errors for a new user

Ruben Safir
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:42:46 -0000

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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