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Hello, I got the error failed to create storage data. I changed some things and now I get the following message: mkdir(/home/mail/domain.nl/info/.Trash) failed: No such file or directory The directory for domain.nl is not created either. Other emailaccounts which were running very good already have no problem. Can anyone give me a direction what the problem could be? thanks, Alex

Hi, i'm using dovecot-1.0-stable. All my mail accounts are virtual accounts that come from pam with the following configuration in auth_default: passdb = pam userdb = static uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n mail=/var/mail/vhost/example.com/%n for a user foo, if the directory /var/mail/vhost/example.com/foo already exists, then all is ok, but if the directory

I was trying to configure postfix, mysql with dovecot. The postfix part is fine, but dovecot seems cannot cannot read the mail directory dovecot: Apr 09 16:22:37 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: Apr 09 16:22:38 Info: MySQL: connected to localhost dovecot-auth: Apr 09 16:22:38 Info: Login process 7 connected dovecot-auth: Apr 09 16:22:38 Info: Login process 8 connected dovecot-auth: Apr 09

Hi I'm getting this error with my attempt at setting up dovecot for virtual mail accounts: Failed to create storage with data: /home/vhostpath/usersname/Maildir/ I cant establish any cause. I dont think its permissions as it was saying 'Permission denied' till I fixed that and the UID and GID are those of the directories owner. I was prompted bythe log files to set the minimum and

Hello, I have this error message in logs : dovecot: Nov 07 21:49:34 Error: POP3(manager at mydomain.com): Failed to create storage with data: manager at mydomain.com dovecot: Nov 07 21:49:34 Error: child 27834 (pop3) returned error 89 When I try to retrieve email of manager at mydomain.com kmail says there is no new message although this email box is not empty. I don't understand why. In

"Using Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 on OpenBSD 3.8 (same problem find using Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 on OpenBSD 3.7) Log output: _________________________________ dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHl2cmlAbjN1dHJpbm4uaXQAeXVyaW6zgXRyaW1v dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): sql(myuser at

Following errors have happened quite a bit: Dec 7 14:19:26 locallog at tg3/tg3 dovecot: IMAP(peter.day at mydomain.com): Transaction log file /home/virtual/mydomain.com/home/peter.day/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Dec 7 14:19:26 locallog at tg3/tg3 dovecot: IMAP(peter.day at mydomain.com): Transaction log file

I am trying to set up Dovecot so that it uses LDAP, but I keep getting this error message in /var/log/syslog: Dec 12 03:38:17 mydomain dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_search() failed (filter user_filter = (mail=user at mydomain.tld)): Bad search filter Relevant configuration files: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = localhost dn = cn=dovecot,ou=sysAccounts,dc=mydomain,dc=tld dnpass = password

Hello Everyone, I am playing with the $subject matter using 1.0alpha4, and thanks to the archives, I lifted this one from Alexander Shikoff off and used it in my setup. auth default { mechanisms = plain user = root passdb pam { args = pop3 } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf }

# dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps login = imap login_user = mail default_mail_env = maildir:%h/ auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd-file /tmp/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /tmp/imap.passwd auth_user = mail auth_verbose = yes In the log files I get: Mar 15 23:36:30 pos dovecot: Dovecot starting up Mar 15 23:36:37 pos imap-login: Login: testuser [10.0.66.1]

I am trying to setup dovecot with postfix and postgres. After I got dovecot connected to postgres and use Outlook Express to try to login, I have the following problem: Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain imap-login: Login: chris [::ffff:192.168.1.2] Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain dovecot-auth: Login process 9 disconnected Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain imap(chris): Failed to create storage with data:

I've found out the problem already. After postfix delivered the mail to my mailbox, I can login now... -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Cheng [mailto:mylist at chrishome.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:55 PM To: 'dovecot at dovecot.org' Subject: Failed to create storage with data I am trying to setup dovecot with postfix and postgres. After I got dovecot

Hi I have 1 customer who is having issues with pop3 on FC3 telnet mail.hisdomain.com 110 +OK dovecot ready. user beachy -ERR Unknown command. user beachy +OK pass letmein +OK Logged in. list -ERR No INBOX for user. pass & username fake for this example! Mark

Hi dovecot users, I?ve got a problem with downloading emails: dovecot is installed and configured, I can login but I cannot download mails wich are at my harddisc. After trying to download an email that?s in the logfile: pop3-login: Jul 05 10:41:00 Info: Login: webmaster at myDomain.de [xx.xxx.xx.xxx] dovecot-auth: Jul 05 10:41:00 Info: Login process 9 disconnected dovecot-auth: Jul

Hi I'm trying to figure out how to set default_mail_env to support such config: INBOX is in '/var/mail/%u/' (note last slash at the end, %u is an folder with new/tmp/cur subdirs - standard maildir structure). Other imap folders are stored as files (in mbox format) in direcotry '%h/Mail/'. Please advise.

_____ From: Patrick Carney [mailto:patrick at castandcrew.com] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:55 AM To: 'dovecot at dovecot.org' Subject: Question on v1.0 setup and maildir Hello all. I appreciate the responses to my problem on v0.99.14. Thank you all. We have built a new server running version 1.0-0_15.beta9.el4. The mail delivery agent is sendmail. We seem to have

I just installed Dovecot and it is working great. But I need subfolders. Does this mean I need to convert to Maildir format? I found several tools to do the conversion, but is there anything that needs to be changed in Dovecot to make the switch? Any advice appreciated. Thank you, Michael Hipp Heber Springs, AR, USA

I've setup postfix to delivered my mail to a maildir located at /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/mydomain.com/myuser My postgresql database called 'mails' has a user table setup as follows: CREATE TABLE users ( userid VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(128), realname VARCHAR(128), uid INTEGER NOT NULL, gid INTEGER NOT NULL, home VARCHAR(128), mail VARCHAR(255),

From the docs: System without local users -------------------------- <snip> Having one uid per user would mean that in case of a security hole in Dovecot, the user still couldn't read other peoples mails. Use this if possible. ----- I don't quite understand this one. If you aren't a local user, what's the uid all about? Do I do something like: create a user for mydomain

We are running Postfix 2.3.3 and Dovecot 1.0-RC27 on a Solaris 10 server. We use the Dovecot LDA for local delivery. Problems arise with looping mail whenever a user's .forward contains a reference to themselves. This most frequently occurs when a user sets up a vacation since it then puts this in their .forward file: \username, "|/usr/bin/vacation username" The vacation program