similar to: Setting up a 'rootless' server - user and auth_user cannot be the same

I'm trying to setup a rootless configuration so I can better manage the e-mail that comes to the mailbox of a unix account I have. I've successfully compiled Dovecot and followed the instructions for a rootless configuration, tweaking my config until Dovecot returns no errors. However I've got to a stage where upon running ~/..../sbin/dovecot it just quits with no server running and

I have some questions about some parameters in dovecot.conf, I have them configured as this: # User to use for the login process. The user must belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process # named sockets login_user=postfix # User to use for the process. Only shadow and pam authentication requires # roots, so use something else if

Hi all, I've installed rc23 in a new testing machine, and i've had some permission problems related to dovecot-master.conf. As I have my master passwords in that file, I don't want it to be world readable. dovecot -n shows that auth_user is nobody, so setting the permissions to nobody.whatever 640 solves the problem. Anyway, I've tried to change the auth_user setting with no

In the logfile, i see this: dovecot: Mar 18 16:24:30 Error: ssl-build-param: Can't create temporary SSL parameters file /var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp: Permission denied dovecot: Mar 18 16:24:30 Error: child 21836 (ssl-build-param) returned error 89 dovecot: Mar 18 16:24:30 Error: link(/var/lib/dovecot/ssl- parameters.dat, /usr/local/sb/daniel/rm/trunk/var/run/dovecot/login/

Hi, I need some help I am currently setting up my FC5 box with ldap + samba + postfix + dovecot support as prescribed in howto http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html My problem is in starting the dovecot server. I get the following error Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 16: Unknown setting: passdb My dovcot.conf file:

hi there, I?m getting such a headache today, I?ve added myself to three mailing lists trying to figure this out, okay here it goes. I?ve got a Fedora Core 4 box running dovecot imap, squirrel mail, postfix, samba/winbind. I?m running winbind to authenticate against Active Directory, I?ve edited my ?/etc/pam.d/dovecot? pam module so to let my users login with there Active directory password, but

Hi! After upgrading from dovecot 0.9.14 to 1.0 crashes immediately after starting when using ldap as userdb and passdb. You can find more information here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320388 I'm confused with two users: login_user and auth_user. Witch of them has to be in ldap? If anyone here has a working dovecot+ldap configuration, could he show me his configuration?

Hi, I modified my kickstart to do some custom partioning and formating in a pre-install script. I am trying to align the partitions on the RAID stripe (and format with a correct stride). But, sfdisk complains that it does not start/end on a cylinder boundary (used -L option to limit complaining). Since the cylinder size is not a multiple of the stripe size, I cannot align on both. I tried to

I configured dovecot with Postfix with mysql Now I have directory /home/mail/virtual User/group postfix.postfix I added one domain, and one user. I login is successful but it gets interupted because of this. pop3(xx at private-projects.net): Aug 11 00:48:53 Error: lstat(/home/mail/virtual/private-projects.net/xx at private-projects.net/cur) failed: Permission denied pop3(xx

Hai, ? After some "strange" pc problems with pc-domain trust i did some digging. Im pretty sure this is a samba bug, if someone can verify this. ? My steps. ? - Setup a win10 pc, static ip. - Join the domain. ? And its shown in AD and DNS. Turn of the pc. ? but, now next, set a new pc, use the same name but a different IP. join the domain. login and turn the pc offf ? Back to

Hey- I'm kinda new to Dovecot and I'm trying to do something and it seems I've hit a wall. I put together a server with Fedora Core 2, Exim 4.34, and Dovecot 0.99.10.6 and I need support mail for multiple domains so this is how I have my virtual setup: Virtual Aliases Files: /var/virtualdomains/$domain/etc/aliases Virtual Accounts Passwd File:

Hi Everyone, I have a some data from a sports gps device like the following: time latitude longitude altitude distance heartrate 1 1277648884 0.304048 -0.793819 260 0.000000 94 2 1277648885 0.304056 -0.793772 262 4.307615 95 3 1277648888 0.304060 -0.793696 263 11.262347 97 4 1277648894 0.304075 -0.793544 263 25.237911 103 5 1277648898

Hi, Busy with dovecot on a linux server with not very much RAM in it (512 MB max total). On this server dovecot will only handle about 12 users, with never more than 3 IMAP webmail users at a time, and a maximum of 2 POP3 users at a time using it. I'm going all secure later on, but first I would like your opinion on what configuration best to use with, say, max 5 users busy at one time, and

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm migrating to Dovecot from Courier-IMAP. I use Postfix with Maildir for delivery. When I use Dovecot as the IMAP server all of my folders are missing, the only thing that remains is the Inbox folder. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I have enclosed my configuration. Thanks, Chris - -- Chris Horry

One: I have never set up an IMAP server before, so I thought I would ask first before blindly stumbling around. The problem I am want to solve is this: my wife and I have a "joint" email account that we both want to access (we also have our own personal accounts, but that's beside the point.) I posed the question to my local LUG, and several suggested setting up a local IMAP

Hi, I'm attempting to proxy lmtp using director to hash to the same backend as pop3/imap. My pop3/imap users are of the form: username and my lmtp users are of the form: <username at domain> Where domain is fairly redundant but does carry some useful information. Now, I can proxy lmtp using user=%{username} and destuser=%{orig_user}, and this all appears to work correctly.

Hi I suceeded to run freenx on centos3 with the nomachine client, but I still have some issues. First I can only get a new whole desktop (kde) session. I cannot resume it, and it always leave tons of process that I have to kill from root. I don't need the whole kde desktop, and only want to have single windows. This is called the rootless mode I think and cannot make it work, it simply

If I run a docker image with the mesos containerizer and altering the dovecot config mentioned here[1] I think the root detection is incorrect because it looks like dovecot is still thinking it is root. I still get errors like: >> log(829825): Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges (wanted=10053(dovecot), gid=0(root), egid=0(root)) Why does it want to drop to root, if we

I'm getting imap-login: Internal login failure: bob whenever I try to check mail. I'm new to mail server setup, new to IMAP, and I don't know a heck of a lot about authentication schemes. I've set up Dovecot as an IMAP server on FreeBSD 4.8. I've got OpenLDAP running on the same system. Users will access mail via Eudora on Windows and Macs, so that's how I'm

Dear dovecot experts: We are using client certificates to authenthicate against a Dovecot server. Our certificates contain a x500UniqueIdentifier. I'm absolutely sure that the value of the x500UniqueIdentifier was stored into the AUTH_USER when I tested my setup last year. This has somehow changed and now AUTH_USER always contains the username. This has fatal consequences as now every owner