Re: Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:22:25 +0100, Sergi Pons Freixes wrote:
> Hi All,
Hi Sergi. Please, turn off html when sending e-mails, they're hard to
read from text based e-mail clients :-)
> I am trying to adapt a tutorial for setting a mail server in Arch Linux
> [1] to Debian. I finished the step of PostfixAdmin, and I perfectly can
> send e-mails from it and add users and domains to the database. Looking
> at /home/vmail, I also checked that I can receive e-mails. Before
> setting up Rouncube, I wanted to try accessing with Thunderbird, but I
> am getting the message of Incorrect username or password.
>
> Looking at the logs, on mail.log I can see:
> Jan 3 00:32:52 cub3 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:80.35.195.218]
> Jan 3 00:32:53 cub3 imapd: chdir Maildir: No such file or directory
> Jan 3 00:32:53 cub3 imapd: sachiel@cub3.net: No such file or directory
I have no previous experience with Courier, but the above message seems
to indicate Courier can't find the proper place where messages are being
dropped.
> But:
> # ls /home/vmail/
> sachiel@cub3.net
> # ls /home/vmail/sachiel@cub3.net/
> cur new tmp
> # ls /home/vmail/sachiel@cub3.net/new/
> 1325457494.Vca00I4f096M587089.cub3 1325457546.Vca00I4f099M501611.cub3
> 1325471089.Vca00I4f78fM130501.cub3
(...)
Mmm... isn't a parent "/Maildir" folder required? :-?
I mean, something like: "/$HOME/vmail/$user/Maildir/cur|new|tmp"
I would also check where is the Courier variable for the stored mailboxes
pointing to.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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