Re: Setting Postfix + Courier + Cyrus: cannot find user dir on authentication

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

On 04/01/12 16:55, Camaleón wrote:
> 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 used this to set up Courier
http://edin.no-ip.com/blog/hswong3i/exim4-courier-ssl-debian-etch-mini-howto

Which contains this:
If you have an existing user account without Maildir under home 
directory, run the following command:
maildirmake ~/Maildir

HTH,




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