Jim Dory wrote:
> Yet more info:
>
> As I've researched this I now suspect dovecot. I tried to stop it via
> /etc/init.d/dovecot stop and it would fail. I tried start and :
> "Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: listen (110) failed: Address already in
> use" which I thought peculiar because 110 is pop.
>
> I mv'd /etc/dovecot.conf to /etc/dovecot.conf-latest and cp'd
> /etc/dovecot.conf.rpmsave to /etc/dovecot.conf and then when starting
> dovecot it worked.
> When trying to pop3 my email from my client, I got a plain text
> authentication error message. I went into my client account setup and
> choose server settings "use TLS if available" and now it seems to
> work. Had to click through a certificate and then got an error saying
> something about the machine hostname being different than the vsite -
> clicked ok and it works.
>
> But obviously just a workaround - need to fix the problem. Still
> researching and may find it in the dovecot.conf file but help muchly
> appreciated.
>
> cheers, JD
>
I uncommented "disable_plaintext_auth = no" so now the users don't have
to change the settings in their email clients. Maybe this is a mistake?
Looks like the other major difference between the updated dovecot.conf
and the old is the mbox location. Old has (which is the conf file I've
reverted to):
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=mbox
and the new one that doesn't work has:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=mbox
Don't know if that is the problem.
Also, I noticed the new conf file has
protocols = imap pop3
and if I add imap to the old (which is the one I'm using now) then pop3
fails - won't work. This is by adding imap via the web GUI.
So if someone knows about this it would be great to straighten it out
before the next dovecot upgrade which will again overwrite my conf file.
Many thanks.
cheers, JD
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Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604
http://www.nomealaska.org
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