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baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

Well, this is a strange one. My test server email won't allow me to login. None of the logs (dovecot, maillog, messages, syslog) show any errors.

When I try to log into roundcube I get, 'connection to imap server failed'. Dovecot is running with pid.

any thoughts?

gerasimos_h · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:12 pm Post subject:

See /var/log/secure also, stop dovecot, remove the PID if necessary, and start it over.

Also check roundcube config for proper hostname, domain.

Try to telnet port 143 or 993 to see if dovecot is running.

gerasimos_h

baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

thanks for the reply. I can telnet into imap.

Where is dovecot.pid located? I will remove and then restart dovecot.

thanks

gerasimos_h · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:02 pm Post subject:

baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

well that did not work. Logs don't show anything.

dovecot.log gives this error:

Aug 29 10:12:26 dovecot: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=2620 uid=0 code=kill)

gerasimos_h · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject:

Since you can telnet and login, that's not a dovecot issue, most likely roundcube configuration is incorrect.

Try this to login through telnet
telnet hostname 143
1 login [user] [pass]

and to logout

6 logout

If you can login then something is wrong with roundcube.

gerasimos_h

baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

thanks! Learned something today. I was able to login so its roundcube. Trying to figure it out now.

thanks

baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

just got this error msg when I restarted postfix and dovecot.

postfix/postfix-script[2840]: warning: not owned by root: /var/spool/postfix/pid

how to I fix that?

gerasimos_h · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:54 pm Post subject:

Either do

baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

still gives me 'can't connect to imap server'.

roundcube log gives:

[29-Aug-2011 12:02:20 -0700]: IMAP Error: Could not connect to dagwood.home:143: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /var/www/ht$

whats dagwood.home:143?

gerasimos_h · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:03 pm Post subject:

Have you double check roundcube config?
Squirrelmail is working?

gerasimos_h

baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

thanks for your help. It was definitely roundcube. I couldn't determine what the issue was in roundcube so I reinstalled it and all is working.

thanks again

baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

Well, I guess I spoke too soon. I am getting mail to server and can read it from webmin postfix. However, its not being delivered to my mailbox.

any ideas on how to trouble shoot this? Embarassed

gerasimos_h · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject:

Is Squirrelmail getting messages?
I'm double asking this to verify that Maildir is working, or else you can look at ~/Maildir for new messages.
If squirrelmail get messages then, you have to look at roundcube, if squirrelmail don't get messages, then Maildir isn't working.

Did you changed something in dovecot, postfix configuration?

gerasimos_h

baboo · Senior Member Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676

I don't have squirrelmail installed. ~/Maildir is not getting messages.

to my knowledge, I don't remember making any changes to dovecot or postfix.