Comments on: Dovecot POP3/IMAP Server Setup Howto for RHEL/CentOS 5

By: rudy

rudy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:09:20 +0000

Thank you very much for a great tutorial. i had no troubles at all, to this point. going forward…

–rudy

By: Basheer

Basheer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:58:22 +0000

Mr. Consultant, now it is working. I dont know what was the issue earlier. I copied and pasted the statement given by you. Then tried once, it didnt work. After that I restarted the PC once and checked once, now it is working fine. I dont know what was the mistake earlier, I think I missed space(not exactly). Anyway thanks for the quick response from you. This is very good article, we will be happy if this website produces more good articles in linux. It is required to restart everytime, when we change anything.

By: Basheer

Basheer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:42:02 +0000

Basheer Says:
July 19th, 2009 at 10:36 pm

Mr. Consultant

Before posting message here, I have typed like this only, but no success. I even copied the statement given by and pasted there. But still no success.

# If you only want to use dovecot-auth, you can set this to “none”.
protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh

I request you to provide an mind blowing solution

Please

By: Basheer

Basheer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:36:15 +0000

Mr. Consultant

Before posting message here, I have typed like this only, but no success. I even copied the statement given by and pasted there. But still no success.

I request you to provide an mind blowing solution

Please

By: consultant

consultant — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:17:24 +0000

Hi Basheer,

Please double check your pop3_uidl_format in /etc/dovecot.conf. Make sure it is the same as the one below and there should be only one of it which is not commented.

pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv

By: Basheer

Basheer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:28:39 +0000

help me for the above issue.

thanks in advance

By: Basheer

Basheer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:27:34 +0000

[root@tuah ~]# telnet localhost pop3
Trying 127.0.0.1…
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is ‘^]’.
+OK Dovecot ready.
user mdlan
+OK
pass mypassword
+OK Logged in.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Jul 19 14:50:55 lmail dovecot: POP3(basheer): pop3_uidl_format setting doesn’t contain any % variables.
Jul 19 14:50:55 lmail dovecot: child 23885 (pop3) returned error 89
Jul 19 14:50:55 lmail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured

By: Varma

Varma — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:31:19 +0000

Hi
I have Successfull configured postfix, dovecot and squirrell mail in my system
I got a few problems while configuring dovecot
in maillog dovecot /var/spool/postfix/private/auth permission denied
but after I disabled SELinux and rebooted my server
all things are worked fine

Thanks

By: willi

willi — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:53:59 +0000

this:
imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh

gives an error:CAPACTIY connecting with squirrelmail from another machine.

uncommenting it works fine – so long.

brgs willi

Centos 5.3 / dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5
sqirrelmail-1.4.19

By: John Doyle

John Doyle — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:18:36 +0000

IF your using sendmail and the maildir format you also need to stick the following into
/etc/procmailrc (It doesn’t exist by default so create it)

One line eg. in the users home folder.
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

or whatever the same path that you used in
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/