On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:28:37PM -0400, Don Levey wrote: > I managed to upgrade my mail server from RH9 to FC2 by the seat of my > pants (involving, amongst other things, a hung boot process in RH9 > that just made me decide to go ahead and do it on the main drive, but > that's another long story). > > I've now installed dovecot, since the uw-imap and uw-ipop3 are now > gone. I've got it up and running, and it seems to work, but there's > an interaction problem with Evolution (1.4.6). I've got the > following in the dovecot.conf file: > > # Dovecot can notify client of new mail in selected mailbox soon > after it's # received. This setting specifies the minimum interval in > seconds between # new mail notifications to client - internally they > may be checked more or # less often. Setting this to 0 disables the > checking. # NOTE: Evolution client breaks with this option when it's > trying to APPEND. > mailbox_check_interval = 0 > > ...which I set specifically because I do use Evolution (at home). > However, Evolution seems to hang when connecting, and this seems to > hang the server for any other instance of this userID logging in > and/or sending mail. Restarting dovecot and sendmail don't fix this > problem - any suggestions on where to start? > -Don > As I mentioned in my addendum, rebooting the server did not solve the problem. Interestingly, however, I am able to SEND mail but not RECEIVE. It does appear that I can get access to the user's mailbox by logging on to the server itself as root and the su-ing to the user's account (I can't login to the account at the login prompt; it simply refuses my username/password combination). What have I screwed up? -Don
