fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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: >> ... >> > 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 I believe I've got it figured out. Dovecot was not starting properly, but dying immediately. I finally thought to check the maillog (I had previously looked at just about any other log I could find) and made my way through a number of errors. There were permission problems on user directories (which worked just fine before), as well as auth method problems relating to digest-md5 and pam. It now seems that Evolution *may* have been a red herring; the timing was co-incident. It may, however, have done something to my directory permissions, which is why only that one user (currently using Evolution) had the problem. In the "It would have been nice" department: I had imapd and ipop3d running previously. I understand that these were moved out, and dovecot/cyrus were included instead. But my old packages were moved out of the way and NOT replaced. Dovecot was not even installed on my machine after the upgrade - I had to go and find it. It would have been nice if, instead of simply breaking my imap/pop access, the new package was installed and configured using similar options to the previous packages. -Don
