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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Dave Myers wrote:
a select INBOX
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permitted.
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
that's correct for your case
So I seem to have no mails in the inbox... so I check the dovecot log for the
where it thinks it should be looking for the mail
Sep 19 07:37:59 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<[email protected]>,
method=PLAIN, rip=85.170.90.200, lip=92.39.247.92, mpid=26570, TLS,
session=<Cf4uLmYDlgBVqlrI>
Sep 19 07:37:59 imap([email protected]): Debug: Effective uid=1002,
gid=1002, home=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales
Sep 19 07:37:59 imap([email protected]): Debug: Namespace inbox:
type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes,
subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/:
Sep 19 07:37:59 imap([email protected]): Debug: maildir++:
root=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail, index=, control=,
inbox=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail, alt=
So I can see that the directories that Dovecot is looking at are:
home=/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales
location=maildir:~/mail/
So if I understand, dovecot is looking at [
/var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail/ ] for my mail. When I run a
listing of the directory I get the following....
# ls -al /var/mail/virtual/exsportee.biz/websales/mail/
total 44
drwx--S--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:46 .
drwxr-sr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:00 ..
drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 cur
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 248 Sep 18 12:23 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 51 Sep 18 12:23 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8 Sep 18 12:17 dovecot-uidvalidity
-r--r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 Sep 18 12:17 dovecot-uidvalidity.541acd49
drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 new
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 561 Sep 18 12:22 q1XUaj8-5382575
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 517 Sep 18 12:00 q1XUaOD-5382570
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 513 Sep 18 12:46 q1XUb60-5382584
drwx--S--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 18 12:17 tmp
the 3 files q1xu[....] are test mails that I sent to myself, either
internally from the localhost CLI, mutt or from my google mail account.
I should note the following:
~ SWAKS can send mails out to external addresses also.
~ I cannot connect to my mail from any external clients (thunderbird)
~ I cannot connect to my mail localy using MUTT
~ I use exim4 (v4.7.2) as my MTA (if you want to see a config just ask).
The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as
Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
- --
Steffen Kaiser
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