On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:27:47 -0800 (PST) Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm not saying that dovecot is documentation-free. > I'm saying that I don't understand the documentation. > I'm very tired. My wife and I moved here a week ago > and I'm trying to get our world running again. I'm > managing three PC's at this moment running Gentoo and > fighting the urge to fall asleep. This new apartment > is very cramped, and although I admit that I probably > shouldn't I shouldn't be attempting this or any other > way to make myself useful after all I've been through > - the strokes should have killed me according to the > neurologists at St. Louis University Hospital - but I > refuse to accept Social Security checks every month > without at least attempting to give something back to > society. I'm saying I need help to understand the > material....
OK now I feel bad, That was a poor attempt to say RTFM and I have been outed as a bad mannered troll, please accept my apology. If you are having authentication problems (and they sound like similar problems with dovecot and uw) I would: 1. try logging in via telnet and see what you get. a typical telnet login session goes like this: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]$ telnet www 143 Trying 192.168.1.55... Connected to www. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. >>> 1 login nick xxxxxx 1 OK LOGIN Ok. >>> 2 logout * BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down 2 OK LOGOUT completed Connection closed by foreign host. xxxxx is the password of course. the lines marked >>>> are the only ones you have to input. imap has this command sequence where you put a unique identifier at the start of the line, and the reply has the same identifier. I used 1 and 2 - anything at the start of the line will do. 2. Now if you didn't get a connection, the server is not running for some reason. 3. if you get a connection but no login go see your logs - puddle around in /var/log - you need to be root to look at most of those files. 4. I would suspect pam or something of the sort. > > > --- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:36:49 -0800 (PST) > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > I've unmerged uw-imap and emerged dovecot. I've > > got > > > dovecot running, but it still won't take my > > password > > > when I enter it in evolution. I haven't messed > > with > > > the /etc/dovecot.conf file because I don't know > > what > > > I'm doing. I used uw-imap before on my FC1 box > > > because it installed that by default and it only > > > required a little configuration alteration to work > > > out-of-the-box. Do I need to alter > > /etc/dovecot.conf > > > to get my mail server to work? I opened it up in > > vim > > > and the opening comment said that I didn't need to > > > uncomment any of the lines except for the paths. > > Are > > > these paths the default paths for an emerged > > dovecot > > > (Are the default paths correct for my system)? > > > > are you saying that dovecot is entirely > > documentation free? or that you > > have tried to configure it according to its docs and > > for some reason it > > is not working? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > > > ===== > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
