Well, too much to change and learn right now to go to Postfix :) So I
decided to try and look at Dovecot again and see if I could figure out
what the problem was. Finally I fixed it! It's one of those annoying
little simple things that probably would never happen to anyone else but
me :) But here's what I went through in case you have similar problems.
----- My original problem -----
I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through
SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users
are getting this error message:
ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
Query: CAPABILITY
Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this:
dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user
--------------------------------
The solution:
In /etc/passwd I had setup users (other than myself) so they could not
go out of their home directory when ftp'ing.
Example: lisab:x:500:500:Lisa Boyd:/home/lisab/.:/bin/bash
By removing the /. after /home/lisab, then I could access everything I
am supposed to through IMAP.
Talk about hair-pulling troubles from a little dot. Ugh.
Lisa B.
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