Hi all,
I'm upgrading my old F9 mail server to Centos 7 and all is going well.
However, I've got a problem with recently created users.
I've rsync'd /home and /var/spool/mail after moving /etc/passwd and /etc/group
I used the default locations on the old F9 server, i.e. mail delivered
to /var/spool/mail/%u by EXIM and Dovecot using that as the inbox.
Dovecot then used ~/mail/ as it's folder dir.
On the new server this works fine for any user where ~/mail/ already exists,
but for any user where ~/mail/ does not exist Dovecot fails.
I've done some googling and have tried a number of settings, the most popular
one being
mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
However, I haven't managed to fix the problem. Anyone know what I need to do
next?
Below hopefully is enough for someone to see what I've got wrong. They're
done with mail_location set to the default, i.e. commented out in
10-mail.conf
I've also put the log file up at http://www.stainburn.com/centos.log which
should be easier to read.
cpage is an established user, tdegg is a new one. As I say below, I have found
a work-around but even that still has errors.
[root@ollie2 home]# for F in cpage tdegg ; do
ls -lad /home/$F /home/$F/* /home/$F/.* /home/$F/* /home/$F/mail/* /home/$F/mail/.* /home/$F/mail/.imap/* /var/spool/mail/$F ;
done
ls: cannot access /home/cpage/mail/*: No such file or directory
drwx------ 5 cpage cpage 125 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage
drwx------ 5 cpage cpage 125 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage/.
drwxr-xr-x. 208 root root 8192 Aug 24 13:27 /home/cpage/..
-rw-r--r-- 1 cpage cpage 18 Feb 29 2008 /home/cpage/.bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 cpage cpage 176 Feb 29 2008 /home/cpage/.bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 cpage cpage 124 Feb 29 2008 /home/cpage/.bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 cpage cpage 6 Apr 6 2008 /home/cpage/.gnome2
-rw-r--r-- 1 cpage cpage 120 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage/.gtkrc
drwx------ 3 cpage cpage 18 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage/mail
drwx------ 3 cpage cpage 18 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage/mail
drwx------ 3 cpage cpage 18 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage/mail/.
drwx------ 5 cpage cpage 125 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage/mail/..
drwx------ 3 cpage cpage 18 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage/mail/.imap
drwx------ 2 cpage cpage 4096 Aug 24
16:21 /home/cpage/mail/.imap/INBOX
drwxr-xr-x 4 cpage cpage 37 Nov 20 2008 /home/cpage/.mozilla
-rw-r--r-- 1 cpage cpage 658 Mar 31 2009 /home/cpage/.zshrc
-rw-rw---- 1 cpage mail 352512344 Aug 24 13:28 /var/spool/mail/cpage
ls: cannot access /home/tdegg/*: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /home/tdegg/*: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /home/tdegg/mail/*: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /home/tdegg/mail/.*: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /home/tdegg/mail/.imap/*: No such file or directory
drwx------ 4 tdegg tdegg 88 Aug 24 16:17 /home/tdegg
drwx------ 4 tdegg tdegg 88 Aug 24 16:17 /home/tdegg/.
drwxr-xr-x. 208 root root 8192 Aug 24 13:27 /home/tdegg/..
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdegg tdegg 18 Oct 23 2008 /home/tdegg/.bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdegg tdegg 176 Oct 23 2008 /home/tdegg/.bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 tdegg tdegg 124 Oct 23 2008 /home/tdegg/.bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 tdegg tdegg 6 Apr 6 2008 /home/tdegg/.gnome2
drwxr-xr-x 4 tdegg tdegg 37 Nov 20 2008 /home/tdegg/.mozilla
-rw-rw---- 1 tdegg mail 209466 Jun 10 11:29 /var/spool/mail/tdegg
[root@ollie2 home]#
[root@ollie2 ~]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.
user cpage
+OK
pass ********
+OK Logged in.
stat
+OK 2812 356812518
quit
+OK Logging out.
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@ollie2 ~]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.
user tdegg
+OK
pass ********
-ERR [SYS/TEMP] Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more
information.
Connection closed by foreign host.
I have found that if I manually intervene, and issue the following commands,
things start to work, although I still get errors. Hopefully I get find out
how to fix my Dovecot config so that I don't have to do this every time I set
up a new user.
[root@ollie2 home]# mkdir -p ~tdegg//mail/.imap/INBOX
[root@ollie2 home]# chown -R tdegg:tdegg ~tdegg/mail
[root@ollie2 home]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.
user tdegg
+OK
pass *******
+OK Logged in.
list
+OK 19 messages:
1 1099
2 1026
3 1842
4 2053
5 7481
6 25063
7 1275
8 1484
9 19089
10 125054
11 3468
12 3490
13 3490
14 961
15 3177
16 3487
17 3897
18 3895
19 1001
.
quit
+OK Logging out.
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@ollie2 home]#
Aug 24 16:42:31 ollie2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<tdegg>, method=PLAIN,
rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=130939, secured,
session=<K7wxdxAefQB/AAAB>
Aug 24 16:42:31 ollie2 dovecot: pop3(tdegg): Error:
fchown(/home/tdegg/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, group=12
(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=2046(tdegg), group based
on /var/mail/tdegg - see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm)
Aug 24 16:42:31 ollie2 dovecot: pop3(tdegg): Error:
fchown(/home/tdegg/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, group=12(mail))
failed: Operation not permitted (egid=2046(tdegg), group based
on /var/mail/tdegg - see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm)
Aug 24 16:42:37 ollie2 dovecot: pop3(tdegg): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0,
retr=0/0, del=0/19, size=212332
--
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk
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