Re: Roundcube+vexim+debian

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Andreas westvik <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Odhiambo Washington skrev:
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Andreas westvik <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Odhiambo Washington skrev:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Andreas westvik
>  > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     So I just tried to login with the postmaster user, and that worked
> >     great. And I noticed that the postmaster has gid/uid 8 and the other
> >     user has gid/uid 90. And I know I'm the one who edited that. So I
> >     changed it back to 8 to the normal user, but it still does not
> >     work. So...?
> >
> >
> > chown -R the-correct-uid:the-correct-gid /usr/local/mail/server.net/
>  > <http://server.net/user>
> >
> > should fix that. Looks rather simple.
> >
> >
> Yeah, I was just doing this. And I got it working to a degree. If
> mail:mail owns /usr/local/mail/domain, roundcube work, but local mail
> clients (Mail.app, thunderbird, outlook etc) dont work. If vexim:mail
> owns /usr/local/mail/domain local clients work, but NOT roundcube. This
> has me highly confused!
>
>
> Well, you add a lot of confusion to this. You appear to be trying to
> address a POP3 problem in the realm of an SMTP problem. If Exim delivers
> mail with the right permissions and the POP3 server is configured to run as
> the "appropriate user" (with the necessary permissions) things should just
> work.
> Let us have the log extracts for instances where Mail.app, Outlook, etc
> don't work, because the problem seems to be with the permissions of the POP3
> server you are running.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254733744121/+254722743223
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> "Okay guys. This is Kenya. You pay taxes because you feel philanthropic,
> unlike our MPs!"
>                     -- Kenneth Marende, Speaker, 10th Parilament.
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>  This is what I got from the logs im tailing:
>
> ==> mail.log <==
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.0.2]
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: LOGIN: ip=[::ffff:192.168.0.2],
> command=USER
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: LOGIN: ip=[::ffff:192.168.0.2],
> command=PASS
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: LOGIN: ip=[::ffff:192.168.0.2],
> [email protected]
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: LOGIN: ip=[::ffff:192.168.0.2],
> password=password
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: [email protected]:chdir(/usr/local/mail/
> server.net/user) failed!!
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: error: Permission denied
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: LOGIN FAILED, [email protected],
> ip=[::ffff:192.168.0.2]
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: authentication error: Permission denied
>
> ==> mail.info <==
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: [email protected]:chdir(/usr/local/mail/
> server.net/user) failed!!
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: error: Permission denied
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: LOGIN FAILED, [email protected],
> ip=[::ffff:192.168.0.2]
> Nov 30 13:53:12 server couriertcpd: authentication error: Permission denied
>
> And im only tailing these logs: tail -f syslog mail.err mail.info mail.log
> mail.warn mysql.log roundcube/errors roundcube/console user.log
> apache2/access.log apache2/error.log exim4/mainlog exim4/paniclog
> exim4/rejectlog
>

Can you please try:

chmod -R 1777 /usr/local/mail/server.net

and see if that helps?

If not, then just do chmod -R 1777 /usr/local/mail


Are you using mbox or Maildir (not sure if you know what that is, anyway)?



-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
"Okay guys. This is Kenya. You pay taxes because you feel philanthropic,
unlike our MPs!"
                    -- Kenneth Marende, Speaker, 10th Parilament.

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