Hi all

two questions:

* 1: i can't installdovecot via yum repositories (EPEL or sourceforge)....why is not includede on that repos?

So i install via ./configure, make, make install(maybe my problem starts here). Dovecot 2.1.15...all seems OK.

* 2: i set up an account, and the username is user@domain.servername.com
Dovecot has created the default folders and files under the home directory of the "vmail" user that wiki.dovecot required.

I can login to the IMAP account via telnet.
But sendmail on the same server throws: "user unknown" when i send a mail to the user.

im sure i miss some step, but which?

Regards

Dovecot is in the standard RHN repo. just use that. Sourceforge? That's not a repo. There is NO NEED to install from source at all, and I'd suggest you don't.

Can you show us the dovecot config file? What have you actually done to set up the account?

hi

excuse me...i mean rpmforge :-)
I cant use RHEL repo at this time(no support right now), and the DVD(that can i use as rhel repo) is "hidden" in the server till i touch the bios. But i can't restart now.

anyway....you mean that maybe the best option is to uninstall the current dovecot and install it from the DVD repo, isn't?

So i have a extra question: what is the best way to uninstall the current dovecot?

Meanwhile i upload the dovecot.conf:

[root@argon03 media]# dovecot -n
# 2.1.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-274.el5PAE i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga)
auth_verbose = yes
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
disable_plaintext_auth = no
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log
listen = 127.0.0.1
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
login_trusted_networks = 127.0.0.0
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
passdb {
args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd
driver = passwd-file
}
protocols = imap
ssl = no
userdb {
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
driver = static
}



regards

is you don't have paid RHN support, you have no business using RHEL in the first place. I'd strongly recommend migrating it to CentOS instead. In the mean time you can easily get the dovecot EL5 RPM from a CentOS mirror instead.

Not quite sure what you mean here, but if the DVD is in the CD/DVD drive, then you should be able to mount it and create a local repo as seen here https://code.google.com/p/iredmail/w...Yum_Repository.
Been there, done that; works just fine.

As acid_kewpie says though, you should definitely pay for RHEL or switch to Centos. Running an unsupported/non-updated RHEL is a bad idea.

Hi

i know is bad idea, but the company can't afford right now any payment(only the basic ones), so i have to deal with that.

so, at this time i have an unsupported RHEL 5.7 with an unfinished set up of dovecot...so what i must do?

* fix the dvd, uninstall the current dovecot(whats the best way to do it?) and install it from local repo... or
* Finish the configuration of this installation

At this point, i prefer the second option.....then maybe i uninstall it and installing from repo.


so what i have done is:

· install from source
· create dovecot,dovenull and vmail users/groups
· create the /etc/pam.d/dovecot with:

auth required pam_unix.so
account@argon03.domain.com required pam_unix.so

· create the passwd file for dovecot account with the content:

account@argon03.domain.com:{PLAIN}password

· start dovecot with "dovecot" command

Thats all.... the i test the imap account with success, the folder of the user created under /home/vmail/ but
i can't send any local mail to the account...."user unknown"

kind regards

Your dovecot seems fine - it is sendmail that is having the problem.
You need to tell it where to find your user dir's - or better yet configure it to pass the mail to the dovecot deliver process.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail