[Dovecot] telnet to dovecot not creating mbox

Andy Fadich andyf at genextllc.com
Fri Jul 13 20:38:52 EEST 2007


Hi,
 
Whenever I create a new email user, telnet fails until an email is sent to
that user to create his mbox.  This is the error that it gives. Anyone know
how to fix this?  I could create the email account script to touch the users
mbox, but I havn't needed to do this in the past with ipop3d and dovecot on
a different server.
 
 
[root at mail log]# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.
user testact
+OK
pass
+OK Logged in.
-ERR Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.
[2007-07-13 10:37:15]
Connection closed by foreign host.

 
Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<testact>,
method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured
Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): open(/var/spool/mail/testact,
O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied
Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): access() failed with mbox file
/var/spool/mail/testact: No such file or directory
Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): stat() failed with mbox file
/var/spool/mail/testact: No such file or directory
Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): Couldn't init INBOX: Internal
error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-07-13
10:33:43]
Jul 13 10:33:43 mail dovecot: POP3(testlol): Mailbox init failed top=0/0,
retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
 
Andy


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