[Dovecot] Help with basic configuration

[Matt Rude]

Rob Breault wrote:
> I followed the information from the wiki here is my dovecot.conf file
> and yet I can't get pop3 working. I need this to listen on pop3 for an
> internal process but get email from smtp sources. So I would like to
> have sendmail receive email from the world to a specific email address
> then check the mailbox via a POP3 internal process. Any help would be
> great.
> 
>  
> 
> [root at CRM-ILM-CC-A etc]# dovecot -n
> 
> # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
You are missing a great deal of the needed parts of your config file.
For starters.

protocols = pop3
protocol imap {
 listen = *:143
}

Also please post any log entry's.
> 
> log_path: /home/vmail/log/dovecot.log
> 
> info_log_path: /home/vmail/log/dovecot-info.log
> 
> ssl_disable: yes
> 
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> 
> login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> 
> login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> 
> login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
> 
> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
> 
> dotlock_use_excl: yes
> 
> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
> 
> mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> 
> mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> 
> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> 
> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> 
> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> 
> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
> 
> auth default:
> 
>   verbose: yes
> 
>   passdb:
> 
>     driver: passwd-file
> 
>     args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
> 
>   userdb:
> 
>     driver: static
> 
>     args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
> 
> [root at CRM-ILM-CC-A etc]#


-Matt

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