FC4 imap server?

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:16:57AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 10:35:08AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:19:09PM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for the help! I'm moving stuff from a RH8 machine and MAY have
> >> dropped something from the /etc/passwd file (I tried to just add the
> >> users, not just replace the file). Anyway, here's what I get:
> >>
> >> [root at sujan sbin]# service dovecot start
> >> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: Login user doesn't exist: dovecot
> >>                                                            [FAILED]
> >>
> >>
> >> So, it appears I need to have a user called dovecot (I'm sure this is
> >> buried in the documentation somewhere...). So, should I add a user
> >> dovecot? What else should go on that line in etc/passwd?
> >>
> >> THANKS!
> >>
> >> Harold
> >> (who remembered to bottom post this time!)
> >
> > Good man!
> >
> > Let "groupadd" and "useradd" do the dirty work:
> >
> >   groupadd -r dovecot
> >   useradd -r -g dovecot -c dovecot -d /usr/libexec/dovecot -s
> > /sbin/nologin dovecot
> >
> > The above is gleaned from the way the post-install script for the
> > dovecot RPM set up my system.  The "-r" tells it to use a numerical
> > groupid and userid down in the system area (1-500, maybe it's 1000,
> > now).  "man groupadd" and "man useradd" for more explanation.
> >
> 
> 
> Thanks! It looks like the group was still there, but the user was gone.
> Now SquirrelMail works! In reading docs last night, I saw something about
> a change in folder structure that I'll have to deal with. None of the
> folders copied over from the old machine showed up in SquirrelMail. They
> show up in Pine ok, though. But, I'm much closer now to having it work.

The old folders were in the user's home directory.  Dovecot works with
the user's mail directory (~/mail/).

> Thanks!

You're welcome.

> Harold

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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