Directadmin > dovecot 2.1.7

[deniurb]

Hi all,

I have a clean installation DirectAdmin. After the installation dovecot was not running. After scavenging the internet i came up with the idea to deinstall dovecot totally and reintall it again. So the following actions ware taken:

> dpkg --get-selections | grep dovecot

result:

dovecot-antispam install
dovecot-core install
dovecot-imapd install
dovecot-lmtpd install
dovecot-managesieved install
dovecot-mysql install
dovecot-pop3d install
dovecot-sieve install

I then deleted all packages with:

> dpkg -P dovecot-antispam
> dpkg -P dovecot-... enz

To complete the whole deletion, dirs: "/usr/lib/dovecot" and "/etc/dovecot" where deleted. At that time i was able to install dovecot again.
I used this command:

> apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d
> apt-get install dovecot-mysql dovecot-managesieved dovecot-sieve dovecot-antispam dovecot-lmtpd

After the installation everything worked!!! The message "*** not running ***" was gone!!! jeeeaaa...

Telnet... ok!

Now creating the user in Directadmin > result; user/mailbox created!!! at that time i got real exited !!!

And than came the bang... after creating the user in outlook the message "no user found" appeared in the screen
SquirrelMail:
ERROR
Unknown user or password incorrect.

Can anyone help?

 

[toml]

The issue is that you installed the OS's version of Dovecot with a default config. DirectAdmin compiles and installs the latest version of Dovecot with a DirectAdmin specific version of the config. It should work properly if you install the right config file so it knows where to look for all the virtual email boxes.

I personally would uninstall the OS version and config file, make sure you have dovecot=yes in your custombuild config file and do a ./build all so that it will build and install the version of Dovecot that Directadmin is looking for.