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| Author: | captquint [ Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Inbox - mutt/mailx shows email, squirrelmail doesn't. Halp. |
First things first, I've got an Ubuntu 10.04 system set up on a linode, and I followed this guide on setting up mail here. The only thing I did different or extra from the guide was actually create a couple of users using adduser (and corrected some of the typos noted in the comments). Every test shows that mail works. From one of the user's accounts, I can use mailx and mutt to send email to a gmail account (which it gets). I send back an email from that gmail account to the user, and it gets received. With mailx and mutt, I can see the emails received from gmail to that user (though for some reason I don't see the sent email? why not?). With squirrelmail, I can send emails and view those -- but not any emails received. The INBOX is empty. Note that I did get an error when I first set up squirrelmail and tried to use the web interface, that the Sent folder couldn't be created. I tracked this down to a configuration within squirrelmail that the default folder prefix needed to be "INBOX." (with a period) and not empty (as is how it sets itself up if you choose dovecot). After that, there are no errors with squirrelmail -- but I can't see any received email in the inbox. I really need to get a webmail interface up for the website owners. Can anyone give me some pointers? Maybe recommend another option? |
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| Author: | otherbbs [ Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Inbox - mutt/mailx shows email, squirrelmail doesn't. Ha |
captquint wrote: Can anyone give me some pointers? Maybe recommend another option?
What do you have assigned for "$default_folder_prefix" in your squirrelmail configuration file? -- Travis |
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| Author: | captquint [ Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:08 pm ] |
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I've got 'INBOX.' (with the period) as the default folder prefix. It's the only prefix I've found that works at all. Leaving it empty doesn't work (squirrelmail error creating Sent folder). I thought it might be a dovecot setting, but mailx and mutt both find the inbox without problem. But I NEED a webmail solution. |
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| Author: | otherbbs [ Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Inbox - mutt/mailx shows email, squirrelmail doesn't. Ha |
I'm not sure where you got the 'INBOX.' at, but that does not sound correct. I believe mailx/mutt by default accesses your email at the file level directly, where as squirrelmail does so via IMAP or pop3. Squirrelmail will work once it's configured correctly. I miss-read your original message, but the $default_folder_prefix is used by squirrelmail to store stuff locally on the host stuff such as the 'Trash, 'Sent', and etc folders. Since squirrelmail is not showing any new mail, I suspect the problem is with either IMAP or pop3, depending upon how you have configured things. If you set the '$default_folder_prefix' to 'mail/' and make sure the 'mail' direction exists for the user and is owned by the user, things should work. -- Travis |
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| Author: | captquint [ Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:32 pm ] |
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Nope, setting "mail/" as the $default_folder_prefix doesn't work. Here's the error I get: Quote: ERROR: Could not complete request.
Query: CREATE "mail/Sent" Reason Given: Unknown namespace. My IMAP settings seem to be correct. Following the dovecot docs on testing it, here's my (non-localhost) telnet to port 143: Code: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED] Dovecot ready. I found the "INBOX." solution via googling that error message. At this point I'm looking at using Google Apps for mail. Between the problems with squirrelmail and the spam issue that I will be faced with down the road, it hardly seems worth it. |
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| Author: | mst [ Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:04 am ] |
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mutt & mailx are [by default] configured to read your mail in mbox format. Squirrelmail, on the other hand, is configured to use IMAP. Chances are, your mail isn't delivered to Maildirs and/or your IMAP server isn't configured to use them. |
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