E-Mail _without_ courier and activating maildir
 

Hi, first I would like to thank you for this great control panel. I really would like to contribute something but this has to wait, until I got some things done.

Now the problem:
That´s not really new in this forum, I found several postings regarding mail failures, but it seems that as a conclusion for most mail problems you propose the installation of courier and the activation of maildir. But I really would like to keep the possibility for setting the mailquotas. With courier and maildir it works without any problems, but using ipopd and imapd is not possible. Uebimiau and a "real" mailclient (I only tested Outlook) give both the "command stream end of..." message in /var/log/mail.log. I installed using the perfect debian sarge setup five times on different computers and got the same error over and over again. First I thought it was caused by using debootstrap for installation to have a minimal system but even with using the installer cd and following the setup instructions extremely careful, nothing but "You cannot login with the username and password entered." from Uebimiau and a failure message from Outlook (I´m going to post it later).

Here´s my netstat -tap, I think you´ll see that ;)

ISPConfig works fine with nbox format and i have some installations with this combination.

Have you send a test email to the account before you tried to fetch it with pop3?

After yo send the test email, did you get any errors in your mail log?
Did the mail end in a mbox file in /var/spol/mail with the name of the email user?

OK, I set up another server, because some of my problems were caused by misconfigured and mixed up local Domains like home.lan and home without .lan (I´m trying a lot at the moment with different computers)... The things are working much better and yes, the test mail ends up in the /var/spool/mail/user file. I used Thunderbird and Outlook to fetch the mail and now they want to connect, but there is kind of an authentication failure. Here the /var/log/mail.log:

Thunderbrid tells me: "Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server domain.tld responded: Bad login".
Uebimiau same as before: "You cannot login with the username and password entered. Please check your username and password and try again."

It is NOT my CAPSLOCK or a similar problem :-). The password I enter is the same that I used in ISPConfig. I tried several times...

Please try to connect with pop3, not pop3s to verify the basic configuration first.

Please check /etc/password and /etc/shadow if the mailuser has been correctly created.
Make sure you use the correct username (webX_user) and not the email address to login.

Which linux distribution do you use?

I recommend to use Courier instead of ipop3d. Maildir is the better format comapared to mbox.
However, if you want to stick with ipop3d: did you reboot your server? Maybe that helps.

The user is in both files. I created another one -> shows up in both files -> same problem...

Using POP3 and not POP3s I get from Thunderbird: "Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server domain.tld responded: Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command"

/var/log/mail.log is

Same message postfix logs when trying with Uebimiau.

The daemons and stuff is running...

I´m using Debian Sarge and followed the "perfect debian setup".

Another question: What about getting maildir working with mail quotas? ;)

@falko

I really would like to use maildirs (as I described, an installation with courier was no problem at all, everything worked wonderful), but if I got the forums right, the quota-function of the mailbox will then disappear (and yes, it really happens :(). That´s not THAT bad, but I really would like to have mail and webspace NOT get checked together.

Which username have you used in thunderbird?

The error you posted occurs if you use the email address as useranme instead of the correct username in the format "web1_username".

So, I have to use the mail address when using Uebimiau and the username when connecting with a local mail client? Good to know! Nevertheless that´s not the problem here. I tried every combination of name, username, mail address and even some bad words ;). The system keeps telling me the same message.

I´m now going through all the config files again, but (don´t get me wrong) is it possible that I have to change something of the perfect setup when NOT using courier ? As I said above: Just installing courier causes everything to work as expected! I changed nothing more than the maildir option...

By the way thanks for your help :) - that´s real support!

I've had this problem with ipop3d myself, but not on all installations. And I know that lots of other people have this ipop3d problem, too. Sometimes it's working, sometimes not. Unfortunately I don't know why it's doing this. But I'm using Courier and am quite happy with it. :)