Thunderbird can connect to Dovecot (finally) but cannot download the contents of the inbox

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#1 Wed, 01/21/2015 - 04:53
bradmca

Thunderbird can connect to Dovecot (finally) but cannot download the contents of the inbox

Any idea why please?

dovecot log extract: Jan 21 10:44:57 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<catchall.xyz>, method=PLAIN, rip=XXX.41.5.XXX, lip=XXX.95.10.XXX, mpid=14918, TLS Jan 21 10:44:57 pop3(catchall.xyz): Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0

When I use "Read user mail" from webmin I can see everything in the inbox!.

Wed, 01/21/2015 - 04:59
bradmca

The following run locally on the VPS also produces 0 messages from list

[root@xxx certs]# telnet mydomain.com pop3 Trying XXX.95.10.XXX... Connected to mydomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user catchall.xxx +OK pass thepassword +OK Logged in. list +OK 0 messages:

Wed, 01/21/2015 - 05:18
bradmca

cracked it, read user mail showed the path as /var/mail/login.id

the dovecot mail file config had the wrong option selected for mail location it was Inbox and folders in ~/Maildir

changed to Inbox under /var/mail, folders in ~/mail

now thunderbird downloads ;)

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