Dovecot is hiding my mail ?

tims · 08-11-2006, 07:42 AM

I have setup up sendmail & dovecot on an FC4 system.

Everything seems fine, I can sent email & I can receive email into user accounts, but I cannot retrieve email using pop3 protocols.

I have tried oe & it shows empty mailbox
I have tried telnet on port 110 & it shows empty mailbox

When I look into the email account /var/spool/mail/xxxx, I can see there is email. And when I log in as the user & run the mail client program I can see the email

I am sure I must have missed something simple, any advise welcome.

ananda81 · 08-13-2006, 12:02 AM

Hai friend did u uncoment pop3 in /etc/dovecot
open that file and find "protocols"
then add pop3 ther
thats all. it will work for u.(I think).
If it notwork just send me reply.

marcon · 08-18-2006, 08:03 AM

try to telnet to your Dovecot server at port 110. If it fails it means that you didn´t uncommented protocol POP3 in dovecot configuration.