Re: [webmin-l] usermin mail problems login

[David B. <da...@da...>]

Hello Shanta, I have only used Webmin all these years. Vitualmin is supposed to be completely compatible with Webmin but I have never had any reason to test the compatibility of the two softwares. This being said and strictly from a Webmin only point-of-view I do not understand if your target goal is to use Usermin as your email client why are you bothering with Dovecot? If you studied the diagram I sent you previously (repeated below) you would see the diagram shows the relationships for a the sendmail MTA (SMTPd) and the client application (MUA) that houses the emails to be sent and read. The diagram is for sendmail but could easily be the same for: QMail, Postfix, etc. I use Usermin directly with my SMTPd. This is not very efficient and requires a beefy or dedicated machine if the email volume is high. If you want to use Dovecot then get a client geared toward IMAP/POP3 like Squirrel Mail, IMP or (shudder) Outlook. You need to decided what you want for mail retrieval (Dovecot, Procmail, etc.), mail clients: Squirrel Mail, Mutt, Pine, Elm. If you want to use Usermin you will have to configure Procmail with your Postfix /Maildir directory. The /Maildir directory is actually borrowed from QMail. If you have extra hardware around (anything will do) try to configure a Linux box without Virtualmin i.e. use only Webmin. In this way you will learn a lot more about Linux and software installations/configurations on these type of servers. This is very beneficial when you are running public. There are a million or so lame hacker types that want to compromise your system. As an example: I was just recently admonished severely by the Webmin ML crowd for making some very bad public mistakes. HTH, David.


web...@co... wrote ..
> Still having usernmin mail login problems
> 
> Now this account was created and working on my old server and backed up tho this
> system. 
> 
> The account username is sh...@co... 
> 
> I can log in to usermin with the name but Dovecot will not let the user login.
> usermin returns
> 
> Failed to open /home/computersystemconsulting/homes/shanta/.usermin/mailbox/inbox.imap
> for writing : Bad file descriptor
> I check the file permissions and the file exist with the users permissions.
> 
> Should I delete the account and recreate and forward the stored mail to the account?
> Dropping back to the username.domain from the prefered username@domain format.
> Although these restored accounts are not sending mail with a similar error (to
> the upload file) so there seems to be a problem with my restored accounts. In hind
> site I should not have used the backup/restore and just recreated the enter server.
> Would have been less time in the long run as the number of address on all the servers
> are minimal.
>   
> Can I reconfigure the mail server to allow the login?
> Why did the restore process not update the system automatically.
> 
> Still trying to get to the bottom of my Virtualmin server problems and find out
> why it failed to restore properly.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> Shanta
Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote ten or twenty years, in that they may live,-that is, keep comfortably warm,- and die in New England at last. 

Henry David Thoreau - Walden - 1845

Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote ten or twenty years, in that they may live,-that is, keep comfortably warm,- and die in New England at last. 

Henry David Thoreau - Walden - 1845

Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote ten or twenty years, in that they may live,-that is, keep comfortably warm,- and die in New England at last. 

Henry David Thoreau - Walden - 1845