Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:17:45 -0400 From: William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: dovecot failure after update Message-ID: <CAFsnNZ%2BV0pP7mR9iW73uONvVXbpa=x45T9Dq6TjOPXe08155Aw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Whilst away, my mail server died due to an extended power outage. After rebooting, everything seems to work OK (i.e. no major filesystem damage) except that I can no longer connect to my mail server using thunderbird (on another machine on the same LAN). The errors in /var/log/sendmail are: Jul 31 16:58:58 machinenamehere dovecot: imap(userx): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userx Jul 31 16:58:58 machinenamehere dovecot: imap: Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. I have no idea what server log this refers to, there is no 'dovecot' in /var/log and no reference to a log file in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/* Google searches on this error message don't turn up anything exactly relevant, and all results are from 5 years ago on linux, anyway. uname -a FreeBSD dudley 10.3-RELEASE-p18 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p18 #0: Tue Apr 11 10:13:20 UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 pkg info | grep dovecot dovecot2-2.2.29.1_1 Secure, fast and powerful IMAP and POP3 server Thanks in advance, Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux.
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