From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jul 31 21:17:47 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C30DBDD72 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:17:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wfdudley@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-x22e.google.com (mail-yw0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 105E06919F for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:17:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wfdudley@gmail.com) Received: by mail-yw0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id u207so103453197ywc.3 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:17:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=QxnIajExthVC4tM7CsC+cBAQhQEn5+bAAHOB2bVF3IQ=; b=nbNaFlmqgdcFH4+SVpInHQGQtPeompPTuV/AMCM2dvBpUO47Xhpvj2ucsuVrW9XpcA TYEQ+wRvaZ41WkjFcCyHv4YlgCVNNZ89vrFetKI7goEI9P8hLOKS3+uFfOuMVwacdVcl +6YZfDS88YWC4EcHqHY5AvttawG2GYY30tSsSQlJoSAlZXgXecSsLUmI3DhgwV1D3sjb fiHtnWGDII+DxDj7JGBWkCA2zdVTtqaxbOtQqmGhptouRd3i5ifYQ29G21j9gaaiOVMU LQsxNwBeOT3YAIPIheJNsRHSn2W4qqwFcoUdP6/S/Yj55ITB1GQxMNFc4RkNA5xMSUBT KKqQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=QxnIajExthVC4tM7CsC+cBAQhQEn5+bAAHOB2bVF3IQ=; b=P7Ar1zlHzmddduizuGBb6K8UAiu0++K2mPTHQjbBuet9MVzJperUXiniFxDSOYt7Hd 6xSwwpwxi6ryVKB7+GTf6jtpHKZFK3uFG2Dz4ni9wy1nVoj4rG56L1koSyFwG65sDjIL i7bNjjSCHEcMNKKcfH3T1BAjjPfT7ntPqpGDWi65xtU6L/D3RrXbri8lNjt8nF6iP7fr Cll2q7gTsRv3H30ctIYVDblj+bTxLbsWq+MGv6RyhG1D6F2nCPZ83VGiEosc+YxEqxcw TmRmL/bxrGyW50yRuoMJrPeUP6eYciVbL+X09budW8kHqWIjyd5Av08DSkvlv3rgot2S MjXQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw111QmRXmUMZWEg99WDITPORcdperzcMO5FRFRjR2x3fZv5SXeWfQ 6iYscTOx6lIsSx53AF5eLwRaqaQF1iQ+ X-Received: by 10.37.91.9 with SMTP id p9mr6300217ybb.342.1501535865652; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:17:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.37.246.17 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:17:45 -0700 (PDT) From: William Dudley Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:17:45 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: dovecot failure after update To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:17:47 -0000 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.