I setup VM Pro in April 2008; to a fresh install of CentOS 5.2; to this day I have not gotten the Pop3 Email service to run; I usually give up; but now I need to get it working. I guess I’m totally lost and the more reading I do, well it isn’t helping. Let me try to explain my issue.
The only changes I have made so far have been to un-comment two setting in dovecot.conf; pop3_uidl_format=… and disable_plantext_auth=no.
This is about the only issues I found in researching it (see below).
My issue is close to the first issue:
Looking at it and log files I noticed that dovecot is setup for pam
dovecot.conf
The one at this site looks like this
protocols = imap imaps pop3
pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth = no
log_path = /var/log/mail.log
protocol imap {}
protocol pop3
{
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}
auth default
{
mechanisms = plain
passdb passwd {}
passdb shadow {}
userdb passwd {}
user = root
}
plugin {}
This is Mine
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth = no
login_process_size = 64
protocol imap {}
protocol pop3
{
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}
protocol lda
{
postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com
}
auth default
{
mechanisms = plain
passdb pam {}
userdb passwd {}
user = root
}
dict
{
#quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf
}
plugin {}
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir
Should I change my auth default like above?
A few general question on fixing this:
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If I backup; then run a new install.sh; then restore (assuming I’ll need to); will it fix things?
or would I need to uninstall first; which might be better just to reinstall the OS. -
I’m running CentOS; it has PHP 5.1; should I upgrade it or leave it at 5.1? I known this is my choice and not a VM question; but maybe a better question would be is there a better version of Linux to run?
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Do you have a list of all the services requited and ones I can disable?
Thanks
Jeff
Post edited by: jflesher, at: 2009/01/21 11:14<br><br>Post edited by: jflesher, at: 2009/01/21 11:16
