suddenly 'User unknown'?

Dan White dwhite at olp.net
Thu Nov 29 09:39:13 EST 2018


On 11/29/18 00:46 +0000, Charles Bradshaw wrote:
>
>lm user/brad at bradcan.homelinux.com                      
>user/brad at bradcan.homelinux.com (\HasChildren)
>
>and the directory
>/var/spool/imap/domain/b/bradcan.homelinux.com/b/user/brad exists and is
>intact.

>Perhaps I should change my rsyslog configuration.
>https://cyrusimap.org/imap/installing.html has some alternative
>instructions.
>
>Will the following be more helpful?
>
>    |local6.*        /var/log/imapd.log|
>
>    |auth.debug      /var/log/auth.log|

Yes that should hopefully get you something useful from Cyrus to work with.
Some OS packages, like Debian, modifiy the syslog facility, so you may need
to consult your system documentation if that doesn't give appropriate output.

>On 28/11/2018 16:12, Dan White wrote:
>> On 11/28/18 15:21 +0000, Charles Bradshaw via Info-cyrus wrote:
>>> My tests while logged in to the server as brad:
>>>
>>> Nov 27 15:18:36 dell2600-1 sendmail[4801]: wARFIavg004801:
>>> to=<brad at bradcan.homelinux.com>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
>>> mailer=cyrusv2, pri=31677, relay=localhost [[UNIX:
>>> /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]], dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
>>
>> What do your cyrus syslog entries say?
>>
>> Does the output of 'lm' look correct?
>>
>>> and /etc/imapd.conf
>>> [root at dell2600-1 brad]# cat /etc/imapd.conf
>>> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>> admins: cyrus
>>> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>>> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>> hashimapspool: true
>>> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>>> #
>>> sasl_auxprop_plugin:sql
>>> #
>>> allowplaintext: no
>>> unixhierarchysep: yes
>>> virtdomains: userid


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