Issues related to setting up and using your mailserver and mail clients-How to convert mbox files to Maildir manually-The mb2md script is a simple way to convert any mbox files over to Maildir.

First download the script from http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md, eg

wget http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/mb2md-3.20.pl.gz
gunzip mb2md-3.20.pl.gz
mv mb2md-3.20.pl mb2md
chmod 755 mb2md

For simpliciy, we’ve renamed the script to mb2md.

Once setup, you can then convert the account.

Here is a sample for converting virtual pop acounts

./mb2md -s /var/spool/virtual/domain.com/user -R -d /home/username/imap/domain.com/user/Maildir
cd /home/username/imap/domain.com/user/Maildir/cur
chown username:mail *
chmod 660 *

To convert the main system account:

./mb2md -s /var/spool/mail/username -R -d /home/username/Maildir
cd /home/username/Maildir/cur
chown username:mail *
chmod 660 *

The same method can be used to convert the mbox imap folders as well, eg:

./mb2md -s /home/username/imap/domain.com/user/mail -R -d /home/username/imap/domain.com/user/Maildir

More info here: Maildir conversion thread.  Includes a shell script to do this automatically for all users (posted by diradmin).

Cannot login with vm-pop3d: User ‘admin’ – failed auth, from=127.0.0.1

If you see:

User ‘admin’ – failed auth, from=127.0.0.1

in your /var/log/messages file, then you may have a newer setup for pam.  Edit your /etc/pam.d/vm-pop3d file.  Change:

#%PAM-1.0
auth       required    /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow
account    required    /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so

To:

#%PAM-1.0
auth       required    /lib/security/pam_unix.so shadow
account    required    /lib/security/pam_unix.so

A report for 64-bit systems, the vm-pop3d file should be

#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib64/security/pam_unix.so shadow
account required /lib64/security/pam_unix.so

Note that it’s recommended to upgrade to dovecot either way.

BYE Service not available xxx1.hostname.com IMAP4rev1 …

If you see the error:

Trying 127.0.0.1…
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
* BYE Service not available localhost.localdomain IMAP4rev1 2003.339 at Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:09:15 -0700 (MST)
Connection closed by foreign host.

Then delete your /etc/nologin file.

Prevent adding certain email names using the all_pre.sh script

If you wish to prevent users from adding email names like root, webmaster, postmaster, use the following code in your:
/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/all_pre.sh
script:

#!/bin/sh

blockaccount()
{
if [ “$user” = “$1” ] || [ “$newuser” = “$1” ]; then
echo “You cannot create an account named $1”;
exit 1;
fi
}

if [ “$command” = “/CMD_EMAIL_POP” ]; then
if [ “$action” = “create” ] || [ “$action” = “modify” ]; then

 

 

   fi
fi
exit 0;