[imp] IMP Permission denied error / user not authorized

[Gary]

Hi,

I'm not sure if I can be of much help, but it might be that you don't  
have a working mail server. You may not even have a mail server  
installed, although one is usually installed by default on most Linux  
systems. If it was me I'd start from the begining and make sure the  
mail server (postfix, qmail, exim ...) is configured for your host. If  
you want to send mail you definately need software to do that. You can  
test the setup with the command line mail client or something simple  
like mutt. Once you have the mail server working then you can use  
dovecot to setup user imap mailboxes (dovecot is not mandatory, there  
are other options). Then I would verify that everything is working  
with something like Sylpheed. After that looks good, follow the  
configuration steps for horde/imp.

On my ubuntu server (a home based network) I use postfix with  
dovecot-postfix and dovecot, configured to handle localhost mail only.  
I use fetchmail to get mail from outside my home network, but that's  
another subject entirely.

Good luck





Quoting Ravid <vid401t at gmail.com>:

> Hi guys,
>
> Very new to horde webmail and evaluating the product.
>
> I have installed:
>
> Horde (horde) 5.0.4
> Mail (imp) 6.0.4
> Dovecot 2.0.9
>
>
> Basically trying to get to a point in which I can create users and they can
> login and send mails to each other.  Thought it would be simple but I have
> been stuck for the last two days.
>
> I installed Horde just fine, was able to access the UI and configure the
> Database (using mysql).
>
> Where I run into a problem is the authentication part.  The only way I was
> able to configure it so it would allow me to create users was via SQL
> authentication and providing the exact field names in my table within my
> mysql database.
>
> This is all fine and dandy but when I try to access mail, on the portal page
> I see: "User is not authorized for imp" .  When I click on Mail, i get a
> login page and an error in my backend log:
>
> HORDE: User is not authorized for imp
>
> Then i check the  messages log:
>
> [imp] Error connecting to mail server. [13] Permission denied
>
> So at this point, I realize I need imp to work.  I go to configurations,
> Mail, and within the tabs I see, there isn't much to configure.  The
> important tab I think would've been Server, but when I click the dropdown in
> server list (NONE, SHOWN, HIDDEN), i get nothing.
>
> Reading the install guide for IMP, I realize I need an IMAP Server, so I run
> off and install Dovecot which I create a new user table called mailbox along
> with numerous other configurations and can telnet into it fine (telnet
> localhost 143) and I see the dovecot syntax:
>
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE
> STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
>
> (Using plain auth for now b/c this is just a test machine)
>
> a login admin xxxxx
> a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE
> SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT
> CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC
> ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in
>
>
> At this point, I'm not sure what to do.  How do I get IMP to play nicely
> with Dovecot and show me my mailboxes on Horde?
>
> I tried the IMP test.php and filled in the fields but all i get back is:
> Error connecting to mail server.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on what I'm missing?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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