We removed a user’s account and then decided we still wanted access to the mailbox. After re-adding the account, SquirrelMail was saying nothing but:
ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
Query: CAPABILITY
To fix this, I looked at the UID of the fileowner of the email files. Then I edited /etc/passwd so that the re-added user had the same UID as the files. Then all worked correctly with Squirrelmail, hooray.
Very good idea. It worked for me too. Thanks a lot.
without removing a user account i am getting the same error. Please suggest what should i do. dovecot version is 0.99.11 on centos 4.4
Hi Pranab,
Did you check UID of the email files? Probably there is a permission issue between the user and the files.