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CarpCharacin:
I tried to follow this guide : https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-set-up-server-side-email-filtering-with-dovecot-sieve-and-roundcube-on-a-centos-6-vps/ to set up mail ifltering, I already had spamassasin installed.  For the filtering, I just added the filter for the spamassasin spam tag, not the other one, and when it said to run ## chown vmail: -R /etc/dovecot/sieve
## chown vmail:mail /var/log/dovecot-* it just said chown: invalid spec 'vmail'.  I followed the guide after that, but I didn't get to the point where I could enable the RoundCube extension.  Now when I try to log in, it just says connection to storage server failed.  How do I fix this?  It is imperative that I get my email working again ASAP.

JohnDoh:
you can't just skip errors. is the name of the user which your mail system run as vmail? it sounds like either a permissions error or some other error in your dovecot config is preventing it from starting. check the dovecot logs or may be the syslog.

CarpCharacin:
I'm not sure what the name of the user is, I just followed the guide.  I don't know much about setting up mail servers.  How do I check the dovecot logs?

JohnDoh:
for assistance with dovecot configuration you would probably be better off asking in the dovecot community than here. dovecot logs might be in /var/log/dovecot or may be in syslog. it depends how you have configured dovecot to do the logging. one of these commands might also give some more info "systemctl status dovecot.service" and "journalctl -xe".

it sounds like you are trying to enable sieve filterting on an existing mail setup rather than starting from scratch. so can you got get the user and group information from there? (may be look in the existing configs or check the ownership information on the files which make up your mailbox)

CarpCharacin:
Yeah it's on an existing mail setup.  I'll run those commands and post the outputs.  I just really need to get my email working again.

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