[Dovecot] UW-IMAP style mbox snarfing from /var/mail/ to ~/mbox

[Bernd Kuhls]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> http://dovecot.org/patches/mbox-snarf-plugin.c

Hi,

I just tried to setup this plugin on a Debian Etch machine but it 
crashes the Dovecot daemons.

Debian Etch uses the sourcecode of Dovecot 1.0rc15 + some patches.

I rebuilt the Dovecot packages -common, -imapd and -pop3d using

apt-get install apt-build
apt-build build-source dovecot-common

and installed them. Then I compiled the .c file mentioned above
inside the sourcedir created by apt-build by interrupting apt-build,
then issuing these commands:


cd /var/cache/apt-build/build/dovecot-1.0.rc15/
wget http://dovecot.org/patches/mbox-snarf-plugin.c

export DOVECOT=/var/cache/apt-build/build/dovecot-1.0.rc15

gcc -fPIC -shared -Wall -I$DOVECOT -I$DOVECOT/src/lib
-I$DOVECOT/src/lib-storage -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-mail
-I$DOVECOT/src/lib-imap -DHAVE_CONFIG_H      mbox-snarf-plugin.c -o
mbox_snarf_plugin.so

The compiled file mbox_snarf_plugin.so was copied to 
/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_mbox_snarf_plugin.so
with symlinks inside /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap and 
/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3.

I setup /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf according to your posting and 
restarted Dovecot. But accessing Dovecot with Thunderbird produces this:

> May 29 16:01:09 bach dovecot: Killed with signal 15
> May 29 16:01:10 bach dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
> May 29 16:01:24 bach dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<mail>, method=plain, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS
> May 29 16:01:24 bach dovecot: child 28786 (imap) killed with signal 11
> May 29 16:01:25 bach dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<mail>, method=plain, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS
> May 29 16:01:25 bach dovecot: child 28791 (imap) killed with signal 11
> May 29 16:01:25 bach dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<mail>, method=plain, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS
> May 29 16:01:25 bach dovecot: child 28795 (imap) killed with signal 11
> May 29 16:01:25 bach dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<mail>, method=plain, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS
> May 29 16:01:25 bach dovecot: child 28806 (imap) killed with signal 11

I suppose I did something wrong when compiling the module, but what?

Greetings, Bernd Kuhls