[Dovecot] Iphone IMAP access

Frank Bonnet f.bonnet at esiee.fr
Wed Jan 26 15:49:56 EET 2011


OK in my configuration I have

mail_location = mbox:%h/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

could you help to setup the rights namespaces to get it work ?

thank you


On 01/26/2011 01:37 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Am 26.01.2011 13:29, schrieb Frank Bonnet:
>> On 01/26/2011 01:23 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>> Am 26.01.2011 13:21, schrieb Frank Bonnet:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> When I use my iphone to access my IMAP folders I can see ALL folders
>>>> in my userland and not only those listed in .subscriptions file ...
>>>>
>>>> Anyone has an explaination of this ?
>>>>
>>>> Might be a security/confidentiality hole isn't it ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> iphone bug , wrong dovecot config ?
>>>    show dovecot config , ask apple you paid for it
>>>
>> here is my dovecot config
>>
>> mail# dovecot -n
>> # 1.2.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
>> # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE amd64
>> log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log
>> info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log
>> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve
>> listen(default): *
>> listen(imap): *
>> listen(pop3): *
>> listen(managesieve): *:2000
>> disable_plaintext_auth: no
>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
>> login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>> login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>> login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
>> login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login
>> login_processes_count: 20
>> login_max_processes_count: 1024
>> login_max_connections: 4096
>> max_mail_processes: 4096
>> verbose_proctitle: yes
>> mail_privileged_group: mail
>> mail_location: mbox:%h/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>> mbox_read_locks: flock
>> mbox_write_locks: flock
>> mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
>> mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
>> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
>> mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve
>> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
>> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
>> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
>> mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve
>> imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep
>> imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep
>> imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
>> imap_client_workarounds(managesieve):
>> pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv
>> pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv
>> pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu
>> pop3_uidl_format(managesieve): %08Xu%08Xv
>> managesieve_logout_format(default): bytes=%i/%o
>> managesieve_logout_format(imap): bytes=%i/%o
>> managesieve_logout_format(pop3): bytes=%i/%o
>> managesieve_logout_format(managesieve): bytes ( in=%i : out=%o )
>> lda:
>>    postmaster_address: postmaster at esiee.fr
>>    log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lda.log
>>    info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info-lda.log
>>    mail_plugins: sieve
>> auth default:
>>    worker_max_count: 100
>>    passdb:
>>      driver: passwd
>>    userdb:
>>      driver: passwd
>> plugin:
>>    sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve
>>    sieve_dir: ~/sieve
>>
>>
> read this might help
>
> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1393
>
> perhaps namespace problem
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces
>
> cant see this in your conf


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