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[Dovecot] Upgraded and authentication fails with LDAP
by Ren Galskap 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

FreeBSD 5.2.1 Upgraded to dovecot 0.99.12.1 After authentication failed, I also upgraded OpenLDAP to 2.2.19 Dovecot and OpenLDAP are now the most recent versions in the ports. I can access the LDAP info through the OpenLDAP client without a problem, so slapd seems to be working fine. Both dovecot and OpenLDAP worked fine before the upgrade. Any help will be appreciated, since several people would like to have their e-mail back soon. maillog Jan 13 18:51:02 kongemord imap-login: Internal login failure: rjhjr [127.0.0.1] Jan 13 18:51:02 kongemord dovecot: child 1320 (auth) killed with signal 6 messages Jan 13 18:51:02 kongemord kernel: pid 1320 (dovecot-auth), uid 1006: exited on signal 6 debug.log Jan 13 18:51:02 kongemord slapd[1103]: conn=14 op=1 SRCH base="ou=imap,dc=krig,dc=net" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=rjhjr))" Jan 13 18:51:02 kongemord slapd[1103]: conn=14 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jan 13 18:51:02 kongemord slapd[1103]: conn=14 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jan 13 18:51:02 kongemord slapd[1103]: conn=14 fd=12 closed Jan 13 18:51:03 kongemord slapd[1103]: conn=15 fd=12 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:54 185 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Jan 13 18:51:03 kongemord slapd[1103]: conn=15 op=0 BIND dn="cn=dovecot,ou=imap,dc=krig,dc=net" method=128 Jan 13 18:51:03 kongemord slapd[1103]: conn=15 op=0 BIND dn="cn=dovecot,ou=imap,dc=krig,dc=net" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Jan 13 18:51:03 kongemord slapd[1103]: conn=15 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = localhost dn = cn=dovecot,ou=imap,dc=krig,dc=net dnpass = <cleartext> ldap_version = 3 base = ou=imap, dc=krig, dc=net deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 1003 user_global_gid = 6 dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imap_listen = * ssl_disable = yes login_chroot = yes login = imap login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 1003 last_valid_uid = 1003 first_valid_gid = 6 last_valid_gid = 6 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%u/Maildir client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls mail_save_crlf = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes imap_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_user = dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes I had the following flags in the Makefile prior to make: --without-shadow --localstatedir=/var --with-ldap __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test61
by Timo Sirainen 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Fixes crashes with keyword code - Fixes some problems with parsing MIME multipart bodies - Fixes some problems with parsing mail addresses - Support %vars in LDAP base setting

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[Dovecot] Test 57 -> Test 60
by Andrew Hutchings 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

I just tried upgrading one of our mail cluster servers to test60 from test57. We have dovecot connecting to 3 different MySQL tables in 3 sql conf files. The error seems to stem from this: Jan 13 14:57:59 svr21 dovecot: auth(sql8): file auth-client-connection.c: line 31 (auth_client_send): assertion failed: (conn->refcount > 1) After this the auth process gets killed with signal 6. The sql8 is the config in use at the time, but can be any of the 3. I take it this is the auth process not liking the 3 auth lookups (refcount > 1)? Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / NWLUG Admin (http://www.nwlug.org.uk) Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] default_ldap_settings' value
by Kazuo Moriwaka 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hello, When I tested LDAP auth dovecot-auth caught segv, and I found that auth_cache_parse_key() doesn't check query == NULL. I think db-ldap.c/default_ldap_settings.pass_filter should have non-null default value. Please check following patch. regards, -- Kazuo Moriwaka <moriwaka(a)valinux.co.jp> Index: db-ldap.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/db-ldap.c,v retrieving revision 1.24 diff -r1.24 db-ldap.c 62c62 < MEMBER(pass_filter) NULL, --- > MEMBER(pass_filter) "(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))",

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[Dovecot] Dovecot create mbox files. But why?
by Mirko Schulze 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hi there, my dovecot is now running normaly, but there is a small problem.... We want to to use the maildir format at the mailstorage. But the imap part of dovecot creates the for mbox specific files, but why? I created a passwd-file for a testuser. At this tme, there is only on line: test2@dev2.abc.de:ujAN28k8.5zV2:99:99:*:*:*:* in dovecot.conf are these interesting lines: auth_userdb = static uid=99 gid=99 home=/vrmd/pop3imap/links2mailboxes/%u/Maildir auth_passdb = passwd-file /vrmd/mailin/conf/pop3imapdb.passdb.txt I think, if a path ends of /Maildir dovecot will autodetect the maildir format. So what is wrong? Regards Mirko

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[Dovecot] using separate authentication based on protocol
by Marius Stan 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hello, I wonder if it's possible to use a different query for authenticating users against the mysql db based on the protocol used: IMAP or POP3. This could come handy for not allowing my users who switched to IMAP from accidentally getting all their mail through a POP3 connection. Using dovecot-0.99.10 here. Marius

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[Dovecot] imap-dovecot accept only from localhost
by Mirko Schulze 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hi, i want to configure the imap (not imaps) server to accept connections from everywhere. I can't find a command to configure dovecot in this way. Can anybody help me? Thanx Mirko

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[Dovecot] How to configure auth_userdb and auth_passwd?
by Mirko Schulze 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hi! i want to configure dovecot to use a modified passwdfile. A linie in this file looks like this: "username: <TAB> crypted_password" how i have to use the auth_userdb and auth_passwd command? Now i have: auth_userdb = passwd-file /path/file auth_passwd = passwd-file /path/file (same file) dovecot is starting normaly (i think) but a authentification test via telnet doesnt work. Any suggestions? Thanx a lot. Mirko

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[Dovecot] Maildir configure problem
by Mirko Schulze 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hi, i want to configure the maildir support. We are using a "multi-level" maildir, so i'm not sure about the default_mail_env command. the Maildir for the user testuser1(a)dev.test.de is located here: .../mailboxes /t (first char of the top-domainname) /te (the first both chars of the top-domainame /test.de (the top domain) /dev (the subdomain) /testuser1 (the username) /Maildir actually i'm using this command (I know, thats not complete *smile*): default_mail_env = maildir:/............./mailboxes/%1d/%2d/%d/%n/Maildir How can i name the subdomain? And is %d only the topdomain, like "test.de" in my example? Thanx a lot for your help Regards Mirko

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[Dovecot] Bug report for test-60
by Juergen Daubert 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

I got the following with mbox and test-60: Jan 12 20:11:17 ser dovecot: IMAP(juergen): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 57 (mail_keyword_transaction_free): assertion failed: (kt->keywords->kt == NULL) Jan 12 20:11:17 ser dovecot: child 24762 (imap) killed with signal 6 but only if I try to move/copy a larger number of messages, around >30, from on folder to another. MUA: mutt, no other problems so far. Greetings Juergen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux

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[Dovecot] delivery to incorrect user
by jpollara＠lawnchair.net 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Yesterday a user reported to me that she received a bunch of emails that were not addressed to her. I'm using dovecot version 0.99.11 along with postfix and amavisd-new. I don't know how this happened because each mail file in /var/mail/ is only readable by the user. Has anyone ever heard of this happening before?

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RE : [Dovecot] dovecot + mysql (complements)
by MAGALLON Lionel 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Hi, OK, it works now. Thanks -----Message d'origine----- De : dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] De la part de mat(a)reynerie.org Envoyé : mercredi 12 janvier 2005 19:48 À : dovecot(a)dovecot.org Objet : Re: [Dovecot] dovecot + mysql (complements) On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:26:39PM +0100, MAGALLON Lionel wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I've done some supplementary tests with tcpdump. > Apparently, with a login containing the % character, > there's no query send to MySQL. > > Do you know if the % character is filtered by dovecot ? with my config yes, see auth_username_chars in your dovecot.conf -- Matthieu Clavier <mat(a)reynerie.org> Sola dosis facit venenum - Paracelse (1493-1541)

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[Dovecot] dovecot + mysql (complements)
by MAGALLON Lionel 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Hi, I've done some supplementary tests with tcpdump. Apparently, with a login containing the % character, there's no query send to MySQL. Do you know if the % character is filtered by dovecot ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] dovecot + mysql
by MAGALLON Lionel 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Hi, I've got a problem of authenticating users when they've got the % character in their login name. It always returns -ERR Authentication failed. I've done some tests (explained below). 1. the mysql answer to SELECT password FROM users WHERE uid = 'foo%domain.com' is 123 2. the mysql answer to SELECT password FROM users WHERE uid = 'foo(a)domain.com' is 123 3. with a password_query like this : password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE uid = '%u' it works fine with foo(a)domain.com but not with foo%domain.com 4. everybody can login with password 123 with a password_query like this : password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE uid = 'foo%domain.com' => I don't know what's done with the % character when passed to the %u variable. Can somebody enlight me ? Thanks a lot.

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[Dovecot] link() failed / maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=no / maildir-save.c.patch
by David C. Reeve 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Hi, I have recently been having a small problem with Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.13) not honouring the "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks" config option, specifically when it is set to "no". This results in errors to the syslog looking like: Jan 12 09:59:21 imap imap(dave): link(/afs/.../tmp/1105541958.P1137Q0M41428.imap, /afs/.../new/1105541958.P1137Q0M41428.imap:2,S) failed in maildir_copy: Invalid cross-device link The supplied patch will, when maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=no, rename files inside maildir's instead of hard linking them, hence honouring the configuration option. A word of caution! This all relies on the filenames in maildir being unique (which they should be, and this shouldn't be a problem, but..). It is possible (although unlikely) that renaming the file could destroy a file in the target directory; no checking is done to assure this is not the case! (If you are paranoid you can always write another patch). Yes I am using AFS (openafs specifically) to hold my maildir's, which does not support hard links. However AFS assures that rename operations are atomic so we can use that instead (this may be the case for other filling systems that do not allow hard links). Hope that helps some one else ;) Dave -- David C. Reeve <David.Reeve(a)pnsol.com> Predictable Network Solutions

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth zombie procs
by jpollara＠lawnchair.net 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Hi, every now and then it seems as if dovecot-auth zombie's out. When this happens nobody can log in. If I kill all the dovecot-auth processes and then restart dovecot everything seems to work again. I'm authenticating against an openldap server on a debian sarge box so I wonder if this has anything to do with it. All my clients are using Outlook. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Josh

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[Dovecot] Re: maildir and /var/spool/mail
by C.Lee Taylor 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Greetings ... > Not sure what to do next. Have imap working in that I can see messages > in inbox. When I create a folder it won't create one. Looking at maillog > shows that I don't have rights to folder /var/spool/mail/.sent or > whatever folder I am trying to create. I have procmailrc and > dovecot.conf point to /home/Maildir but for some reason something is > tied to /var/spool/mail. Of course I am running FC3 and sendmail. > Someone have any ideas as to what to try next? I'm not sure of the rest of the history with this, but my FC3 installation has [root@nasrec etc]# cat /etc/procmailrc PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ #VERBOSE=on #LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail [root@nasrec etc]# ll /etc/procmailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 May 2 2004 procmailrc I do remember having to delete the old mail box of one of my installs, where I had started using dovecot before putting in my procmailrc file ... I stop dovecot, imap* and pop3* ... Removed all the wrong mailboxs both in user folder and in /var/spool/mail ... Ran mail -s Test user Type a message here < Press Control-D here > Message gets delieverd in maildir format, start dovecot and all seemed well. I hope this helps. Mailed Lee

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[Dovecot] Howto host multiple domains
by Mesut Bayrak 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

i dont know howto host multiple domains with dovecot are there any way to make it ?

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[Dovecot] can not connect to dovecot using ssl
by Jay Gustafson 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

I can connect using imap, but when I try using ssl (imaps) I get a can not connect to server error. I have in my dovecot.conf protocols = imaps imap imap_listen = * imaps_listen = * I DO get a connection when I telnet to port 993 of my server (both localhost and remote work). Any help much appreciated.. Jay

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[Dovecot] Re: delivery agent in 1.0?
by Apostolos Papayanakis 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 Geo Carncross wrote: > How about a dovecot-inject tool that writes a message to whatever is > considered the $LOCAL user? It wouldn't have to do much but write the > message (safely) and update indexes -- something dovecot already has to > do. I hope there will soon be a plain delivering tool for dovecot 1.x. I could use it right away as the delivering step with procmail, which would run it under recipient's uid and context (all recipients are real unix users in my case). Without a local delivery agent, dovecot will always seem slower than its rivals when opening INBOXes with new mails, especially large ones, because of index creation delays. A good LMTP implementation has its benefits, but many people have to do without it. -- Apostolis Papayanakis apap(a)ccf.auth.gr, 2310-998416 On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:44:15 -0500 > From: Geo Carncross <geocar-dovecot(a)internetconnection.net> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] delivery agent in 1.0? > To: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Cc: " Branko F. Gra?nar " <bfg(a)noviforum.si>, dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <1103820255.3898.126.camel(a)midget.intranet> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 > > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 17:52 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On 23.12.2004, at 16:06, Branko F. Graθnar wrote: > > > > > Is there any plan to include delivery agent in 1.x? > > > > I'll need to implement one in next few months, so yes. > > > > Hmm. This brings to my mind again that it would need Sieve, and mvmf > > might be a good base for it, but it's still not open source (Mark? :) > > It may be difficult to please everyone. I could have use for [some > elements of] a dovecot-lda but zero use for sieve... > > > > > I would be very happy, if there would be lmtp delivery agent included > > > with dovecot 1.x... This would make creating large mailsystem cluster > > > creation very simple + indexes would be always up2date. > > > > I'm not sure when I'll get around to implementing LMTP server. It's > > actually a bit annoying to implement because it needs to be able to > > deliver mail into multiple accounts, and if each one stores mails with > > different UID, it needs to either run as root (bad) or launch multiple > > processes and do IPC with them. > > How about a dovecot-inject tool that writes a message to whatever is > considered the $LOCAL user? It wouldn't have to do much but write the > message (safely) and update indexes -- something dovecot already has to > do. > > That way: > > * People who do delivery without LMTP baggage aren't treated as second- > class citizens. > > * Sieve implementations merely have to treat "keep" and "fileinto" as > subprocesses. > > * LMTP implementations can do the work they've already have to do > (regarding mapping email addresses to local users) and simply hook into > the sieve processor or the dovecot-inject, or anything else the > administrator/user likes. > > Formally, dovecot-inject would need the following information: > > 1. the envelope recipient ($RECIPIENT) > 2. the envelope sender/return-path/errors-to-address ($SENDER) > 3. the IMAP folder to write the message to (argv[1]) > > On systems with shared-uids, dovecot-inject would also need the concept > of the "localpart" of the address thats applicable. dovecot already > needs to know this in order to ACCESS the maildrop. ($LOCAL) > > This would keep things very easy to integrate without resorting to > shared libraries, "plugin system" nonsense, or forcing people to make > extra levels of indirection (lmtpclient) in order to benefit from pre- > login indexing... > > > > I suppose I'd implement it so that the actual LMTP talking would be > > done in a process very similar to imap/pop3-login processes, ie. > > completely unprivileged. Then it would tell master process to launch > > delivery agent processes to specific users, and those delivery agents > > then would get the mail from lmtp process via .. um. read-only shared > > memory + semaphores might be better than just copying the data over > > pipes/sockets? > > blah blah blah... > >

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test60
by Timo Sirainen 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ I've been running this for two hours now without problems. I guess it's pretty stable. - Keyword support finally included. Not too well tested, but I couldn't get it to break. Doesn't store the keywords into maildir/mbox yet. Hopefully soon. - Major reorganization of code in dovecot-auth, and not yet finished. Load balancing between multiple auth procsses (ie. auth_count > 1) was before done by connecting to each one's socket separately. Now there's a single socket which a balancer process listens to and distributes the requests to worker processes. What's left to do is make a single auth process support handling multiple auth sections in config file. This makes it possible to: - have ordering-sensitive fallbacking for multiple passdbs - have fallbacking work with non-plaintext authentication - allow for all kinds of new great features more easily. For example we could add PAM-like "required" vs. "sufficient" selection for auth sections, or some rules when each passdb is used (eg. based on username, domain or IP range). After that it should also be easy to run dovecot-auth standalone because it would read its own config file. I'm also planning on making it compatible with Postfix's master process, so you could directly add it to master.cf (actually I think I only have to move one fd from 3 to 6 and it'd work). - Added "passdb" userdb. Basically means that the passdb already returned all the information needed for userdb. With SQL this means you could do: SELECT password, uid AS userdb_uid, gid AS userdb_gid, home AS userdb_home FROM ... - If authentication failed because of some internal error, tell it to client instead of showing a generic "Authentication failed." error. - MySQL driver supports load balancing between multiple servers. Just add a new host=xx to connect string. It's not currently supported to have different usernames/passwords. Probably not worth it? - rawlog code rewritten. Should work better. - If userdb returns non-numeric UID or GID, look it up from passwd/group. - Rewritten message address parser. The old code could have lost some spaces and might have even returned invalid MIME string because of it. This affected only clients which use FETCH ENVELOPE command. - mbox: If lines began with NUL characters, things broke. Also fixed another potential problem with parsing mboxes. As a result hopefully these fix a problem with expunge sometimes leaving a few extra characters to beginning of mbox. - Added mail_debug setting which logs where and how Dovecot is trying to locate mails. Helpful when initially figuring out why Dovecot isn't working right. auth_debug=yes now also logs all SQL queries and LDAP lookups and some other things. - etc.

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[Dovecot] IMAP crashes with signal 10 (SIGBUS)
by Joseph Tam 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

I wrote: > Any idea on what's causing this? > > Description: > imap process crashed with SIGBUS. > > Versions: > OS: Solaris 8, 9 > Dovecot: 1.0-test57 > Gcc: 3.2 same with 3.4.3 > > Backtrace: > #0 mbox_file_seek (ibox=0x8d9b0, view=0x8dc38, seq=2, deleted_r=0xffbef40c) at mbox-file.c:119 > ... Subsequent versions still crashed and I looked into the problem further. Specifically it crashes at this line offset = *((const uint64_t *)data); when "data" assumes a non-64 bit aligned value. At first I thought that 64-bit ints should always be aligned on 64-bit boundaries, but when I isolated this code into a standalone executable to demonstrate it (no arguments to cause a crash, one argument is OK): int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { int a[]={1,2,3,4}; long long int i64; void *p=(void *) (&a[argc]);; printf("Pointer to 32-bit int = %x\n",p); i64 = *((long long int *)p); printf("Successful casting to 64-bit int: value=%016llx\n",i64); } I found out that the presence of any optimisation (-O, -O2, -O3) will cause this to crash, yet it will work if no optimisation is present even though a pointer being cast is still not aligned on a 64-bit boundary (but aligned on a 32-bit boundary). I check the gcc bug web page page came up with this reference which may explain this behaviour. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known - see section "Casting does not work as expected when optimization is turned on" http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2003/08/11/0001.html They claim that this casting violates ISO aliasing rules and the results like crashing are to be expected. Maybe this statement ought to be rewritten memcpy(&offset,data,sizeof(uint64_t)); There is one other statement at mbox-synbc.c:319 (1.0-test59) that may need this consideration. Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] ldap auth (with user and domain a different places)
by Timo Boettcher 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Hi, I am trying to use dovecot with my virtual-hosting setup. I have all users in LDAP like uid=user,dc=domain.tld,o=myorganization for the user with the mail-address user(a)domain.tld. This is also the username that user should use for login, but it is nowhere in the ldap-db in this form together, just user and domain at their own places. Is it possible to authenticate with dovecot against such an ldap-directory? After reading docs and comments in the config-file, I think no, but I am not sure. As I read the source, it is not possible just now, but would be, if I could use %d in the searchbase. Or did I understand something wrong? TIA Timo Boettcher

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[Dovecot] dovecot + vpopmail
by Chris L. Franklin 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

I was just wondering how dovecot interacts with vpopmail. Does it just call the vchkpw and pass the username and password to it then wait for a it to tell dovecot weather the user is vaild or not ? Does vchkpw pass back the users homedir ? PS. My plan is to just replace vchkpw with a script/program of own. that dovecot can call to auth a user again xmail passwd file. And using "auth_passdb = static uid=<uid> gid=<gid> home=<dir template> mail=<dir template>" to fill in all the holes. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] imap catches sig 11 on EXPUNGE
by Thomas Lofgren 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Debian unstable, x86 # dovecot --version 0.99.12 # tail /var/log/mail.log ... Jan 6 16:56:55 gecko dovecot: child 16505 (imap) killed with signal 11 ... When I use squirrelmail, the imap process always segfaults when I try to enter my INBOX group. Squirrelmail produces the following error message: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: EXPUNGE When I use gnus, I can enter the group just fine, but gnus/emacs hangs on exit (100% reproducible, as is the squirrelmail case). Turning on debug info I catch this in the imap log: 37 UID SEARCH UID 1098 NOT SINCE 30 DEC 2004 * SEARCH 37 OK Search completed. 38 EXPUNGE read:errno=0 (hangs until emacs is killed) So in each case, it seems to happen on EXPUNGE. I got it to produce a core file, and this is the backtrace: (gdb) where #0 0x08071a58 in mail_index_lookup_field_raw () #1 0x080666b6 in mbox_mail_get_location () #2 0x08063111 in mbox_is_valid_mask () #3 0x08063553 in mbox_expunge_locked () #4 0x0806a9c3 in index_storage_expunge () #5 0x08051cc6 in cmd_expunge () #6 0x08054ae9 in _client_reset_command () #7 0x08054b78 in _client_input () #8 0x0808b108 in io_loop_handler_run () #9 0x0808aa98 in io_loop_run () #10 0x0805ac29 in main () Please let me know if I can provide any further information. I don't subscribe to the mailing list, but I'll try to keep up on the archive in the next few days. Thanks, Tom

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[Dovecot] migration from bincIMAP
by RYAN vAN GINNEKEN 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello all I am using Freebsd 4.10stable, postfix 2.1.5 with SASL and TLS, procmail version 3.22 and binc IMAP 1.2.8 binc uses IMAPdir style mail boxes, Spam assassin, and ClamAV. Wish to convert to dovecot but your program does not support IMAPdir does it??? also i have many user accounts that i wish to use untouched if possible. I guess this is a migration question for the most part i am switching to dovecot because of its ability to use postgre database files and real log file. Is there a simple way to achieve this without losing any of my users mail? -- COMPUTER KING for all your computer needs http://www.computerking.ca email luck(a)computerking.ca phone 403-613-LUCK (5825) Hosting, Networking, Disaster Recovery, and Virus Removal solutions fit for royalty. Intel based SYSTEMS Toshiba Fujutsu Sony Acer and many more LAPTOPS Full line of high quality PARTS Current Specials Samsung printers and HOSTING packages

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[Dovecot] Where are flags stored?
by Adam Pordzik 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello, I don't now wheather this is IMAP or actually dovecot-specific, but I hope you people here knows about this at least: Where are flags like seen/unseen or e.g. message-priority stored? My goal is to mark spam or other filtered by procmail as "seen", so that dovecot doesn't notify MUAs about new mail in IDLE mode. Are there any mail-headers, so I can set these with procmail to accomplish that? Thanks for help, A

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[Dovecot] Repair/Cleaup Maildir
by Glen Eustace 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

After having fought an issue with Courier-imap on FC3 for a week (that is still unresolved), I decided to try Dovecot instead. So far, fingers crossed, the issue has not re-occured. Migrating from courier-imap/sqwebmail to Dovecot/Squirrelmail was reasonably painless but I now have an problem. Is there a utility available to cleanup/repair the maildir tree for each user ? As part of the migration, I copied all of the courierimapsubscribed files to .subscriptions and removed the leading 'INBOX'. This seemed to be enough to get things going. Unfortunately, people who had only ever used webmail didn't have a courierimapsubscribed file. When they next used squirrelmail, a new .subscriptions file was created but didn't contain their folders. I tried to fix this by recreating the subscriptions file for each user and adding in all the .directories in their maildir root. I now have a maildir hierarchy with lots of crud in it. I need a utility to go through and deleted all the files that shouldn't be there anymore and to ensure that the subscriptions files are correct. Does such a utility exist ? If not, can anyone tell me where I can find a good description of what Dovecot expects to find in maildirs so I can write one myself. Any suggestions/help appreciated. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen and Rosanne Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 5301 Ph/Fax: +64 6 357 8168, Mob: +64 27 5 424 015, Web: www.godzone.net.nz "A Ministry specialising in providing low-cost professional Internet Services to NZ Christian Churches, Ministries and Organisations"

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[Dovecot] Extremely Slow Pop3 Downloads, Evolution 2.0.2
by Michael Joy 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello All, We've been running Dovecot for imap for quite some time and have had little trouble with it. However, we recently switched over to using dovecot for pop3 because of simplicity as well as security issues with the older UW based pop server. I've noticed one serious problem. The only client that seems to have any issue at all with the server is Evolution. In pop3 mode, it takes a minute or more to download a few messages on an inbox with 400+ saved messages in it over gigabit ethernet. Over a DSL connection using MS Outlook 2k3 it takes about a minute total for all messages. Similarly with KMail it takes about 5-10 seconds to download all messages in the pop3 box. The messages trickle in with evolution 2.x, I've tried 2.0.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2 and all have this problem. I haven't tried the 1.x series as I don't have any linux boxes that old available to test. So apparently, there's two things of concern. 1. The server is definitely fast enough to handle the large mail box. 2. There's some serious incompatibility in Evolution/Dovecot causing for the 14.4 modem email download speeds over lan. We're running Dovecot 0.99.12 on Debian unstable, however 0.99.11 exhibited this behavior as well. If anyone has some hints, I'd greatly appreciate it. It's annoying having to wait 5-10 min to download mail in the morning when one gets into work ;) If there's any other information I can provide, please ask. Thanks to whichever kind soul finds time to trudge through this problem with us. Michael D. Joy HEP - University of Mississippi mdjoy(a)phy.olemiss.edu

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[Dovecot] dovecot adds "Status: O"
by Vegard Svanberg 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Dovecot adds the "Status: O" header when users download their email. Why? -- Vegard Svanberg <vegard(a)svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]

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[Dovecot] multiple domains howto
by Mesut Bayrak 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

i dont know howto host multiple domains with dovecot are there any way to make it ?

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[Dovecot] Errors: file istream.c: line 135... assertion failed
by Pawel Burchard 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

I'm getting thease messages in log file: file istream.c: line 135 (i_stream_skip): assertion failed: (stream->v_size == 0 || stream->v_offset + count <= stream->v_size) kernel: pid 23364 (pop3), uid 1042: exited on signal 6 It doesn't happen very often, but I'd like to know what is causing them, any ideas? Should I be worried about it ? System is freebsd, format is mbox and dovecot is 0.99.12.1 -- PB - burcharp(a)iem.pw.edu.pl

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[Dovecot] Cannot access a file with Mulberry from a dovecot server if the mail does not end with a newline character.
by Sven Kirmess 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

I use Mulberry 3.1.6 on Windows to read my mails with dovecot 0.99.12 Solaris 9. There are some mail which I cannot read. When I try to open such a mail, dovecot quits and restarts (I can see that with ps, nothing is logged). The Mulberry log just looks like this: | --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | A00009 FETCH 695 (BODY.PEEK[1]) | * 695 FETCH (BODY[1] {61} | | --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | * OK dovecot ready. | | --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | A00001 CAPABILITY | * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE AUTH=PLAIN | A00001 OK Capability completed Looks like it just restarts the connection. The interesting thing is, that I can access the file with Netscape 4.8 via dovecot. The problem is the following: I copied the file in the Maildir directory, opened the copied file with vi and saved it. Now, I run a diff: | $ diff orig:2,S copy:2,S | Warning: missing newline at end of file orig:2,S | 12c12 | < <http://forums.mtgnews.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35559> | --- | > <http://forums.mtgnews.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35559> As you can see, vi adds the newline on the last line automatically if you save the file. Now, Mulberry/dovecot is able to read this file. I'm not sure if this is a dovecot or Mulberry problem. btw: This problematic mail was created with Mulberry 3.1.6. ;-) Sven

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[Dovecot] Feature-request: ip based access control (libwrap)
by Bengt-Arne Fjellner 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Is there plans to use libwrap Or is there already some kind of access control i have missed?? What i really want is a mechanism so i can say: If The request comes from "123.121.212.0" dont offer ssl and accept plain else demand ssl and no plain I now have this (almost) in another imap server by xinetd and two ip addresses. I could solve this by iptables or access list on the router but i would prefer to have it in the software itself. (Sorry if this is a faq i have tried to check before i posted this) -- Bengt-Arne Fjellner Luleå technical university

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[Dovecot] Japanese Search
by Kazuo Moriwaka 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Hello, I'm trying to debug search command with Japanese 'ISO-2022-JP' codec. ISO-2022-JP codec needs to keep character cases until convert to UTF-8. For example: * '\033[$B%s\033[(B' means a character sounds 'N' * '\033[$B%S\033[(B' means a character sounds 'Bi' It causes a trouble in searches with Japanese. I found imap/imap-search.c/add_new() makes strings uppercase and fixed. But search results didn't affected.. ;-) I hope I can fix this problem in a few days. But I'm not clear about dovecot's source. If you have hints, please tell me. thanks, -- Kazuo Moriwaka moriwaka(a)valinux.co.jp

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[Dovecot] CRASH with squirrelmail.
by St0rM 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

I'm using: [root@gwydion root]# rpm -q squirrelmail dovecot squirrelmail-1.4.3-0.f1.1 dovecot-0.99.12-2.1.fc1.rf [root@gwydion root]# It works very good (a bit slow I would say, but ok)... until I enable MySQL auth mechanism. When I do that, dovecot-auth crashes when squirrelmail try to login. I keep getting: Jan 7 01:28:31 gwydion dovecot: child 22782 (auth) killed with signal 11 Also, i often get a "stuck" dovecot-auth in R state, looping in a malloc() (if needed I should have a backtrace). This is the bt: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x004f4096 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x004f4096 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x004f301b in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0x0805b73f in pool_alloconly_destroy () #3 0x08051b11 in mech_plain_auth_free () #4 0x0805135b in mech_request_free () #5 0x080509dd in master_handle_request () #6 0x08050a93 in master_input () #7 0x08065854 in master_pos () #8 0x0000000c in ?? () #9 0x086b2a58 in ?? () #10 0xbfec27c4 in ?? () #11 0xbfec27cc in ?? () #12 0xbfec2718 in ?? () #13 0x0805aa98 in io_loop_handler_run () #14 0x0000000e in ?? () (gdb) select 2 (gdb) quit Is there an easy way to enable -g2 in the Makefile, using configure script? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Using Dovecot with Thunderbird 1.0 on Macintosh
by Rick Flower 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Hi.. (and Happy New Year).. I tried switching over from Apple's Mail client (applemail) that is part of Panther to using Thunderbird 1.0 and find that all of the folders in my imap mailbox are messed up. Below is what Thunderbird is claiming the folder structure looks like : Inbox Arch Archiv Archive BMW Co E-Bay M Miscellaneous ML Bargains CKF Que Sof Sonn Ideally, the way it looks in Applemail looks more like the following: Inbox Archive BMW CarFax Coupons E-Bay Miscellaneous ML Bargains CKF [and a bunch of others that were missing from Thunderbird] Nextel OpexLD Palm Paypal Quest SW Realtors Registrations+Purchases Schoolpop ... [others] Software Updates Sonnet ... [others] Any ideas on what is going on here? I just moved to DoveCot 0.99.12, but it doesn't appear to make any distance. Also, if I try to pull up any of the weird folders in Thunderbird, it of course complains about the folders not existing.. Any ideas on how to get around this would be much appreciated! Thanks! -- Rick

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[Dovecot] problem with default_mail_env
by Roi Efrati 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

I'v set the default_mail_env to maildir:/var/maildir/%d/%u where /var/maildir/ is the root dorectory for my maildir tree and I'm getting the folowing error in the maillog : Jan 3 15:16:58 websrv pop3(roi): unlink(/var/maildir//roi/cur/new:2,T) failed: Is a directory Notice that the %d is missing. If I change to 'default_mail_env = maildir:/var/maildir/example.tld/%u' then it's all working fine only I can't create other virtual domains. If anybody can help me solve this one...

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[Dovecot] header search for splitted word
by Kazuo Moriwaka 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hello, I wrote a patch for header search about a word over two lines. Please check it. For example, following header string contains a word splitted into two mime encoded block. It's normal behavior of MUAs in CJK environment. Subject: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?Sk1CGyRCJUQlIiE8JUslZSE8JTkhIRsoQkpBTBskQiVBJWMhPCU/GyhC?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCITxKWCRHOVQkLxsoQiAbJEI0WjlxGyhCLxskQiVRJWklKhsoQi8bJEIlNSUkJVElcxsoQg==?= And now, dovecot search command miss to search the word. word : "ABCDE" MIMED : "AB\r\n\tCDE" search(now): "AB CDE" this patch: "ABCDE" This patch has a bad side effect that in English or other languages, two words is connected. For example, > This is a > sample. matches to "asample". I think this is not a big problem, but if there is a good solution, please let me know. best regards, -- Kazuo Moriwaka moriwaka(a)valinux.co.jp Index: src/lib-mail/message-header-search.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-mail/message-header-search.c,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -r1.13 message-header-search.c 149c149 < chr = ' '; --- > chr = '\t'; 153c153 < if (chr == '\r' || chr == '\n') --- > if (chr == '\r' || chr == '\n' || chr == '\t')

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[Dovecot] possible bug with mail->get_header and caching?
by Johannes Berg 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I don't know if this is intended or not, but here it comes. I have * that copy plugin I was working on * dovecot 1.0-test59 * thunderbird test client My copy plugin looks for the X-DSPAM-Signature header line, and reports it to syslog as such: imap: we have a signature: "X-DSPAM-Signature: <sig>" where <sig> is replaced by what is found in the header line. This only happens when I copy in/out of the SPAM folder (which works fine). Now, when a mail is copied from INBOX to SPAM that doesn't have the signature line, I return an error to the client saying the user can't do that copy since the signature line is necessary. I detect the condition of not having that signature line by checking like this: if (!(signature = mail->get_header(mail, "X-DSPAM-Signature")) { ... return error ... } This works fine, error comes back. Second try, copying a mail that has the header line: works. So, lets do some code changes, disconnect and reconnect to reload the plugin. All of a sudden, copying mails that don't have the header line works too! Uhh? Lets go looking at syslog: imap: we have a signature: "X-DSPAM-Signature: " The only rational explanation I could come up with is that dovecot caches the header line and somehow decided that since it knows about the X-DSPAM-Signature header line mails that don't contain it should have an empty version of it. Well, I can of course test for this (and I actually should anyway, an empty signature isn't useful to dspam), but I do think this is a bug since it makes distinguishing between empty and non-present header lines impossible. Regards, johannes

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[Dovecot] PostgreSQL user database
by Marco Herrn 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hi, I am using postgresql for my password and user databases. The problem is, that the information needed in the user database is held in more than one table. But it seems to me that dovecot expects to get all the information for mailbox, uid, gid and home in _one_ query. Is there a way to get around this? Maybe even getting some of this information by another way than pgsql (this is more a rethorical question, since I have this information in the DB, but sometimes it is useful to get, for example the location of the mailbox by another way than the uid and gid). But my primary question is if I can set these fields in different queries. Regards Marco -- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. -- Marco Herrn _ ___ o ' (_)< _ _ _>(__'> o 0 (_X % >(_`> O o _; _;'7^'_ \;\ % (GnuPG/PGP-encrypted mail preferred) _;\ _.\ _.';;) ;,;_/; Key ID: 0x94620736 _ _'./_$'))_; );/$}/`fsc

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + MySql (NO PAM) Howto
by Roi Efrati 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

As mentioned before, I got Dovecot with Fedora and it does not have the necessary documentation. Can some one please direct me to the correct path of making this type of configuration work. I got Dovecot to authorize the users Via PAM & Mysql but still getting errors (acct_mgmt & setcred) that I can't figure out how to solve.

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[Dovecot] virtual hosting
by Tom Allison 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I'm trying to figure out how I might set up some virtual hosting accounts for my server. domain1 would be delivered via procmail to ~/Maildir mail directories domain2 would be delivered via postfix to /var/mail/vhosts/domain2/username and similarly for additional domains. There's also one domain that's delivered to another machine, but that's not a dovecot issue. I just mention it for completeness. currently I have only domain1 and only: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir I'm not really sure how to set this up for additional locations of maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/Maildir (This seems right?) Right now I'm wondering if I have to do one of the following: create two instances of dovecot with seperate configuration files? move everything to /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/Maildir data structure and the rewrite all my local (~/Maildir) procmail rules to manage delivery.. This is seeming sticky?

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[Dovecot] why dovecot try to access the uses's home?
by Farkas Levente 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

hi, after i try to use dovecot with ldap i configure dovecot as: ------------------------ first_valid_uid = 499 last_valid_uid = 499 first_valid_gid = 499 last_valid_gid = 499 default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mail/%d/%n auth_userdb = static uid=499 gid=499 home=/home/users/%d/%n auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf ------------------------ but after this i've got the error in imap.log: ------------------------ dovecot: Dec 29 14:39:14 Fatal: chdir(/home/users/<username>) failed with uid 499: Permission denied ------------------------ i see the reason since each user has it's own uid and uid 499 can't access to the users home which has 0700 access right. but why dovecot would like to access the user's home? does it nessesary? since in this case one static uid can be usable or this uid has to be read (write?) access to all user's home. is there any usage of static uid in this case? yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] Outlook can't download messages with no subject and empty body
by Bob 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

My Outlook POP3 clients can't download messages that have empty subjects and bodies. I'm running 0.99.11-1.1.fc2 and have added the following line to dovecot.conf client_workarounds = outlook-pop3-no-nuls This didn't help. Any help would be appreciated, Bob

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[Dovecot] Debugging msync() failed errors
by Doug Luce 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

>From today's maillog: maillog:Dec 28 09:29:40 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/.projects.job591/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:30:21 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:30:22 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:30:28 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:44:46 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/.projects.job591/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:44:47 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:49:10 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/dovecot.index: Invalid argument Can anyone slip me some advice on how to properly go about debugging this problem? Is there a way to check the .index file? Can anyone make an educated guess as to what section of code is the likely culprit? Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] Assistant access
by Doug Luce 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Does anyone have a clue how I might set Dovecot up to allow another account to have read/write access to my INBOX and one other folder? I want to set things up so my assistant can pre-scan my post-Spamassassed email to remove more spam from it. Thanks! Doug

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[Dovecot] 0.99.1[12] IMAP problems with Apple Mail.app?
by Jim Tittsler 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Is anyone else having trouble using the Apple OS X Mail.app with a Dovecot IMAP server? With 0.99.11 and 0.99.12 attempting to read certain messages using IMAP or IMAPS seems to put Mail.app into spinning pizza of death mode. Sniffing the connection, it looks like it happens after the client issues a BODY.PEEK[] and the server has responded with the (UID XXXX BODY[] {YYYY}...) and OK Fetch completed. I've only been able to catch it happening with messages that are either (a) Base64 encoded or (b) those that claim to be multi-part/alternative, but only seem to contain a single part. The client acts like it has received the message, since if I kill Mail.app and restart it, I am able to read the problem message from its cache. Is this a Mail.app bug? Is it something about the way Dovecot is responding to the BODY.PEEK[] in these cases? Using Mail.app with the Novell myrealbox.com IMAP I haven't seen problem, even with a test problematic message I redirected there, although admittedly I'm changing the headers by doing the redirection. I haven't gotten 0.99.13rc3 to get past the autotools stage of complaining about AM_ICONV (and a number of AC_ warnings), so I've yet to try it.

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[Dovecot] failed with uid Permission denied
by Rein Laaneser 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hi Does somebody know the workaround I have some users, who are able to log in to dovecot but others not.... even the failpermissions in directories are same. Also mbox folder is excatly same mail Some settings in /etc/dovecot.conf first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_uid = 1500 first_valid_gid = 500 last_valid_gid = 515 default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u So the "someuser" is able to log in but "testuser" not log from testuser logging in somehost imap-login: Login: testuser [193.x.x.x] somehost dovecot: chdir(/home/guest/testuser) failed with uid 893: Permission denied somehost dovecot: child 8729 (imap) returned error 89 Any idea???

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[Dovecot] Mozilla/Thunderbird secure authentication
by Stewart Dean 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I am finishing up getting SSL/IMAP working on our mail server and I notice the Use secure authentication box....very little I can find out about it, except that everyone says NOT to use it and maybe it's only for POP, not IMAP. Can you confirm?...googled you on this. Also, isn't authentication secure with SSL/IMAP anyway????? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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