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[Dovecot] dovecot and outlook express and large messages
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi I have been using Dovecot 0.99.11 and 1.0-test52 on a server with about 2000 accounts. All has been working good until a few days ago. Now I'm stuck and can't work out whats going on. The problem seems to be only with Outlook/outlook express clients. If the mail is large with an attachment its fails. After you hit the send and receive button after a while Outlook express gives the error "Your POP3 server has not responded in 60 seconds". Network activity seem to be minimal between the client and the server. There is no log entry out of the ordinary to say what went wrong. I have tried out a number of changes to the dovecot.conf file, none make any difference. Thanks for any help. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] eudora issue
by kent crispin 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

There seems to be a protocol mismatch between eudora and dovecot when using pop. The login interchange with, for example, mozilla, is as follows: MO: [connects] DC: +OK dovecot ready. MO: CAPA DC: +OK DC: CAPA DC: TOP DC: USER DC: UIDL DC: RESP-CODES DC: STLS DC: SASL PLAIN DC: . MO: USER yyy DC: +OK MO: PASS xxxxxxxx DC: +OK Logged in. But with eudora, with apparently equivalent configuration, the sequence is as follows: EU: [connects] DC: +OK dovecot ready. EU: CAPA DC: +OK DC: CAPA DC: TOP DC: USER DC: UIDL DC: RESP-CODES DC: STLS DC: SASL PLAIN DC: . EU: auth PLAIN AG1tcgBtaXN0bGV0b2U= DC: -ERR Unsupported authentication mechanism. At this point eudora reports an error back to the user, and the connection fails. Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it just that there is an incompatibility in how eudora and dovecot view the protocol? Or is there some configuration option I need to tweak to make things work? Thanks for any help. Kent -- Kent Crispin kent(a)songbird.com SIP: 81202(a)fwd.pulver.com

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Is this a bug?
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi I am getting this a lot. Is this a bug? (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) can be fixed by deleting the /home/<user>/mail/.imap directory. It has happened a few times with me. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external)
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) can be fixed by deleting the /home/<user>/mail/.imap directory. It has happened a few times with me. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] RE: dovecot and outlook express and large messages
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi Dose dovecot have problem working on a eth0:1 alias type interfaces? I just wondering if this could be my problem? Dovecot would do the authentication correctly and send small email but as soon as any load was put on it like downloading a mail with a large attachment it would fail. All network traffic would stop. No errors in the logs. As soon as I move the service to listen on a non alias interface eth0 all works fine. Very strange. I have taken a good look at our server to check that is not anything. I'm pretty sure we are good. I have also rebooted the box to see if that would fixed it which it didn't. Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] dovecot with different POP3S / IMAPS Certs
by Vincent Jaussaud 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, I'm new to dovecot, but actually planning to switch a wide WU-IMAP/POP installation to dovecot. With WU-IMAP, a different certificate can be used by pop3s and imaps, allowing both server to be reachable through different hostnames,without SSL complaints on the client side; this is mostly used for scalability. I'm trying to do the same thing with dovecot; that is having dovecot using a different certificate for it's pop3s instance and imaps instance. Unfortunately, in dovecot configuration file, only one certificate can be set; used by both pop3s / imaps. Any idea of the best way to handle this ? Thanks ! Vincent. -- Vincent Jaussaud Kelkoo.com Security Manager email: tatooin(a)kelkoo.com GPG key: 1024D/3BFE3FC7 2002-02-07 "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- President Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth leaves zombies
by Stefano Maffulli 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi all, I have installed and configured dovecot on two different machines, so I don't have much experience with this server. One installation is giving me serious problems, that I have a hard time tracing. From the beginning: the machine is a debian mix (stable/unstable) dovecot 0.9.11, real users authenticated via pam_ldap/nss_ldap. It serves ~70 users, all of them using Outlook, Outlook Express and IMP. The system seems to work just fine for a while, but after a some time, some dovecot-auth zombies start appearing. I can't really understand who/what is causing them. The only thing I see in the logs are these lines, very sporadically, but I still couldn't trace when they happened. Nov 5 09:40:28 csv-mail-01 dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Nov 5 09:40:28 csv-mail-01 dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) (BTW, also apache2 sends similar messages, I don't know if they are related) Nov 5 09:52:14 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Nov 5 09:52:14 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) After a while dovecot stops authenticating and needs to be killed and restarted (/etc/init.d/dovecot stop takes some time to actually stop dovecot processes). Do you have any clue of what is going on and where I can investigate further? I would like to say 'it's Outlook's fault', but I really can't. Any hint appreciated. regards stef

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RE: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied
by Καράμπης Παναγιώτης 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

matthias thnx a lot for your hint. We are 2 admins on this box and this makes things complicated. /home 's permissions where 705 and that's the reason for this. Solved thank u again mate:) ________________________________ Από: Matthias Andree [mailto:matthias.andree@gmx.de] Αποστολή: Κυρ 14/11/2004 1:52 πμ Προς: Καράμπης Παναγιώτης Κοιν.: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Θέμα: Re: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied Καράμπης Παναγιώτης <epp719(a)epp.teicrete.gr> writes: > hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as webmail. But squirrel returns an error: > ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server > CAPABILITY > > i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try to log in and view mails: > > dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975: Permission denied > dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > i give the: > root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719 Panagiotis, if the user epp719 and dovecot are in a common group, that may be the cause why it isn't working. > drwx---r-x 4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719 > and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same things happen. > both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory. What are the permissions of the / and /home directories? ls -lad /home -- can dovecot execute the / and /home directories? If these are drwx------ or similar, that might be the problem. Hope that helps. -- Matthias Andree

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[Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied
by Καράμπης Παναγιώτης 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as webmail. But squirrel returns an error: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server CAPABILITY i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try to log in and view mails: dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975: Permission denied dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i give the: root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719 drwx---r-x 4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719 and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same things happen. both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory. I attach the dovecot.conf file... any help is appreciated! PS: Sorry about my english its not my native language.. oh i forgot squirrel gets data and attachments from mysql...

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[Dovecot] make error
by Ken Woodward (IS) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear DINH and TIMO, Here are the last lines before the fatal error. It says that "set fnord ; amf=$2; \ " is the command that caused the error. Does this make any sense to you? "if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11/src *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord ; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am' /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11>"\ ============================================================================ ============================= I can include my complete config.log which does complete with no indication of failure reported at the end, BUT, inside it does list fatal errors like: "configure:2802: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lcposix >&5 ld: fatal: library -lcposix: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to conftest" AND "Undefined first referenced symbol in file socket /var/tmp//ccsUoghx.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:21217: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ " AND "Undefined first referenced symbol in file inet_addr /var/tmp//cceuY9Eo.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:21383: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ " ============================================================================ ================================= Thanks for your help. P.S. Was I supposed to send a new message to dovecot at dovecot dot org like this or reply to your message?

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[Dovecot] make error
by Ken Woodward (IS) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Can anyone help with this? I get the following error when running "make". "configure" worked fine. I am installing the latest dovecot on a Solaris OS10 machine make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' **** Error code 1 Also could someone tell me if it is possible to search all the archives through the complete message bodies or are we limited to searching each month individually and only on the message subject? Thanks for any help, Sincerely, Ken

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[Dovecot] pem help
by Clinton Mills 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

When I run this: /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot.conf I get this Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory But in my conf file these are commented out?? #ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem Why would I get this error? Thanks Clinton Mills

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[Dovecot] pop3d keeps downloading messages over and over again
by Gordon Thagard 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Solaris 9 SunOS 5.9 Generic_117171-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 gcc version 3.3.2 dovecot-0.99.11 compile options: LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --disable-ipv6 --with-file-offset-size=32 --with-mem-align=4 --with-rawlog --with-ssl=openssl OK, this applies whether or not a user account is set to leave mail on the server or not. There are several things that might happen, depending on who knows what: 1. Mail pops fine. 2. The "DO NOT DELETE THIS EMAIL" keeps downloading over and over again. 3. All emails since the switch to this new test dovecot pop3d will be downloaded over and over again. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Gordon Thagard

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[Dovecot] duplicate woes
by Jeff Ramsey 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi, I have FC2/Sendmail/Dovecot default setup. I turned on POP3 and POP3S in /etc/dovecot.conf. I started out getting duplicates only when I was using Outlook w/ 'Leave copy on server' option. Lately, I've been getting duplicates at seemingly random messages sent to and from seemingly random users. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Ramsey Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] Popping without home directories
by Andre Grove 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hello there I tend to e-mail user accounts to my servers with /sbin/nologin and /dev/null as their shell and home directories respectively. I have discovered that Dovcot does not like it when a user does not have a home directory. Obviosly the user POP3 and not IMAP! :P Is there a work around for this? I have a suspicion it is one of the chroot option, but I do not know the meaning chroot. Thanks Andre

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[Dovecot] Possible Bug
by Chris L. Franklin 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Okay in dovecot.conf I set the fallowing settings log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot Then I setup log rotation for that file (using logrotate). But after it does the rotation. Dovecot dies. Now I know why this happens. But should it ? To over come this I now have it set to stop dovecot and start dovecot after it's done dealing with the log file. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] bug with LIST IMAP command
by DINH Viet Hoa 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

I am in mbox configuration, and I am getting INBOX listed 3 times. I suppose the first is /var/mail/login and the others are $HOME/Mail but they appear twice. However, it seems this is a bug. << $ telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to utopia.priv. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 01 LOGIN login password 01 OK Logged in. 02 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "queue" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" INBOX * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" INBOX * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "INBOX/pingouin" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "sent" * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" "sent/1" 02 OK List completed. 02 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 02 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. >> -- DINH V. Hoa, "c'est stressant comme taf" -- coin

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] NTLM update and crashfix
by Andrey Panin 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Hello, attached patch allows LM authentication for older (Win9x) clients which do not pass NTLM response in type 3 message. It also fixes crash in dovecot-auth (empty credentials could be passed to hex_to_binary function if NTLM2 was negotiated). Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] noob - integrating dovecot with postfix
by Mitch Pirtle 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Hi list, Just jumped providers and am now desperately trying to get IMAP running on a new server... But not getting the link between postfix and dovecot working. :-( My two problems are: 1) local mail seems to get into the ~/Maildirs, but not from the outside (this is a postfix issue?) 2) I cannot find information on how to tell postfix to use virtual domains/addresses and then connect dovecot to them (as they are now in non-standard locations and/or formats) I'm sure this is a FAQ, but cannot find an example that would walk me though this. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] Excessive imap-login and pop3-login processes
by Ben Beuchler 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

I'm running a Linux mail server with Postfix and Dovecot. I've noticed that the number of "imap-login" processes usually sits around 240, and "pop3-login" usually around 50 or so. The comments in the config file seem to indicate that, with my setup, I shouldn't see more than about 10 of each. Am I misunderstanding the config or is this expected behavior? login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 10 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 The mail server receives about 1.5 - 3 logins per second and usually has around 75 simultaneous IMAP sessions. There are rarely more than 1 or 2 simultaneous POP3 sessions open. Thanks... -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte(a)emt-p.org -- The Matrix

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test52 build notes
by Mark E. Mallett 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

I thought I would try to use 'configure' to lay out the dovecot install a little differently than the default. I prefer all the support files under one tree (e.g. in /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0) rather than distributed around the filesystem. And I'd be happiest if all of the support files were just at that top level rather than in subdirectories. e.g.: /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot.conf /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/imap-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot-auth etc. (I'm happy to have a "doc" subdirectory though.) And ideally I'd have the primary executable installed in a more generic place, but tagged with its version number, like /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-1.0 Note that I'm not suggesting this, just explaining what I am after. So the second to last thing I tried was: --program-suffix=-1.0 \ --bindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sbindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --datadir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --localstatedir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ But that didn't really work, for the reasons listed in the "last" try below, plus all of the executables got the "-1.0" suffix, not just the "dovecot" program (not a big surprise..). And the last thing I tried: --bindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sbindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --datadir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --localstatedir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ which kinda got me where I wanted, except that if I want a dovecot-1.0 executable in /usr/local/sbin I need to add that by hand, and also that the build process added another subdirectory "dovecot": /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/ I can (and did) manually remove that final directory and flatten out the tree, and fortunately you've made it possible to specify in dovecot.conf the paths to all the executables and so forth. But it would be nice to be able to create this desired layout entirely via configure and not have to move things around after the fact. Is that even possible? Obviously, don't spend a lot of time on it.. but if I'm missing an option that would get me where I want, I'd be interested in knowing about it. Oh, and "strings src/master/dovecot | grep /usr/local" gives this: /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot.conf /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/run/dovecot /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/dovecot-auth /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/imap-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/pop3-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/pop3 /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 So it looks like there are a couple of places where the configured paths aren't caught (or so it would seem). Yours, -mm-

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test52 compile notes
by Mark E. Mallett 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Compile issues on an older BSD/OS 4.2 system: src/lib/byteorder.h needs #include <netinet/in.h> to pick up in_addr struct src/lib/byteorder.c no "libgen" here (no basename()). Added it inline, no big deal, but you might want to have configure test for this and provide one if it's missing. Also, on this system there are no types like "uint8_t" and "uint64_t" -- instead there are the u_int8_t and u_int64_t et al types. I added some global typedefs, but I gather this is a somewhat common issue, so you might want to test for these. -mm-

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[Dovecot] Runas Question
by Chris L. Franklin 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Okay heres a weird question is there anyways to make dovecot run as root ? Heres why: I'm currently using XMail email server (smtp/pop3/virtual accounts). And I love using it. But it really must run as root. I've tryed all the non-root solutions for it. and really I'd prefer to have it run as root. And I'd like to really use dovecot as (on server with xmail). Currently I've got it running with some sendmail server and a few postfixs But really I'd like to get it working with Xmail. So if anyone has any Ideas or how to get Dovecot to run as root. PS. I know the Idea behind dovecot is security and how it's coded to be able to run using non-root accont. So please I'm really only looking for ways to get dove to run as root. And not new ways of reconfiguring my smtp servers so as they don't need to be run as root. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] strange timeout with ssl
by Arnaud Lacroix 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Hello, First sorry for my poor english. slack 9.1 dovecot-0.99.11 (thanks for this) compiled with openssl (0.9.7b) MUA : Mozilla 1.5 (win32) Under a ssl session, at first, it's work. But a later ago, i recieved alway, when i tried to contact the server imap : "connecting to <host> timed out ..." This fact is never without ssl. No dns problems. I don't know how can i help you my best because i don't see the problem. So, i give you this information. Hope it will be help you for a solution. But its seem to be ok. #openssl s_client -host localhost -port 993 -verify -debug ... ... --- SSL handshake has read 841 bytes and written 340 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is AES256-SHA Server public key is 1024 bit SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : AES256-SHA Session-ID: ED349971D46EC76E2F75BB80ED52A0D081CE10B609F4761E176361629C9AE6AD Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Key-Arg : None Start Time: 1099614038 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate) --- * OK dovecot ready. // timeout : * BYE Disconnected for inactivity. read:errno=0 Thanks very much. Regards, Arnaud Lacroix.

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[Dovecot] Unread mail problem
by Clinton Mills 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Okay, here is the set up. I have Outlook set up to keep mail on the server for 5 days. At some point I started downloading all my mail that was on the server over and over again, even though I already have the mail. The weird thing is that it did not download all the mail, just a few. For example it would download 6 messages, then 18, then 12, etc! After I tried it a few times I had 50 of the same message in Outlook? A small fix, but I do not want to so this ever time If I unclick save on server and then check my mail, it will delete all the mail in my mail box. Then I reclick the leave on server for 5 days and it will work fine! Any idea what is going on? Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test52 - assertion failed
by Tom Sommer 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Clicked on a folder in Thunderbird and got this in the log: Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: imap-login: Login: ts(a)dreamcoder.dk [10.24.0.1] Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: IMAP(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): Corrupted index cache file dreamcoder.dk/ts/Maildir/.INBOX.Mailing Lists.bugzilla/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: IMAP(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): file mail-cache-fields.c: line 338 (mail_cache_header_fields_get): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(dest) == sizeof(hdr) + (sizeof(uint32_t)*2 + 2) * hdr.fields_count) Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: child 469 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Tom

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RE: [Dovecot] Unread mail problem
by Mark Lidstone 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi Clinton, I've come across the same problem several times before - Outlook keeps messing up it's list of seen UIDLs. Try using Thunderbird instead. I moved a load of people in our company to Thunderbird because they kept having that problem and it's not happened for them since. As a matter of interest - I've seen both Outlook and Outlook Express do this on dovecot, mercury/32 and Exchange (when using pop3 for pickup). I hope this helps, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Clinton Mills [mailto:clinton.mills@hitcents.com] Sent: 03 November 2004 14:13 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Unread mail problem Okay, here is the set up. I have Outlook set up to keep mail on the server for 5 days. At some point I started downloading all my mail that was on the server over and over again, even though I already have the mail. The weird thing is that it did not download all the mail, just a few. For example it would download 6 messages, then 18, then 12, etc! After I tried it a few times I had 50 of the same message in Outlook? A small fix, but I do not want to so this ever time If I unclick save on server and then check my mail, it will delete all the mail in my mail box. Then I reclick the leave on server for 5 days and it will work fine! Any idea what is going on? Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] yet another NTLM update
by Andrey Panin 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hello, after more than week using dovecot as exim4 authentication backend, I noticed that some strange clients send type 3 messages with LM response only. Attached patch allows them to log in. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Logging and libwrap
by Jesse 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, A few things regarding logging and libwrap.. a) PAM_RHOST patch Back in July, dean gaudet helpfully posted a patch to dovecot PAM_RHOST the remote IP. Is this going to be included in the main dovecot tree? It seems like a worthwhile addition. The more informative and concise the logging the better. See http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-July/004011.html for the original message. b) Better logging Is it possible to get logging of when a client connects and disconnects? I'm very used to seeing this information and it's very useful for debugging user sessions. It's frustrating not being able to easily tell whether a user has opened a connection. Really many of the log messages could be more verbose. For instance, on disconnect, I see imap-login: Disconnected [ip.here] but the username they were logged in as isn't included. It would be nice to have that rather than having to dig back for a login message with the same IP. Heck, even the pid isn't logged. That would be nice too. c) libwrap Any chance of getting libwrap support built into dovecot? Right now I'm running dovecot out of xinetd, so that I can see when tcp connections are opened, and take advantage of tcpwrappers. But this causes the problem that dovecot thinks all connections come from the local host. Correlating logins to IPs gets to be a lot of hassle, with the information divided over so many lines, while needing multiple ways to track which messages from xinetd, dovecot and pam match each other. With some of the minor logging changes (more info on one line, notification of tcp connections), plus libwrap, it'd be much simpler and much more informative. :) Thanks for the great imap server. Just thinking of some improvements. :) --- Jesse <j(a)lumiere.net>

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[Dovecot] Test51 compile problems
by Greg Deputy 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

First of all, thanks for a great product. I've been able to get dovecot up and running with minimum pain. Very nice. Running Fedora Core 2 with postfix using mysql for virtual mailbox config. Got release version of dovecot working with a passwd-file, then I wanted to try it out with using the same mysql db as postfix, so I downloaded test51. I run ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-mysql And it seems happy. Completes with: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with user database modules . : static passwd passwd-file checkpassword mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword mysql (modules) Then I run make, and it errors out with: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-module.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -ldl /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x5c): In function `sha1_result': : multiple definition of `sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x7f4):/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src/lib/sh a1.c:242: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 158 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] new crash in dovecot-auth test51
by Dan Sully 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

#0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 51 if ((io->condition & IO_NOTIFY_MASK) != 0) { (gdb) bt #0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 #1 0x0804fd68 in auth_client_connection_destroy_wait (conn=0x80877d8) at auth-client-connection.c:494 #2 0x08050acd in auth_callback (request=0x84716b8, result=134681554, reply=0x0, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:104 #3 0x08050950 in auth_client_input (context=0x80877d8) at auth-client-connection.c:286 #4 0x0805f170 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80898a8) at ioloop-epoll.c:243 #5 0x0805e698 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop.c:218 #6 0x080525a5 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.c:296 Linux 2.6.9 / glibc 2.3.3 / epoll (also does it with poll()) / vpopmail & passwd-db dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: auth(vpopmail): Authentication client 8908: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: auth(vpopmail): Authentication client 8908: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: imap-login: Error sending request to auth server: Broken pipe dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Error: child 5689 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Error: child 8908 (login) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: auth(default): Authentication client 10685: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: auth(default): Authentication client 10685: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Error: child 5687 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: imap-login: Error sending request to auth server: Connection reset by peer dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Error: child 10685 (login) killed with signal 11 -D -- <iNoah> you know, most free operating systems come preinstalled with their own high horse.

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[Dovecot] GNUTLS bug?
by Grant Goodyear 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

We recently received a bug report about a compiler issue when using GNUTLS: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67628. I can confirm the same bug using 0.99.11. Help? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer g2boojum(a)gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

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[Dovecot] v0.99.11
by Knut Rauscher 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello Timo, we are using dovcot v0.99.11 under Fedora Core 1. We tested following reproducible action with Outlook 2000 SP3, Outlook XP SP3 and Outlook 2003 SP1: folder test with subfolder test1 test test.test1 choose 'move folder' from the context (right-mouse-click) menu of test choose that we want to move folder test into his subfolder test1 (nonsense action, but quite a few employees trying to do that...) Outlook displays error message subscriptions shows correctly: test test1 BUT the directory structure of maildir is .test.test1.test.test1 .test.test1.test.test1.test Is this a mishap of Dovecot or Outlook? Regards, Knut

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[Dovecot] dovecot seems to be slow
by Götz Reinicke 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, after the update from wu-imap to dovecot, opening e-mails on the imap server seems slower than with wu-imap. I haven't measured any speed yet, but clicking on a message in a folder takes sometimes a couple of seconds to open the mail. Any ideas or performance tips or information you need? Regards Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] Hooking on renaming actions
by Adam Pordzik 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello, A short question: is it possible to intercept user's action whe he renames a folder? My goal is to adjust shell-scripts or procmailrc to the new name. A --

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[Dovecot] Possible Feature request
by Chris L. Franklin 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I've Looked over the list of Auth methods that dovecot can use But i didn't see a option for a custom auth option. Would it be possible to add in a way for dovecot to call a script to check a users login info. have it able to retun the the homedir,gid/uid, and weather or not the password matched. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] Crash (segfault) while reading folder headers
by Steve Meyers 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Occasionally, while reading the headers of a folder, Dovecot crashes. The visible effect in my mail client is that it will tell me a folder has a new message, but when I click on it, it will take forever to load, and there will be no new messages. When another message comes in to that folder, the folder begins to work again. I generated a core from the latest crash, and the gdb dump is included below. After generating the core file, I removed the .imap.index* files from that folder, and it started working again. I am using Fedora Core 1, with dovecot as an RPM (version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC1). It's a Pentium 4 CPU. Let me know if there is any more information that would help you resolve this. ============================================================== Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x08088225 in hash_lookup () (gdb) bt full #0 0x08088225 in hash_lookup () No symbol table info available. #1 0x08060784 in maildir_index_sync_readonly () No symbol table info available. #2 0x0805e586 in maildir_open_mail () No symbol table info available. #3 0x0806bf8a in index_mail_next () No symbol table info available. #4 0x0806aa33 in index_storage_fetch_next () No symbol table info available. #5 0x08055f0c in imap_fetch () No symbol table info available. #6 0x0805254a in cmd_fetch () No symbol table info available. #7 0x08054260 in cmd_uid () No symbol table info available. #8 0x08054a49 in _client_reset_command () No symbol table info available. #9 0x08054ad8 in _client_input () No symbol table info available. #10 0x0808b128 in io_loop_handler_run () No symbol table info available. #11 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #12 0x000025c7 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #13 0x080933f2 in imap_ext_commands () No symbol table info available. #14 0x09c03b30 in ?? () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- No symbol table info available. #15 0x09c03a78 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #16 0xbfefc278 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #17 0x0808d918 in o_stream_flush () No symbol table info available. Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

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[Dovecot] Filesystem requirements
by Nigel Metheringham 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

What are the filesystem requirements for dovecot - for example I see some people are running with atime updates switched off (as I intend to do so myself), so presumably dovecot has no need of an accurate atime implementation. How about directory atime? ctime/mtime etc? I'm intending to run on a linux box using local disk, so am currently considering using reiserfs (3.6) with noatime, nodiratime options since that appeared to work with good performance on the quick benchmark test I tried. I do not have a particularly high opinion of reiserfs reliability, but it normally appears to fail in a all-or-nothing way (ie filesystem unusable) rather than some files going corrupt or missing, so I can work round that with a backup regime. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)InTechnology.co.uk ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

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[Dovecot] Cache fields
by Alex S Moore 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Using 1.0-test51, or maybe test50. I this message in syslog: mail_cache_fields: Invalid cache field name 'MessagePart', ignoring >From the what I see, MessagePart is the default value. My <sysconfdir>/dovecot.conf has: mail_cache_fields = MessagePart Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Problem with folder not showing content
by Tom Sommer 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, I'm having some problems with one of my IMAP folders in thunderbird. When creating a new account in thunderbird and importing from my dovecot test51 installation, using maildir - all folders work fine, except one which does not list it's content when I click it When I look on the server, I see all the mails inside the folder, but once I click the folder and ask thunderbird to download the messages - it just doesn't display any mails in it. Is there any way to repair this? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] Invalid BODY[..] - missing '>'
by Tom Sommer 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, Sometimes when I browse messages in my folders, or move messages from one folder to another - I get this error in Thunderbird: http://pub.tsn.dk/screendumps/dovecot.bug.1.jpg -- Tom

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[Dovecot] Dovecot mysql authentication
by Petr Bartel 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Helo, Is somebody able to say me how I can set config files for dovecot to support $subject. Thanx a lot ~ Petr - -- Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds Petr Bartel ICQ 74097173 Irix a.s. e-mail bartel at irix dot cz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBf6j0zO0gscxrtkkRAmbUAJ4hpcStslq1iXIOgowACbQ6T0bNeACfdqIR OLs0ZEwTGMZH2r6oJStbZTI= =W6gq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Maildir unreliability
by Timo Sirainen 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Looks like maildir can't be used very realiably without quite a lot of locking. Writing and scanning the directory would have to be locked, but reading wouldn't (as long as the file hasn't been renamed which would require scanning to find it). So much for "no locks needed".. The problem is that opendir()/readdir() may temporarily not return some files if there has been changes in the directory since the opendir(). That means Dovecot thinks a message is expunged, while in fact it really isn't, and the next scan would usually show it again. Currently when that happens, Dovecot usually prints an error message about it and rebuilds indexes. Of course, in real life clients aren't often bombing the same mailbox with tons of changes in multiple connections, which is usually needed to trigger this. I wrote a test program which tests this: http://dovecot.org/tmp/readdir.c I'd like to hear if you can run it in some system without errors. I tested Linux 2.4 and 2.6 with ext2, ext3, xfs and reiser3, Solaris 8/ufs and OpenBSD 3.5/sparc64. Only OpenBSD passed the test, but I'm not sure if it's only because the computer was so slow and didn't switch between processes hard enough. I'd be especially interested about FreeBSD and various NFS systems. If it actually works properly in some systems, I guess I'll make the extra locking configurable.

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth crash
by Dan Sully 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

#0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 51 if ((io->condition & IO_NOTIFY_MASK) != 0) { (gdb) bt #0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 #1 0x0804fbd8 in auth_client_connection_destroy_wait (conn=0x8083f10) at auth-client-connection.c:494 #2 0x0805093d in auth_callback (request=0x847e0f0, result=134681075, reply=0x0, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:104 #3 0x080507c0 in auth_client_input (context=0x8083f10) at auth-client-connection.c:286 #4 0x0805f042 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #5 0x0805e4e8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop.c:218 #6 0x08052415 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.c:296 This is on Linux 2.6.7 / glibc 2.3.1, dovecot test-51 -D -- Down, not across.

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildir unreliability
by Timo Sirainen 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

On 25.10.2004, at 11:04, Peter Evans wrote: > Are you sure its maildir that is the issue, I am sure God Emperor DJB > would have issues with any such statement maligning the holy grail. > > The issue looks to me like it is attribute caching, and thus not > actually > specific to Maildir, just aggravated by it. Well, it's not maildir issue itself, but maildir more or less relies on readdir() not losing renamed files. I'm not sure what you mean by attribute caching, because it's not just with NFS. I'm sure if you point that out to DJB he just says it's not a real problem, because it doesn't happen hardly ever except with some stress test tools, or mailboxes with _many_ simultaneous users. Or maybe with a heavily loaded server. Or ... In any case, I'd rather make Dovecot resistant to this problem entirely rather than hope that everyone uses maildirs only in optimal conditions.

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[Dovecot] dovecot and new mail notification for subfolders in Mail.app
by Alan Schmitt 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, I am using dovecot as an IMAP server to which Mail.app (Apple Mail) connects. However I do not get any notification of new mails in folders other than the inbox, unless I disconnect and reconnect Mail.app or click on the folder with new mail. I'm pretty sure the problem comes from Mail.app. I have searched on Google for how to go around this issue, and have not yet found a solution. If someone here uses Mail.app and dovecot, I'd be really glad to have some advice as to what to do. (by the way, and this is probably related: new folders created in the maildir structure do not get reflected in Mail.app until I disconnect and reconnect). Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] index files
by Jonathan Salomon 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hi Timo, I am sorry to bug you about this, but I am a bit confused and I have approx 200 users so I don't want to screw this up. I am using the latest FC2 Dovecot RPM: dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. I am using NFS to mount the /home dirs on the fileserver from the mailserver with mbox. In the docs you said that I should probably use :INDEX=MEMORY. However I think this really pushes the server to its limits with large mailboxes (I have sometimes loads of 8+!). Also I want to use mailaccounts that are shared by users (to multiple users acces the same mailbox simulateously). If I write the index file to a location on the filesystem, will this improve performance and still work with simultaneous logins? Should I upgrade to version 1.00.something because I read somewhere you rewrote the mbox functions? Thanks again, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Request for testing: BSD kqueue ioloop handler
by Andrey Panin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, attached patch adds experimental ioloop handler which uses BSD kqueue API. It compiles and survives my small test program, but not thoroughly tested because I have no suitable BSD machine to torture. Brave owners of (Free|Net|Open)BSD please test and report results :) Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] move iolist functions into separate file
by Andrey Panin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, attached patch extracts iolist related functions into separate file and makes it a little more generic. This functions will be used by the new ioloop handler based on the BSD kqueue API. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Period at end of folder in Pine
by doug＠dovecot.con.com 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

When using folder-name completion, Pine sticks a period at the end of dovecot mediated IMAP folder names. This is invalid, of course, and I end up having to backspace the period to use the proper name. Anyone have a clue on a workaround? I'd imagine this is a FAQ type issue.... Thanks, Doug

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