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[Dovecot] login with alias
by Gasha 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

Hi all, i'm setting up mail server and here is the question: if, for example "firstname.lastname(a)domain.com" is e-mail address, then how can i setup login as "firstname.lastname" and "password" not only "firstname". Of course, users want all things simple. But i don't want to use login names longer than 8 chars. Any ideas? Or should i try to create users as "firstname.lastname" in /etc/passwd file ?? Gasha

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test51
by Timo Sirainen 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ This release is built with autoconf 2.59 and libtool 1.9. We'll see how it works out :) The required changes were done by Matthias Andree. - The last fix for connection hanging made IDLE use 100% CPU - We don't use Maildir/.INBOX/ directory anymore, indexes are stored in Maildir-root - Don't crash with FETCH BODY[n.MIME] - Changed %p (protocol) -> %s (service) and %P (pid) -> %p. Hopefully people weren't using these much yet :) - Added simple caching for sql passdb requests. Should be implemented soon for sql userdb and ldap passdb/userdb. See auth_cache_size and auth_cache_ttl settings. By default it's disabled.

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[Dovecot] direct access or local IMAP access?
by Alan Schmitt 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

Hello, Thanks to much help from Timo Sirainen, I now have a running dovecot on my Mac, that works great both with mutt and Mail.app. I'm going to have a lot of mail stored there (about 40000 messages for 1.4GB in 30 folders), and I was wondering if it was better (in terms of performance and stability) to directly access the mail using the maildir hierarchy, or access it using local IMAP. 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] assertion failed
by Tom Sommer 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

Using test51: Oct 22 23:37:21 one dovecot: 2657(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) Oct 22 23:37:21 one dovecot: child 2657 (imap) killed with signal 6 What does it mean? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test51 / POP3 broken
by Brad 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

OS: OpenBSD 3.5 -stable/macppc dovecot: Oct 21 01:59:01 Info: pop3-login: Login: wendy [192.168.3.6] dovecot: Oct 21 01:59:02 Error: child 13213 (pop3) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 21 02:03:32 Info: pop3-login: Login: robb [192.168.3.6] dovecot: Oct 21 02:03:32 Error: child 17627 (pop3) killed with signal 11 (gdb) bt #0 0x1813bb8 in maildir_transaction_save_commit_post () #1 0x180f504 in maildir_transaction_commit () #2 0x183aff4 in mailbox_transaction_commit () #3 0x180b204 in clients_deinit () #4 0x180be9c in client_command_execute () #5 0x180a808 in client_send_storage_error () #6 0x184f43c in io_loop_handler_run () #7 0x184eba4 in io_loop_run () #8 0x180c4d4 in main () #9 0x1809c78 in _start ()

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env problems
by Neil Marjoram 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

I am having problems setting the default mail environment.# I am using Fedora Core 2 with version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 My users all have an NFS mounted home directory, and all mail is delivered to ~Mail/.mailbox it is all mbox format. I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}. So I set these parameters for default_mail_env : mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/Mail/.mailbox Which produced the error : imap(test): stat() failed with mbox file ~/Mail/.mailbox: No such file or directory I set the mail environment back to default, linked inbox to .mailbox in the ~/Mail directory and all worked fine. Is there a better way to do this ? I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}, so I decided to set: default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n and got this error: imap(test): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/indexes//test dovecot: child 9142 (imap) returned error 89 I also tried : default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%u And got the same error. I guessed at permissions, so I tried changing the ownership to dovecot and then test and then root and then 777, but I still get this error. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL

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[Dovecot] imap idle on non-inbox?
by Collin Grady 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Can this be done with dovecot? I really like the imap idle feature, but it doesn't work for me because I sort my mail into folders with procmail, so it only notifies me when one drops into inbox and not a subfolder. Is there just an option for this I'm missing, or does support for this not exist yet? Also, I don't think its a client issue as I watched the traffic with tcpdump and it only announced anything for inbox, messages dropping into other folders caused no traffic. -- Collin Grady BOFH excuse #347: The rubber band broke

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[Dovecot] Quick question
by Mark Lidstone 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hi all, I'm going to be out of office for the next week (starting in the next hour or so) and I need to unsubscribe (I'm sure you don't want my out of office replies really) Can anyone help me by saving me the time it'll take to lookup the unsubscribe/resubscribe details? Many thanks, 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. ======================================================================== ==

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[Dovecot] migration to maildir and arrival time
by Nicolas Kowalski 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hello. I am currently testing dovecot (0.99.10.8, Debian woody from backports), with the maildir storage. I have noticed that when I use the mailutil tool from uw-imap distribution to transfer my IMAP mailboxes from our current server (uw-imap, mbx format) to the dovecot one, the mails arrival time are apparently lost. I can see this in Pine, using the Arrival sort: the mailboxes on the originating server and dovecot server are not ordered the same. If I use the mb2md perl script to transfer the same mailbox, I see the same behaviour. Is this normal ? Thanks. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] support OEM encoding in NTLM messages
by Andrey Panin 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hello, after I started to use dovecot as a backend for exim4 SMTP authentication on my main mailserver, I noticed that some clients don't advertise unicode support and so they can't log in. To fix the problem the attached patch allows use of OEM encoding in NTLM messages. Please consider applying. Best regards. P.S. I want to release exim4 patch in the near future, probably when Timo will stop making incompatible protocol changes ;) -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format - error
by Götz Reinicke 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

HI, I recently upgraded an wu-imap server to dovecot dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.3 without big trouble (the subscribed mailboxes had to be added by hand...) But today users told me that there where some problems; e.g. a user tried to delete a message and got this error: Oct 19 09:43:13 mail imap(jmeinken): File isn't in mbox format: /home/mitarbeiter/jmeinken//Trash This didn't happen before; also after the migration. My questions: - Whats wrong? - Why is there the "//" a "more Trash" failed. After deleting this file and "touching" a new one, the user can delete files. The quota is 150 MB, the usere uses 100 MB at the moment. Any ideas? Regards Götz Reinicke -- 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] default_mail_env %d var problem
by pythonic 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hello, I am new to Dovecot and trying to setup on my Fedora Core 1 mail servers (actually migrating from uw to dovecot ;-) ). In my setup I use pam to authenticate virtual users. All the usernames include @domainname in their usernames like 'jane(a)somevhost.com'. Now path to user's home and INBOX includes /home/vhosts/<domainname>/home/<username>. I have added following to dovecot.conf. ------------------------ auth_passdb = pam auth_verbose = yes auth_username_chars = default_mail_env = mbox:/home/vhosts/%d/%h/:INBOX=/home/vhosts/%d/var/spool/mail/%n -------------------------- Now if I try to connect imap I get foll. error. -- imap(jane): May 19 01:58:08 Error: mkdir_parents(/home/vhosts///home/jane//.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied -- So %h and %u looks working but not %d :(. My pam module works right as if I use actual domain path in dovecot.conf everything works fine. Auth works correctly with uw. Any pointers ? TIA, Pythonic

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Fix on Cyrus SASL support for Rel 0.99.11
by ITO Nobuaki 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Code which supports cyrus SASL library (src/auth/mech-cyrus-sasl2.c) is broken. Following is the workaround patch for Dovecot Rel 0.99.11, and it worked fine on FreeBSD 4.10 BOX. It will not work with current development version. Application for that version might not be so difficult. Recently I found the CVS log which appeals that cyrus SASL support is discontinued. It's very sad. Regards Nobuaki ITO : banb(a)j-link.ne.jp --- src/auth/mech-cyrus-sasl2.c.orig Wed Jun 25 08:26:43 2003 +++ src/auth/mech-cyrus-sasl2.c Tue Oct 19 21:07:03 2004 @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct auth_login_reply reply; const char *serverout; unsigned int serveroutlen; + const char *authenid, *default_realm; int ret; ret = sasl_server_step(cyrus_request->conn, data, request->data_size, @@ -55,6 +56,12 @@ reply.result = AUTH_LOGIN_RESULT_SUCCESS; cyrus_request->success = TRUE; + ret = sasl_getprop(cyrus_request->conn, SASL_USERNAME, (const void **) &authenid); + if (ret != SASL_OK || ! authenid) { + i_warning("sasl_getprop() failed: %s", sasl_errstring(ret, NULL, NULL)); + return FALSE; + } + serverout = mech_auth_success(&reply, auth_request, serverout, serveroutlen); } else { @@ -200,6 +217,8 @@ cyrus_sasl_auth_continue; cyrus_request->auth_request.auth_free = cyrus_sasl_auth_free; + + cyrus_request->conn = sasl_conn; reply.result = AUTH_LOGIN_RESULT_CONTINUE;

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[Dovecot] Folders with . in them
by Tom Sommer 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hey guys, When I create a IMAP folder called "php.net" in Thunderbird, a folder called "php" is created with a subfolder called "net", is this a bug in Thunderbird or is it something that I or you can fix? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] Hooking postfix into dovecot
by Tom Sommer 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Cyrus has to be added to master.cf and transport_maps has to be set to "cyrus:localhost". So my question is how do I get the mails from postfix to dovecot? Hope it's okay to submit these type of questions here :) Thanks -- Tom Sommer

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[Dovecot] test51 dumping core
by jross＠wykids.org 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

OpenBSD 3.6 -current (i386) dovecot-1.0-test51 I'm now getting this error message as soon as I start dovecot: "Authentication client 0 not compatible with this server (mixed old and new binaries?)" Here's the process I'm using: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-pam=NO \ --with-ldap=no \ --with-vpopmail=no \ --with-rawlog make svc -d /service/dovecot make install mv /etc/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.conf.49 mv /etc/dovecot.conf.51 /etc/dovecot.conf svc -u /service/dovecot dovecot throws a dovecot-auth.core. Here's the backtrace from it: gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth /etc/dovecot/dovecot-auth.core GNU gdb 6.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd3.6"... warning: exec file is newer than core file. Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1 Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.so #0 0x1c00573a in auth_client_input_auth (conn=0x0, args=0x3c014080 "À@\001<") at auth-client-connection.c:204 204 request->id = id; (gdb) bt full #0 0x1c00573a in auth_client_input_auth (conn=0x0, args=0x3c014080 "À@\001<") at auth-client-connection.c:204 mech = (struct mech_module *) 0x0 request = (struct auth_request *) 0xffffffff list = (char **) 0x3c006414 name = 0x0 arg = 0x0 initial_resp = 0xcfbefe38 "Xþ¾Ï8ü\036\n\001" initial_resp_data = (void *) 0xcfbefecc initial_resp_len = 0 id = 1006715072 buf = (buffer_t *) 0x3c014080 valid_client_cert = 0 #1 0x1c00570f in auth_client_input_auth (conn=0x0, args=0x8b824024 "") at auth-client-connection.c:196 mech = (struct mech_module *) 0x5 request = (struct auth_request *) 0x1 list = (char **) 0xa1efc38 name = 0x0 arg = 0xd0bd985 "\203Äüj" initial_resp = 0xcfbefe58 "hþ¾Ïó¾" initial_resp_data = (void *) 0x1000 initial_resp_len = 218880389 id = 3485400780 buf = (buffer_t *) 0x3c006000 valid_client_cert = 1 #2 0x1c00bda0 in passwd_file_init (args=0x3c0140c0 "ðt") at userdb-passwd-file.c:39 args = 0xffffffff <Address 0xffffffff out of bounds> #3 0x1c00b986 in checkpassword_verify_plain (request=0x1, password=0xcfbeff18 "`", callback=0xcfbefeb8) at passdb-checkpassword.c:277 request = (struct auth_request *) 0x0 chkpw_auth_request = (struct chkpw_auth_request *) 0x0 fd_in = {1006715072, -809566572} fd_out = {-809566600, 469809542} pid = -809566648 #4 0x1c007eae in mech_init () at mech.c:313 mechanisms = (char **) 0x0 env = 0x1 "" #5 0x1c007f3a in mech_init () at mech.c:336 mechanisms = (char **) 0x1 env = 0x1c00555f "E\bÿp\020è¿\b" #6 0x1c005491 in auth_callback (request=0x1, result=3485400856, reply=0xcfbeff20, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:71 result = 3485401184 reply_size = 3485400780 str = (string_t *) 0xcfbeff18 ret = 0 #7 0x1c005407 in auth_callback (request=0x0, result=3485401197, reply=0xcfbf007d, reply_size=3485401232) at auth-client-connection.c:62 result = 0 reply_size = 4096 str = (string_t *) 0xcfbeff14 ret = 0 #8 0xcfbf0060 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #9 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #10 0xcfbf006d in ?? () No symbol table info available. #11 0xcfbf007d in ?? () No symbol table info available. #12 0xcfbf0090 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #13 0xcfbf00a2 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #14 0xcfbf00b4 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #15 0xcfbf00c7 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #16 0xcfbf00d8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #17 0xcfbf00e0 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #18 0xcfbf00ef in ?? () No symbol table info available. #19 0xcfbf00fd in ?? () No symbol table info available. #20 0xcfbf010b in ?? () No symbol table info available. #21 0xcfbf015e in ?? () No symbol table info available. #22 0xcfbf0174 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #23 0xcfbf0191 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #24 0xcfbf019e in ?? () No symbol table info available. #25 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #26 0x00000003 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #27 0x1c000034 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #28 0x00000004 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #29 0x00000020 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #30 0x00000005 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #31 0x00000009 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #32 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #33 0x00001000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #34 0x00000007 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #35 0x0d0ba000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #36 0x00000008 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #37 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #38 0x00000009 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #39 0x1c0053f0 in auth_callback (request=0x0, result=0, reply=0x18cfbefe, reply_size=2161098494) at auth-client-connection.c:57 result = AUTH_CLIENT_RESULT_CONTINUE reply_size = 3485400864 str = (string_t *) 0xcfbeff18 ret = 0 Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) -- http://wykids.org/

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[Dovecot] ./configure --with-mysql --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl
by Tom Sommer 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Hi, I installed dovecot from dovecot-1.0-test51 with this configure line: ./configure --with-mysql --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl When I add this to my dovecot.conf: passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf I get this in /var/log/maillog when I run "dovecot -c /etc/dovecot.conf": Oct 21 13:59:16 one dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test51 starting up Oct 21 13:59:17 one dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Oct 21 13:59:17 one dovecot: auth(default): Unknown userdb type 'mysql' Oct 21 13:59:17 one dovecot: child 13203 (auth) returned error 89 After my ./configure was complete it was also noted that mysql would be built into dovecot as passwd and userdb, so MySQL should be in there. Any ideas? I use MySQL 4.0.17. Thanks -- Tom Sommer

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[Dovecot] RE: build errors on cvs
by Alex S Moore 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Building on Solaris 8 with Sun's compiler, I get the following error. Would you fix this? Using gcc is not really a good option for me. /opt/forte8/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/opt/csw/inclu\de -fast -xarch=v8 -I/opt/csw/include -c buffer.c "buffer.c", line 159: void function cannot return value "buffer.c", line 205: void function cannot return value cc: acomp failed for buffer.c *** Error code 2 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `buffer.o' Current working directory /export/medusa/asmoore/build/dovecot-sparc/src/lib Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Problems with thunderbird
by Jonas Lundgren 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

I'm running dovecot-1.0-test50 on openbsd 3.4 and it's working great, exept with thunderbird. Everything works fine with squirrelmail. The instant i log in with thunderbird the imap process goes up to 100% cpu, and instantly goes back down to 0 when i log out. I configured dovecot with the following arguments: --with-vpopmail --with-storages=maildir --without-passwd --without-passwd-file --without-static --without-pop3d --with-mysql --disable-ipv6 --with-ssl=openssl --without-checkpassword --without-bsdauth --without-static-userdb I'm usig the sql as auth, with vpopmail. I've also tried 1.0-test19, test46, 47, 48 and 49. Going to try 0.9.11 now, but in the 0.9-series i've had huge problems with indexes becoming fucked up every couple of hours. (The last 0.9 I tried is 0.9.10.6) Am i doing something wrong or what? -- Best regards, Jonas Lundgren ICQ: #52064961 IRC: neonman @ EFnet, Undernet, Quakenet Mail: jonas.lundgren(a)local.se

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[Dovecot] Unable to compile dovecot with Solaris 9 and Forte C
by Toni Viemero 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Just a "heads up". I tried to search mailinglist archives and wiki, but found no similar configurations. Dovecot is unbuildable with the following configuration: SunOS mail 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 cc: Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09 config.log output from ./configure is at: http://iso.ego.fi/misc/dovecot_1.0-test50.log I guess I'll have to bend over for GCC :) -- Toni Viemerö | http://selfdestruct.net "It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself."

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[Dovecot] procmail, mutt, and Mac OS X
by Alan Schmitt 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm using procmail to deliver my mail to my maildir boxes, that are watched by dovecot, and I configured mutt to use imap to access these boxes. After installing a more recent procmail (the default one from Apple has a bug with "/" in the filenames, so I used the one from Fink), I sent myself a message, which was delivered correctly to Maildir/.INBOK/new (I can see the file there). However, I cannot see this file from mutt. I think it is dovecot that is not seeing it, as I tried quitting and restarting mutt. So my question is: how can I tell dovecot that it should check the mailboxes, and is there a way to make it do so regularly? Or is my problem from somewhere else? 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] installing dovecot on Mac OS X
by Alan Schmitt 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm trying to install dovecot on Mac OS X, and I'm having trouble to make it run. If someone could point me to what I'm doing wrong or suggest some documentation to read, I'd be very glad (I've search the wiki for Mac OS X specific documentation, but could not find any). I installed dovecot using darwinports. The version installed is 0.99.10.5. (It's running well enough to tell me that when I do a: sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot --version ;-) Before trying to tweak the configuration file, I wanted first to get dovecot to run. When I first launched it, it told me that there was no dovecot user. After searching for a while, I finally found how to create one (and a dovecot group as well), doing the following: sudo niutil -create / /groups/dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /groups/dovecot gid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /groups/dovecot passwd '*' sudo niutil -create / /users/dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot uid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot gid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot name dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot passwd '*' sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot _writers_passwd root sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot change 0 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot shell /dev/null sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot home /var/empty sudo niutil -deleteprop / /users/dovecot realname sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot realname 'Dovecot user' sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot expire 0 This seems to create the correct thing, and looking in NetInfo it looks like the other users and groups used for daemons. I then launched dovecot and I got (trying to run it as a normal user, then as root): top% /opt/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: fchown() failed for /opt/local/var/run/dovecot: Operation not permitted top% sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for base directory /opt/local/var/run/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login zsh: bus error sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot and it seems that this happens every time I try to launch dovecot. Could someone point me at what I'm doing wrong? The setting I'm aiming for is the following: - being able to read local mail in maildir format using mutt - being able to read local mail using Mail.app and IMAP access - being able to use ssh to connect to the machine and locally run the IMAP server (in order to synchronize mail maybe using isync.sf.net) 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] Subscription problem with various clients
by Lucky U 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm a newbie with dovecot but i managed to install it and it's running great except i have this weird problem when trying to subscribe folders. I can subscribe to one folder at the time (for example inbox + sent), but if i try to subscribe an other directory client (tried with outlook express 6, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8, Iloha Webmail) automaticly unsubscribes other directories. I've tried to search a solution for this problem without success. Please help. I'm using Dovecot 0.99.10.2 on FreeBSD 5.0

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test50
by Timo Sirainen 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Support for LOGIN-REFERRALS (see wiki) - IMAP and POP3 proxies (see wiki) - disable_plaintext_auth = yes works correctly again - Don't leak fds in IDLE with non-Linuxes - Fixes connection hanging in certain situations - Added tb-negative-fetch workaround

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[Dovecot] test49 "killed with signal 6" errors...
by jross＠wykids.org 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

I upgraded yesterday from 1.0test46 to 1.0test49 in an attempt to eliminate an error that a couple of my users were getting. Both users were using Thunderbird 0.6 over imaps, and were getting errors that said: "The current command didn't succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid Body [..] Parameter: Missing '>'in'<14336-13057>'. When the user would click the Okay button on the e-mail client error message, the message would be delivered as normal. There wasn't any entry in the system logs about this that I could find. Googling didn't turn up anything concrete. I decided to upgrade to the latest test49 version. Now the same users are getting occasional e-mails that will not display, and I'm getting the follwing in the logs: 2004-10-20 09:48:51.854386500 mail.info: Oct 20 09:48:51 dovecot: imap-login: Login: jgarcia [69.146.158.154] 2004-10-20 09:49:13.195974500 mail.err: Oct 20 09:49:13 dovecot: IMAP(jgarcia): Trying to allocate 0 bytes 2004-10-20 09:49:13.197151500 mail.err: Oct 20 09:49:13 dovecot: child 14738 (imap) killed with signal 6 I upgraded one of the users to the latest Thunderbird with no change. But, if I have them go through our web interface (horde/imp) the same message displays just fine. The mail server is OpenBSD 3.6 -current. Dovecot is built with the following configuration: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-pam=NO \ --with-ldap=no \ --with-vpopmail=no \ --with-rawlog I added the --with-rawlog switch yesterday and created a dovecot.rawlog folder in the Maildirs but nothing seems to be logged. Any other information I can provide please let me know. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- http://wykids.org/

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[Dovecot] dovecot failing to chdir in home
by Stefano Maffulli 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi all, I have been fiddling with dovecot and things seem to be stuck on this problem: Oct 20 11:21:35 mail dovecot: chdir(studiosala.net/federico/) failed with uid 1001: Permission denied Oct 20 11:21:35 mail dovecot: child 22150 (pop3) returned error 89 This is the telnet session that generates it: mail:~# telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user federico(a)studiosala.net +OK pass XXXXXX +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. I am stuck: the UID/GID that postfix uses for dropping the mail in /varm/mail/domains/ is 1001/1001. The query string to mysql (the backend where I have stored the users) is (from mysql log, so it is executed): 682 Query SELECT 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid, '/var/mail/domains/' AS mail, maildir AS home FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'ale(a)studiosala.net' mail:/etc# ls -lad /var/mail drwxrwsr-t 3 root mail 4096 2004-10-19 23:49 /var/mail mail:/etc# ls -lad /var/mail/domains/ drwxr-sr-t 4 vmail vmail 4096 2004-10-20 07:03 /var/mail/domains/ I am not sure of how to proceed from here, any hint appreciated. thanks stef

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env problems
by Neil Marjoram 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

sorry if this mail is a duplicate - I am testing the new mail system! I am having problems setting the default mail environment.# I am using Fedora Core 2 with version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 My users all have an NFS mounted home directory, and all mail is delivered to ~Mail/.mailbox it is all mbox format. I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}. So I set these parameters for default_mail_env : mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/Mail/.mailbox Which produced the error : imap(test): stat() failed with mbox file ~/Mail/.mailbox: No such file or directory I set the mail environment back to default, linked inbox to .mailbox in the ~/Mail directory and all worked fine. Is there a better way to do this ? I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}, so I decided to set: default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n and got this error: imap(test): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/indexes//test dovecot: child 9142 (imap) returned error 89 I also tried : default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%u And got the same error. I guessed at permissions, so I tried changing the ownership to dovecot and then test and then root and then 777, but I still get this error. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL 01473 663711

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[Dovecot] Occasional error msgs from 1.0-test49
by Gregory Bond 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

I'm running 1.0-test49 on Solaris 2.8. MUA is Thunderbird (or mutt) running on FreeBSD. I'm using Maildir boxes. Occasionally, when browsing new mail in INBOX, I get an error back from the imapd, displayed in Thunderbird as the following popup msg: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in '<36864,-34800>'. >From this point, nothing much works reliably until I quit the MUA and start again. Sometimes, if I keep working, the email that was being fetched is shown but is corrupted and the msg body contains another copy of the whole email (header & body), sometimes 2 extra copies. Nothing is in the maillog. This _didn't_ happen with 0.99.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test49 FD leak
by Gregory Bond 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

I'm running 1.0-test49 on Solaris 2.8. The good news is that this version fixes my problem with corrupted index files (so far). The bad news is it seems to be leaking FDs to do with inbox: imap 10198 gnb 156r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 157r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 158r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 159r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 160r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 161r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 162r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 163r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 164r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 165r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur (seems to be a new pair of FDs leaked each time my MUA checks for new mail).

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[Dovecot] 49-latest compile problem and CVS method
by Kim Culhan 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

--- Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On 17.10.2004, at 21:02, Kim Culhan wrote: > > > The connection is being made with ssl so it looks like > > the plaintext auth preventer is broken. > > Fixed in CVS now (and in next nightly snapshot). Very good, this compile problem though on test49-latest from nightly: ar cru libpassword.a mycrypt.o password-scheme.o password-scheme-md5crypt.o password-scheme-cram-md5.o password-scheme-ntlm.o password-scheme-rpa.o ranlib libpassword.a make: don't know how to make auth-master-interface.h. Stop Also, tried getting the cvs tree with: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dovecot.org:/home/cvs co dovecot It doesn't populate the directory with all the files; does not include the build files such as Makefile.in, configure etc Any way to get cvs to do that ? -kim _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Index corruption
by Gregory Bond 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

I'm getting pretty constant index corruption on (admittedly large) Maildir folders. I'm running Thunderbird 0.7.3 and Mutt as my IMAP clients (on FreeBSD). Server is Dovecot 0.99.10.9 configured thusly: ./configure --disable-ipv6 CC=gcc-3.3 CXX=g++-3.3 --prefix=/opt/dovecot --without-pop3d on a Solaris 2.8 box. Maildirs are NFS-mounted, but the index files are on local UFS filesystem: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/export/01/imapd/%u MTA is Postfix, LDA is procmail delivering to several Maildir folders. There will be 2 (or more) dovecot instances running for this user (me) - several from Thunderbird and one from the BIFF client (icewm). Turning off the BIFF client doesn't seem to help. Symptoms: when using Thunderbird, and deleting a msg or moving it to another folder, Thunderbird will sometimes not display the next unread message, but just sit there. Changing folders works, but changing back to the previous folder (or quitting/restarting Thunderbird) only shows the first N messages (N is about 500, in a Maildir of about 6000, and it is the SAME email that is "last" every time.) This happens with multiple folders, but (usually) only folders that are delivered to by procmail (this may be related to the problem or a coincidence in that only those folders have unread email!) Accessing the mailboxes using MUTT via IMAP shows the same truncated message list. (I'm the only user using dovecot as I want Maildir, the other users have uw-imap, so dovecot is listening on port 4343) Closing all imap clients, then removing the .index.* files from the appropriate /export/01/imapd/ directory, then restarting the imap client causes the missing messages to reappear (after a suitable wait for the index files to be recreated). It really looks like locking or truncation issues in the index files.... Any clues? Debugging hints? This is happening several times per day so I can get lots o' debug data! Greg.

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[Dovecot] test49 Authenticate PLAIN disabled stops pop3s
by Kim Culhan 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Unlike test47, test49 refuses to authenticate pop3s if disable_plaintext_auth = yes Checked the crypto with: snort -vde tcp port 995 The connection is being made with ssl so it looks like the plaintext auth preventer is broken. -kim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] UIDL bug
by dovecot＠spam.turbolink.net 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

I noticed a problem with handling UIDL msgnumber in test46. If you do "UIDL 1" on a POP3 connection it returns the UID of the message followed by a dot and an error message. I made 2 changes: I added the following line to line 527 of src/pop3/commands.c ctx->message = message; I changed line 559 from: if (list_uids_iter(client, ctx)) to: if (!list_uids_iter(client, ctx)) Next time I'll submit an actual diff, I've made lots of other changes and comments in my source though so it's harder. - Mike

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test49
by Timo Sirainen 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixes the extra data appearing in POP3 mails (and possibly some other random problems). Created lib-sql API with asynchronous PostgreSQL and synchronous MySQL implementations. Also means I dropped mysql and pgsql userdb and passdb and replaced them with one generic sql userdb and passdb. If you were using the old ones, you'll have to fix your configuration. See included doc/dovecot-sql.conf for more information. Note that the password_query must now return "password" named column, before it was assumed that the first returned column was password.

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[Dovecot] errors in logfile
by Dan Sully 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

I just upgraded to -test47 from 0.99.11-test4, and am getting a bunch of these messages in the logfile: dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:21 Info: imap-login: Login: andrew [64.36.1.74] dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): sigaction(SIGRTMIN) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): fcntl(F_SETSIG) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): read(event_pipe) failed: Is a directory dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: child 7047 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: child 6631 (auth) killed with signal 11 Any ideas? How can I get more information about what's happening there? Thanks. -D -- <Nigel> Please refrain from fearing the reaper.

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[Dovecot] LDAP with Unix Sockets
by Paolo Basenghi 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Is it possible tu specify a LDAP URL like ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi/ in the dovecot-ldap.conf file instead host:port? Best regards -- ___________________________________________________________________ Ing. PAOLO BASENGHI :::: Systems & Networking Engineer p.basenghi (at) netribe.it ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ NETRIBE srl :: Collaborative E-Business 42100 :: Reggio Emilia :: Italy :: Via della Costituzione, 27/4 ph. +39 0522 232378 :: fax +39 0522 232386 :: http://www.netribe.it ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

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[Dovecot] source rpm compile
by kakula 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hi, I was compiling the source rpm but had a problem. rpm -bb dovecot-xxx.spec The process stoped and showed: File must begin with "/": %{_initrddir}/dovecot

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test48
by Timo Sirainen 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - dovecot-auth talks now ASCII based protocol. this makes it easy to write complete replacement auth server if someone wants to do something weird. I also thought maybe Postfix could be made to talk that (or similiar) protocol as well, but no-one has answered my mail about it so far. Perhaps I should just write binary compatible libsasl2 which actually talks to dovecot-auth. - other authentication code cleanups - don't insert extra spaces at the beginning of FETCH replies (I guess most clients ignored them) - mbox fixes - some index fixes - Hopefully fixes _send_istream() assert crash with FreeBSD (sendfile() was used wrong) The authentication code changes haven't been tested too much. I only tried that PLAIN authentication works. Others might not.

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[Dovecot] mbox and maildir
by Shane Kerschtien 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this? Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail? Cheers, Shane

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[Dovecot] my future with dovecot (?any recipe?)
by NORA CENTRAL 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Hallo I am very impressed from this howto's: 1) Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO (mysql) http://www.delouw.ch/linux/postfix.phtml 2) Pop-Toaster using Qmail-Vmailmgr-Courier-SquirrelMail http://qvcs-guide.sourceforge.net/ (this work for me) I hope to build anything like above, but with Dovecot: [Postfix-tls-smtpauth-Dovecot-Mailadmin*-MySQL-SquirrelMail-https] Postgresql is ok for me with email-admin must be exist. I dos not like qmail & Co, ldap... and cyrus is to big for me. I found tousand mosaiks in internet to build any email server... mostly bound to debian, suse, redhat what i not use and i prefer all piece self compile and package for Archlinux or Slackware. My problem is the choice of ingredients and later to assemble it. Community need howto's like above two and some working full complete recipe to self build. I hope to find a recipe for dovecot+postfix+tls+ssl+smtpauth and [postgresql|mysql|firebird|metakit|any.other.db] nora

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[Dovecot] not enough information in the syslog
by Mikhail Teterin 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Although I set `auth_debug = yes' in the dovecot.conf, the line about my uid being too low was never logged by the server. Neither KMail nor Mozilla showed me the rejection message, that dovecot was giving them. I had to ktrace the process to see it and adjust first_valid_uid down. Yours, -mi

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[Dovecot] painfully slow uploads
by Mikhail Teterin 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

I have several mail accounts, but collect all spam e-mail in the spam mailbox on one of them. After switching to dovecot (from imap-uw) I notice a very slow speed of bulk transfers and a very high CPU utilization by the dovecot's imap process during it -- sustained 62% of my server's Pentium2 @266MHz. Never saw such effects under imap-uw... My client is KMail (despite the awfull quality of its latest release). Hope, this helps. Yours, -mi

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[Dovecot] assertion failed and debugging dovecot
by Doug Luce 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

I'm getting this error on a particular message in my Maildir: Oct 11 21:59:48 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): file ostream-file.c: line 646 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) To me, more import than the question "why is this happening" is "how can I debug this?" Attaching gdb to the running imap process doesn't give me access to the proper function names to set up breakpoints and get a stack trace. Can someone with the experience give a quick how-to on debugging functions deep in dovecot? Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] what exactly does outlook-idle workaround?
by Jonathan Salomon 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Hi, Can anyone tell me what the 'client_workarounds = outlook-idle' directive exactly does? I have enabled it in my /etc/dovecot.conf, but the problem that I think it should solve still exsits. That is that after being IDLE for more than half an hour Dovecot will disconnect Outlook but Outlook never connects back. Therefore users receive new mail, but they don't get notified unless they press send/receive. So what does the workaround do? And how can I solve the problem? Thanks! Jonathan

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[Dovecot] SASL
by alan premselaar 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I've been browsing the wiki and thru my mail-list archives but haven't found an answer. does/can dovecot 0.99.x support authenticating with a SASL database? I'll be setting up a new mail server for my offices using Sendmail/MIMEDefang/ClamAV/etc with dovecot as the IMAP server. I'm not familiar at all with LDAP. I know that sendmail will authenticate to a SASL database and it's fairly easy to setup. My goal is that I can support "real" users (actual user accounts) but allow their mail passwords to be different than their login passwords, and changeable via some sort of CGI interface. (I also have 2 weeks to accomplish this) any assistance is appreciated alan

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[Dovecot] Does dovecot support subfolders in Outlook (and in general)
by AWC Maillists 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Ok, I am playing around with dovecot and things are running relatively smoothly. I am using Outlook as that is what the client uses for Email. I can copy messages to and from the IMAP folder. I can create folders from the root directory fine. My question is this. I have folders like this: IMAPServer --Inbox --Trash --WorkToDo Now when I try and create a subfolder in "WordToDo" I get an error message "Unable to create the folder. The server responded: 'Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes' When I try to create a subfolder in "Inbox" I get an error message "Unable to create the folder. The folder 'Inbox' cannot contains subfolders..." So is this a limitation of Dovecot? Another problem with Outlook? Or do I have some configuration problem on my end? Thanks. --- Charles PS: My first impressions of dovecot are very positive. It is a much cleaner and, so far, easier to handle IMAP server than the heavyweight UW & Cyrus IMAP servers. Congrats on a impressive program.

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RE: [Dovecot] Power user
by Debreu, Alexis 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Thanks for answer, The config I have is very small (for now) All of my user have an account on the machine. Very soon I plan to switch to LDAP. For my needs, a PowerUser for all domains is enough. Alexis -----Message d'origine----- De : Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Envoyé : lundi 11 octobre 2004 19:33 À : Debreu, Alexis Cc : 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' Objet : Re: [Dovecot] Power user On 11.10.2004, at 16:24, Debreu, Alexis wrote: > I am very new to dovecot and I would like to know if there is a way to > configure a user with all the read/write right on all mailbox. > > I would like to have a power user (PowerUser) able to reach USER1 > mailbox > using the following login > PowerUser@domain/USER1@domain and the password will be the PowerUser > password. Not yet. But I guess I should one day add support for it. Most SASL mechanisms support it directly without a kludgy username. I'm not sure about the configuration though. For passwd-file I guess there could be just one global flag which means that the user has access to everyone's mails. For LDAP and SQL I guess the pass_filter/password_query could have a few new %vars to describe the other user. Or maybe there needs to be a separate filter/query for that case. Hmm. Do you want the poweruser to have access to all mailboxes, or just for the one domain? What passdb are you using?

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[Dovecot] Detecting unused accounts
by Ben Beuchler 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

I'm looking for a way to figure out which accounts have not been logged in to in over n days. It occurs to me that, perhaps, the way to do this would be to look at the mtime on one of the dovecot-maintained files, like 'dovecot-uidlist'. Is there a particular file that would be modified on (almost) every login, whether it be via POP or IMAP? -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte(a)emt-p.org -- The Matrix

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[Dovecot] Power user
by Debreu, Alexis 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hi all, I am very new to dovecot and I would like to know if there is a way to configure a user with all the read/write right on all mailbox. I would like to have a power user (PowerUser) able to reach USER1 mailbox using the following login PowerUser@domain/USER1@domain and the password will be the PowerUser password. Thanks for help, Alexis

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[Dovecot] Enable outlook-idle workaround.
by AWC Maillists 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

I just recently discovered dovecot. I am evaluating the program and several clients uses Outlook/Outlook Express. In the clients issues section of dovecot.org is says "You should enable outlook-idle workaround" Ok, maybe I am missing something very obvious here but I can not find any documentation on how to implement the outlook-idle workaround. Can anyone point me to an article or something with more details on this issue? Thanks in advance.

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