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RE: [Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

John Duino wrote: > That was the one question I haven't had answered (and it's > mostly just out of pure paranoia that I ask it :) Yes. POP email works fine with Maildir for me. I am using dovecot-0.99.10.5-1 which was on the development tree of Fedora. Though I would think the one that came stock with Fedora 2 should work as well. I have no reason to think it won't. One note. I don't use POP that much. I have one person who uses it and they haven't complained. > So if all the mail is moved to Maildir (thus eliminating the typical > mailspool), and somebody pop's onto the server, Dovecot will use the > Maildir/Inbox for the pop? Yes it will. If you read the mail-storages.txt documentation file it talks about it. I would read the section on "Detecting what to use". I did NOT set the default_mail_env variable in my /etc/dovecot.conf and it figured it out automagically :) Good luck, John

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.5 imap flag update issues
by Hauke Fath 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi, there is an issue left in 0.99.10.5 which (I think) is a problem with imap status flags. It shows up in two places: (1) When new mail is delivered to the inbox, the last read mail changes to "unread". (2) When you move mails from the inbox to another folder with Mozilla (1.6 on win32, Linux, NetBSD), they are not removed from the inbox, effectively performing a copy instead of a move. And, while I am at it, (3) I see a regular log entry from a MS Outlook 2000 SP 3 Jun 3 10:26:23 bounce imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [130.83.XXX.XXX] The setup here: OS NetBSD 2.0beta, MTA sendmail 8.12.11, LDA maildrop 1.3.9, dovecot 0.99.10.5, OpenSSL 0.9.7d Any ideas? hauke -- Hauke Fath /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Institut für Nachrichtentechnik \ / No HTML/RTF in email TU Darmstadt X No Word docs in email Ruf +49-6151-16-3281 / \ Respect for open standards

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RE: [Dovecot] Getting POP3 up and running
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > According to my understanding of the documentation I changed > the protocols > line in dovecot.conf to: > > #protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s Did you really just change the commented out line? If so then you didn't do anything :( You will need to uncomment the line and restart it. The "#" at the beginning of the line is a comment. John

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[Dovecot] Getting POP3 up and running
by Antonio Nunes 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi! Now that I happily smiling have Squirrelmail working on the new setup (Fedora Core 2), the next hurdle seems to be getting POP3 to work. According to my understanding of the documentation I changed the protocols line in dovecot.conf to: #protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s then restarted dovecot, but still can't connect to pop3 (not even after rebooting the whole system). Doing an nmap on my server does not show port 110 as open. Any clues as to what I may be overlooking? Thanks for your support, Antonio There is a world of difference between searching for happiness and choosing to be happy!

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RE: [Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to > this. A client > has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to > dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir > format over > mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is > what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to > make sendmail > write to Maildir. > > My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and > imap/maildir. My suggestion would be to use Dovecot as your POP and IMAP server. And convert everything to use Maildir unless there is some special reason you want to keep mbox format for. Setup procmail to deliver all mail to the maildir folders. See my previous message on how to do it. John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] Loggin error with Squirrelmail on Fedore Core 2
by Antonio Nunes 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi! I am switching a mail server setup to a new machine which has RHL Fedore Core 2 installed, which uses Dovecot. I managed to get Squirrelmail to work on my personal account, but when logging in with some other accounts I get the following error as response: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: Capability I did a web search on this and found a message from Tim Middleton who experienced the same problem. He also suggests a workaround: "I put in a chron job to touch into existance any non-existing mailboxes for everyone in the passwd file periodically, which mostly eliminates the problem. But I'd still like to know why the server is having the problem, if anyone can make any suggestions." I would like to try this, but I am still fairly new to Unix. Could anyone show me how to set up such a chron job? Are there other, manual, ways to touch the mailboxes? Thanks, Antonio Nunes Don't let who you can be keep you from being who you already are.

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[Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by John Duino 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Greetings! I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to this. A client has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir format over mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to make sendmail write to Maildir. My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and imap/maildir. While running dovecot in imap-only it will use mbox format to read the /var/mail/user as the Inbox and then create the full imap structure under ~user/mail but in mbox format, not maildir. If/when I turn on both pop and imap in dovecot will it allow this with the current config? Or will I still need to convert sendmail output to maildir...and then I assume dovecot/pop will read from ~user/Maildir/Inbox even though it is in Maildir format? Basically, if I'd prefer to not have to convert sendmail to Maildir format, have dovecot always treat /var/mail/user as the Inbox for both pop and imap, and for those who switch to imap, have it store their other folders in ~user/Maildir. Asking too much? Thanks! John

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RE: [Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

To recap what I have learned :) dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to > convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? > > I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered > that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. > So far so > good. > > But I would like to convert my system to start using the > Maildir format. > > How easy is this to accomplish? Fairly easy on the small system I had. I only have around 8 people using email off of my system. > Can I keep my Inbox /var/spool/mail/user_name as an mbox > format and have > my other folders as Maildir? Timo says that it is NOT available in the version that comes with Fedora Core 2. It will be available in the 1.0 series by defining multiple namespaces. The current 1.0-tests allow this. > What would I have to change for Sendmail to make it use > Maildir for the Inbox? Sendmail does NOT need to be changed. > Can procmail support Maildir? Yes and that is what you need to change. I setup /etc/procmailrc to have the line: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ Make sure there is the terminating / on that line. What this will do is make all new mail that is delivered via procmail go to each user's Maildir folder. But what you need to do first is convert your existing mbox mail into maildir format. I used the program that was recommended to me: mb2md http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ This program worked great to convert my /var/spool/mail/user_name stuff and also folders that I had created under ~/mail/ So now my whole system is using Maildir format. If you had a big system this might be a big pain :( John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] Lost messages when "Moved to Trash"
by Fred Mulharin 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

We are using Dovecot 0.99.10.5 on a Redhat 9.0 Box. We are using the Squirrelmail Webmail client, and have occasionally had a problem with users move messages from their Inbox to the "Trash" folder. The Selected messages move to the Trash folder, but the rest of the messages in the INBOX disappear. Fred -- Fred Mulharin Systems Technology Supervisor Times Herald-Record fmulharin(a)th-record.com ..We are the trusted leader in news and information for the communities we serve ..because we all live here

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[Dovecot] inbox file read/write
by Yedidia Klein 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi, If I config my mta to write incoming mail to /var/mail/[username] and dovecot (or any other imap/pop server) is serving email from this file, can't the fie be corrupted while mta and dovecot read/write at the same time ? is there any mechanism to avoid it ? thanks --Y

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[Dovecot] dovecot and virtual hosting
by Vegard Svanberg 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi. A usual hosting provider setup depends on having one IP ("virtual mailserver") per domain. Using dovecot on servers handling hundreds or thousands of domains today equals to having multiple instances of dovecot running. This problem could be solved by making dovecot take into account the IP address the user connects to and authenticate against the proper {database, table, pw-file, [...]} based on that. Comments? -- Vegard Svanberg <vegard(a)svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]

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[Dovecot] IMAP folders missing after migrating to Dovecot
by Chris Horry 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm migrating to Dovecot from Courier-IMAP. I use Postfix with Maildir for delivery. When I use Dovecot as the IMAP server all of my folders are missing, the only thing that remains is the Inbox folder. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I have enclosed my configuration. Thanks, Chris - -- Chris Horry "Winter is the season in which people zerbey(a)wibble.co.uk try to keep the house as warm as it was PGP: DSA/2B4C654E it was in the summer, when they complained Amateur Radio: KG4TSM about the heat" --Author Unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkC+TwAACgkQnAAeGCtMZU5/IwCeNAac9HXNmZpWn7aoeINC2RH+ SeIAnRASJdvDIOi6/ZvBMzBJwWrKPJVZ =iK37 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: [Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Dan Stromberg wrote: > For converting from mbox to Maildir, check out mb2md. I converted a > huge collection of folders using it. Thanks. I'll look into that. >> Can procmail support Maildir? > > I'm using the procmails that come with RHEL3 and FC2 for > Maildir folders > without any problem. So how did you setup procmail? Did you setup a /etc/procmailrc And then setup a: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ line in the file? Thanks, John

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[Dovecot] Fedora 1 packaged version or upgrade to newest dovecot
by Daniel 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hello I running dovecot that is packaged with Fedora 1 with about 1500 email accounts approximately 5k messages per day. I have had to restart dovecot twice over a period of about 3 months due to it not responding. Overall I'm happy with the setup, however would I see and improvement if I upgraded to the latest version, at time of writing 0.99.10.5. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] Serve list archives by dovecot IMAP
by Kenneth Porter 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Has anyone considered setting up a Dovecot public server to serve the list archives by IMAP? Or does Dovecot not do anonymous read-only access? (I note by comparison that the Cyrusoft Mulberry list archives are served by an IMAP server. <http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/support/anonimap.html>) It should be sufficient to set up Dovecot on some server in the dovecot.org domain and subscribe it to the lists.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + SSL + Fedora
by David Keegel 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

I've been seeing the Dovecot/SSL/Fedora 1 problem. I have a dovecot server which tends to die at least once a day, with messages like these :- May 24 13:44:44 mail pop3-login: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded May 24 13:44:44 mail dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down I noticed Timo's email about this at: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-May/003316.html with the patch that just ignores the return code of RAND_bytes(). Would disabling SSL in dovecot.conf also be a reasonable way of avoiding the problem of dovecot crashing? My plan is to set ssl_disable = yes and also take out pops and imaps from protocols. That is a lot easier for me than getting source, patching it, re-compiling and re-installing. We are using Fedora Core 1 (fedora-release-1-3 i386 rpm) Dovecot 0.99.10 (dovecot-0.99.10-4 i386 rpm) OpenSSL 0.9.7a (openssl-0.9.7a-33.10 i386 rpm) ___________________________________________________________________________ David Keegel <djk(a)cybersource.com.au> http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/ Cybersource P/L: Linux/Unix Systems Administration Consulting/Contracting

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.5 release candidate
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Thought I'd still make one 0.99.10.x release now that mbox corruption problems are (hopefully) fixed. Please test, if no problems are found this will be the final 0.99.10.5. Changes since .4: + MySQL authentication, patch by Matthew Reimer - mbox: APPEND reversed given \Draft and \Deleted flags - mbox: "LF not found" errors happened sometimes when X-IMAPbase header was updated. Possibly corrupted mbox sometimes. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet for finding this bug. - Custom flags couldn't be unset - Maildir: make sure ":2," is appended to filename when moving mails from new/ to cur/.

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[Dovecot] Postfix SASL AUTH from Dovecot
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Again today got annoyed at Cyrus SASL. Upgrading it to newer version had broken PAM support. Trying to login as "user@domain" resulted it only asking for "user" from PAM. Well, got it patched and working again, but I'd rather not go through it all the time.. So I finally did what I had been thinking about a year or so, change Postfix to use dovecot-auth directly. This required cleaning dovecot-auth quite a lot, but it seems to be working now. Actually I finally implemented support for initial SASL response as well. POP3's AUTH command had required support for it, strange that no-one ever complained about it not working. If you want to try it, you need very latest CVS version of Dovecot and this patch for Postfix: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix-dovecot-auth.patch dovecot-auth can be run on it's own (configuration in environment variables), or you can use extra_sockets auth setting which is a ':' separated list of UNIX sockets where to listen in. You'd probably want to set it to /var/spool/postfix/etc/dovecot-auth, the location is hardcoded to /etc/dovecot-auth in the patch for now (smtpd is chrooted). The only real problem is that Dovecot creates the dovecot-auth socket using 0660 root:root modes, so you have to manually chmod it to 0666 or fix owner/group. I guess that needs some more thinking.. Probably each socket should have separate settings for it, but how to do it easily in configuration? .. The patch has also hardcoded dovecot path in Makefile.in, you'll need to change that.

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.0-test14: no sendfile() in Solaris 8
by Andreas Jaekel 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

At 14:35 01/06/2004 +0300, you wrote: >On 1.6.2004, at 13:13, Andreas Jaekel wrote: > >>The current CVS snapshot and 1.0-test14 will not build on Solaris 8 >>because it does not provide a sendfile() funtion. It just has sendfilev(). >>Solaris 9 has sendfile(), though. > >Doesn't the configure detect that you don't have it? It shouldn't define >HAVE_SOLARIS_SENDFILE if it isn't there (if sendfile library doesn't have >sendfile() function). No, it doesn't. The test for the linux sendfile() function uses ac_compile, no ac_link. So all you get is an "implicit declaration" warning in configure.log, but since the final check is for test -z a.out configure will always happily detect linux sendfile. Greetings, Andy

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[Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion
by Zoong Pham 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hi all, Out IMAP client (Outlook and others) use login name like joedirt(a)domainname.com I need dovecot to convert it to joedirt-domainname_com since that is the local login name. Can someone give me a hint how to do that? Is there any simple way to do it or do I have to modify any source code? Thanks, Zoong

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test14: no sendfile() in Solaris 8
by Andreas Jaekel 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Aloha. The current CVS snapshot and 1.0-test14 will not build on Solaris 8 because it does not provide a sendfile() funtion. It just has sendfilev(). Solaris 9 has sendfile(), though. Using the old sendfile-util.c from 1.0-test1 and setting HAVE_SOLARIS_SENDFILEV instead of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE in config.h works. Greetings, Andy.

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[Dovecot] Small change to make dovecot pop3 uw-imap migration friendly
by Oleg I. Vdovikin 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hi, today I've finished migration from uw-imap daemons to shiny and fast dovecot. With thanks of dovecot my mail server load average drops by factor of ten even with ancient unix mailboxes. ;-) So, the only thing I've discovered is what POP3 uidls are different than ones used in the uw-imap. Luckily, the difference are only in the format string used in uidl response. So, I've made the following change in the code --- dovecot-0.99.10.4.orig/src/pop3/commands.c 2003-05-28 15:17:15.000000000 +0400 +++ dovecot-0.99.10.4/src/pop3/commands.c 2004-05-27 14:06:48.000000000 +0400 @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ while ((mail = client->mailbox->fetch_next(ctx)) != NULL) { client_send_line(client, message == 0 ? - "%u %u.%u" : "+OK %u %u.%u", + "%u %08x%08x" : "+OK %u %08x%08x", mail->seq, client->uidvalidity, mail->uid); found = TRUE; } and got everything just like in the old uw-imap pop3. I'm current running RH9, but thinking of FC2 which uses dovecot. So, I've rebuild the FC2 rpm for RH9 including this patch. Pop3 users, which do not remove their mails from the server are really happy - they do not receive old mails twice. Probably this small change could be applied to the 1.0, or used as a config option. Any suggestions are greatly appriciated. Thanks, Oleg.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test14
by Timo Sirainen 31 May '04

31 May '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Maildir syncing is still somewhat broken. I can't really figure out what the problem is. Maybe it's in indexes after all which are just causing bugs in syncing. I think I'll finish implementing mbox syncing and see if same problems appear with it. This release has mostly dovecot-auth changes: - Delay reporting failed authentications - Log IP address of failed authentications (if verbose = yes) - Password schemes can now be loaded from plugins. Example: http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/password-scheme-lmpass.c - (now that I think of it, auth mechanisms could be implemented as plugins as well if they were placed in password-scheme directory, I think I'll change the directory name so it's more logical) - SASL initial responses are supported (POP3) - SHA/SHA1 password scheme implemented with OpenSSL - dovecot-auth can run as standalone process now (but that doesn't work with Dovecot itself at least yet) - Changes to make it more easier to use it outside Dovecot (eg. the Postfix patch) Added new variables which can be used: %l - local IP address %r - remote IP address %P - PID Added mail_log_prefix setting where variables can be used. So if you want eg. "imap(user,ip-addr,pid): ", set it to "%p(%u,%r,%P): ". And others: - added maildir_stat_dirs setting - several bugfixes for indexes

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[Dovecot] Dovecot returns everything starting with "." as folder
by Christoph Hohmann 30 May '04

30 May '04

Hi, I'm using dovecot imapd 0.99.10.5 from debian unstable and I noticed that dovecot returns everything in the maildir folder that starts with a "." as a folder as the result of LIST "" "%" command without checking if it is really a maildir folder (must contain the directories cur, new, tmp and the file maildirfolder). This is a little bit annoying because it also returns Sylpheed's cache files '.sylpheed_cache' and '.sylpheed_mark' if they exist in the maildir. -- http://reboot.animeirc.de http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/

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Re: [Dovecot] help: Unknown password scheme SHA
by martynas＠inet.lt 30 May '04

30 May '04

I dont want to change over 1500 passwords in ldap;) So, if somebody implement this, i'll change from courier to dovecot. regards, Martynas P.S. Timo, could you drop me email, when dovecot would support this. Thank you. --- Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 16:54, martynas(a)inet.lt wrote: > > I would like to change my courier to dovecot. When I try to setup ldap au> th, > > I get error: > > dovecot-auth: ldap(martynas): Unknown password scheme SHA > > > > So, how enable SHA scheme on dovecot? > > Sorry, there's currently no SHA support. Should be pretty simple to > implement though, any volunteers? :) > >

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[Dovecot] dovecot API / Virtual Folders?
by James Moser 30 May '04

30 May '04

I was wondering if anyone has done something like this, or knows of any reason it would not work. Would it be possible to use dovecot's API to create virtual folders where when messages are placed in them some other application can be executed on them? With programs like DSPAM and SpamAssassin, and with users who do not have shell access to the machines, it would be nice if there was a way they could do something like this to use dspam/sa-learn, that way they could use it with any mail application. I don't like the idea of using cron to do this. -- James L Moser james(a)powweb.com PowWeb Hosting http://www.powweb.com /(bb|[^b]{2})/, that is the Question. mysql>SELECT * FROM user WHERE clue > 0; Empty set (0.03 sec) Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die... Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing...

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[Dovecot] dovecot and nfs
by Dan Stromberg 30 May '04

30 May '04

I configured dovecot on a Fedora Core 2 system - the version that comes with FC2. I was using it with a RHEL 3 NFS server. Dovecot would again and again get stuck trying to grab an fcntl lock, even though I specified that it should only use dotlocks in dovecot.conf. Sometimes it would segfault (leaving things locked?). Often there would be two dovecot imapd processes for the same user. I've since moved dovecot onto our internal NFS server, but we have many (relatively) external imap servers where it might be nice to use dovecot, and in a number of those scenarios, NFS would be a requirement. Thanks. -- Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg(a)dcs.nac.uci.edu>

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[Dovecot] help: Unknown password scheme SHA
by martynas＠inet.lt 30 May '04

30 May '04

Hello, I would like to change my courier to dovecot. When I try to setup ldap auth, I get error: dovecot-auth: ldap(martynas): Unknown password scheme SHA So, how enable SHA scheme on dovecot? regards, Martynas

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[Dovecot] Messages does not appear in OE6
by Mauricio Araya V. 29 May '04

29 May '04

Hi List! I have an issue with dovecot: Outlook express users sometimes can't see some emails (they are not even listed) that can be seen with other IMAP clients, I tested it (and it works) with Evolution, Outlook and SquirrelMail (a web mail). Please note that this is not the client bug reported at http://dovecot.org/clients.html with the message: "Message is no longer available on this server" I have the following configuration: - Postfix as MTA (ver. 2.1), using the Maildir format to store messages. - Dovecot 0.99.10.4_2 serving POP3 and IMAP. Relevant dovecot config: client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle default_mail_env = maildir:/%h/Maildir Something important is that I am using freebsd 4.9, and dovecot is installed from ports (/usr/ports/mail/dovecot) Does anyone has the solution for this problem, or at least an idea of what causes it? Regards, -Mauricio

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[Dovecot] IMAP views - and things to make Outlook Express not suck so much
by Geo Carncross 28 May '04

28 May '04

Some of the things that keep being brought up SEEM TO ME to be a form of IMAP crack that can be accomplished in a much more generalized manner with a little bit of thought. An idea I had a while back was for IMAP views. It accomplishes the four things I keep seeing on this list without being specific to any of them. Consider new configuration variables: rewrite Junk { folder = INBOX search = KEYWORD "Junk" post = +FLAGS (Junk) } rewrite Trash { folder = * search = DELETED fetch = -FLAGS (\Deleted) post = +FLAGS (\Deleted) } Views would not be deletable (unless one wants to invent some nonstandard IMAP extensions today), but they would otherwise look like regular folders. One could post and search and fetch messages as normal (with some alterations to various IMAP fields). In the examples I gave: A001 SELECT Junk A002 SEARCH ALL A003 SELECT Trash A004 SEARCH ALL A005 FETCH 1 FLAGS would be translated into: A001 SELECT INBOX A002 SEARCH ALL KEYWORD Junk A003 SELECT {for each SUBSCRIBED folder} A004 SEARCH ALL DELETED A005 FETCH 1 FLAGS Except, A005 would actually yield: * 1 FETCH (FLAGS ()) Instead of: * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted)) It would probably be ideal if these were configurable per-user, but I'd be happy with system-wide rewriting. Options for rewrite could include: folder = folders that could be selected using LSUB OR a valid (existing) folder name. If this is system wide, pretty much only INBOX, INBOX.% and INBOX.* and * and % are valid :) search = tags to append to SEARCH operations on the view fetch = IMAP fields that are acceptable to STORE that we will pretend occurred when fetching. recent = IMAP fields that should be STORE'd when the \Recent flag is still set. post = IMAP fields that are acceptable to STORE that we will perform when APPENDing or STOREing. append = argument to be passed to /bin/sh -c which will receive on standard input the APPENDed body, and produce on output a STOREed body. open = argument for /bin/sh -c for when this view is SELECTed or EXAMINEd close = argument to be passed to /bin/sh -c for when the view is closed. index = argument to be passed to /bin/sh -c for when dovecot wants to index a portion of the message. standard input of the argument is the message, whereas standard output is the portion to actually index. path = a regular dovecot mailbox path that would contain the real contents of this folder. ro path = like path, but would be decidedly read-only (except for any side-effects generated by append =) Subprocesses that exit 99 would handle the task internally- thus any normal actions (such as for index = and append =) would not occur. Exit code 0 is for normal completion, and all other exit codes should generate an error. If one allowed open = and close = to be used on REAL folders, this would allow people to actually have the behavior UW-IMAP does by MOVING mail from /v/s/m into ~/mbox... One could use append = with a "Outbox" view that could write the queue at the same time as storing a copy into Sent Items. One could also use append for gpg-signing messages as they're being recorded. One could also use append for publishing to a mailing list. One could use index = to spell-check messages beforehand thus improving my chances of actually finding messages from my PHB. One could also use append =, recent = and ro path = to emulate shared folders support in a manner that would be useful for using IMAP folders as a kind of work-queue. Thoughts?

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[Dovecot] ioloop.c: line 90: assertion failed: (io->fd <= current_ioloop->highest_fd)
by Charlie Allom 27 May '04

27 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm running the last release, not the tests, and was wondering if anyone had seen this? It happens a few times a day.. May 27 17:43:29 squeaky imap-login: [ID 480647 mail.crit] file ioloop.c: line 90: assertion failed: (io->fd <= current_ioloop->highest_fd) May 27 17:43:29 squeaky dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 23744 (login) killed with signal 6 This is on Solaris. Regards, C. - -- .signature 0x14AA7941 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFAtZzFqiZDwhSqeUERAofWAKCO2kadhJnZySSs28qkVIG2ma/HMACfdP21 wPvPym7NAST85eofOJCSods= =8c1t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.5-rc2
by Timo Sirainen 27 May '04

27 May '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Just a few more changes: - --with-moduledir option to configure - compile fix to Solaris 10 - mbox syncing complains if mbox is modified while we have it locked and something goes wrong (lock settings are wrong) - maildir: RENAME xx inbox.xx makes sure INBOX is uppercased. - "RAND_bytes() failed:" SSL "fix" for fedora/redhat

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[Dovecot] dovecot immediately exits on Fedora 2
by Per Bothner 26 May '04

26 May '04

I "upgraded" my server running UW-IMAP on Fedora 1, to Fedora 2, which defaults to Dovecot. Unfortunately, the server refuses connecions from my client (Mozilla). It seems that Dovecot immediately exits: ps aux|grep dovecot shows nothing. Also, if I manually start up dovecot, it immediately exits, with no messages. (It does at least parse the config file, since tweaking that gives me errors.) What is surprising is that I haven't been able to "Google" to find anone else reporting someting similar, so I'm wonderring what makes my system unique. I tried downloading, compiling and running the current UW-imap. Mozilla is able to connect to it, and ask for a password, but rejects the login. Curious that we're getting two such very different failure modes. Help would be most appreciated; for now neither I nor others who use my imap server can access our mail (except by directly viewing the /var/spool/mail file). -- --Per Bothner per(a)bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/

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[Dovecot] Deleted emails in Outlook Express
by Fred Mulharin 26 May '04

26 May '04

I am having problems with Outlook Express v.6 as an Imap client. Deleted emails are not making it to the Trash, or Deleted Items folders. I have been trying to find a setting in Outlook Express to control this. I am running Dovecot on a Red Hat 9.0 box. I do not have this problem with either Squirrelmail, or Mozilla. Any thoughts would be appreciated Fred -- Fred Mulharin Systems Technology Supervisor Times Herald-Record fmulharin(a)th-record.com ..We are the trusted leader in news and information for the communities we serve ..because we all live here

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[Dovecot] append
by Marten Lehmann 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, I was testing the append function with a wrong amount of characters. The message I appended was saved in the tmp-folder. But even after I received the "BAD ..." message and after I disconnected, the message remained in the tmp-folder. Would it ever be deleted?

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[Dovecot] \Deleted and expunge
by Marten Lehmann 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, I deleted a message by storing the \Deleted flag and called expunge. The message was deleted then, but in the file dovecot-uidlist the filename of that message is still listed, even after logging out and in again, doing select and check. When will this file be updated? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] renaming and select failes
by Marten Lehmann 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, I created a folder inbox.Test.Try through IMAP. LIST shows me the folder INBOX.Test.Try instead, but in the filesystem it's created inbox.Test.Try. Now every select, examine or rename gives me NO Mailbox doesn't exist INBOX.Test.Try. Seems that inbox is mapped uppercase everywhere except at "create". Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] dovecot.rawlog
by Marten Lehmann 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, I build dovecot tih --with-rawlog and created a folder dovecot.rawlog inside the root-dir of the mailbox (same level as new, cur and tmp). For testing purposes I set the env MAIL to the maildir and started libexec/imap. This generally works, but I can't find the promised logs of input and output. Where do I have to look for them? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] feature request: undeletable folders
by Marten Lehmann 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, as we all know from the big webmail-services like hotmail.com, yahoo.com, web.de and so on, several folders exist and nobody can remove them for a good reason, because some services rely on them: Trash, Junk, Sent. Can can't remove Trash, because every deleted message is just moved here. You can't remove Junk, because all messages recognized as spam is moved here. And you can't remove Sent, because all messages you sent through the webmail are saved here. With the common courier-imap, everyone either has to bloat his webmail client with permanent checking if the required folders exist and recreate them if needed, or he has to patch courier-imap each time a new release appears to extend to this certain functionality. So why not just include this feature in courier-imap generally? I think there's no need to handle these folders on a per mailbox basis. Courier-imap could look at a file that contains the unremovable folders (one per line) and deny deletion of this folders. Now you might say: "You could prevent deletion of this folders in your webmail client as well." But that's only the half of the truth, because if you just want to see webmail as one option of accessing the emails, but POP3 and IMAP access is offered as well, then deletion must be restricted at IMAP side. I didn't implement this feature yet, but I'll need it in near future, so either someone else implements it our I would send you a patch after I implemented it. Regards Marten Lehmann

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test13
by Timo Sirainen 26 May '04

26 May '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Several bugfixes, do maildir syncing problems still persist? - New %var handling code for default_mail_env / authentication things. Added: # %p - protocol (IMAP or POP3) # # You can apply a modifiers for each variable (eg. %Lp = pop3): # %L - lowercase # %U - uppercase # %E - escape '"', "'" and '\' characters by inserting '\' before them. Is anything else useful?

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[Dovecot] I am a fresh dovecot user.
by rtm 26 May '04

26 May '04

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test12
by Timo Sirainen 26 May '04

26 May '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - "Maildir sync: UID < next_uid (446 < 447, file = .." errors should be fixed - fixes for detecting changes in uidvalidity and external uidnext changes - several fixes and cleanups in index file handling. less code than before and now changes to index header also go through transaction log. that should mean that soon I can get mmap_disable = yes to work without reading the main index file more than once. Are maildir syncing problems finally fixed now? :) I think the "message sequence out of range" problems are fixed now too. Rest of the important known problems are mostly related to mmap_disable=yes or fcntl_locks_disable=yes settings.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test10
by Timo Sirainen 26 May '04

26 May '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Transaction log file contains now only message UIDs rather than message sequences. I'm not really sure why I originally thought sequences were better.. 0.99 Dovecot used UIDs too. A lot of difficult logic (which was also broken) went away with this change. Fixed also "Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox" errors. I can't anymore get this release to easily complain about corrupted indexes. That doesn't mean that the new logic is correct though, so be careful.

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[Dovecot] error log?
by Marten Lehmann 25 May '04

25 May '04

Hello, for some reason dovecot doesn't start up. I'm using the default values in dovecot.conf, just changed the login_user, disabled ssl and ran sbin/dovecot, but nothing happens. No error's, I can't find any logs, no daemon anywhere, no ports bound... I don't know where to look and whatfor. I compiled with --enable-debug, but there's no extra output. Any ideas? Regards Marten Lehmann

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[Dovecot] different auth configuration for pop and imap
by Roger Keays 24 May '04

24 May '04

Hi there, Firstly, thanks for the great software. I am just wondering if it is possible to configure dovecot to use different authentication configurations for the imap and pop processes. Specifically, I am looking to use a different SQL query for each process. Kind regards, Roger -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Ninth Avenue Software p: +61 7 3870 8494 f: +61 7 3870 8491 _ _ _ m: +61 405 048 371 __(@)< __(@)> __(@), w: http://www.ninthave.net \___) \___) \___) e: r.keays(a)ninthave.net ------------------------------------------------------------- Send your spam to Sam sam(a)ninthave.net http://www.ninthave.net/sam

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[Dovecot] Errors from 1.0-test11
by Andrew Boothman 24 May '04

24 May '04

Timo + All, A few minutes after having some emails delivered into my mailbox I got the following messages in my maillog: May 24 03:05:27 myriad dovecot: imap(andrew): Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (2 > 1, file = 1084812461.V27406I77e27.myriad.flat:2,S) May 24 03:05:27 myriad dovecot: child 81038 (imap) killed with signal 11 May 24 03:15:28 myriad dovecot: imap-login: Login: andrew [192.168.0.2] May 24 03:15:28 myriad dovecot: imap(andrew): Transaction log file /home/andrew/Maildir/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid I'm only running the test releases somewhere where there is just a few mails per day at the moment, but test emails appear to be delivered without fault. I'll try -test12 which it looks like Timo has just released in case fixes in there are related. Thanks! Andrew

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[Dovecot] "important" flag
by Rick Jones 24 May '04

24 May '04

I'm wondering what I'd need to do to get the "important" flag set on an incoming message according to a pre-specified header. I know the problem of this not being a "joined-up" feature in standard email, but in practice many MUAs set headers like X-priority etc, and IMAP has an "important" flag that is the obvious mapping. I'm not really sure where would be the best place to try to put something like this. Should it be the delivery agent (qmail in my case), the IMAP server (i.e. Dovecot), or the MUA? To me the MUA doesn't make sense, as the flag should be set before any specific MUA even gets to the message. Since the flags are coded into the filenames when using maildir, is it possible for qmail to deliver a message with the flag included in the filename, and will Dovecot recognise it? If so I might try hacking qmail. Or any other ideas - has anyone else tried this? -- Rick Jones

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test11
by Timo Sirainen 23 May '04

23 May '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Added pop3_mails_keep_recent setting. Currently this only means that mails won't be moved from new/ to cur/ in maildir. More I/O friendly. - Fixed \Recent-flag handling and counters to work correctly with maildir. I think it's finally working right :) - mbox syncing fixes (but expunging still not implemented) - some other fixes.. Please try and report what problems still exist (the old ones too so I know they're not fixed).

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[Dovecot] why does dovecot child die on these messages?
by Charlie Allom 22 May '04

22 May '04

Hi Timo and other dovecot fans, why, when I'm trying to read certain "Drafts" emails that I just created, or edited, do the dovecot children die (or so I think). In mutt, the behaviour is that I "c =Drafts" then select the email and I get "connection closed to squeaky.rubberduck.com". In Mail.app - she just loops, trying to read those headers again and again and again.. (and this truss is from this instance) I find that emails before a certain date are OK - but if i edit them and then try and refetch them - the child dies yet again. So I removed all .imap.* and let dovecot redo it's stuff. No go. Some followup information before the meat of the truss: http://lazy.spodder.com/~yeled/BSD/broken.dove.txt comments in ** ** all fine here.. some are chmod 600 and some are 644 - no difference ** squeaky:/home/virtual/charlie/Maildir/.Drafts# ls -laR .: total 76 drwx------ 5 charlie charlie 512 May 20 19:19 ./ drwx------ 101 charlie charlie 2560 May 20 19:32 ../ -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 5 May 14 16:57 .customflags -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 1608 May 20 19:19 .imap.index -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 20240 May 20 19:19 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 2576 May 20 19:18 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 1560 May 20 19:19 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 charlie charlie 2048 May 20 19:19 cur/ -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 1316 May 20 19:19 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 2 charlie charlie 512 May 20 19:19 new/ drwx------ 2 charlie charlie 512 May 20 19:19 tmp/ ./cur: total 130 drwx------ 2 charlie charlie 2048 May 20 19:19 ./ drwx------ 5 charlie charlie 512 May 20 19:19 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1643 May 18 22:26 1046254614.27559_1.peng:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 385 May 18 22:26 1062579361.15058_584.machine:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1228 May 19 02:38 1084772855.P1759Q1M703458.lazy:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 3967 May 19 02:38 1084801877.P1132Q1M377704.lazy:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1046 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q0M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1343 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q1M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1103 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q2M254273.squeaky:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 3576 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q3M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 3649 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q4M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1004 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q5M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 475 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q6M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 477 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q7M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 549 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q8M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 548 May 14 20:56 1084813639.P18189Q9M254273.squeaky:2, -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1168 May 19 00:11 1084889503.P504Q0M804183.squeaky:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1230 May 19 14:03 1084939383.P25383Q0M379510.squeaky:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 772 May 19 15:31 1084944677.P25383Q1M391194.squeaky:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1831 May 19 18:16 1084954582.P19413Q1M810694.squeaky:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1264 May 20 18:37 1085042265.P21880Q0M403770.squeaky:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1264 May 20 18:42 1085042571.P22004Q0M988553.squeaky:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1487 May 20 18:43 1085042586.P22004Q1M914498.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 261 May 20 19:00 1085043373.P22239Q0M59297.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 498 May 20 18:56 1085043378.P22239Q1M749605.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 496 May 20 18:56 1085043383.P22239Q2M797760.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 914 May 20 18:56 1085043388.P22239Q3M606724.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 1227 May 20 18:56 1085043393.P22239Q4M166768.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 926 May 20 18:56 1085043398.P22239Q5M426819.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 3536 May 20 18:56 1085043403.P22239Q6M346821.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 571 May 20 18:56 1085043409.P22239Q7M20841.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 570 May 20 18:56 1085043415.P22239Q8M44288.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 388 May 20 19:05 1085043951.P22418Q1M940309.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 405 May 19 01:54 1085044017.P22527Q0M576547.squeaky:2,DS -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 1132 May 14 16:57 1085044031.P22527Q1M477831.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 1132 May 14 20:56 1085044031.P22527Q2M732509.squeaky:2,S -rw------- 1 charlie charlie 1036 May 20 19:19 1085044751.P23280Q0M930209.squeaky:2,S ** this one wont be able to be fetched! ** squeaky:/home/virtual/charlie/Maildir/.Drafts/cur# head -20 1085044751.P23280Q0M930209.squeaky\:2\,S From: Charlie Allom <charlie(a)myinternet.com.au> To: "King, Michael" <> Cc: "Oriti, Sam" <>, "Durkin, Jeffrey" <> Subject: Re: waceo deployment portal [Scanned] References: <3730D9DE64F1F34BBAD4DDA02E64FD50760ED5(a)ceo-mail.ceo.cathednet.wa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3730D9DE64F1F34BBAD4DDA02E64FD50760ED5(a)ceo-mail.ceo.cathednet.wa.edu.au> X-Mutt-Fcc: =Sent Status: RO X-Mutt-PGP: S On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:57:10PM +0800, King, Michael wrote: > > We would like to discuss the process at next weeks ops meeting so that > there is a better understanding of the proceeds on how it impacts on > this deployment and all other deployments. ** this one will ** squeaky:/home/virtual/charlie/Maildir/.Drafts/cur# head -20 1085044031.P22527Q2M732509.squeaky\:2\,S From: Charlie Allom <charlie(a)myinternet.com.au> To: "King, Michael" <> Cc: "Oriti, Sam" <>, "Durkin, Jeffrey" <> Subject: Re: waceo deployment portal [Scanned] References: <3730D9DE64F1F34BBAD4DDA02E64FD50760ED5(a)ceo-mail.ceo.cathednet.wa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3730D9DE64F1F34BBAD4DDA02E64FD50760ED5(a)ceo-mail.ceo.cathednet.wa.edu.au> X-Mutt-References: <3730D9DE64F1F34BBAD4DDA02E64FD50760ED5(a)ceo-mail.ceo.cathednet.wa.edu.au> X-Mutt-Fcc: =Sent Status: RO X-Mutt-PGP: S On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:57:10PM +0800, King, Michael wrote: > > We would like to discuss the process at next weeks ops meeting so that > there is a better understanding of the proceeds on how it impacts on > this deployment and all other deployments. squeaky:/home/virtual/charlie/Maildir/.Drafts/cur# -- .signature 0x14AA7941

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[Dovecot] using one-time passwords
by Johannes Berg 22 May '04

22 May '04

Hi, Is there any way to use something like OPIE (one-time passwords in everything, S/KEY) with dovecot? Here's what I want to do ultimately: * have an AUTH=XYZ method that relies on S/KEY as provided by the libpam-opie module (well, maybe not through pam) * have dovecot advertise authentication as follows: - local : PLAIN, XYZ - remote (encrypted) : EXTERNAL, and rely on certificate - remote (unencrypted): XYZ Thats the dovecot part. Then I would modify squirrelmail to a) negotiate PLAIN with an authorized web client certificate b) negotiate XYZ when without SSL or SSL without a valid certificate This way I could check my mail even from computers that I don't trust at all to not do key-logging, since I can have an S/KEY generator on my cell-phone. Does this sound feasible? I see the following advantages: * allows checking of webmail on the road, on untrusted computers, giving out only whatever you decide to look at * allows checking of mail via unencrypted IMAP, relying on one-time passwords so giving an attacker only whatever he can look at while your session is active (assuming he can't insert anything into the tcp stream...) * is otherwise encrypted, and then doesn't force using one-time keys which may be somewhat a hassle to generate. johannes

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