November 2002 - dovecot

[dovecot] dovecot and pop3
by Paul C. Bryan 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Dear dovecotters: I'm becoming interested in dovecot as a replacement for UW-IMAPD. Any project that claims it's the "postfix of ____ servers" deserves a looksee. If indeed I were to going to switch at some point, I'd need to replace the UW POP3 server (which is a part of the UW package). I would prefer one that actually used the dovecot IMAP server instead of going to the filesystem directly. Question 1: Anyone know of such a POP3 daemon that connects to the IMAP server. Question 2: If the answer to Q1 is "no", would anyone be interested in such a package? Yours truly, Paul C. Bryan email(a)pbryan.net

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[dovecot] vpopmail - again
by Kyle Symonds 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

OK, dovecot compiles fine and starts up. I changed the auth_userinfo var to vpopmail, fired up imap-master and tried to login via webmail and my log spits out the following: imap-login: Nov 26 14:50:50 Error: Can't connect to imap-auth at auth: Connection Refused imap-login: Nov 26 14:50:51 Error: Can't connect to imap-auth at vpopmail: Connection Refused Any ideas? --Weasel weasel(a)squeakyweasel.net http://squeakyweasel.net

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[dovecot] rpm and srpm for dovecot
by seth vidal 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

hi, I put an rpm and srpm for dovecot on: http://www.dulug.duke.edu/~skvidal/RPMS/ They are made under rhl 7.3 - should build on 8.x I'd bet. I added an init script to start up imap-master I've done exactly ZERO testing on these and I'd welcome some feedback, thanks. -sv

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[dovecot] 0.99.3 released
by Timo Sirainen 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

OK, this one will be the final release for a while, I promise (or hope). Fixes mbox corruption when expunging mails from the middle of mailbox with mail_read_mmaped=no which is the default. This bug was already in 0.99.0 release. I had been using Dovecot like that for 5 days or so without noticing the bug.. Wonder if I lost any mails.

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[dovecot] mbox problems
by Timo Sirainen 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Strange .. I didn't think I had done anything that could break things too badly. Anyway, at least with Solaris EXPUNGE may corrupt part of the mbox file, so don't do that for now.

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[dovecot] 0.99.2 released
by Timo Sirainen 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Mostly compiling cleanups but also one bugfix when index wasn't exclusively locked while it was being fsck'ed - that doesn't normally happen without crashing/whatever. v0.99.2 2002-11-26 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + If we have to wait for a lock longer, the client is now notified about it every 30 seconds. - Default settings still pointed to lib directory instead of the libexec directory where the binaries were actually installed - vpopmail support had to be kludged to fix a bug in vpopmail library which sometimes left extra character after the user name. - Login process crashed if master process didn't let some user login. Normally this couldn't happen without error in configuration. - select() based I/O loop wasn't working so Dovecot didn't work in eg. OSX. Also PAM authentication wasn't detected with OSX. - Didn't compile with NetBSD-current

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[dovecot] 0.99.1 released
by Timo Sirainen 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Nothing new, just a few compiling/configuration issues fixed. Dovecot should also be in NetBSD pkgsrc soon. Now who would want to get it into Debian? :) v0.99.1 2002-11-25 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + Added doc/mkcert.sh script to easily generate yourself a self-signed certificate. Modify doc/dovecot-openssl.cnf before running it. + --with-ssldir configure option to specify default path for /etc/ssl + Added ssl_disable setting to config file - OpenSSL wasn't checked properly by configure - vpopmail authentication module didn't compile - We should install the binaries into libexec dir, not lib - doc/configuration.txt and doc/mail-storages.txt were missing

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[dovecot] vpopmail support?
by Kyle Symonds 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Well, I read that back in 0.98 or so vpopmail support should work so I assumed it would be enabled in 0.99 but here's what I get. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I/usr/local/vpopmail/include -g -O2 -Wall -W -g -O2 -Wall -W -c userinfo-vpopmail.c In file included from userinfo-vpopmail.c:12: /usr/local/vpopmail/include/vpopmail.h:133: syntax error before `*' *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/dovecot/src/auth. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/dovecot/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/dovecot. *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/dovecot. Someone want to throw a bone? =) --Weasel weasel(a)squeakyweasel.net http://squeakyweasel.net

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[dovecot] Re: vpopmail support?
by Kyle Symonds 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

Oh yeah, the system's FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. Trying to do a qmail+vpopmail+pop3+imap setup. --Weasel weasel(a)squeakyweasel.net http://squeakyweasel.net ======= At 2002-11-24, 12:25:00 you wrote: ======= >Well, I read that back in 0.98 or so vpopmail support should work so I assumed it would be enabled in 0.99 but here's what I get. > >gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I/usr/local/vpopmail/include -g -O2 -Wall -W -g -O2 -Wall -W -c userinfo-vpopmail.c >In file included from userinfo-vpopmail.c:12: >/usr/local/vpopmail/include/vpopmail.h:133: syntax error before `*' >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /root/dovecot/src/auth. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /root/dovecot/src. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /root/dovecot. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /root/dovecot. > >Someone want to throw a bone? =) > >--Weasel >weasel(a)squeakyweasel.net >http://squeakyweasel.net

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[dovecot] 0.99.0 released
by Timo Sirainen 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

I figured now would be a good time for new release. All the major changes are pretty much done now. v0.99.0 2002-11-24 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + Replaced hash file with binary tree file which makes Dovecot stay fast with large mailboxes after expunging multiple mails. + Several speed improvements with SEARCH + SEARCH CHARSET support using iconv(), although case-insensitive searching is currently supported only for ASCII characters. + OpenSSL support. + Support for regenerating Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters with specified intervals. NOTE: currently doesn't work with OpenSSL. + Support for each login connection being handled in it's own process. This is the default as it's more safe especially with SSL. + mbox locking is now safe, other processes can't modify the mbox file while we're reading it. + Notify clients with "EXISTS" almost immediately after new mail is received. + Rawlog: Support for saving user connections into files - useful for debugging. + Content-Language is finally parsed correctly + Lots of smaller speed optimizations - Partial BODY[] fetches weren't working properly - BODY[section] was buggy with message/rfc822 MIME parts - STARTTLS wasn't working - \* flag was missing from PERMANENTFLAGS. - Comments inside <> mail addresses crashed. - imap-login printed UTC timestamps to logfiles - passwd-file wasn't reread the the file changed - PAM authentication was implemented wrong, which caused it to break with some PAM plugins. - Lots of smaller fixes, mostly to do with reliability

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