December 2002 - dovecot

[dovecot] Re: Maildir format
by Timo Sirainen 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 09:25, Gareth J. Greenaway wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:51:21AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Dovecot wants the folders directory names to begin with a dot, so name > > it ".test". Subfolders would be named as ".test.subfolder". This is > > compatible with Courier's Maildir++ format. > > Right. that is what I have as im using the Maildir folders from > Courier but I still do not see mail showing up in them. The folder > itself shows up but no mail. Oh, I think then you're just using mutt a bit wrong :) Enter-key goes inside a subfolder, space-key selects the folder. A folder can itself contain mail but it can also contain subfolders, so this is needed. With Courier you probably got away with just enter-key because you didn't have such subfolders and Courier gives mutt hints about if folders have subfolders. Dovecot doesn't yet support that extension so mutt always assumes they have subfolders.

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[dovecot] Maildir format
by gareth＠wiked.org 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Started using dovecot and I am very impressed by its speed. I am confused by what it is expecting the format of the Maildir directory to be in. I currently have ~/Maildir which contains new, cur, and tmp all containing email that should be in my inbox and it pops up correctly as such when I connect to dovecot using Mutt. After the connection a new .INBOX is created under ~/Maildir with sym links back to new, cur, and tmp. The problem arrises when I want to view email from another folder, I have a folder called "test" which contains some email also in Maildir format, however when I attempt to view this email I only get an empty listing with the ".." to go one directory up. Thanks. Gareth Greenaway -- "My friends say I should act my age, What's my age again?" Gareth J. Greenaway | gareth(a)wiked.org

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[dovecot] passwd-file; configure args..
by Jesse Peterson 28 Dec '02

28 Dec '02

I couldn't reproduce this again (because i can't get imap-master running due to problem below..) but.. When compiling without shadow, passwd, or pam, when logging in I get after a successful login (in my syslog): Dec 28 22:39:38 badcase imap(username): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /some/home/directory) Now I thought this was covered in a previous fix before (ChangeLog: "2002-12-17 03:00 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi>") but for some reason it's broken again..? The configure args problem has to do with --localstatedir. If i leave it default (PREFIX/var) it forces me (even with non-relative pathnames in the config file) for the socket-files (ssl_parameters_file, login_dir) that should go in /var/run to be put under PREFIX, (/usr/local for NetBSD 1.6). Not too bad, if I could override it in the config file, which I can't. So I ./configure'd with --localstatedir=/, and when I run imap-master I now get: Fatal: Can't create directory //run/dovecot: No such file or directory Somewhat odd. Any clues on either of these would be helpful, thanks. -- Jesse Peterson erage(a)softhome.net

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[dovecot] o.99rc2 works on PowerPC - sort of...
by Jonas Smedegaard 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

Hi all, The new release starts on PowerPC now. On to the next problem... :-) When accessing my folders through Pine (setup to always go through IMAP, even local mboxes) I get "kicked out" it seems, pretty often. Here's what shows in the logfile: imap(jonas): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 342 (part_write_body): assertion failed: (part->children->next == NULL) - Jonas -- Debian GNU/Linux developer http://www.debian.org/ Jonas Smedegaard +45 40843136 http://dr.jones.dk/ Consulting for machines and humans: Spiff ApS

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[dovecot] RLIMIT_AS patch for FreeBSD
by Dominic Marks 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

Hey, I've just updated the FreeBSD dovecot port to the 0.99.4 beta release, the following patch was needed as FreeBSD has setrlimit(2) but does not define RLIMIT_AS (I believe). I switched the code the require both, alternatively find a parallel option in the FreeBSD setrlimit(2) manual page. ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?setrlimit ) You may be interested in integrating this patch. --- src/lib/restrict-process-size.c Fri Dec 27 18:19:41 2002 +++ src/lib/restrict-process-size.c-new Fri Dec 27 18:19:22 2002 @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ void restrict_process_size(unsigned int size __attr_unused__) { -#ifdef HAVE_SETRLIMIT +#if defined(HAVE_SETRLIMIT) && defined(RLIMIT_AS) +/* FreeBSD has setrlimit(2) but does not define RLIMIT_AS */ struct rlimit rlim; rlim.rlim_max = rlim.rlim_cur = Thanks, -- Dominic <dom at cus.org.uk> <d.marks at student.umist.ac.uk>

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[dovecot] Dovecot splited fetch problem
by Hon 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

Hello, When I was trying out the IMAP server (using Mozilla as client), I have no success of receving mail with attachments. Looking it down further I've found that Mozilla fetches the message in 10k blocks, and the server seems missed a couple of bytes at where the split occurs... Mozilla start the fetch by saying: * 413 FETCH (UID 827 RFC822.SIZE 106371 BODY[]<0> {10240} -- snip to place of split -- zmmAWdUxYA6Aobczv4BguxSZGqdYs6ELNIpgjiPUdYLxsHy) 7 OK Fetch completed. 8 UID fetch 827 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY[]<10240.10240>) * 413 FETCH (UID 827 RFC822.SIZE 106371 BODY[]<10240> {10240} 6BilWYuUJGA4YeNYFJbI1gL The resulting line (saved from Mozilla view source) is: zmmAWdUxYA6Aobczv4BguxSZGqdYs6ELNIpgjiPUdYLxsHy6BilWYuUJGA4YeNYFJbI1gL ^^ Two bytes missing Where the original is: zmmAWdUxYA6Aobczv4BguxSZGqdYs6ELNIpgjiPUdYLxsHygZ6BilWYuUJGA4YeNYFJbI1gL ^^ I have tried this using Debian packaged (0.99.4-1) and self compiled 0.99.5rc1. Both exhibit this problem.

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[dovecot] [Fwd: ./configure options..]
by Jesse Peterson 22 Dec '02

22 Dec '02

Oops, wrong address.. -------- Original Message -------- Message-ID: <3E0618CB.1060106(a)is.a.fakepope.com> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:55:55 -0800 From: Jesse Peterson <erage(a)is.a.fakepope.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020901 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dovecot Mail List <dovecot(a)procontrol.fi> Subject: ./configure options.. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [CVS from ~ 10:30am PST] It would seem that --without-passwd produces gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o imap-auth auth.o auth-plain.o auth-digest-md5.o cookie.o login-connection.o main.o master.o mycrypt.o userinfo.o userinfo-passwd.o userinfo-shadow.o userinfo-pam.o userinfo-passwd-file.o userinfo-vpopmail.o ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt userinfo-passwd-file.o: In function `get_reply_data': dovecot/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/userinfo-passwd-file.c:72: undefined reference to `passwd_fill_cookie_reply' grep of the source tree says: src/auth/userinfo-passwd.c:16:void passwd_fill_cookie_reply(struct passwd *pw, AuthCookieReplyData *reply) Also pam, shadow, and passwd-file all seem to call this function in them. Ideas? -- Jesse Peterson erage(a)softhome.net

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[dovecot] 0.99.5rc1
by Timo Sirainen 22 Dec '02

22 Dec '02

Current CVS contains a lot of code cleanups which aren't too well tested. Seems to be working with me, but I'm still a bit worried I left some very nasty bug lying around somewhere. There's anyway been many nasty fixes since 0.99.4, most importantly with mbox handling and SEARCH command. I've also added support for SORT extension. It's not very fast currently, but it should work. I tested with squirrelmail and it looked fine. So, those people wanting to use Dovecot with webmail might try it now. :) THREAD extension is still missing though. So, here's a 0.99.5 release candidate 1. I wouldn't recommend it for production usage yet, but I'd hope some people to test it before I'll put out a real release. Just so that I won't be (again) releasing n+3 versions in a few days :) You can get the sources from http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/rc/ I'm going away for christmas tomorrow, once I get back I'll do some more testing and auditing and get the final release out. Next weekend probably.

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[dovecot] dovecot replacing uw-imap
by seth vidal 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Hey, I'm trying to sort out how to make dovecot replace uw-imap cleanly. But I have the following problems/questions: 1. Why is mbox support limited to user-owned directories? 2. Would it be possible to have dovecot target a different place than ~user/mail by default, specfically some place like /var/path/to/maildirs/userdir/ I'd like to move all my mail storage out of user homedirs and to central space on my mail server, increasing reliability and helping me manage disk space usage for readily. In order to use dovecot I need a migration path and that path looks like it will need mbox outside of the users homedirs and pottentially outside of solely user-owned directories. -sv

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[dovecot] 0.99.4 uploaded to Debian
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Hi, I'm the Debian maintainer of UW-Imap. Like many I'm somewhat frustrated with the limitations of it so I am very pleased to see that Dovecot is becoming a strong alternative. I have uploaded packages of 0.99.4 to the Debian unstable distribution (sid). Because this is a new package it has to be added by hand so it may be a while before it shows up in sid. In the mean time, I have made the packages (also for stable or woody) available from http://www.braincells.com/open/ Debian users, please take a look and give me some feedback. Unfortunately much to my embarrasment I can't currently use dovecot on my own account. I get a meesage like this in /var/log/syslog: Dec 18 09:01:31 samadhi imap(jaldhar): Error indexing mbox file /home/jaldhar/mail/inbox: LF not found where expected The mbox in question is about 17MB and opens fine in uw-imapd. Any clues? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> It's a girl! See the pictures - http://www.braincells.com/shailaja/

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