March 2003 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[dovecot] Re: NFS mounted IMAP dirs
by Maikel Verheijen 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

Hi Timo, > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 23:23, Maikel Verheijen wrote: > > While reading through the dovecot documentation, I read > that I could > > do without indexes (well: use memory indexes), > > Currently that's not really good idea, since message UIDs > aren't then stored permanently. In CVS there's support for > this with mbox format, and I've also been writing support for > Courier-like uidlist-file, but that's still not really working. Well: I am working with Maildir mailstores, so I guess I need to have a uidlist kinda file then? Sorry it wasn't clear in my post that I am using Maildir style mailboxes... But I figured maildir was better than Mbox over nfs... > > My problem is now that dovecot writes it's subscriptions to the > > mailstore. Since I want as little difference between my > frondends as > > possible, (and as static as possible), I would love to see dovecot > > handle subscriptions in a database, or perhaps a nfs-safe file. > > Database? SQL? Another problem is also .customflags file > which isn't NFS-safe. With mbox it's not really required, but > with Maildir it is if you want custom message flags. It > wouldn't be too difficult to change the code to use dotlock > files with these files anyway, I've been going to make it > configurable. My current setup is with postgresql and Maildir. So in a way, a lot of info COULD come from my database, if it isn't safe enough via nfs. Can you make all file locking configurable? Or will you do it on a "per-type" basis? (eg: mailbox locking, index locking, flag-file locking, etc). regards, Maikel Verheijen.

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[dovecot] Failure in the presence of too many connections
by Mark E. Mallett 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

Had an event today where dovecot refused new connections and would not accept more until restarted, whereupon it worked for a few minutes and locked up again. Looking at the logs it appeared that it had run out of file descriptors. I increased the open files limit and started it again-- which worked but it only pushes off the problem. Does dovecot keep an open file descriptor for every imap or pop3 child? If so, this would argue more towards a tcpserver sort of control. If not, perhaps something is leaking.. -mm- PS: assume you saw recent RFCs 3501 and 3502 ?

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[dovecot] dovecot-0.99.8.1 @ old redhat6.2 box
by Sebastian Pachuta 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Hi I have some odd problem with running dovecot. Program dies with message in maillog: Mar 31 21:04:02 test-box dovecot: Dovecot starting up Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: child 28870 (login) returned error 84 (exec() failed) Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: child 28869 (login) returned error 84 (exec() failed) Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable System is redhat6.2 (with all updates), kernel is 2.2.25 (with openwall patch). Under rh7.3 dovecot launches fine.

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[dovecot] NFS mounted IMAP dirs
by Maikel Verheijen 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi list, I am trying to build an email system that is using multiple frontends, to a clustered backend using nfs. The backend mounts his filesystems from a central storage, and will be running active-active. While reading through the dovecot documentation, I read that I could do without indexes (well: use memory indexes), and could then be able to run dovecot over NFS. Well: that was until friday, when I was reading a little bit better through nfs.txt. :) My problem is now that dovecot writes it's subscriptions to the mailstore. Since I want as little difference between my frondends as possible, (and as static as possible), I would love to see dovecot handle subscriptions in a database, or perhaps a nfs-safe file. Since I am only a junior programmer (my code is really not far from "Hello world", although I am trying to find some time to teach myself more), I might not be able to be of much assistance to you all in coding stuff, but I am willing to help out where-ever possible. Can anyone help me solve my problem in any way, and how can I contribute as well? Thank you all, Maikel Verheijen.

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[dovecot] FETCH BODY[part]<partial>
by Jesse Peterson 29 Mar '03

29 Mar '03

2003-03-24 12:59 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> This CVS update didn't actually seem to fix the problem. I still get the problem as before, like this capture: 10 UID FETCH 60 BODY.PEEK[]<8192.1915> * 60 FETCH (UID 60 BODY[]<8192> {1915} ) 10 OK Fetch completed. Not quite 1,915 bytes =). Perhaps the "[]" (without a part) is confusing it? But still, it grabs the first chunk correctly. At any rate, any input would be great.

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[dovecot] Dovecot and Quotas
by Mike Machado 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Is there anything that can be done so that when users IMAP to their inbox and have reached their filesystem quota, that they can still DELETE their mail? They can login, but when they go to delete/expunge this is the error I get in syslog. I have tried mail_read_mmaped to yes and no, and same result. Mar 25 14:54:27 penguin1 imap(bob): file_set_size() failed with index data file /home/bob/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.data: Disk quota exceededMar 25 14:54:27 penguin1 imap(bob): mmap_istream.madvise(): Function not implemented Mar 25 14:54:28 penguin1 last message repeated 65 times When using UW IMAP, sometimes users can delete mail and other times they cannot. I am desperately seeking a solution to have customers be able to delete their own mail when their box is full and not have to call our support center. Any suggestions? Thanks. Debian with kernel 2.4.18. -- Mike Machado mike(a)innercite.com InnerCite Inc. Engineering Director / CTO

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[dovecot] Re: mailbox problem
by Maikel Verheijen 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

> Hmm. Unless you're using one UID for everyone, those > directories would have be to be created as root. Also > test.com should be created with different owner as blah and > blah/Maildir. Maybe I could add a new setting for this, but > I'm not sure how to do it without making it too kludgy. There > would have to be separation of where user directory structure > starts, and uid/gid settings what to use for created > directories before them. Something like: I do use 1 UID and 1 GID for everyone. Would that be more simple? > mail_global_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d > mail_global_uid = root > mail_global_gid = mail > mail_user_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d/%n > > Would be better if the mail_user_dir didn't have to be set at > all since it's already in mail_default_env, but the user > directory has to be created while still root, and parsing > mail_default_env there is kludgy too. Or maybe: > > mail_global_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d/%n > > And the last directory would always be assumed to be user > directory. That would prevent creating /var/mail-like shared > directories though, but I guess there's no need to create those.. Maybe there could be a "toggle" to do or don't create the dirs, so you don't need the mail_global_dir setting for "normal" use. My idea was to check the full path to the mailbox, and to create the nonexisting part if necessary. At that point you DO have the full path to the mailbox/maildir, and you can create it, right? Kind regards, Maikel Verheijen.

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[dovecot] inetd/xinetd/tcpserver support
by Timo Sirainen 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

I was just thinking how they could be easily supported. This would work, right? : imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login imaps stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login --ssl imap-login would try to connect to master process using some named socket. If it couldn't, it would create the master process itself. Master process would work as usual (executes auth and imap processes), except it wouldn't be executing login processes. This wouldn't require much code changing, and it would still be using all the same privilege separations as the standalone version so it would be just a secure. Only thing I'm wondering is if any of the TCP wrappers care about the created child processes? The master process would have to stay alive after the connection that created it dies. I guess I'll implement this soon and try if it works.

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[dovecot] mailbox problem
by Maikel Verheijen 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi list! Since a week I am testing with dovecot, and I must say, I like it a lot :) Keep up the good work :) I do have one questing regarding dovecot: If I login to a mailbox, and the mailbox does NOT exist, and the parent directory does not exist either, I will get disconnected, and dovecot claims it cannot create the directory. (eg: my user blah(a)test.com has mail directory /var/mail/t/te/test.com/blah/Maildir, and all directories up to /var/mail/t/te/ exist, dovecot does not create the directory test.com/ and on.) Is this by design, or should this be created by dovecot? The problem is solved as soon as the user receives his first email, since my MTA creates the directories... Thank you, Maikel Verheijen

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[dovecot] Help
by Barker, Ron, vpe 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi to all, We are a bit of newbes to imap etc, so may be we just not doing it right. Nevertheless, We have compiled dovecot to run under Solaris 8/9 for IPv6 test. We are going crazy. After a successful compilation, the troubles really began. Solaris 9 1. Every´time we reboot- the directory /var/run/dovecot/auth is gone ???? 2. After the dir is created manually, the server starts. However!!! 1. A telnet to host 143 connect to the server fine but no commands are accepted. The server simply returns "bad command" 2. If we try to connect via a e-mail client to the server - we get a login refused - which I suspect is simply the "bad command" error being interpreted as such. We have tried every concivable combination of conf items in the conf file but nothing. Solaris8 Just does not start. Any help apprecialted Ron -- Dr. Ronald Barker Senior Technology Manager Vodafone Group Research & Development - D Vodafone Pilotentwicklung GmbH Chiemgaustrasse 116 81549 Munich Germany Fon: + 49 (89) 95 410-0 Fax: + 49 (89) 95 410-111 mailto:ron.barker@v-pe.de http://www.vodafone-rnd.com <<Barker, Ron, vpe.vcf>>

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[dovecot] dovecot+Solaris 9
by Barker, Ron, vpe 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Does the /dev/urandom issue apply to Solaris 9 as well??? Thanks Ron -- Dr. Ronald Barker Senior Technology Manager Vodafone Group Research & Development - D Vodafone Pilotentwicklung GmbH Chiemgaustrasse 116 81549 Munich Germany Fon: + 49 (89) 95 410-0 Fax: + 49 (89) 95 410-111 mailto:ron.barker@v-pe.de http://www.vodafone-rnd.com <<Barker, Ron, vpe.vcf>>

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[dovecot] a bit better, but...
by Farkas Levente 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

this is the correct list the previous was too fast:-( hi, so after test the today version. works: - squirrelmail works ie. it can send mail (even with attachments) and put the sent mail into the sent folder. - mozilla see the right folder list (ie. there is no anoying empty name folder under the folders which has subfolder) and you can subcribe to these folders too. still not works: - mozilla can put sent mail into the imap server's sent folder at the first try, but at the next try (when I compose this mails) it hangs again:-( - in mozilla can't copy/move mails from local folder's sent into any of the imap folders. - in mozilla can't sem messages to Drafts (when I put the save button in the compose window it's hang). - in mozilla there is a folder called INBOX in the subscribe window:-( - in OE6 with large mailbox with large message with the default "all messages" settings in the indox outlook hang (the "headers only" still work). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] a bit better
by Farkas Levente 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

hi, so after test the today version. works: - squirrelmail works ie. it can send mail (even with attachments) and put the sent mail into the sent folder. - mozilla can put sent mail into the imap server's sent folder - mozilla see the right folder list (ie. there is no anoying empty name folder under the folders which has subfolder) and you can subcribe to these folders too. still not works: - in mozilla can't copy/move mails from local folder's sent into any of the imap folders. - in mozilla can't sem messages to Drafts (when I put the save button in the compose window it's hang). - in mozilla there is a folder called INBOX in the subscribe window:-( - in OE6 with large mailbox with large message with the default "all messages" settings in the indox outlook hang (the "headers only" still work). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] some problem with dovecot
by Farkas Levente 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

hi, yesterday we switch to courir to dovecot the whole company. there is good and bad news. the good one that about 200 people use outlook and outlook works fine (after we make some registry hack to delete the INBOX form imap root folder, which was required for courier but not for dovecot). the bad news we try most of the thing before the switch except outself. since the whole it department use linux and mozilla. and almost nothing is working with mozilla: - first of all the folder list can't be subscribed i.e. only the top level folder can be subscribed. can't subscribe to folder which has subfolders and mail inside. all folders with has subfolders shonw as an empty name folder under itself. and you can't select these folders in mozilla's subscribe window (i.e you are not able to check it even it is there). - you can't send any messages!!! since mozilla can't find the Sent folder and can't move the mail after sending!!! even if you reconfigure mozilla to use that "Sent" folder as Sent folder. - you can't see the mails in a folder which has subfolders i.e. it seem there is no message in that folders. - we store mails in ~/Maildir/. dovecot create a ~/Maildir/.INBOX and put the index files of the ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} into that folder but for all other folders it keep the index files in that folder's directory. it's realy confusing. this is _very_ anoying:-((( is there any dirty trick to use mozilla? when thses will be useable? thanks.

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[dovecot] debian 0.99.8.1 packages available
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

I thought I'd mention it here because a lot of people have been waiting for me on this. My personal situation is getting saner now so I finally was able to package up 0.99.8.1. The package for sid was uploaded last night and should appear in the archive today. A backport for woody is available from http://www.braincells.com/open/ I have not included POP3, LDAP or SASL2 support for now as I didn't want anything to delay the package from entering the archive. That will be the next order of business. The only bug I've seen so far is that when my mbox-format inbox was in /home/jaldhar/mail/inbox dovecot thought it ha 0 messages. It only showed up properly after I moved it back to /var/spool/mail/jaldhar but I suspect this is just a configuration error on my part. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> It's a girl! See the pictures - http://www.braincells.com/shailaja/

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[dovecot] more problem with Sent
by Farkas Levente 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

hi, ok it's turn out that not just mozilla not able to put the sent mails into the Sent folder but our webmail frontend (SquirrelMail) can't do it. so those who are using the webmail no longer able to use the mail system:-((( -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] Dotlocking doesn't work?
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

A Debian developer had this to say: > >> Files in the above dir are group mail, and the dir is group mail. However, > > > all binaries in /usr/lib/dovecot are root/root. I have set them all to g+s, > > > and group mail, and now the imap process can lock the INBOX. > > > > > imap should be the only one that needs to be setgid mail. > > Actually, I've looked at the dovecot source code. There is no way having > setgid on the executable will work. The source drops the privledges long > before it tries to do a dotlock. > > This is an upstream problem. > > For now, I've disable dotlock, and use fcntl instead, as that is what exim > uses anyways. Is dotlocking still a work in progress or are we missing something here? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[dovecot] Re: some problem with dovecot
by Marcus Rueckert 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

On 2003-03-19 13:52:18 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: > >mozilla 1.3b + cvs 2003-03-18 is working well here. with the old > >0.99.8.1 i had some problems with attachments. working well after > >updating dovecot. > > we also use 1.3b but with 0.99.8.1, so I waiting for 0.100.... try CVS. maybe it solves your problems. marcus -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[dovecot] big mail problems..
by Jesse Peterson 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Attachments, large mails & etc. seem to have problems with my installations of dovecot. As we know, Mozilla likes to take it's mail in chunks, and after Mozilla, (or Mail.app, it likes to do this, too) takes its first chunk, it doesn't start getting the rest, even though ethereal tells me that dovecot OK'ed the 10K chunk. 9 UID fetch 4 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY[]<0.10240>) * 4 FETCH (UID 4 RFC822.SIZE 3958069 BODY[]<0> {3958069} <snip> 9 OK Fetch completed. Nothing gets transfered beyond this point. I think this would be mozilla's fault, but I dont think this would happen with a release, and I dont think Mail.app would have the same problem, too. Thanks for any help, - Jesse

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[dovecot] Configure SSL problem
by Leslie Viljoen 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Hi everyone I have been trying to get Dovecot installed with OpenSSL support, but no matter what I do, when I run Configure, it says "Building with SSL support.........No". I have even tried configure --with-ssl=openssl, to no avail. I have built and installed OpenSSL, and libssl.so and libcrypto.so are in the /lib directory - what more does Dovecot want? I have tried figuring it out from the Configure script itself but it's cryptic and I am no shell script boffin! Thanks for any tips Les ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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[dovecot] Failed to create storage with data: ::
by Jesse Peterson 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

# dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps login = imap login_user = mail default_mail_env = maildir:%h/ auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd-file /tmp/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /tmp/imap.passwd auth_user = mail auth_verbose = yes In the log files I get: Mar 15 23:36:30 pos dovecot: Dovecot starting up Mar 15 23:36:37 pos imap-login: Login: testuser [10.0.66.1] Mar 15 23:36:37 pos imap(testuser): Failed to create storage with data: :: Mar 15 23:36:37 pos dovecot: child 23150 (imap) returned error 89 A typical entry in the imap.passwd: testuser:<md5>[34]:12345:12345::/some/home/directory/testuser:0:: -- Jesse Peterson / jesse(a)pixeltechs.com

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[dovecot] missing files...
by Jesse Peterson 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

I'm probably missing something but.. from cvs: gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/erage/dovecot/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-index' source='mail-lockdir.c' object='mail-lockdir.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/mail-lockdir.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/mail-lockdir.TPo' \ depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../../depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c `test -f 'mail-lockdir.c' || echo './'`mail-lockdir.c gcc: ./mail-lockdir.c: No such file or directory gcc: No input files Any ideas?

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[dovecot] dovecot/vpopmail auth problems
by Chris Doyle 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Hello. I am having problems getting dovecot to authenticate correctly through vpopmail. I have used vpopmail for some time, and I understand how it works. vpopmail is using mysql to store it's authentication data. vpopmail's tools can access the user database just fine, and vchkpw is working so far as authentication goes. I took an "strace -f dovecot", in case it can help. It is about 900k, and can be accessed at http://www.narshe.net/~umaro/dovecot.log please help! Thanks Chris Doyle

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[dovecot] Shared Folders?
by Moe Wibble 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Hello everybody (esp. Timo ;)), in an attempt to replace our cyrus imapd with something less bloated I have recently evaluated some of the younger imapd implementations, namely bincimap and also dovecot. Bincimap didn't work properly with mozilla for me, dovecot hasn't failed on any test, yet. Unfornationally, since we have been using cyrus for over 1.5 yrs, we pretty much depend on the "shared folders"-feature. Are there any plans to make shared folders available in dovecot anytime soon? best regards! -- MW

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[dovecot] Starting Dovecot?
by Leslie Viljoen 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Hello! I have laid SSL aside for the time being, and continued compiling and installing Dovecot. Now I don't know how to start it! I have been through the config file and mostly left things as-is. I have created the dovecot user and group and put only dovecot user in the dovecot group. Then I tried imap-master, as specified in the INSTALL documentation, but there is no such file! Under src/master, "dovecot" gets built. I tried running this, and /var/log/messages says "dovecot starting", but this process seems to just end. If I run it twice very quickly, I get told that port 143 is busy - so it seems that it is starting up, but only staying up for a very short while. Messages gives no more clues as to why the server quits. Any ideas? Les PS: I am trying dovecot 0.99.8.1. ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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[dovecot] Sorry (Starting Dovecot)
by Leslie Viljoen 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Sorry, I didn't check all my logs. PAM password DB was not found - it was in syslog. Les ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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[dovecot] SMTP options
by Jesse Peterson 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

I realize this is not an SMTP discussion list, but... here goes: This is my situation. We have mobile users that need a secure (SSL) SMTP+auth gateway that simply forwards rfc822's to our real MTA. All it would have to do is accept SSL connections, authenticate the user, accept his message, then send that to the MTA. Anybody know of a very minimal software package that can do this? -- Jesse Peterson / jesse(a)pixeltechs.com

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[dovecot] 0.99.8.1 out
by Timo Sirainen 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Nothing but bugfixes from CVS: * src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-list.c: mbox: LIST "" invalid-directory/% doesn't anymore give internal error * src/lib-storage/index/index-fetch.c: FETCH: \Seen flag updating didn't work (eg. FETCH BODY[]). * src/lib-imap/imap-parser.c: Literal parser broke if \r\n wasn't in buffer at the time '}' was parsed. * src/lib-mail/message-address.c: message_address_write() didn't work. * src/lib-mail/message-address.c: message_address_parse(): allow using data_stack_pool (above two fix SEARCH FROM, TO, CC, BCC crashing) * src/lib-storage/index/index-save.c: Don't crash if something tries to write 0 bytes in headers while saving the message. This happened sometimes with mbox. * src/auth/master-connection.c: Don't crash if auth request wasn't found. * src/lib/failures.c: Handle /dev/stderr directly instead of open()ing. * src/lib-imap/imap-quote.c: Use literals for strings containing '"' and '\' characters too. This wasn't done at all before so FETCH ENVELOPE, BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE could have returned pretty broken results. * src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c: Selecting INBOX didn't use index files if full_filesystem_access was yes. * src/auth/db-ldap.c: Setting user_global_uid or user_global_gid crashed. * src/lib/safe-mkdir.c: safe_mkdir(): usage fchmod() and fchown(). chmod() wasn't really safe and lchown() wasn't portable. * src/auth/mech-plain.c: Invalid PLAIN auth request crashed auth process. * src/master/main.c: [::] address wasn't treated exactly as "ipv6 any", but looks like gethostbyname() worked with it. * doc/nfs.txt: updated * doc/index.txt: update

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[dovecot] Apple's Mail.app
by Scott A.McIntyre 10 Mar '03

10 Mar '03

Hi, I solved the OSX Authentication issue; I'm now reliably able to get authenticated using the Password Server with PAM with: # login: auth account password session auth required pam_nologin.so auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so auth required pam_deny.so account required pam_permit.so password required pam_deny.so session required pam_permit.so As the /etc/pam.d/imap Anyway -- new problem. With Apple's Mail.app and how it wants to download messages into it's cache, I've found that there's a problematic interaction between Dovecot and Mail.app -- but pinning down exactly what and where is proving to be a hassle. I was running Courier-Imap with Mail.app, and that worked without incident (however, the courier-imap server was on Linux, not OSX Server, that will not work (yet) with osx-server). If I use Entourage and Dovecot, it works fine. The primary symptom is that as it downloads messages Mail.app just hangs; no response, the session just freezes. Usually it's when the status bar is saying something akin to "Caching 9 of 506" at which point it stops. The number varies, but it's always in the first couple of dozen. Messages are small, so it's not that it's hanging on a large mail download. I eventually have to forcibly kill Mail.app. The log says nothing of use: dovecot: Mar 07 17:31:23 Info: Dovecot starting up imap-login: Mar 07 16:32:50 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21] imap-login: Mar 07 16:33:46 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21] imap-login: Mar 07 16:35:38 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21] But perhaps there's a more verbose option somewhere. Thoughts? Scott

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[dovecot] IMAP Folder paths
by Juergen Kahnert 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Hello, we like to use dovecot, but our old imapd used to store the paths of the folder in the file ~/.mailboxlist. This file contains something like this: mail/read mail/dovecot .netscape/imap/mailbox .Mail/foo Each line with a path to one mbox folder. And please pay attention that there is no path to the inbox, because this is stored on the server... Is there a way to use this files with dovecot? It would be a real pain to change this for a few thousand user... Do you see a chance of using such a file? Or is it already possible and I'd overlooked it? Or is it easy / hard to implement? kind regards, Jürgen Kahnert

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[dovecot] vpopmail auth failure
by Oskar Eyb 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

hello! when is try to use IMP with dovecot and vpopmail i receive the following error-msg: dovecot-auth: Mar 06 20:43:24 Info: vpopmail(test@$DOMAIN): unknown user But this user exists! Where i can search for the mistake? Greets, Oskar

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[dovecot] OSX & Authentication
by Scott A.McIntyre 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Hi, Taking a stab at getting OSX Server 10.2.4 running Dovecot -- with a minor tweak of replacing lchown() with chown() in the src/lib/sakfe-mkdir.c, it compiled and installed without any problems. However, oddness in authentication. It works once, but only once. I'm trying to use pam and have the following: auth required pam_securityserver.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so In the dovecot.conf I have (amongst other things): auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam I start up dovecot and do: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. . login scott pass . OK Logged in. . logout * BYE Logging out . OK Logout completed. No problem. However, try it again and: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. . login scott pass . NO Authentication failed. . logout * BYE Logging out . OK Logout completed. Perhaps there's a better way to get dovecot playing under osx; I'd tried a number of ways of using pam, but perhaps there's a magic other option I've not got working yet. I do run the password server and my account name is using that as per the Workgroup Manager's settings (as opposed to Basic)... Any thoughts appreciated! Scott

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[dovecot] ldap support
by Farkas Levente 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

hi, it seem to me that dovecot support only v2 ldap protocol but openldap2.1 support only v3 (or you can enable v2 in the conf file, but it seems they wouldn't like to support it in the future). will dovecot support v3 ldap protocal? thanks. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] problem with COPY?
by JP 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

hi all, I've been trying to use dovecot (from cvs 03.mar.2003, linux 2.2.20, gcc 2.96, openssl 0.9.7a) as an replacement for uw-imap, and it seems to be doing its job, except for one thing: I have my mua (sylpheed-claws from cvs) set up so that it will sort message into certain(imap) directories. so when I check the mail in the INBOX, new mails will be processed automatically and, for example spamcop related emails are moved to their own 'folder'. imap session below. [STARTTLS and LOGIN stuff not included... no errors whatsoever there.] [18:06:39] IMAP4< 5 OK Logged in. [18:06:39] IMAP4> 6 SELECT INBOX [18:06:40] IMAP4< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) [18:06:40] IMAP4< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 49 EXISTS [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 3 RECENT [18:06:40] IMAP4< * OK [UNSEEN 47] First unseen. [18:06:40] IMAP4< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1046109663] UIDs valid [18:06:40] IMAP4< * OK [UIDNEXT 64] Predicted next UID [18:06:40] IMAP4< 6 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 7 UID SEARCH UID 1:* [18:06:40] IMAP4< * SEARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 49 52 55 56 57 58 61 62 63 [18:06:40] IMAP4< 7 OK Search completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 8 STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [18:06:40] IMAP4< * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 49 RECENT 3 UIDNEXT 64 UIDVALIDITY 1046109663 UNSEEN 3) [18:06:40] IMAP4< 8 OK Status completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 9 UID FETCH 61:63 (UID FLAGS RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date From To Cc Newsgroups Subject Message-Id References In-Reply-To Content-Type Seen Status X-Status From)]) [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 47 FETCH (UID 61 FLAGS (\Recent) RFC822.SIZE 3111 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO CC NEWSGROUPS SUBJECT MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE SEEN STATUS X-STATUS FROM)] {322} [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 48 FETCH (UID 62 FLAGS (\Recent) RFC822.SIZE 3111 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO CC NEWSGROUPS SUBJECT MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE SEEN STATUS X-STATUS FROM)] {322} [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 49 FETCH (UID 63 FLAGS (\Recent) RFC822.SIZE 3109 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO CC NEWSGROUPS SUBJECT MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE SEEN STATUS X-STATUS FROM)] {322} [18:06:40] IMAP4< 9 OK Fetch completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 10 STATUS Spamcop (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [18:06:40] IMAP4< * STATUS "Spamcop" (MESSAGES 14 RECENT 0 UIDNEXT 51 UIDVALIDITY 1046109859 UNSEEN 0) [18:06:40] IMAP4< 10 OK Status completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 11 UID COPY 61 Spamcop now after this, the conenction goes unresponsive and the following appears in the server log: Mar 4 18:06:42 btp212 imap(jp): file index-save.c: line 61 (write_with_lf): assertion failed:(size > 0 && size <= SSIZE_T_MAX) Mar 4 18:06:42 btp212 dovecot: child 6022 (imap) killed with signal 6 any ideas on what might be causing this? dovecot/mua/some else? regards, JP

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[dovecot] Torture tests
by Ian R. Justman 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Hi, all. I've been so impressed with Dovecot, I'm in the process of moving my mail over to it. In fact, one of my mailboxes got SO huge, it'll likely literally take more than a day to move it all over (in excess of 19,000 mails, about 140 megabytes). So far, the IMAP server shows absolutely no sign of crapping out yet. It should also be noted that I'm moving all this mail out of a Cyrus mailstore into an mbox folder on the same server using Pine. And at work, for my work mail, I recently installed Dovecot 0.99.8, using the POP2 port so I can have test it out while not disturbing my coworkers' ability to retrieve mail. So far, I have yet to see anything bad happen. My IMAP test is taking place under Debian GNU/Linux Woody and my POP3 test under FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. Though any suggestions in what to keep an eye out for in either case? --Ian.

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[dovecot] pine/dovecot issues
by David E. Storey 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Folks, I'm running into some issues with pine and dovecot. (dovecot is running mbox for now... plan to switch to maildir soon.) At first I thought it was a funky issue with the way I was using pine to access mailboxes. (I use rsh to invoke imap as pre-authenticated so when I switch to maildirs, I don't have to worry about pine being patched to support it.) But after switching over to using authenticated IMAP over port 143, it still had issues. I'm getting messages like: Junk in start of group Not an Address Junk at end of envelope Unknown Message property Thus far, it seems to only occur in pine. (Squirrelmail and evolution appear to be fine) Is it the client? Is it dovecot? is it easily fixable? It feels like some sort of escaping issue or parsing issue or something. I just don't know enough about IMAP to determine exactly what it is. I'm using dovecot v0.99.8, MAIL=mbox:%h/Mail/:INBOX=%h/.mailbox I've just converted off of wu-imap in hopes of someday migrating to maildirs on that box. (anyone know of a good mbox to maildir conversion tool? I used to have on that worked fine, but I've since found a ton that don't work well for me at all. I have about a gig of email to backup and convert) d!

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[dovecot] ldap config
by Stefan Sels 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Hi, how do I setup the config to use an ldap server for authentification ? I tried : auth_userdb = ldap:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_userdb = ldap:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/ auth_userdb = usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf however I got an error. What is the correct syntax for the ldap config ? Regards, Stefan Sels

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[dovecot] patch for src/auth/db-ldap.c
by Alex Howansky 01 Mar '03

01 Mar '03

*** src/auth/db-ldap.c.orig Sat Mar 1 00:20:10 2003 --- src/auth/db-ldap.c Sat Mar 1 00:20:31 2003 *************** *** 35,42 **** DEF(SET_STR, pass_attrs), DEF(SET_STR, pass_filter), DEF(SET_STR, default_pass_scheme), ! DEF(SET_STR, user_global_uid), ! DEF(SET_STR, user_global_gid) }; struct ldap_settings default_ldap_settings = { --- 35,42 ---- DEF(SET_STR, pass_attrs), DEF(SET_STR, pass_filter), DEF(SET_STR, default_pass_scheme), ! DEF(SET_INT, user_global_uid), ! DEF(SET_INT, user_global_gid) }; struct ldap_settings default_ldap_settings = { -- Alex Howansky Wankwood Associates http://www.wankwood.com/

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