March 2003 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[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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