May 2003 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] test
by Timo Sirainen 17 May '03

17 May '03

..is this thing working.. I messed up a bit when adding spamassassin to postfix filter.

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[Dovecot] Postfix locking equivalence?
by Warren Togami 17 May '03

17 May '03

/etc/postfix/main.cf.default: mailbox_delivery_lock = flock, dotlock Is flock equivalent to dovecot's fnctl locking? For mbox what type of locking settings should I be using? (No NFS, only local filesystem.) Warren Togami warren(a)togami.com

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[Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] help: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask.]
by Timo Sirainen 16 May '03

16 May '03

Just FYI, I guess this message was meant here :)

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[Dovecot] rawlog fails
by Mark E. Mallett 16 May '03

16 May '03

You mentioned --with-rawlog earlier, so I tried it. It fails with a select error. I believe it's because in some cases the timeval struct is not initialized in io_loop_get_wait_time (e.g. see sample diff below). -mm- diff -c src/lib/ioloop.c.orig src/lib/ioloop.c *** src/lib/ioloop.c.orig Sat Apr 12 11:00:10 2003 --- src/lib/ioloop.c Thu May 15 22:10:12 2003 *************** *** 223,230 **** --- 223,238 ---- int io_loop_get_wait_time(struct timeout *timeout, struct timeval *tv, struct timeval *tv_now) { + #if 0 /* mem 20030515 make sure tv contains valid data here */ if (timeout == NULL) return INT_MAX; + #else + if (timeout == NULL) { + tv->tv_sec = INT_MAX / 1000; + tv->tv_usec = 0; + return INT_MAX; + } + #endif if (tv_now == NULL) { if (gettimeofday(tv, NULL) < 0)

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[Dovecot] help: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask.
by Brandon Hoult 15 May '03

15 May '03

Am tryin to move from uw-imapd to dovecot, using dovecot ver 0.99.9.1-1 on debian. Using Mozilla Mail v 1.3 currently using mbox format. I made some test accounts and they seem to be working fine, but my older existing accounts give error messages whenever I connect or subscribe to mailboxes within them. The message that appears on the client is: "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask." it appears three times in an alert box (on windows) then everything seems to work. There are no messages in any of the mail logs in /var/log which would indicate a problem. The test accounts I created don't have this problem so I tried renameing the home directory, deleting the user, then recreating the user. However even with a new homedir the problem remains unchanged. I have verified that the permissions in ~/mail and /var/mail are set identically for working and non-working users. Thanks in advance for any advice, Brandon Hoult dolt(a)lmistudios.homeip.net

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[Dovecot] Creating and renaming mbox folders on NFS auto-installed partitions
by Robert Evans 14 May '03

14 May '03

I'm trying dovecot-0.99.9.1 in place of uw-imap which ground to a halt on a 500MHz SunBlade 100 Solaris 8 system which acts as our Departmental mail server. INBOXes are mbox files on the servers's local SCSI disk. But user directories are auto mounted from other Sun NFS servers and these may contain other mbox mailboxes in a ~/Mail directory. There's a problem with creating (and with renaming) mailboxes in the NFS mounted ~/Mail directory. For an arbitrary mailbox "newbox", say, dovecot tries to create the parent directory path /home/username/Mail before creating the newbox file. But /home/username is automounted and so creating directory /home or /home/username fails with errno 89 ENOSYS - unsupported file system operation. The solution is to check for the existence of the directory before trying to create it. This will work since /home and /home/username will always exist for any valid user. I've amended mbox-storage.c in src/lib-storage/index/mbox to call "access" to do this.... *** src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c.orig Tue Apr 15 14:04:02 2003 --- src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c Wed May 14 16:04:39 2003 *************** *** 38,44 **** p++; } ! if (mkdir(dir, CREATE_MODE) < 0 && errno != EEXIST) { t_pop(); return -1; } --- 38,44 ---- p++; } ! if ( (access(dir,F_OK) != 0) && mkdir(dir, CREATE_MODE) < 0 && errno != EEXIST) { t_pop(); return -1; } - - - (Could also remove the && errno == EEXIST part - it's redundant when access(dir,F_OK) is checking for existence). Robert -- Robert.Evans(a)cs.cf.ac.uk Tel:+44(0)29 2087 5518 Fax:+44(0)29 2087 4598 http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/department/staff/Robert.Evans.shtml Computer Science, Cardiff University, PO Box 916, Cardiff, CF24 3XF, UK

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Re: [dovecot] Re: List-id test
by Moe Wibble 13 May '03

13 May '03

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:44:06AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 04:21, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Just enabled List-* headers, testing if this still works.. > > Hmm. Wondered about why List-Id header used wrong host name and started > looking at Ecartis' sources .. Wasn't it written in Perl? I had believed > so for quite a long time for some reason. So since it's C, I figured I'd > audit the code for security flaws. > > .. I think I'll switch switch the list manager. Mailman looks nice. tried ezmlm? :)

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Re: [dovecot] Re: Design thought - Retention of reworked mbox files
by Tim Hunt 13 May '03

13 May '03

It's primarily for debugging, and I don't see it being used in a high volume environment. What triggered the thought is that I suspect I may have lost the bodies of a couple of messages during an expunge, but because I don't have the previous state of the mbox file, I have no way of verifying my concern, and certainly no way to try and recreate it. And yes, I'm using mbox files, because I have many years of mail stored in them, and I'm not quite ready to convert them to another format. Tim On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 11:01, Charlie Brady wrote: > On 12 May 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 02:05, Tim Hunt wrote: > > > Would it be possible to keep a backup copy of an mbox mail file any time it > > > needs to be substantionally rebuilt - for an example before an expunge. This > > > behaviour could be controlled by the config file, since it would most likely > > > only be used in development and testing environments. > > > > If it's only for debugging, I guess I could then just save a copy of it. > > Presumably the other reason you'd want it would be for mailbox integrity. > But if you are concerned about that, you'd be using maildir, wouldn't you? > > -- > Charlie

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[dovecot] quota
by Sebastian Pachuta 07 May '03

07 May '03

first, thx for --with-storages=maildir second, there is a problem when user exceed their quota < status INBOX (messages) > NO Internal error [2003-05-06 15:35:56] in logfile: imap(user): Can't create directory /var/mail/user/.INBOX: Disk quota exceeded 'user' is not able to get list of messages and delete some of them :( third, in logfile: imap(user2): maildir flags update: rename(/var/mail/user2/cur/1049405360.18375_0.asd, /var/mail/user2/cur/1049405360.18375_0.asd:2,T) failed: Disk quota exceeded is there any way to rename files when quota exceed?

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[dovecot] dovecot.spec
by Farkas Levente 07 May '03

07 May '03

hi, I'm just recoginze that dovecot contains an rpm spec file. unfortunately it's not too useful since an rpm -ta dovecot-.x.y.tar.gz can't be used since just the dovecot.spec.in is in the tarbar and not the actual spec file (which is in this from not useful in the above form). anyway here is my patch to the spec.in. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" --- dovecot/dovecot.spec.in.lfarkas 2003-05-05 16:36:16.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot/dovecot.spec.in 2003-05-05 17:04:30.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ # DarContact: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> +%define uid 96 +%define gid 96 Summary: Dovecot secure IMAP server. Name: dovecot Version: @VERSION@ -Release: 0 +Release: 1 License: GPL Group: System Environment/Daemons URL: http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/ @@ -16,14 +18,12 @@ Prefix: %{_prefix} Prereq: /usr/sbin/useradd, /usr/sbin/usermod -BuildRequires: openssl-devel %{!?rh62:, pam-devel} %{?rh62: pam} +BuildRequires: openssl-devel %{!?rh62:, pam-devel} %{?rh62: pam} gettext %description Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Although it's written with C, it uses -several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. Next -release will also contain a small POP3 server. - +several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. Dovecot can work with standard mbox and maildir formats and it's fully compatible with UW-IMAP and Courier IMAP servers as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ # # Init file for Dovecot IMAP daemon # -# chkconfig: - 54 46 +# chkconfig: 345 54 46 # description: Dovecot IMAP Daemon # # processname: dovecot @@ -101,8 +101,17 @@ exit \$RETVAL EOF +%{__cat} <<EOF >dovecot.pam +#%PAM-1.0 +auth required pam_nologin.so +auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth +account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth +session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth +EOF + %build -export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/kerberos/include" +export CPPFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl`" +export LDFLAGS="`pkg-config --libs-only-L openssl`" %configure \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_sysconfdir}/ssl" @@ -112,27 +121,32 @@ %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot} %makeinstall %{__install} -d -m0755 %{buildroot}%{_initrddir} -%{__install} -m0755 dovecot.sysv %{buildroot}%{_initrddir}/dovecot +%{__install} -m0755 dovecot.sysv %{buildroot}%{_initrddir}/%{name} +%{__install} -m644 dovecot.pam %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/imap +%{__install} -m644 dovecot.pam %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/imaps +%{__install} -m644 dovecot.pam %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/pop3 +%{__install} -m644 dovecot.pam %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/pop3s %{__mv} -f %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dovecot-example.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dovecot.conf ### Clean up buildroot -%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/dovecot/ +%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/%{name}/ %pre -/usr/sbin/useradd -M -s /sbin/nologin -r dovecot &>/dev/null || : -/usr/sbin/usermod -s /sbin/nologin dovecot &>/dev/null || : +# Add the dovecot user and group if not found +/usr/sbin/groupadd -g %{gid} -r %{name} &>/dev/null || : +/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/run/%{name} -s /bin/false -g %{name} -M -r -u %{uid} %{name} &>/dev/null || : %post /sbin/chkconfig --add dovecot %preun if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then - /sbin/service dovecot stop &>/dev/null || : + /sbin/service %{name} stop &>/dev/null || : /sbin/chkconfig --del dovecot fi %postun -/sbin/service dovecot condrestart &>/dev/null || : +/sbin/service %{name} condrestart &>/dev/null || : %clean %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot} @@ -142,11 +156,16 @@ %doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING* NEWS README TODO %doc doc/*.conf doc/*.sh doc/*.txt %config %{_sysconfdir}/dovecot.conf -%config %{_initrddir}/dovecot +%config %{_initrddir}/%{name} +%config %{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/* %{_sbindir}/* -%{_libexecdir}/dovecot/ +%dir %{_libexecdir}/%{name} +%{_libexecdir}/%{name}/ %changelog +* Mon May 5 2003 Levente Farkas <lfarkas(a)lfarkas.org> +- update a few things in the spec file + * Tue Apr 29 2003 Dag Wieers <dag(a)wieers.com> - 0.99.9-0 - Updated to release 0.99.9.

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