June 2004 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Locked index file
by Kevin Cramer 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I have docevot 0.99.10.6 installed on OpenBSD 3.5 and I'm using it with Squirrelmail. I tried to empty my Trash folder and it timed out. It looks like the process or thread died but the lock wasn't removed: Jun 25 09:16:30 plato imap(kevin): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /home/kevin/Maildir/.Trash/.imap.index How can I free this lock? I have tried stopping and re-starting dovecot already but that didn't help. Also, is there something I should do to prevent this in the future? The OpenBSD package sets the default locking to fcntl for mbox. I'm not sure if that is the setting that also controls the locking mechanism on the index files. Thanks, Kevin

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[Dovecot] IMAP mailing archives back online
by Timo Sirainen 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Read-only mboxes seem to be working nicely now, so I installed latest CVS Dovecot to dovecot.org again to serve them. Allows either ANONYMOUS SASL logins, or plaintext logins with "anonymous" user and empty password.

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[Dovecot] Sym links to subfolders?
by Kevin Cramer 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

I just installed dovecot 0.99.10.6 and I'm trying to use symlinks for subfolders. I have my mail in ~/Maildir and I want to make symlinks such as from .Sent to ~/Mail/Sent. All of these folders are maildir and the permissions are correct. I've searched the list and I cannot find anything stating that it should not work. In fact I've seen posts that claim it should work. However, it does not work for me and looking at maildir-list.c around line 101, it appears that it is only checking for directories and not for links. I'm doing this because I have it setup so I can use mutt directly against the maildir folders and so IMAP will work against them. It's worked great for over a year but I want to move it to a different machine and I wanted to switch from courier-imap to dovecot. Can anyone confirm that it works or not? Any ideas on how to address this issue? Thanks, Kevin

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[Dovecot] Re: [ismail] Re: using Dovecot
by Steven Stern 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:26:01 +0000, "Kelley Reynolds" <kelley(a)insidesystems.net> wrote: > >I've never used dovecot, but I know that those directories aren't what IMAP servers generally expect when looking for a rootfolderpath. > >For example, courier is always 'INBOX', uw-imap is usually but not always 'mail', and sometimes it's just a blank string. My guess is that for you, it's one of those three. If your mail is in a 'mail' directory, I suggest just putting 'mail' and not '~/mail'. > >Kelley Reynolds >President >Inside Systems, Inc > >___________________________________________________________________ I'm going to cross post this to the dovecot list in case someone there has an idea. To bring those people up to speed: I'm evaluating ISMail (www.insidesystems.net) as a replacement for IMP. I'm having problems configuring the IMAP settings to work with Dovecot. === I've got some progress. I set rootmailfolder to "~/mail". When I login to ISMail, it creates the directory ~/inbox as follows: mail Sent Items then dies. If I set rootmailfolder to as "rootmailfolder=" with no argument, it creates .imap INBOX .customflags .imap.index.data .imap.index.tree .imap.index .imap.index.log then dies If I set rootmail folder to "INBOX" INBOX Sent Items .subscriptions .imap INBOX .customflags .imap.index.data .imap.index.tree .imap.index .imap.index.log -- Steve

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[Dovecot] customflags considered a folder?
by Peter Schuller 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello, i just switched from courier-imap to dovecot on a machine. The transition was painless except for one issue - when using the "Check mail" feature of kmail, one gets the message: "Unable to get information about folder customflags. The server replied: internal error..." So it looks like the server isn't properly hiding the .customflags file for some reason. I googled and only found one person who had seen something similar, but no solution. This is with dovecot 0.99.10.5. Similarly, 'customflags' does show up as a folder when using mutt. How would I go about preventing this problem? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller(a)infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey(a)scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller(a)infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test20
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ One more for today :) Again mostly mbox fixes and optimizations. Don't try it with maildir because it crashes with COPY and APPEND commands. This release supports now UIDPLUS extension. It was mostly a side effect of making saving mails store the X-UID header immediately to mbox and adding the mail to index. So, a Dovecot LDA would finally make sense now. Besides keeping indexes updated, it could also ask user's home dir, uid and gid from dovecot-auth. Now, that combined with postfix-dovecot-auth patch, Dovecot would be very simple to install with Postfix :)

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[Dovecot] Compile error
by Greg T. Harber 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

On dovecot-1.0-test21: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-auth -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/local/sbin"\" -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:11:2: #error broken currently ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:310: error: conflicting types for `ssl_proxy_new' ssl-proxy.h:12: error: previous declaration of `ssl_proxy_new' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_new': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:319: warning: passing arg 2 of `gnutls_transport_set_ptr' makes pointer from integer without a cast ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_dh_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:417: warning: `gnutls_dh_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:82) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_rsa_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:443: warning: `gnutls_rsa_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:77) make[3]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1 On dovecot-0.99.10.6: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/local/sbin"\" -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_handshake': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:280: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_handshake_get_direction' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `initialize_state': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:302: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_cert_type_set_priority' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_new': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:318: warning: passing arg 2 of `gnutls_transport_set_ptr' makes pointer from integer without a cast ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_dh_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:416: warning: `gnutls_dh_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:82) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_rsa_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:442: warning: `gnutls_rsa_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:77) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_init': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:508: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_certificate_allocate_cred' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:520: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:523: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_deinit': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:545: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_certificate_free_cred' make[3]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1 Environment: Solaris 8 (2.8) gnutls 1.0.13 gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --disable-nls --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3 Process: # ./configure # make

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[Dovecot] Update: Compile error
by Greg T. Harber 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Offending lines in src/login-common/ssl-proxy-gnutls.c 519 ret = gnutls_certificate_set_dh_params(x509_cred, dh_params); 520 if (ret < 0) 521 i_fatal("Can't set DH parameters: %s", gnutls_strerror(ret)); 522 ret = gnutls_certificate_set_rsa_params(x509_cred, rsa_params); 523 if (ret < 0) 524 i_fatal("Can't set RSA parameters: %s", gnutls_strerror(ret)); Problem: gnutls.h lists these two functions as returning void Solution: remove the ret and the check code Compilation continue but link fails: Undefined first referenced symbol in file gnutls_cert_type_set_priority ../login-common/liblogin-common.a(ssl-proxy-gnutls.o) gnutls_certificate_allocate_cred ../login-common/liblogin-common.a(ssl-proxy-gnutls.o) gnutls_certificate_free_cred ../login-common/liblogin-common.a(ssl-proxy-gnutls.o) gnutls_handshake_get_direction ../login-common/liblogin-common.a(ssl-proxy-gnutls.o) Solution: Add #include "/usr/local/include/gnutls/compat4.h" to ssl-proxy-gnutls.c Successful compile afterwards. -- Greg T. Harber gth(a)cs.sfasu.edu Director, McGee Computing Laboratory 936 468-2508 Department of Computer Science P.O. Box 13063 Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, TX 75962 USA

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test21
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Should work again with maildir. - Some bugfixes to indexes (possibly fixing the still persisting maildir sync errrors?) - Enabled cache file again. If client asks about something that can be cached for future, it's done. There's currently no smart logic about when not to do it or when to cache more than was asked for future use. Currently nothing is ever deleted from cache. Currently it's disabled if mmap_disable = yes. - Removed UIDPLUS extension after all. It needs more thinking with maildir, because for performance reasons new messages are given UIDs once at the end transaction rather than separately for each one. So, the UID would have to be 0 temporarily until transaction is committed. But the current API make the new messages visible without syncing, and then the sequences don't match anymore and we can't get the UIDs. So, this one needs thinking, mostly from API designing point of view.

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[Dovecot] LDAP Bind
by Hervé Commowick - NewSports 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

hi all 2 Questions : - how not using the authentication bind feature of ldap server ? i rewrite checkpassword-ldap recently to use in bincimap server, and it take 3 lines to do this, so i don't understand how you don't use it. it is more powerful and more secure than retrieve pasword from the base and use crypto api to compare it. - is the dovecot server support the IMAPdir feature like bincimap or not ? thx for this great software, who replace my imap and pop3 server when it support that :) Vr.

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