July 2004 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Testimonial
by Kenneth Porter 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

I just switched my main "library" of over 100 mailboxes from UW-IMAP on a gutless wonder with 600 BogoMIPS and 200 MB to a box with 2000 BogoMIPS and 1 GB, and also switched from UW-IMAP under RH7.2 to Dovecot under Fedora Core 2. Using Mulberry on Win2k as the client, it used to take several minutes to check for new mail in all folders. Now it takes just 2-3 seconds. Opening large folders with 100's of messages used to take a dozen seconds or more, and is now down to at most a second or so. IMAP is no longer frustratingly slow. Now to figure out what to do with all my spare time....

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[Dovecot] can't see IMAP folders - Fedora Core 2
by Ralph Brown 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Recently, I upgraded (switched) to Fedora Core 2. Previously, I was running Fedora Core 1, with Cyrus-IMAP, and life was good. Now, I can not see any of my folders. I suspect it is a simple dovecot.conf configuration edit, but i'm not experienced enough with it to make the correct edits. I am using Postfix with Dovecot. My mail directory is; /home/(user)/mail snip from the conf file; --------------------------- You can also limit a width of string by giving the number of max. characters # after the '%' character. For example %1u gives the first character of # username. Some examples: # # maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env =/home/%u/mail ---------------------------- Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Ralph "Do what ya can...but behave yourself"

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[Dovecot] POP3 fails on non-existent inbox
by Kenneth Porter 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Using the latest RPM (dovecot-0.99.10.5) on Fedora Core 2. I connected to the server by POP3 for a user who'd not yet received email (ever) so she didn't have a spool file in /var/spool/mail, and dovecot was failing on login. I just tested it by removing my own mailbox and see this in maillog: pop3-login: Login: ken [127.0.0.1] pop3(ken): stat() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/ken: No such file or directory pop3(ken): stat() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/ken: No such file or directory pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050c20 (0) pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084b90 (1) pop3: Timeout leak: 0x8065d00 >From the client, I enter the USER and PASS command and get: +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.7 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

outlook-pop3-no-nuls didn't actually work in rc1. Works now. v0.99.10.7 2004-07-14 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + Added outlook-pop3-no-nuls workaround to fix Outlook hang in mails with NULs. + Config file lines can now contain quoted strings ("value ") - If client didn't finish downloading a single mail in 30 seconds, Dovecot closed the connection. This was supposed to work so that if client hasn't read data at all in 30 seconds, it's disconnected. - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks

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[Dovecot] Shared folders
by D Canfield 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Several months back shared folders based on ACL's were discussed here, and it was mentioned that support for these had been added to CVS. Since the web site still says shared folders aren't implemented, I just wanted to check and see if the shared folder code is just in CVS for a future, post-1.0 release, or if the code ever made it into any of the 0.99x relases. Thanks DC

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD and MySQL error
by cdmon.com 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Greetings I have been installed dovecot-0.99.10.6 in my FreeBSD 4.10 with WITH_MYSQL=1 , but when I try to configure it to use mysql.conf file: auth_userdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf the program gives me the next error: dovecot: Jul 13 10:49:03 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: Jul 13 10:49:04 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Jul 13 10:49:04 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 13 10:49:04 Error: child 13659 (auth) returned error 89 Somebody knows why? What I'm doing wrong? It's possible to use MySQL with dovecot in a FreeBSD? Thanks a lot in advanced. -- _____________________ http://www.cdmon.com ¿dominios a 9,95 euros? ¿servidores DNS públicos? ¿se han vuelto locos?

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[Dovecot] [patch] gssapi support
by Colin Walters 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Hi, I've been working on a patch for GSSAPI (Kerberos) support. It seems to work pretty well for authentication (I've tested it with Evolution, fetchmail, and mutt). I have also been working on implementing integrity/confidentiality protection. Unfortunately not many clients support this - the only one I've found really is mutt, which seems to disconnect from the server for some unknown reason not long after a Kerberos-secured conversation. I'm still trying to track that down. But anyways the patch is far along enough that I think it's worthy of review and testing. Some todo items: 0) Track down bug preventing mutt from working 1) Audit integrity proxy a bit more 2) Make sure we're handling mechanisms other than Kerberos 3) Test with more clients

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.7-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Yet another 0.99 release. If it works, tomorrow comes the real one: + Added outlook-pop3-no-nuls workaround to fix Outlook hang in mails with NULs. + Config file lines can now contain quoted strings ("value ") - If client didn't finish downloading a single mail in 30 seconds, Dovecot closed the connection. This was supposed to work so that if client hasn't read data at all in 30 seconds, it's disconnected. - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks Strange that I heard about the 30sec bug yesterday for the first time. It's been there forever. Guess people have fast internet connections nowadays :)

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[Dovecot] postfix patch does not compile on freebsd 4
by Kevin 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

i'm trying to use timo's postfix-2.1.2-dovecot-auth.patch on freebsd4 with postfix-2.1.4 the problem is that smtpd_sasl_glue.c tries to include stdint.h which isn't present with fbsd4. is there another lib that'll provide the same functionality? i've tried using inttypes.h but i don't know of any other similar ones stdint is in fbsd5 apparently but i'm still scared of it have any ideas?

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Re: [Dovecot] ldap auth problems
by Karl Latiss 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

That didn't seem to help either. In the end I re-compiled the Fedora Core 2 release from SRC RPM and that seems to be working. I'm not sure what the difference is. On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 18:42, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 12:17, Karl Latiss wrote: > > [pid 24674] close(8 <unfinished ...> > > [pid 24674] <... close resumed> ) = 0 > > [pid 24674] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > > Process 24674 detached > .. > > Hmm. Doesn't really help. Getting gdb backtrace would show where it > crashes, but I'm not sure if there's any easy way to do it. > > One would be to put sleep(10); to beginning of src/auth/main.c, then > start dovecot and "gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth pid" > where pid being the running dovecot-auth's process id. then "c" to > continue, wait for crash and "bt" to get backtrace.

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