September 2004 - dovecot

[Dovecot] utime() failed with index file [...] Operation not permitted
by Stephan Jakoubek 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

Hello, I'm running the dovecot backports from jones.dk. Everything is working fine so far, but whenever someone is logging in (IMAP or POP 3) I get the following error message in my mail.log: [...] pop3(frederik): utime() failed with index file /var/mboxes/frederik/.INBOX/.imap.index: Operation not permitted [...] imap(jako1): utime() failed with index file /var/mboxes/jako1/.INBOX/.imap.index: Operation not permitted Rights for the ".imap.index" file are: -rwxrwxrwx 1 Debian-e mailserv 3792 Sep 21 11:50 .imap.index Thank you very much for your support. -Stephan

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[Dovecot] problems building / starting test40 + test42
by Curtis Maloney 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

Hi I was trying to build test40 (and then test42, since it came out in the mean time) on my fresh Solaris 9 box at home, and ran into a few snags. First problem was during the build. Make spat the dummy in the auth directory: Making all in auth make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 701: Unexpected end of line seen Current working directory /home/pkg/dovecot-1.0-test42/src/auth So, I went and checked it out, to find what certainly looked to me like an error: 697:distclean-generic clean-generic maintainer-clean-generic clean \ 698:mostlyclean distclean maintainer-clean 699: 700: checkpassword-reply.c 701: 702:# Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables. Originally, I tried tacking that onto the end of the preceding list, but when the next problem came about, I tried commenting it out... with no joy. The next problem was in starting it. I've configured Dovecot before, and it runs great, keeping all the users at my work happy and supplied with spa... erm... e-mail. I also have an older test version installed on an old SparcStation 5 at home. But when I try to start it, it complains of not being able to drop root group privileges. I googled about for a bit, and found mention of ensuring the minimum GID level was set right... but still no joy. I'm at a loss. Any suggestions? Any requests for better info to help debug? -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] /etc/init.d init script for RedHat?
by Benjamin J. Weiss 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Is anybody using dovecot on RHEL 3? I'd sure appreciate an init script for it. Thanks! Ben

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[Dovecot] Trying to install Test43 with rpmbuild
by Benjamin J. Weiss 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi! I'm using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 3.0, which is a re-compile distro of RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0. I'm installing a new mail server and would like to use dovecot as it supports Maildir, which the default imapd does not. I've downloaded test43's tarball, and would prefer to use RPM to manage it. To that end, I've tried to do an rpmbuild, but get an error: [root@www src]# rpmbuild -ta dovecot-1.0-test43.tar.gz error: line 7: Illegal char '-' in version: Version: 1.0-test43 I tried untaring the tarball and looking at the dovecot.spec file, and sure enough on line 7 is a reference to "Version: 1.0-test43". The problem is that if I take out the '-', and try rpmbuild, I get more errors. I'm not an expert in this stuff...has anybody else managed to get this working? It would sure make my life easier (I think). Ben

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[Dovecot] Mac Eudora and POP
by Chris Alexander 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

I didn't get much joy in the list archives... Has anyone seen an instance of Mac users (OS9) using Eudora not being able to pop their mail? They can imap ok, just not pop (non-ssl btw). Nothing special in the logs... I'm not a Mac guy per se, maybe I'm missing something obvious? -- Chris Alexander UNIX Network Administrator, Information Networks and Systems Division Communications Research Centre [ http://www.crc.ca ] Government of Canada [ http://www.gc.ca ]

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[Dovecot] New Postfix + Dovecot + OpenLDAP + Jamm + SASL + TLS HOWTO
by Peter Lacey 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

All, That's a lot of plusses, but if anyone is interested in how I managed to get all these packages working together, I just posted this HOWTO to: http://wanderingbarque.com/mailserver.html The Postfix - Dovecot - OpenLDAP marriage is nothing new, the twist is integrating these packages with Jamm, a web-based interface for creating a managing virtual domains and users. Regards, Pete

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[Dovecot] Weird behaviour with multiple accounts pointing to same maildir
by Bill Moran 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

I'm finding this a little strange. I'm putting together a mail server that will (someday, hopefully) serve a lot of email addresses for a lot of domains. To make life easy, each account name is the full mail name ... i.e "joe(a)domain.com" instead of just "joe" Mail is stored in Maildirs, and the user account information is all in MySQL. Delivery is handled by Postfix. Everything seems nice and clean, except ... If I create multiple accounts that all use the same Maildir for delivery (i.e. joe_smith(a)domain.com, js(a)domain.com, js(a)otherdomain.com) it seems to work well. Except that the user can _only_ log in as the first record in the database via IMAP. (i.e. in the example above, the user could log in as joe_smith(a)domain.com, but not the others) Logging in as the others does not produce any erros (that I can find, anyway) but the user can't see his/her mail. I'm rather stumped as to why this is happening. Each record in the database that points to a particular Maildir is identical except for the userid. In the example above, logging in as the 2nd or 3rd account shows folders created, but not the mail in them. For example, the above db records would look like: +----------------------+----------+-----------------------------+-----+-----+--------+ | userid | password | home | uid | gid | active | +----------------------+----------+-----------------------------+-----+-----+--------+ | joe_smith(a)domain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | | js(a)domain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | | js(a)otherdomain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | I'm assuming this is some sort of bug, but if I'm wrong, please correct me. Any ideas? Using Dovecot dovecot-0.99.10.9 on FreeBSD 4.10, talking to mysql-server-4.0.20. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD port of Dovecot
by Viren Patel 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Hello. I am trying to install Dovecot 0.99.10.9 on a FreeBSD 4.10 system from the ports collection (latest via cvsup). When running make, I get the message: dovecot-0.99.10.9 Currently incompatible with security/gnutls This is in contrast to the Dovecot web page which states that it does support GNUtls and OpenSSL. I am not really interested in gnutls/openssl support at this time. Is there a way I can install this port without gnutls/openssl?. My apologies if this is not the appropriate forum but I couldn't find info. on the port maintainer. Thanks. V. Patel Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Texas at Austin

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[Dovecot] Logging IMAP transactions
by Kenneth Porter 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Mulberry has the ability to log the IMAP exchange client-side. Is there an equivalent logging feature in Dovecot (0.99) to log the IMAP exchange server-side? My problem is that Mulberry is displaying some complex MIME structures incorrectly (eg. nested/forwarded messages) but it seems to go away if I close a folder and re-open it. I'm suspecting that Dovecot is reporting the wrong structure on first access and then fixes something on subsequent accesses. I'd like to log the FETCH result with the structure information to see if I can spot this happening.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test43
by Timo Sirainen 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ People who have had problems with downloading large mails, please try if this release helps. Also fixed one mbox syncing crash and several compiler warnings/errors with some. Not much else for now, been busy with work and other things..

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