September 2004 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Re: 0.99 mail env - mbox to maildir
by C.Lee Taylor 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Greetings ... > I'm all sorted now, anyway... but it has inspired me to build > a mailbox conversion tool using the dovecot mail handling > code.... watch this space. mbox to maildir converter ... There are a few perl scripts which could do this ... But I like the idea of mbox to maildir in dovecot ... But I wonder if that is the right place to put it ... Mailed Lee P.S. If anybody has scripts or a system that moves mail from mbox to maildir, I would be happy to use them ... I run FC2, with procmailrc setting maildir, but it seems when the system is busy or something, my mail is still put into mbox ...

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[Dovecot] ah ha!!
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

i don't know what happened, but it just started giving me better errors. i had to set first_valid_uid=100 since that's where my users start. wow, dovecot is FAST. -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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[Dovecot] blank line at the top of mbox
by Brad.Allen＠edwardjones.com 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

I am having this same problem. We are running on a Solaris 8 server and Dovecot puts a blank line at the top of the mailbox and can no longer process until the line is deleted. Any idea how to fix this? Brad Allen IS EMS Projects and Planning

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[Dovecot] Internal login failure
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

ok, so, dovecot 0.99.11, Solaris 9. i have: auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow in my dovecot.conf, which gets me logged into dovecot in the first place, but then i get: Sep 9 09:52:41 ford.4amlunch.net imap-login: [ID 457029 mail.info] Internal login failure: wonko [10.0.1.6] in /var/log/syslog how do i track down exactly what the problem is so i can fix it? i would love to add SSL to my imap service, and don't care to mess with cyrus seeing how dovecot seems to be so nice. thanks!! -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Timo Sirainen 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

On 6.9.2004, at 03:28, Zoong Pham wrote: > > Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing > (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen > with other mailboxes. > The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. > They are all in mbox format. Probably because one of the lines in it is larger then 4096 bytes? Header parser doesn't really like that. I should get that fixed in 1.0-tests..

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[Dovecot] Problem with mysql...
by Jacek Osiecki 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hello, I am trying to run dovecot on my Linux. I am using an exim 3.30 as the MTA with vmail-sql virtual users. I have installed latest dovecot release and ran through the config file. Some options seemed unclear to me, but generally I think it is OK. The problem is, that MySQL authentication does not work. It even does not try to authenticate! Dovecot connects correctly with MySQL database, but then no activity is shown in MySQL logs - but when I try to login manually with the telnet, i get: [root@mainframe root]# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1.143... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 login [my_email] [my_password] 1 NO Authentication failed. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I have spent two days with this problem, even modifying source files could not help me localize the source of my troubles :( Here are the important (I think) entries from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ------- # Authentication process name. auth = default # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 anonymous auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf ------- Any suggestions? Best regards, -- Jacek Osiecki joshua(a)ceti.pl Poland

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[Dovecot] Mail cut on CR character
by Tom Mraz 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hi all, when I move the attached mail from local folder in Mozilla to an IMAP folder on dovecot, it is cut just before the ... characters. There is an extra CR character. I have setup the dovecot to use Maildirs. When I copy the file with the message manualy to one of the Maildir folders it is shown correctly in Mozilla however it if I move it using Mozilla to another IMAP folder the mail is cut again. Thanks for any reply, Tomas Mraz P.S. Using self compiled dovecot 0.99.11 on Fedora Core 2 >From - Wed Sep 8 08:18:55 2004 X-UIDL: 2f50f9a50ff6d9a016b79e964aa3bbg9 >From users-return-3131-t8m=centrum.cz(a)cs.openoffice.org Tue Sep 7 20:39:39 2004 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44525 "HELO data2.centrum.cz") by mail.centrum.cz with SMTP id <S2310612AbUIGSjU>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:39:20 +0200 X-Virus-Scanner: This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus system NOD32 for Linux Mail Server. For more information on NOD32 Antivirus System, please, visit our website: http://www.nod32.com/. Received: from s002.sfo.collab.net ([64.125.133.202]:62908 "HELO openoffice.org") by mail.centrum.cz with SMTP id <S279819AbUIGSiB>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:38:01 +0200 X-SpamDetected: 0 Received: (qmail 13761 invoked by uid 5302); 7 Sep 2004 18:38:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help(a)cs.openoffice.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: <mailto:users-help@cs.openoffice.org> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:users-unsubscribe@cs.openoffice.org> list-post: <mailto:users@cs.openoffice.org> Reply-To: users(a)cs.openoffice.org Delivered-To: mailing list users(a)cs.openoffice.org Delivered-To: moderator for users(a)cs.openoffice.org Received: (qmail 29370 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2004 16:57:14 -0000 Message-ID: <413DF687.5010705(a)zoznam.sk> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:57:27 +0100 From: Skusac <skus(a)zoznam.sk> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users(a)cs.openoffice.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: CSS Styly Return-Path: <users-return-3131-t8m=centrum.cz(a)cs.openoffice.org> X-Orcpt: rfc822;t8m(a)mail3.centrum.cz Zdravim, ako sa daju pouzivat css styly v Open Office? Potrebujem aby styly boli v externom dokumente napr styly.css a v dokumente html aby bol len link na styly. Mne to vzdy link vyhodi a uklada mi styly priamo do html dokumentu. Skusal som to ukladat aj pre HTML 3.2 aj s pomocou ignore font settings, vtedy styly neuklada, ale zase popisuje farby, velkosti ... pre kazdu cast textu. Ale styly si to z externeho .css dokumentu nenatiahne. Tools->Options->Load/Save->HTML Compatibility (Sorry za anglicku verziu) Vdaka za prispevky. Alex Fischer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe(a)cs.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help(a)cs.openoffice.org

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[Dovecot] better way to create home dirs for mail servers
by ramana 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Dear all, Autodir is for creating home directories and group directories much better then pam_mkhomedir as pam_mkhomedir does suffer some limitations like, 1) There are some applications which never need to authenticate users But they need home dirs -- for example mail servers configured to use home dirs for mail delivery and storage but not configured to use pam. 2) Some do use other ways to authenticate, bypassing pam all together. 3) Servers must be root so that pam can create home dirs. Otherwise make /home similar in permissions to /tmp And there are other interesting features with Autodir like transparent backup for 24x7 online systems and many more. Autodir uses autofs kernel module to transparently create home dirs And for more information check http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/ And here is Autodir-HOWTO http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/intraperson/Autodir-HOWTO.html?download Regards ramana -- http://www.intraperson.com

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[Dovecot] Workaround for outlook UIDL handling bug ??
by Nikolaus Gerstmayr 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Scenario: Using Dovecot 0.99.10.9 as pop3 server. With delete on retrival off. clients: outlook* Problem: Everytihng work perfectly, except that outlooks keeps re-downloading SOME mail over and over. Though it already got them. No obvious pattern which, but only a small percentage. First of I looked at dovecots UIDLs. Initialy I thought it's broken (see my previous thread) Sorry for even thinking that, it's ok, my bad :) Rather, outlooks UIDL handling seems to be very broken :( But I think I found an easy workaround. Dovecots UIDLS seem to be timestamp.message# eg. 1 1093990148.1 2 1093990148.2 3 1093990148.3 4 1093990148.4 5 1093990148.5 6 1093990148.6 7 1093990148.7 8 1093990148.8 9 1093990148.9 10 1093990148.10 11 1093990148.11 12 1093990148.12 The problems started with #10 -> Asumption: outlook falsy only takes a fixed numbers of chars to hold the UIDL, the rest ist ignored. Perhaps only the first 13 or so. What I did is reversing the order in UIDL generation. Instead of timestamp.message# -> message#.timestamp. Seems to work perfectly. Well, a bit too early too tell if it really works. Need to wait a couple of days and see if the problem re-appears or not. The only thing I'm 100% sure is that outlooks UIDL handling is broken. BTW: very nice source code. Very easy to follow, took me 5 minutes to find the correct .c and routine. In /pop3/command.c, list_uids() all I changed is ... mail->seq, client->uidvality, mail->uid to mail->seq, mail->uid, client->uidvality. (2 times) If anyone is interested, I'll keep you informed if the problem is really gone with this mini-patch.

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[Dovecot] Comments on planned migration to Dovecot
by Rory Campbell-Lange 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Our office of about 100 users is presently running its mail through an Exchange 5.5 Server. The Exchange server is protected by Linux server pass-through server running Exim4. We intend to move all of our mail and directory services to open source software, probably Exim4, Dovecot and OpenLDAP. We have a mixture of mail clients. These include Mac OS9 Entourage (about 30%), OSX Entourage (20%) and Apple Mail (50%). About 30 individuals also look in to their mailboxes using squirrelmail. Each user is permitted a mailbox of no more than 20MB in size. Project mailboxes may rise to 200MB, however, with up to 5 simultaneous users connection to each project mailbox. I would be grateful for comments on the suitability of deploying Dovecot in this production environment. I already use Dovecot for a small number of users in a different environment (Mac Eudora, XP Outlook, Squirrelmail) and it appears to work without fault. Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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