January 2005 - dovecot

[Dovecot] migration from bincIMAP
by RYAN vAN GINNEKEN 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello all I am using Freebsd 4.10stable, postfix 2.1.5 with SASL and TLS, procmail version 3.22 and binc IMAP 1.2.8 binc uses IMAPdir style mail boxes, Spam assassin, and ClamAV. Wish to convert to dovecot but your program does not support IMAPdir does it??? also i have many user accounts that i wish to use untouched if possible. I guess this is a migration question for the most part i am switching to dovecot because of its ability to use postgre database files and real log file. Is there a simple way to achieve this without losing any of my users mail? -- COMPUTER KING for all your computer needs http://www.computerking.ca email luck(a)computerking.ca phone 403-613-LUCK (5825) Hosting, Networking, Disaster Recovery, and Virus Removal solutions fit for royalty. Intel based SYSTEMS Toshiba Fujutsu Sony Acer and many more LAPTOPS Full line of high quality PARTS Current Specials Samsung printers and HOSTING packages

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[Dovecot] Where are flags stored?
by Adam Pordzik 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello, I don't now wheather this is IMAP or actually dovecot-specific, but I hope you people here knows about this at least: Where are flags like seen/unseen or e.g. message-priority stored? My goal is to mark spam or other filtered by procmail as "seen", so that dovecot doesn't notify MUAs about new mail in IDLE mode. Are there any mail-headers, so I can set these with procmail to accomplish that? Thanks for help, A

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[Dovecot] Repair/Cleaup Maildir
by Glen Eustace 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

After having fought an issue with Courier-imap on FC3 for a week (that is still unresolved), I decided to try Dovecot instead. So far, fingers crossed, the issue has not re-occured. Migrating from courier-imap/sqwebmail to Dovecot/Squirrelmail was reasonably painless but I now have an problem. Is there a utility available to cleanup/repair the maildir tree for each user ? As part of the migration, I copied all of the courierimapsubscribed files to .subscriptions and removed the leading 'INBOX'. This seemed to be enough to get things going. Unfortunately, people who had only ever used webmail didn't have a courierimapsubscribed file. When they next used squirrelmail, a new .subscriptions file was created but didn't contain their folders. I tried to fix this by recreating the subscriptions file for each user and adding in all the .directories in their maildir root. I now have a maildir hierarchy with lots of crud in it. I need a utility to go through and deleted all the files that shouldn't be there anymore and to ensure that the subscriptions files are correct. Does such a utility exist ? If not, can anyone tell me where I can find a good description of what Dovecot expects to find in maildirs so I can write one myself. Any suggestions/help appreciated. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen and Rosanne Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 5301 Ph/Fax: +64 6 357 8168, Mob: +64 27 5 424 015, Web: www.godzone.net.nz "A Ministry specialising in providing low-cost professional Internet Services to NZ Christian Churches, Ministries and Organisations"

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[Dovecot] Extremely Slow Pop3 Downloads, Evolution 2.0.2
by Michael Joy 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello All, We've been running Dovecot for imap for quite some time and have had little trouble with it. However, we recently switched over to using dovecot for pop3 because of simplicity as well as security issues with the older UW based pop server. I've noticed one serious problem. The only client that seems to have any issue at all with the server is Evolution. In pop3 mode, it takes a minute or more to download a few messages on an inbox with 400+ saved messages in it over gigabit ethernet. Over a DSL connection using MS Outlook 2k3 it takes about a minute total for all messages. Similarly with KMail it takes about 5-10 seconds to download all messages in the pop3 box. The messages trickle in with evolution 2.x, I've tried 2.0.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2 and all have this problem. I haven't tried the 1.x series as I don't have any linux boxes that old available to test. So apparently, there's two things of concern. 1. The server is definitely fast enough to handle the large mail box. 2. There's some serious incompatibility in Evolution/Dovecot causing for the 14.4 modem email download speeds over lan. We're running Dovecot 0.99.12 on Debian unstable, however 0.99.11 exhibited this behavior as well. If anyone has some hints, I'd greatly appreciate it. It's annoying having to wait 5-10 min to download mail in the morning when one gets into work ;) If there's any other information I can provide, please ask. Thanks to whichever kind soul finds time to trudge through this problem with us. Michael D. Joy HEP - University of Mississippi mdjoy(a)phy.olemiss.edu

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[Dovecot] dovecot adds "Status: O"
by Vegard Svanberg 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Dovecot adds the "Status: O" header when users download their email. Why? -- Vegard Svanberg <vegard(a)svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]

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[Dovecot] multiple domains howto
by Mesut Bayrak 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

i dont know howto host multiple domains with dovecot are there any way to make it ?

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[Dovecot] Errors: file istream.c: line 135... assertion failed
by Pawel Burchard 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

I'm getting thease messages in log file: file istream.c: line 135 (i_stream_skip): assertion failed: (stream->v_size == 0 || stream->v_offset + count <= stream->v_size) kernel: pid 23364 (pop3), uid 1042: exited on signal 6 It doesn't happen very often, but I'd like to know what is causing them, any ideas? Should I be worried about it ? System is freebsd, format is mbox and dovecot is 0.99.12.1 -- PB - burcharp(a)iem.pw.edu.pl

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[Dovecot] Cannot access a file with Mulberry from a dovecot server if the mail does not end with a newline character.
by Sven Kirmess 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

I use Mulberry 3.1.6 on Windows to read my mails with dovecot 0.99.12 Solaris 9. There are some mail which I cannot read. When I try to open such a mail, dovecot quits and restarts (I can see that with ps, nothing is logged). The Mulberry log just looks like this: | --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | A00009 FETCH 695 (BODY.PEEK[1]) | * 695 FETCH (BODY[1] {61} | | --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | * OK dovecot ready. | | --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | A00001 CAPABILITY | * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE AUTH=PLAIN | A00001 OK Capability completed Looks like it just restarts the connection. The interesting thing is, that I can access the file with Netscape 4.8 via dovecot. The problem is the following: I copied the file in the Maildir directory, opened the copied file with vi and saved it. Now, I run a diff: | $ diff orig:2,S copy:2,S | Warning: missing newline at end of file orig:2,S | 12c12 | < <http://forums.mtgnews.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35559> | --- | > <http://forums.mtgnews.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35559> As you can see, vi adds the newline on the last line automatically if you save the file. Now, Mulberry/dovecot is able to read this file. I'm not sure if this is a dovecot or Mulberry problem. btw: This problematic mail was created with Mulberry 3.1.6. ;-) Sven

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[Dovecot] Feature-request: ip based access control (libwrap)
by Bengt-Arne Fjellner 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Is there plans to use libwrap Or is there already some kind of access control i have missed?? What i really want is a mechanism so i can say: If The request comes from "123.121.212.0" dont offer ssl and accept plain else demand ssl and no plain I now have this (almost) in another imap server by xinetd and two ip addresses. I could solve this by iptables or access list on the router but i would prefer to have it in the software itself. (Sorry if this is a faq i have tried to check before i posted this) -- Bengt-Arne Fjellner Luleå technical university

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[Dovecot] Japanese Search
by Kazuo Moriwaka 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Hello, I'm trying to debug search command with Japanese 'ISO-2022-JP' codec. ISO-2022-JP codec needs to keep character cases until convert to UTF-8. For example: * '\033[$B%s\033[(B' means a character sounds 'N' * '\033[$B%S\033[(B' means a character sounds 'Bi' It causes a trouble in searches with Japanese. I found imap/imap-search.c/add_new() makes strings uppercase and fixed. But search results didn't affected.. ;-) I hope I can fix this problem in a few days. But I'm not clear about dovecot's source. If you have hints, please tell me. thanks, -- Kazuo Moriwaka moriwaka(a)valinux.co.jp

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