March 2005 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Mixing mbox and maildir
by Tom Alsberg 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi there. I understood that in Dovecot 1.0 it should be possible to mix the usage of mbox and maildir mailboxes. I just downloaded, built, and am testing dovecot-stable-20050304. I'm a bit confused as to the terms of namespaces (haven't read that part of the RFC yet), but this does not seem related. Anyway, when I try specifying: default_mail_env = ~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u On login I'm immediately disconnected, seeing something like: dovecot: IMAP(user): Failed to create storage with data: ~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/user in the log file. This seems more like a bug to me (or maybe something in permissions I haven't noticed - but I've checked...) Any way, according to the documentation, it will detect whether ~/mail/ is mbox or maildir - but would that enable having both mbox and maildir in that directory? The goal is, to deploy Dovecot 1.0 at some time, while here there are users who have both maildir and mbox mailboxes (I.E. spool is mbox, ~/mbox is mbox, ~/mail contains some mbox mailboxes for small stuff that users want to be able to access even using /usr/bin/mail, and some larger maildir mailboxes (less critical, or high volume - e.g. mailing lists). How is that possible? Thanks, -- Tom P.S. Thanks again, Timo and rest of developers for this big piece of code - I maintain Dovecot 0.99 in another place and it's by far the most useful IMAP server yet. -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] Shared maildirs with symlinking
by Gauthier Vandemoortele 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hello, I try to set up a shared maildir with symbolink links, but it doesn't work. The main user, from which I would share a mailbox, creates a mailbox named "Commun" with thunderbird. I see on the file system from the server that a directory .Commun is created in his ~/Maildir/ and that the file ~/Maildir/.subscriptions has now such an entry. Right. In ~/Maildir/Commun the permissions are /cur 700 /new 700 /tmp 700 .customflags 600 .imap.index 600 .imap.index.data 600 .imap.index.log 600 .imap.index.tree 600 dovecot-uidlist 600 and as owner MainUser/users (I work on a slackware 10, all the users have by default the group users.) So, I change all the rights to 770 for directories and 660 for other files (I don't forget .Commun itself) Now the other user ; he creates also a folder named "Commun", so that such an entry exists in .subscriptions. As admin, I delete his folder ~/Maildir/.Commun, and create a symbolink link ~OtherUser/Maildir/.Commun pointing to ~MainUser/Maildir/.Commun Now MainUser moves a mail in his folder Commun, always with thunderbird ; OtherUser sees now a message in the "same" folder, but he can't read it. In fact, Thunderbird displays a little icon but without textuel information, like subject, or so. If OtherUser clicks on it, the mailer hangs indefinitly. It's logical, the file created in ~MainUser/Maildir/.Commun has 600 as permissions. On the other hand, OtherUser can move or create a file in his folder Commun, but MainUser does'nt see it, I suppose because his index is not updated. I had read in http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders that : It's important to have dovecot-shared file created in the shared maildir with the permissions and group ID you want to have access to the mailbox. Dovecot uses the same permissions and GID when it creates index files, dovecot-uidlist file, new mail files, etc. With my experience, it seems that Dovecot creates the file regardless of the permissions of the shared folder. Can someone say how to resolve that ? I use dovecot-0.99.11 Thanks in advance, -- Gauthier Vandemoortele <gauthier.vandemoortele(a)skynet.be> ... Un jeune sur dix qui sait pas lire, ça en fait neuf sur dix qui lisent des conneries. (Brèves de comptoir - J-M Gourio)

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[Dovecot] Loading messages
by Gabriel Granger 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Thanks to all for pointing out the Thunderbird bug workaround, I've got another question Some of my users are complaining that when they select a message, the email client says "Loading Message" and either takes a long time to display a small message or does not display the message at all. Its odd becuase it seems that larger message on these users machines seem to open more quickly then the small 1Kb - 15Kb messages. Looking a little further on the messages that wont open they all seem to be very small in size. Is this a common issue? or something i need to tweak on the dovecot.conf or on the client side? Gabe

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[Dovecot] problems with migration to Maildir
by F. Even 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

I'm attempting to use Maildir and mbox together until I can finish migrating all mailboxes and figure out issues I'm having with a couple other mailboxes. But, I want to officially start using Maildir as the primary msg. store. Now...when I configure Dovecot as follows, it creates new folders in the ~/mail folder, which is where my mboxes reside: #default_mail_env = #default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=~/mbox #default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=~/mbox #default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir #namespace private { # separator = / # inbox = yes # prefix = # location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox #} #namespace private { # separator = / # prefix = "Maildir/" # location = maildir:~/Maildir #} namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace private { separator = / location = mbox:~/mail } I would like to have access to the mbox hierarchy, but I want all new folders by default created in ~/Maildir. How do I go about acheiving this? Thanks, Frank

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test65 and ldap auth
by KATOH Yasufumi 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Hi, Does 1.0-test65 work with ldap auth? The log is: dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:32 Error: child 13676 (auth) killed with signal 11 Info log is: dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:19 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test65 starting up dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:32 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGthcm1hQGhhcnAuZ3I uanAAU2FncmFkbzAy dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:36 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login [127.0.0.1] linux kernel 2.6.10, glibc 2.3.2 OpenLDAP 2.2.23 -- karma(a)jazz.email.ne.jp / KATOH Yasufumi

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[Dovecot] Auto Create Folders
by Chris L. Franklin 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Is there any way to addon the ability to have dovecot auto create imap folders for a user ? -- Chris L. Franklin

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[Dovecot] Re: Warning, newbie!
by Pete 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

To make things clearer, this is where I am at now when I login from Mutt. FreeBSD 4.11 Dovecot -0.99.13 Postfix current Mar 18 09:28:15 slippery dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Mar 18 11:10:38 slippery imap(pete): We couldn't drop root group privileges Mar 18 11:10:38 slippery dovecot: child 97190 (imap) returned error 89 -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] Moving from 0.99 to 1.0-stable
by Jim Trigg 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

What is involved in migrating from 0.99 to 1-stable? (I'd be creating a FreeBSD port to work with, but the main question I have is what would need to be done to configuration files.) Thanks, Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator, X HELP CURE HTML MAIL All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \

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[Dovecot] error
by Pete 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Hi, I am getting this error in my syslog when I try to access with Mutt. Mar 18 09:06:55 slippery imap(pete): We couldn't drop root group privileges This is more difficult to get running that I expected but I will stick with it a little longer. -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] postfix + SMTP AUTH using DOVECOT AUTH DAEMON
by Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

hi ppl I'm the new member of the list. Looking at recent messages look like there is a way to do SMTP AUTH in postfix using the Dovecot AUTH daemon. Currently my Dovecot installation auth again PAM (local users) and a simple shadow file (for virtual users, I plan to move to MYSQL later). I don't want to have different databases one for dovecot a one for SASL. Where I can found the POSTFIX patch, or better, some kind of helper daemon for Postfix. thx A

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