April 2005 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] transparent proxy
by Mark E. Mallett 09 May '05

09 May '05

I'm excited to see that dovecot 1.0-test series supports transparent proxy, but that excitement is muted by: - the recommendation to avoid 1.0 at present; - the requirement to use SQL authentication. I guess I could ignore the first, but the second is sticky. How hard would it be to hack a different sort of proxy server cue into the authentication? Perhaps one of: If authenticating via passwd, use a gid as an index into a server table (or perhaps have the group name be a server name), If passwd authentication fails, try a starting the proxy to a specific other server and see if one can log in there. Or something else.. I dunno, I'm just looking not to install a SQL server just for this. mm

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[Dovecot] pop3 messages not deleted
by Marten Lehmann 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello, I'm currently experiencing, that 0 messages are shown at the pop3-prompt: list +OK 0 messages: . But the cur-folder containes 74 files. How can this happen? Why aren't they removed physically? Regards Marten Lehmann

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[Dovecot] Migrating from courier-imap to dovecot
by Odhiambo Washington 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello Gang, I am new to dovecot and the only reason (so far) I would like to use dovecot, and in production with 12k+ users, is the fact that it's supposed to be faster and less of a resource hog. Now, sometimes I am really good at reading the documentations but it sometimes happens that one overlooks something. I did read the migration notes three times! My users are in /etc/passwd and I am running dovecot in IMAP only mode. I did put default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir in dovecot.conf, then for one user, I did the following: cd ~wash/Maildir cp courierimapsubscribed .subscriptions # Then I edited to remove "INBOX." cp courierimapuiddb dovecot-uidlist The permissions are right, but when I login as this user, I don't see all the folders that had been there before when he was using courier-imap!! When I login to the web interface (we use Squirrelmail) and go to the Folder options, I can't see any folders to subscribe to either! Now my questions: 1. What am I overlooking?? 2. Does someone have a script that can be used to automate the copying of courierimapsubscribed to .subscriptions and that of courierimapuiddb to dovecot-uidlist, and the editing to remove the "INBOX."? I am sure I really don't have to reinvent the wheel, no? Meanwhile I am hitting google, while waiting for your answers. Thanks in advance. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash(a)wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Ducharme's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

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[Dovecot] How to check for keywords in IMAP store?
by Steffen Kaiser 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello, I'm checking my way to migrate from Courier to Dovecot. Wiki says that "there's currently no easy way to migrate them [the keywords]". Frankly, I lack the information to check if some client is using keywords at all. More importantly, is it OK to assume that when SELECT INBOX returns no \* in OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ...] that the IMAP server does not allow keywords at all? [BTW: Is there a searchable mail archive of the Dovecot list?] Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] SquirrelMail IMAP protocol errors?
by Schettino, John Charles 08 May '05

08 May '05

I use Squirrelmail to filter messages, and it's doing this: raw log in: A009 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL Header X-Spam-Level {4} **** A010 LIST "" "spam" raw log out: * SEARCH A009 OK Search completed. * BAD Error in IMAP command : Unknown command. * LIST (\NoInferiors \Marked) "/" "spam" A010 OK List completed. it goes on like that in the log for every filter. What exactly is the BAD Error there, and is it something I can fix?

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[Dovecot] Setting location for indexes
by dovecot.7.signal11＠spamgourmet.com 08 May '05

08 May '05

We have NFS-mounted user directories which cause significant problems with stale file handles: dovecot: IMAP(uid): fstat() failed with file /home/uid/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Stale NFS file handle (a) why can't it just close the file and re-open ? (b) is there a way to specify with the 'default_mail_env' (or in some other way) the location of **only** the indexes (and let dovecot autodetect all else?). I have already tried 'mmap_disable = yes', but that does not solve the problem, and if I set 'default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/spool/mail/INDEX/%u', I get errors like: IMAP(uid): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/spool/mail/INDEX/uid I don't want to specify mbox:~/mail/ or mbox:~/Mail/, because some users have one and some the other.

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Re: [Dovecot] headers don't match message
by Brian Bartholomew 08 May '05

08 May '05

Kevin <angrycoggy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > once i had everything moved and dovecot running i checked my mail > via imap. all the messages appeared however when i try to read a > message the message body doesn't match the header info that's showed > in the message list. Gregory Bond <gnb(a)itga.com.au> wrote: > I see this a lot using Thunderbird & an old-ish dovecot (test-46 I > think). it is triggered by leaving thunderbird connected at work, > going home and accessing the same IMAP server from mutt at home. If > I use mutt in read-only mode it's fine, but if I delete any messages > in mutt, then the work Thunderbird gets very very confused. I'm using one of the stable 1.0 releases for 184 accounts on Gentoo Linux on Sparc. I too am seeing the message header/body mismatch in Thunderbird. Is the index file handling sufficiently robust against surprises that I can delete the dovecot index files every night out from under the logged-in imap sessions? Brian

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[Dovecot] Blank lines in mailboxes
by Jakob Curdes 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Hello, we use dovecot on a regular basis. Sometimes I end up with a user telling me he does not get mail. When I look after the problem, I always find leading blank lines in the mbox file. We are using postfix with dovecot and amavisd as spam scanner. Amavisd never accesses the mbox files directly so this can be ruled out. I suspected procmail but now it happened also with accounts where no procmail is active. I found only a list thread where this happened always, i.e. it was a configuration error. (Meaning the mailbox was correct but dovecot would not read it). Here ist is only occasionally and therefore hard to track . Does anybody have the same problem or has hints to a solution ? We are running postfix 2.1.4 and dc 0.99.10.6 ; just now I am upgrading to pf 2.2.2. and dc 0.99.14. Yours, Jakob Curdes

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[Dovecot] Fresh Dovecot Install
by GPL 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Working on an RH9 box. Did not use yum. Downloaded the "dovecot-stable-latest.tar.gz". Uncompressed it, downloaded and installed gcc. Ran the following: ./configure make sudo make install Seemed to have done its thing. I'll admit I am not well versed in using "make" or compiling anything. When I install I usually use yum on fedora machines. This one being an RH9 machine I have plugged yum into the fedora legacy project and it did not let me install dovecot via yum. So I opted for this route. Regardless, if I run 'which dovecot' I see "/usr/local/sbin/dovecot" However now I do not seem to be able to see it run. I get nothing when I: rpm -qa | grep dovecot ps aux | grep dovecot service dovecot status SO AM HAVE MISSED SOMETHING! Is there another script I need to run? Suggestions welcome. Thanks, George

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[Dovecot] error: received another "not listening" notification
by Andreas Goertz 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i got a problem with dovecot 0.99.14 - after a while of checking pop3 periodically, the dovecot-auth process gets killed. Some clients, e.g. outlook (express), then requests for reentering the password. When this happens, i see something like this in th elogs: Apr 28 14:53:45 marge dovecot: child 25819 (auth) killed with signal 4 Apr 28 14:55:09 marge dovecot: login: received another "not listening" notification (if you can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) Any idea, how to solve this? Thanks in advance, Andreas Goertz. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCcOjTpAOZWzj6viQRAtz+AKCjfTe3ib3tsBUeqZjTuLY/hcJ2mACgqePc /T4TGvBNzmY0snTpOMHuUdE= =t5Ev -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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