September 2005 - dovecot

[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: another imap core, no assert
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Timo, Output of gdb session on the core file attached. This one only produced the following syslog: IMAP(user): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /var/mail/r/user with no assert. Setup: Solaris 9, gcc 4.0.1 for dovecot build. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: corrupted cache file complaints?
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi, I have seen the following in my syslogs for 1.0alpha1: Corrupted index cache file [filename]: record points outside file and : indexid changed : record list is circular : Cache record offset 9772 points outside file : invalid record size Are these errors minor? Major? Self-healing? Should the cache files be blown away to fix these errors? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] LF not found and other errors
by Sergio Storari 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi I have installed dovecot 0.99.14-r1 + postfix 2.1.5-r2 in a gentoo OS Looking into the mail.err log I see the following errors: Sep 6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Error indexing mbox file /var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected Sep 6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Error indexing mbox file /var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected Sep 6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [20 05-09-06 12:26:23] Sep 6 12:55:44 mail imap(u0185): Error indexing mbox file /var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected Sep 6 12:55:44 mail last message repeated 7 times Sep 6 12:58:42 mail imap(u0266): Corrupted index data file /home/u0266/.imap/Inviati/.imap.index.data: Data position of rec ord 281 points outside file (62664 + 32 > 58096) Sep 6 12:58:42 mail imap(u0266): Corrupted index data file /home/u0266/.imap/Inviati/.imap.index.data: Missing location fie ld for record 281 Sep 6 13:24:19 mail last message repeated 14 times Sep 6 13:24:20 mail last message repeated 3 times Sep 6 13:47:10 mail imap(u0043): Error indexing mbox file /home/u0043/INBOX.Trash: LF not found where expected These errors seem to be related both to imap and pop3 but I don't know how to solve the probelm. I searched for these errors on the web and maillists and about the "LF not found", it seems a problem related to dovecot versions older than v0.99.10.5, but my version is 0.99.14-r1. Any ideas? Regards Sergio -------------------------------------------------------------- Sergio Storari Engineering department in Ferrara (ENDIF) via Saragat, 1 44100 Ferrara FE TEL: +390532974951 FAX: +390532974870 -------------------------------------------------------------- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/91 - Release Date: 06/09/2005

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[Dovecot] Minor patch for vpopmail support
by John Peacock 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

It doesn't seem like this code path has been tested recently, since it fails to compile without the following patch (works fine with it): --- src/auth/userdb-vpopmail.c 7 Aug 2005 11:41:19 -0000 1.17 +++ src/auth/userdb-vpopmail.c 11 Sep 2005 11:57:42 -0000 @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ } } - reply = auth_stream_reply_init(); + reply = auth_stream_reply_init(auth_request); auth_stream_reply_add(reply, NULL, vpw->pw_name); auth_stream_reply_add(reply, "uid", dec2str(uid)); auth_stream_reply_add(reply, "gid", dec2str(gid)); Thanks John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747

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[Dovecot] subscriptions or .subscriptions?
by Andy Cravens 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I may have found a problem with the documentation concerning the subscriptions file. On the Dovecot web site there is a document that outlines the conversion from UW IMAP to Dovecot. The document says Dovecot's folder list is stored in ".subscriptions" However, I have found that Dovecot's folder list is really "subscriptions" without the preceding dot. Did Dovecot version 1.0.alpha1 remove the dot from the subscriptions filename? .subscriptions does not seem to work at all. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Migration#head-5dde807bf059dea93fc2303e202…

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[Dovecot] buglet in dovecot.conf, 1.0alpha1
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Timo, The dovecot.conf file comments talk about login_process_per_user but this variable does not appear in the file. Do you mean login_process_per_connection instead? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: too many open files
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Help... Dovecot 1.0alpha1 hung up today with nothing working and the following spewing to my syslog: pipe() failed: Too many open files My setup: Solaris 9, just using imap, mbox format. The various "max" settings in dovecot.conf use the defaults. Suggestions on what to change in fovecot.conf to keep this from happening? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Problem in dovecot 0.99 - login username case sensitive create fake maildirs
by Max CtRiX 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello, I have noticed a weird behaviour in dovecot 0.99 which, I hope, is not replicated in 1.0-alpha. First I have to say that it works very well. So if I login with user foo(a)bar.com, the maildir is created. But when I log in with User FOO(a)BAR.COM, or FOO(a)BAR.com, then two other maildirs are created. Authentication is ok (I'm using mysql backend) but no mails are obviously found. Maybe a solutions would be adding some config item to turn lowercase the maildir path or authentication tokens (received from client) at login time. Or maybe I am missing something. Is there a solution for this problem out there ? Thanks, Massimo

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[Dovecot] POP3 problem about multi users from one IP address concurrent
by Yi Xuan 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi,all I have a POP3 problem about multi users from one IP address concurrent. [Issue description] The network architecture is as following. I have setup a mail server(sendmail/dovecot) in PlaceA with IP_A. And about 6 users are receving mail from the same IP_B( NATed public IP) in PlaceB. Their mails are many( about 1Mb/hour each) and ususally set fetch time as 10min/fetch. Then they complain that their mails often cannot be downloaded. [Reason investigation] I noticed that 1.when one of them fail to fetch mail. All TCP IP connection between IP_A and IP_B will be RST.which means that http/ssh/pop/smtp all not work for a while. And after about 10 minute, the http/ssh can work well. 2.I have asked them to backup and delete pop accounts and use webmail through imap provided by dovecot.And that seems work well but inefficient. I think this maybe because of multi users from one IP address concurrent, [Question] Would you pls provide some suggestion or solution about this issue? Is this a bug of dovecot or just a mis-configuration I don`t know? Thanks in advance for any advice. Best regards, Yi Xuan

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[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master Error
by Phil Bettinson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello all! I guess it's a standard reason for joining a mailing list, but I have a problem. For some reason, whenever I try to start dovecot, be it from the xinet.d or from the commandline, I get this rather bizzare error. I can't even work out what it means, so I can't even begin to debug it. There is nothing extra in /var/log/messages, so I'm out of ideas. I've tried it with the default config, as well as with a config that I adjusted to fit the environment. I'm currently out of ideas. I did notice that there is a brief thread on this in the mailing-list archive, but it doesn't seem to point to a solution. Hopefully someone can help. I'm running it with the command /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login I am using the 1.0.alpha1 version, running on RedHat AS 3. thanks in advance. Phil System Administrator, National Library of Wales.

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