January 2006 - dovecot

[Dovecot] INBOX as either mbox or Maildir
by Tom Alsberg 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

In Dovecot 0.99, I recall somewhere I read it was possible for INBOX to be both a Maildir and an mbox in the same configuration (either automatically detected, or depending on the existence in a different location). Perhaps I was wrong, I'm not sure. Any way, I now became interested in this sort of setup: Most users have their spool an mbox in /var/mail/<username>, and then they (or their MUA) have to move read mail from there to ~/mbox or something like that (a state in which users use the spool as a long-time storage space is unacceptable, and we have measures to avoid it). However, for those that will access their mail only via IMAP, it will be easier to set in .forward or something like that automatic delivery directly to their mailbox - some Maildir in their home directory (there can then be a link from /var/mail or /var/maildir or whatever to there), which will contain both read and new messages. In such a case one would want INBOX to be that main mailbox. Would it be possible to set Dovecot to either automatically detect whether /var/mail/<username> is a Maildir or mbox (which relates to my interest in mixing maildirs and mboxes in one namespace which I have written about several months ago) or to configure several options for INBOX with the first one found used? Cheers, -- Tom -- 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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Re: [Dovecot] Login user doesn't exist: dovecot
by Anne Wilson 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 22:37, Willem Riede wrote: > On 01/19/2006 05:11:30 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I think that maybe I should uninstall it and start again. > > Now that you're running Fedora you should use a RPM to install > dovecot. I can help you with that by getting you my working beta1 > src.rpm to rebuild, if you like. > Hi, William. Thanks for the offer. I'm a bit puzzled at the moment as to where I've actually got to. This is what's happened: I had original made an rpm with checkinstall, so I removed the dovecot user, so that a new install would set it up with the expected UID and GID, and removed the rpm. My 'bright' idea was that I would install the official Fedora 0.99.14, then install 1.0bet1 over it. I had been assured earlier that it would install over the executables, so it seemed reasonable. I got 0.99.14 on, but could not find the dovecot.conf.example or dovecot.conf to check paths, which worried me a bit, so I thought that if I attempted a login it would give me errors that would define a path. For the first time ever, it logged in! What's more, I can see my imap directories on another box. The only dovecot.conf that I know about is the copy that was in /home/anne. What do you think is happening? If all is working I will leave well alone. This is to be a temporary mail server while I do an upgrade. I don't want to do any more work on it than I need to, because I will be doing it over again, for a permanent install, on the upgraded box in a week or so. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

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[Dovecot] beta1: assert due to hard fs quota
by Jeff A. Earickson 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi, In the "for what it is worth" category... The following assert popped up in beta1 on Solaris 9 this morning: imap(user): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 155 (view_sync_get_expunges): assertion failed: (ret == 0) The user had hit a hard disk quota on their home directory, ie where the indexes go. Dovecot cored with a zero-byte core file in the user's home directory, naturally. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Login user doesn't exist: dovecot
by Anne Wilson 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

After completely trashing my system a few days ago, I now have FC4 running, and have compiled dovecot-1.-beta1. Everything is placed in a different place from the debian install, so it's possible that I have a path problem. Attempting to start dovecot in a root console brings up the line Login user doesn't exist: dovecot Advice, please? Anne

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[Dovecot] Major CPU spike for SSL parameters?
by Todd Vierling 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

I went from a nightly of about 20051117 or so (about alpha4 generation) to 1.0beta1 yesterday, and dovecot is now spinning the CPU furiously apparently every ~10 minutes per: Jan 18 13:04:36 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 13:14:14 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 13:24:00 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 13:37:09 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 13:44:21 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 13:54:37 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 14:04:03 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 14:14:58 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 14:24:03 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 14:34:18 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 14:44:11 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 14:53:44 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 15:04:16 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 15:13:59 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 15:25:22 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 15:33:58 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 15:44:03 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 18 15:54:13 server dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Note that this is not the DH parameter generation; that completed on the first run, as documented. This is impacting other processes on the machine, and it seems a bit of a radical change. Is the internal default meant to be this short...? I'm going to attempt to set "ssl_parameters_regenerate" explicitly, but I'd like to stick with builtin defaults wherever possible. (Perhaps this regeneration could also be made a little friendlier on the machine, by forking and using setpriority() to lower the CPU demand of this work from the default nice level of the main daemon.) -- -- Todd Vierling <tv(a)duh.org> <tv(a)pobox.com> <todd(a)vierling.name>

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[Dovecot] beta1: how to use quota plugin???
by Jeff A. Earickson 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi, After searching gmane.mail.imap.dovecot on the topic, and wiki.dovecot.org, I'm still clueless on how to use RFC 2087 quotas in dovecot with the quota plugin. How come no wiki doc? My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format. Both the filesystem for INBOXes (/var/mail) and the user's home directories have filesystem-based quotas imposed. For example: % quota -v joeblow Disk quotas for joeblow (uid 20737): Filesystem usage quota limit /export/home 955 298000 302400 (where indices and mail folders go) /var/mail 530 151200 204800 (where joeblow's INBOX lives) If joeblow connects via dovecot IMAP, I want our webmail code (horde/imp) to tell him his disk quotas to keep him out of trouble. Horde/Imp (2.2.5) has quota code that says it works with Courier imap. Dovecot is supposed to be Courier compatible. How do I get the quota info out of Dovecot and down to Horde/IMP? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Migrating from UW IMAP - pine - Thunderbird - squirrelmail
by Gerhard Wiesinger 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hello! In this email you can find a configuration primer for a Migration from UW IMAP with pine, Thunderbird and squirrelmail as client. For compatibility the mbox format is used. A description for pine with imap acces without entering any password is also discussed. Please use dovecot 1.0beta1 or later for correct handling with pine. Short overview of Mail folders: =============================== | Used | elm | pine | Thunderbird | squirrelmail | UW imapd | dovecot | Base directoy | ~/Mail | ~/Mail | ~/mail | as configured | mail | | | Sent Folder | ~/Mail/sent | ~/Mail/sent | ~/mail/sent-mail | Sent | Sent | | | Trash Folder | ~/Mail/Trash | | - | Trash | Trash | | | Drafts Folder | ~/Mail/Drafts | | saved-messages | Drafts | Drafts | | | Templates | ~/Mail/Templates | | | Templates | | | | Unsent Folder | wie Thunderbird | | | Local Folders/Unsent Messages | | | | Postponed | | | postponed-msgs | | | | | Canceled Mail | | ~/Canceled.mail | ~/dead.letter | | | | | Personal namespace | | | | | | | | Public namespace | | | | | | #news | | Other Users | | | | | | | | pine setup: =========== SETUP(S)/collectionLists(L)/Mail Just add the following to Server: localhost/notls Before: Nickname : Mail Server : Path : Mail/ View : After: Nickname : Mail Server : localhost/notls Path : Mail/ View : In ~/.pinerc modify the following configuration parameters: mail-check-interval=15 rsh-open-timeout=30000 rsh-path= rsh-command=/usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap # For large Mailboxes tcp-read-warning-timeout=180 For details have a look at: http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/ssh/ch11_03.htm http://www.cs.unc.edu/cgi-bin/howto?howto=pine-imap http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/ http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/docs/pine/pine-imap.html Migration from UW Imapd to dovecot: =================================== Disable UW Imapd in xinetd http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration Migrate Mailboxes: http://wiki.dovecot.org/uw2dovecot.sh or cd $USER cp .mailboxlist .subscriptions dovecot configuration: Config (/etc/dovecot.conf): UW Imapd compatible protocols = imaps default_mail_env = mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl mbox_lazy_writes=no Self signed Certificate for SSL: cd /etc/pki/dovecot/private openssl genrsa -out dovecot.pem 2048 openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 3650 -key dovecot.pem >../dovecot.pem Enter the data for the certificate http://sial.org/howto/openssl/self-signed/ dovecot debugging: ================== Config (/etc/dovecot.conf): #GW: mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap Directory ~/dovecot.rawlog must exist and the input/output will be logged there For ethereal debugging use the following dovecot configuration: Sniffing: #GW: protocols = imap imaps #GW: disable_plaintext_auth = no maildir/mbox documentation: =========================== http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=fw&db=man&fname… http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/maildir-migration.txt squirrelmail: ============= $use_imap_tls = true; $imapPort = 993; $imap_server_type ='dovecot'; $optional_delimiter = 'detect'; $force_username_lowercase = true; $default_folder_prefix = '~/Mail/'; $sent_folder = 'sent'; $show_prefix_option = false; $show_contain_subfolders_option = false; Thunderbird Plugins =================== With imap Folder the Xpunge plugin is very usefull to have consitent mailboxes. Xpunge https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&… http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tegos/mozilla/tb/ Hope is helps. Feedback is welcome. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] no inbox error?
by John Woodell 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

When a new user has no inbox (has not received a message), the box client shows an error dialog. Is there any way to surpress this... besides touching an empty inbox for all valid accounts?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + mysql on CentOs 4.2 64-bit...
by Anders Kongsted 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi, I'm in trouble. Is there any how-to'es to set up a server as described in the subject? Regards Anders

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[Dovecot] Donating
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I've never really liked all these donation buttons in web pages, or receiving donations at all, but as some extra money could make my life easier in the next few months, I thought I'd give it a try. http://dovecot.org/donate.html (And if you're wondering how I could still promise those 1000 euros for a security hole, I've a credit card but I'd rather not use it :) Also I'm not really expecting for anyone to find holes at least anytime soon.)

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