February 2006 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0b2 now in pkgsrc packaging system
by Todd Vierling 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

After months of testing in the "work in progress" pkgsrc-wip playground, dovecot-1.0b2 is now in the main pkgsrc mainline and will be tracked up through the 1.0 release and beyond. This means it's now much easier to get Dovecot 1.0 up and running on NetBSD and any other platform supported by pkgsrc (see www.pkgsrc.org) prior to this, 0.99.x was the newest available. Binary packages for NetBSD and some other systems should start appearing within a week or two of this message. As before, dovecot-nightly is still available in the pkgsrc-wip package tree, for those who like to live on the edge. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv(a)duh.org> <tv(a)pobox.com> <todd(a)vierling.name>

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RE: [Dovecot] alternate ports?
by Villalovos, John L 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org <> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:40:45PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > >> I'm trying to set up 1.0 beta 2 on one of our systems, and would >> like to run it on alternate ports from the standard IMAP and >> IMAP/SSL ports so that we can test it out a couple users at a time. >> How does one tell dovecot to listen on alternate ports? I can't >> find anything in the example config file... > > imap_listen = host:port > pop3_listen = host:port I don't think that works in the 1.0b beta 2 (Note: 1.0 beta 3 just came out): Try something like this: # Listen on localhost for IMAP. Listen on all interfaces for IMAP/SSL protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1 ssl_listen = * }

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[Dovecot] alternate ports?
by Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I'm trying to set up 1.0 beta 2 on one of our systems, and would like to run it on alternate ports from the standard IMAP and IMAP/SSL ports so that we can test it out a couple users at a time. How does one tell dovecot to listen on alternate ports? I can't find anything in the example config file... Thanks, Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade Sr. Systems Administrator Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3b 1216 Phone: (858) 822-2625 E-mail: gkra(a)ucsd.edu

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[Dovecot] Openwebmail with Dovecot
by ftnx＠ksbase.com 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

So far I've managed to get Dovecot to work fine for regular POP users and Squirrelmail. Even though it seems dead slow and obsolete, a few users would like to use Openwebmail. All users are virtual, and there are/will be no system accounts. Anyone have a working example for Dovecot/Openwebmail for virtual user setup? Kari Suomela KARICO Business Services Toronto, ON Canada http://www.karico.ca

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[Dovecot] epoll error when running as proxy
by Bill Boebel 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I am running dovecot 1.0 beta3 as a front-end proxy, and getting the following error when using epoll. The error goes away if I switch to poll. On the backend IMAP server I see that the login was successful. The error occurs when I try to retrieve an email or get a folder listing via IMAP after logging in successfully... Feb 9 15:35:57 director4 dovecot: imap-login: proxy(bboebel(a)webmail.us): started: user=<bboebel(a)webmail.us>, method=plain, rip=204.119.252.7, lip=192.168.1.68 Feb 9 15:09:50 director4 dovecot: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(op=3, fd=10, ret=-1, errno=2): No such file or directory Feb 9 14:58:23 director4 dovecot: child 9688 (login) returned error 89 I can't find anything in the mailing list archives about this error, so here are some details. I hope somebody can point me in the right direction to fix this. - I am running this on Red Hat ES4 (32-bit x86), compiling with the following options: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-ssldir=/usr/share/ssl \ --disable-ipv6 \ --with-file-offset-size=32 \ --with-mem-align=4 \ --with-ioloop=epoll \ --without-passwd \ --without-passwd-file \ --without-shadow \ --without-pam \ --without-checkpassword \ --without-bsdauth \ --without-gssapi \ --with-ldap \ --without-vpopmail \ --with-static-userdb \ --with-prefetch-userdb \ --without-pgsql \ --with-mysql \ --without-sqlite \ --without-ssl \ --with-storages=maildir - I have also complied with these options and got the same error: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-ioloop=epoll \ --with-mysql - I have also tried the latest CSV snapshot (dovecot-20060209.tar.gz) and 1.0 beta2, and I get the same error. - If I switch to poll instead of epoll, everything works fine. Any ideas? Bill

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[Dovecot] trouble compiling today's CVS in Solaris 9
by Glenn Leavell 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I've recently been able to compile the CVS code in Solaris 9, but I'm now getting a few errors. First, I receive this error during the autogen process: src/plugins/Makefile.am:5: required directory src/plugins/convert does not exist configure.in:1717: required file `src/plugins/convert/Makefile.in' not found I can workaround that by removing the reference to src/plugins/convert in configure.in. I then get this error: src/plugins/Makefile.am:5: required directory src/plugins/convert does not exist I can workaround that by removing the reference to the convert plugin from src/plugins/Makefile.am. After that, the autogen process completes and I get the previously discussed shell error when running make: if [ "" != "" ]; then \ for i in ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_${i}_db;" >>sql-drivers-register.c ; \ done \ fi /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `if [ "" != "" ]; then for i in ; do echo "extern struct sql_db driver_${i}_db;" >>sql-drivers-register.c ; done fi' I can workaround that by simply running make from /bin/sh. I then get this error: Making all in auth make[3]: Entering directory `/home/glenn/dovecot/src/auth' /bin/bash ../../libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall ... <snip> userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -L/usr/local/ssl/lib libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -lldap -ldl -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -lsendfile Undefined first referenced symbol in file sql_drivers_register_all main.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to dovecot-auth collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/glenn/dovecot/src/auth' I'm not sure why sql_drivers_register_all is getting referenced. I tried explicitly turning off all sql-related options on the configure command line, and that didn't help. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Glenn

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD dovecot port maintainer
by Alexander Shikoff 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hi, How often does mantainer update dovecot in FreeBSD ports tree? It would be a good thing to get 1.0beta3 in ports... -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot 1.0beta3 - make fails without sql
by Chris Wakelin 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

The problem seems to be in src/lib-sql/Makefile[.in] When there are no sql drivers to build, the shell-script for making sql-drivers-register.c fails. I've managed to get it to build by just having #include "lib.h" #include "sql-api.h" void sql_drivers_register_all(void) { } as sql-drivers-register.c Best Wishes, Chris P.S. I meant to send the message below to the whole list rather than just Timo. Sorry! Chris Wakelin wrote: > I'm getting build errors with 1.0-beta3. It looks like something to with > the dynamic SQL drivers; presumably needs equivalent of "-I../lib-sql" > somewhere! > > Configure line was "./configure --prefix=/opt/RDGdovect > --with-ssl=openssl", Solaris make, gcc 3.3.2 > > Best Wishes, > Chris > > Undefined first referenced > symbol in file > sql_drivers_register_all main.o > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to dovecot-auth > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `dovecot-auth' > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> + Added support for loading SQL drivers dynamically (see INSTALL file >> for how to build them) > > -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] configuring lda
by Lenny 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

after coping lda stanza into the config file, I get "unknown protocol name" error. adding lda to the list of protocols doesn't seem to do the trick. lda was built during compile and the binary is present, piping into it manually spits error messages about missing config, so how do I go about the problem above ? It is my undertanding that using dovecot-lda would help maintain the indexes in proper state ( as opposed to using procmail and having to rebuild indexes from scratch upon delivery of large amounts of mail ) ? mucho gracias to you all. protocol lda { # If you wish to use plugins you need to specify plugin directory # For example quota enforcing is implemented by plugin #module_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda # Address from LDA should send MDNs like out of quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)your.dom # If there is no user-specific Sieve-script, global Sieve script is # executed if set. #global_script_path = # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master }

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[Dovecot] Broken NSS Implementation
by Campbell McKilligan 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

We're getting this error when IMAP clients attempt to authenticate using their aliases rather than their actual username: Feb ... dovecot: auth(default): BROKEN NSS IMPLEMENTATION: getpwnam() lookup returned different user than was requested (campbellmckilligan != campbell.mckilligan). Feb ... dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<campbell.mckilligan>, method=plain, rip=82.148.120.110, lip=172.20.2.2, TLS Feb ... dovecot: child 27345 (auth) returned error 89 For historic reasons, there is no consistency with which username in individuals mail client. NSS correctly returns the name that dovecot should use for the purposes of accessing mailboxes etc. Dovecot-0.99.14 worked fine in this regard - but since upgrading to 1.0beta3 we have this problem. It's running on a Fedora Core 4 server. It compiled fine with selinux enabled. Is there a switch to control the response to this NSS behaviour? Any help appreciated. Campbell

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