February 2006 - dovecot

RE: [Dovecot] How to have a "public" readonly folder?
by Villalovos, John L 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org <> wrote: > I have my email users who are using dovecot-1.0.beta2. I just upgraded to dovecot-1.0.beta3. No change. > I also have setup a dummy account to get the Linux Kernel Mailing > List (LKML) traffic. > > I would like to have it so that my IMAP users (maybe POP3 but > don't need > that) be able to read the LKML mailing list from that email account. > > I can put the email into an mbox or a maildir for the LKML mail. > > I have played around with the namespace and public option and I can't > get it to work :( > > I tried this: > > namespace public { > separator = / > prefix = Public/ > location = maildir:/home/virtemail/lkml/ > } > > In my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5), I am unable to view the > Public folder. If I select subscribe, I can see the Public folder > but it is grayed out. If I do a symbolic link it works, in the sense that I can know subscribe to the folder. I created the file 'dovecot-shared' in the shared folder (I also updated the Wiki to make the procedure a little bit clearer). I couldn't seem to figure out a good way to make it read only though. So I still can't seem to get the namespace method working. I also tried pointing the location at an mbox and that did not work. In the client I can see the Public folder listed but it is grayed out and won't let me subscribe. Any thoughts? Thanks, John

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Re: [Dovecot] Mail.app message numbering for deleted messages
by Jesse Chan-Norris 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Jesse Chan-Norris wrote: > On Jan 22, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 18:29 -0500, jcn-dovecot(a)pith.org > wrote: > I'm having a strange problem that appeared when I > upgraded from� > > .99something to 1.0alpha3 and then disappeared for a while and then� > > re-appeared when I upgraded to 1.0alpha5. > > > I am using mbox and IMAP in Apple's Mail.app to read my mail. When I� > > delete a message in Mail.app, the message gets marked as deleted in the� > > spool and it disappears from the mail listing in Mail. However, the� > > message number does not change until I either manually flush the > > deleted� messages through mail, or I go offline which deletes the > > messages from the� spool. > > > I have mbox_lazy_writes set to 'no' but this didn't seem to have any� > > effect on the behavior. I never saw this type of behavior with UW-IMAP� > > either, which is what I migrated from. > > > What do you mean by "message number doesn't change"? > > To me this sounds like it all works as it should. Deleted messages are > really deleted only until expunge command is given, which is done when > you manually select "purge expunged messages" command or whatever it was > called in Mail. > > Maybe before with UW-IMAP you just had some "automatically expunge > messages" option set? I don't think that UW-IMAP was expunging messages because I could open up the mbox with pine and see all of the messages flagged as "Deleted" but not yet expunged. And when I try a similar test with Fastmail.fm (delete the message in Mail, then check using the web interface) the mail is marked as deleted in the web interface and does not show up in Mail.app but the messages are re-numbered appropriately. Granted, I have no idea how Mail.app does its numbering (especially since Thunderbird doesn't have message numbering), but is it possible that there's more information that the IMAP server should be sending back that Dovecot isn't? I've attached a screenshot from my Mail.app that shows the numbering issue. The gaps in the message sequence are where a deleted (but not expunged) message was. jcn

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[Dovecot] Mac mail copy/delete problems w/1.0b2
by Tony Kay 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hi, Mac mail (a horribly mis-behaved client, it seems), has a horribly hard time deleting/copying large blocks of messages from one folder to another. The basic symptom is: 1. Select a bunch of messages 2. Click on delete 3. Wait for a _very_ long time. It also seems very slow on copying, so it may be the "trash folder copy on delete" that is really slowing it down. Anybody else seen this? -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Dr. Linus Pauling

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[Dovecot] Dovecot does not access /var/mail when using Maildir
by mirko＠mirkonet.nl 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hello, I'm running debain on my machine with postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot installed. Everything works fine and I'm able to access my mail via squirrelmail and via Outlook with imap. However I want to create subfolders what is not possible. After reading I discovered that I use mbox and that maildir is needed in order to be able to use subfolders. I have created a Maildir folder with the maildirmake.dovecot command in my /home/mirko directory and corrected the owner. Now dovecot uses the Maildir and I can create subfolers. However my problem is that I don't receive Emails in my Inbox. Incoming mails are delivered to /var/mail/mirko, but when dovecot uses Maildir it doesn't access this. I have played with the default_mail_env settings in dovecot.conf which does influence the use of mbox or Maildir. However the problem remains: As soon as Maildir is used, the Inbox is empty and I don't receive Email. Is there a way when Maildir is used to point dovecot to /var/mail/ for the incoming Email? Or do I something else wrong? Your help is appreciated. Greetings, Mirko

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[Dovecot] Out of memory problem
by Neil Wilson 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hi guys, Running SuSe 9.3 with dovecot 1.0.alpha3 source installation. One of the users has quite a lot of important email in a folder, but when he trys to view this folder, it either sits and waits, and then times out, or just logs out straight away. Looking in the log(/var/log/mail), I'm getting the following error. Feb 6 09:22:08 mail postfix/qmgr[27221]: 198B96D1CE: removed Feb 6 09:22:08 mail dovecot: imap(ralphs): pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory Feb 6 09:22:08 mail dovecot: child 23018 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory) I've searched around on google for this error and haven't found anything useful as of yet. My next step is to upgrade to the latest version of dovecot, but this is quite a large company, and I will need to wait until after hours to do the upgrade. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Neil Wilson DcData Powered by Linux, driven by passion! -- This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://www.dcdata.co.za/emaildisclaimer.html

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[Dovecot] Latest snapshot: ./configure does not finish normally
by Alexander Shikoff 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hi, OS: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p2 latest dovecot snapshot does not configurable. ./configure script fails: # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot --with-passwd --with-passwd-file --without-shadow --with-pam --without-bsdauth --without-ldap --without-vpopmail --with-static-userdb --without-pgsql --with-mysql --with-pop3d --disable-ipv6 --with-storages [... skip ...] config.status: creating src/pop3/Makefile config.status: creating src/pop3-login/Makefile config.status: creating src/util/Makefile config.status: creating src/plugins/Makefile config.status: error: cannot find input file: src/plugins/convert/Makefile.in Snapshot dated 20060201 is configurable, but `make' fails: # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot --with-passwd --with-passwd-file --without-shadow --with-pam --without-bsdauth --without-ldap --without-vpopmail --with-static-userdb --without-pgsql --with-mysql --with-pop3d --disable-ipv6 --with-storages [... skip ...] # make gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o imap cmd-append.o cmd-authenticate.o cmd-capability.o cmd-check.o cmd-close.o cmd-copy.o cmd-create.o cmd-delete.o cmd-examine.o cmd-expunge.o cmd-fetch.o cmd-idle.o cmd-list.o cmd-login.o cmd-logout.o cmd-lsub.o cmd-namespace.o cmd-noop.o cmd-rename.o cmd-search.o cmd-select.o cmd-sort.o cmd-status.o cmd-store.o cmd-subscribe.o cmd-thread.o cmd-uid.o cmd-unselect.o cmd-unsubscribe.o client.o commands.o commands-util.o imap-expunge.o imap-fetch.o imap-fetch-body.o imap-messageset.o imap-search.o imap-sort.o imap-sync.o imap-thread.o mail-storage-callbacks.o main.o namespace.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a ../lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a ../lib-index/libindex.a ../lib-storage/libstorage.a ../lib-storage/subscription-file/libstorage_subscription_file.a ../lib-imap/libimap.a ../lib-mail/libmail.a ../lib-dict/libdict.a ../lib-charset/libcharset.a ../lib/liblib.a ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a(mail-storage-register.o)(.text+0x7): In function `mail_storage_register_all': /usr/home/minotaur/Soft/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib-storage/register/mail-storage-register.c:6: undefined reference to `yes_storage' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/home/minotaur/Soft/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/imap. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/home/minotaur/Soft/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/home/minotaur/Soft/dovecot-1.0.beta2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/home/minotaur/Soft/dovecot-1.0.beta2. -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua Mob.: +380 67 946 31 49

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[Dovecot] beta3
by Pavel Volkovitskiy 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Does any schedule exist for beta3? I'm now running stable snapshot from cvs, but i don't think it's a good thing, beta2 has memory leak in mysql code So what should i do? apply patch to beta2 or beta3 will be really soon? -- Pavel

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[Dovecot] How to have a "public" readonly folder?
by Villalovos, John L 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

I searched the website and the mailing list and had difficulty finding an answer. I have my email users who are using dovecot-1.0.beta2. I also have setup a dummy account to get the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) traffic. I would like to have it so that my IMAP users (maybe POP3 but don't need that) be able to read the LKML mailing list from that email account. I can put the email into an mbox or a maildir for the LKML mail. I have played around with the namespace and public option and I can't get it to work :( I tried this: namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/home/virtemail/lkml/ } In my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5), I am unable to view the Public folder. If I select subscribe, I can see the Public folder but it is grayed out. Any ideas? Thanks, John

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[Dovecot] Compilation problems (1.0-beta2)
by Jeff Dubin 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Hi Folks, I'm running a minimal, textmode only install of FC4, and I'm trying to compile and install Dovecot 1.0-beta2. I keep getting the following error which I'm hoping someone here can help me troubleshoot. (...) /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -o dovecot auth-process.o askpass.o dict-process.o log.o login-process.o mail-process.o main.o master-settings.o syslog-util.o ssl-init.o ssl-init-gnutls.o ssl-init-openssl.o ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib/liblib.a mkdir .libs gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot auth-process.o askpass.o dict-process.o log.o login-process.o mail-process.o main.o master-settings.o syslog-util.o ssl-init.o ssl-init-gnutls.o ssl-init-openssl.o -L/usr/local/ssl/lib ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib/liblib.a main.o(.text+0x127a): In function `main': /home/jdubin/apps/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/master/main.c:778: undefined reference to `ssl_check_parameters_file' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot] Error 1 (...) So, I thought it's ssl related. I've compiled openssl (0.9.8a) from source as well (installed in default /usr/local/ssl), and set LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib and CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include, but no help. Here's what I'm doing: ./configure --without-pop3d --without-vpopmail --without-ipv6 --with-ssl=openssl make I've even tried to compile without ssl, but I still get that same error. What am I missing here? Perhaps I'm just making a typo somewhere, but I'm totally stumped. Thanks! Jeff

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[Dovecot] Re: MySQL client out of memory error
by Roger Weeks 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Alexander - We had this exact same issue with MySQL authentication. We resolved it by changing this entry in the auth section of the dovecot.conf: # Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1 We set count=20, and then through testing lowered it to count=10. This starts 10 auth-worker processes and to this point we have not had problems with the out of memory condition. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network Now offering DSL across California On Feb 7, 2006, at 2:00 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:33:23 +0200 > From: Alexander Shikoff <minotaur(a)crete.org.ua> > Subject: [Dovecot] MySQL client out of memory error > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <20060207093323.GA31385(a)crete.org.ua> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-u > > Hi, > > I'm using Dovecot 1.0-alpha5 as POP3 server with MySQL DB of users. > Sometimes clients get an authentication errors. In this time dovecot > writes to log file next lines: > Feb 7 11:14:30 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql > (user(a)mydomain.com.ua,192.168.3.36) Password query failed: MySQL > client run out of memory > Feb 7 11:14:30 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql > (user(a)mydomain.com.ua,192.168.3.36) Password query failed: MySQL > client run out of memory > Feb 7 11:14:33 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql > (user(a)mydomain.com.ua,192.168.3.36) Password query failed: MySQL > client run out of memory > Feb 7 11:14:33 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql > (user(a)mydomain.com.ua,192.168.3.36) Password query failed: MySQL > client run out of memory > > Can anybody say is there a bug in dovecot or this this issue is > mysql-specific problem? > > Thanks in advance, Alexander > > -- > Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff > minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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