March 2006 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Solution to Dovecot-lda configure problem on RHEL4/FC4
by Tomi Hakala 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hello, After a long break from Dovecot I finally managed to compile Dovecot-lda on RHEL 4 x86_64 platfrom. For some reason $LIBICONV translates to a @LIBICONV@ on config.status which generates loop for sed. Solution is to manually edit "configure" after autogen.sh. In configure change line s,@LIBICONV@,$LIBICONV,;t t to s,@LIBICONV@,,;t t After this configure finishes succesfully. Tomi

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[Dovecot] How to change login_greeting ?
by Jefferson Briones 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi guys, How can i change the login greeting for dovecot whenever someone telnets to it. I tried putting login_greeting = Test Banner at the end of my dovecot.conf.:When i try restart the service it fails. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] integrate dovecot LDA into dovecot
by Timo Sirainen 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

(ops, messed up the first send, again) > what do you think about replacing the deliver source in dovecot with > deliver from dovecot LDA? It would make it much easier to compile and > deploy dovecot LDA. It would, but I don't want that, at least not currently. My plan is to merge them in some way at some point, but the Sieve code will always be kept out of the main Dovecot tarball as some kind of plugin. The Sieve code is something I don't really want to touch myself, and I don't want it to be included in Dovecot's "1000 EUR for security hole" competition (or whatever it should be called). Since the patch was a bit too large, I didn't accept your original mail to the list.

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[Dovecot] new mails don't always show
by Bjoern Rost 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi, I am having some trouble with dovecot (0.99.14) and maildir. Some users are reporting that sometimes, they don't get (pop3, various clients) new mails for a while even though they should. I checked and confirmed this: mails were delivered by MTA (sendmail, procmail). But when the problem existed, the new mails were in cur/, not new/ and dovecot would not report any new messaged to the client. A 'solution' was to send another mail to the same account, and ususally this would end up in new/ On the next fetch, this new message and the new ones from cur/ are downloaded. I also had the same problem with imap and evolution today. My inbox showed as empty but there were many messages in cur/ I could access all other folders without a problem during this period. Again, a simple mail to myself 'solved' this. This behaviour does not happen all the time and I don't know how to trigger/reproduce it. Just the relevant (imho) parts of dovecot.conf: login_process_size = 256 login_processes_count = 64 login_max_logging_users = 1024 default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir client_workarounds = outlook-idle oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-pop3-no-nuls everything else is set to default values Any ideas/help? Thanks Bjoern -- Bjoern Rost portrix.net GmbH Stresemannstr. 375 22761 Hamburg Germany fon +49-40-39 80 53 - 19 fax +49-40-39 80 53 - 29 http://www.portrix.net

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[Dovecot] Too many links
by Feraudet Cyril 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi all, I've a problem during a big migration to dovecot. I'm not sure that is a really a dovecot bug ... but maybe somebody here know one solution ... I have more than 150000 imap account to migrate from an obscure mail system based on a database to an imap/dovecot system. During the migration (simple but very long process) I get a "Too many links" error from dovecot. This error is not obscure but I'm unable to find a solution with this error on google. I kown the /proc/sys/fs/file-max for increase the number of open file, but it's not the problem here. This probleme occure with more than 130000 directory and more than 350000 file. Have you an idea ? Thank, Cyril Feraudet

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Fwd: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] Timeout when downloading messages
by spart cus 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

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[Dovecot] Timeout when downloading messages
by spart cus 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi to All Gurus, Im having some problem with my mail server. Sending works perfectly but the problem is when my clients are receiving theyre mails. For example theyre downloading 20 mails, somehow when it reaches to 12 it disconnectes. Or the outlook client pops up some messages saying connection timeout? Im using dovecot and postfix for my mails server. tia --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

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[Dovecot] Problems with Fedora core 5, Dovecot and Thunderbird
by Robert Hart 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi I am testing FC5 before upgrading my main server and I am getting errors with dovecot 1.0 beta3 - both the distributed RPM and also the one at ATrpms thunderbird (the distributed version which is thunderbird-1.5-6) I am running both dovecot and thunderbird on the same machine, pointing thunderbird at 127.0.0.1 for its imap server. The symptoms are an inability to access mail - thunderbird just keeps on trying and getting nowhere and even if I shut down thunderbird on the client, it still leaves processes running that have to be killed by hand. In the maillog I get Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<hartr>, method=plain, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/hartr (8 > 1, seq=2, idx_msgs=4) Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 55 (mbox_sync_move_buffer): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.offset + ctx->mail.space <= ctx->hdr_offset + pos || ctx->mail.offset > ctx->hdr_offset + pos + have) Mar 29 09:17:26 bree dovecot: child 14242 (imap) killed with signal 6 When I point this thunderbird at my main (dovecot 0.99) server everything is fine, we seems to suggest that this is a dovecot problem and not a thunderbird one. Can anyone give me any pointers on this please as it's a show stopper for upgrading my main server. Tks -- Robert Hart hartr(a)interweft.com.au +61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au

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[Dovecot] login problem
by jasper 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

X-Tech Space-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Tech Space-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Tech Space-MailScanner-From: redhat(a)techspace.nl I use pam to login my users are stored as j.hendriks now i like to use 2 domains but with the same user and passw and the option that de mail is stored in a difrent directory but i cant get rit of the @domain extention by Autentification made these canges. auth_process_size = 256 auth_cache_size = 5000 auth_cache_ttl = 3600 passdb pam { args = session=yes args = service name="*" args = cache_key=%n args = dovecot } but keeps Autentificating me as j.hendriks@domain insted of j.hendriks what am i doing wrong. help please. -- Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn.

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Re: [Dovecot] user name translation
by jasper 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I'v read about this for virtual users bus were do i put this for pam authentication but i'm using the /etc/schadow file by pam so were do i implement te %n . in the dovecot.conf or the pam.d/dovecot or is there a new line in the updated verson of dovecot. thanks. On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:15:04 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote > jasper wrote: > > > > i have the next question i like to authenticate users only by user ant > > not by user@domain <mailto:user@domain> > > > > i'm using pam for authentication the users are stored bij first lette > > for name then back name > > > > J.Hendriks so no domain included. > > > > bu i want them to login as J.Hendriks@domain > > <mailto:J.Hendriks@domain> so i kan use the same user for more domains > > > > in diverent mail folders b.v. mail_folder= home/%d/%u > > > > but now pam is authenticating as user name J.Hendriks@domain > > <mailto:J.Hendriks@domain> and not J.Hendriks. > > > > is there a way to cut of @domain from name. > > > > > > > use %n for the username part of username(a)domain.com > Daniel > > -- > Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke > inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn. - Als echtparen echt paren hebben echtgenoten echt genoten -- Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn.

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