April 2006 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Connection closed by foreign host.
by Stephen Allen 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

I'm writing this on behalf of someone else... They successfully setup Dovecot, and can login to Dovecot using telnet but as soon as they are logged in, they get the message "Connection closed by foreign host" and are disconnected. The user is a valid Linux user and the mail file exists under /var/mail. They say no errors are written to /var/log/maillog. # telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. USER mymailuser +OK PASS 123456 +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. # Can anyone give me ideas where we would begin troubleshooting this? Many thanks, Steve :)

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DSPAM Plugin Deployment (Was Re: [Dovecot] Unoffical Survey - What MTA/Spam filtering do you use?)
by Timothy White 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

On 4/19/06, Johannes Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 22:56 +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > > libdspam instead of system("dspam...") > > That's a lot of work, how about calling to the dspam server instead? I'm about to start building a system for ~10,000 users, using dovecot, and was going to use dspam with it... Is this plugin ready for that kind of use? I'll have a global sieve running, cause users won't be able to have their own sieves. Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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Re: [Dovecot] Sieve Filtering?
by Bob Gustafson 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Sorry, sent my message (below) to the wrong guy. Dovecot-lda does a pretty good job of implementing the code to support sieve filters. My note was a testimonial to that fact. Just follow the Dovecot wiki instructions. Bob G On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:17 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Hi Bob, > > > * Bob Gustafson <bobgus(a)rcn.com>, Sunday, April 16, 2006, 6:12:55 AM: > > > I am using 1.0beta7 with dovecot.lda from CVS (see build and configure > > instructions in the dovecot wiki ) > > > My system is Fedora 5 running on a Raid 1 two disk pair. Boot, swap, and > > root are all raided as separate partitions and root is an LVM volume. > > > The only configuration problem was that dovecot as installed on Fedora 5 > > is in /usr/ and the compiled dovecot and dovecot-lda install in > > /usr/local/. I wanted to use the run-tme config files in /etc/ and some > > tweeks were necessary to the startup scripts. > > > I use Postfix on the mail machine and the remote clients are > > Netscape/mail, Evolution, and MacOSX mail. > > > Has been running fine for a few days. > > > Bob G > > What does this have to do with sieve Filtering??? > > Timo > > PS.: Please have a look at http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html

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[Dovecot] LDA Plugin Maybe?
by Timothy White 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

I was just looking into setting up DSPAM, with the Dovecot LDA. Essentially, what I was probably going to do, was use DSPAM as the Delivery agent, after postfix, and then have it pass it off to dovecot, or something along those lines. I just had an idea, if we start using libdspam, in the dspam plugin, or one of the other suggested methods, we could have a similar plugin in the LDA, so that if it's marked as spam, deliver it straight into the Spam folder! Also, with Sieve, can we make it create a folder if the folder doesn't exist, and can it modify the subscriptions file? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Debian stable backport for 1.0beta7
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Just to let you know .debs are available at http://www.backports.org/ -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] POP3 login error, permissions problem?
by Marc-André Appel 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Hello everybody! I was searching around for an solution of my problem what surely is just a little thing, but nothing helped me out. Here the error in the mail.log: pop3(contact(a)maddy.cc): Failed to create storage with data: /var/vmail/maddy.cc/contact/ pop3-login: Login: contact(a)maddy.cc [84.4.228.150] dovecot: child 30083 (pop3) returned error 89 Who has to be the owner/group for /var/vmail/maddy.cc and /contact ? Because i have the user 'virtual' who manages the maildirs and the accounts (via PostgreSQL) and the user dovecot, but i tried already different scenarios with both and still no success. Do you still have some hints what i do wrong? Have you an idea what is happen here? Thank you very much -- Marc-André Appel 1, Caball d'en Boux F-66740 Villelongue dels Monts France +33.(0)6.86.82.41.31

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Re: [Dovecot] migrate from cyrus with virtual domains
by Andrey Kolbasenko 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

> Check out the auth_username_translation and auth_username_format variables > in dovecot-example.conf. One of those might allow you to do what you want. > > Bill Thank's for reply, but I think this variable <auth_username_translation> switch all dot to @, not only first. And I can't find <auth_username_format> variable in dovecot-example.conf and all docs about dovecot. Andrey

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RE:[Dovecot] migrate from cyrus with virtual domains
by Bill Boebel 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

On Tue, April 18, 2006 5:16, Andrey Kolbasenko <edge(a)stv.ru> said: > But i don't know how i can switch my users to dovecot, wich have > dotted logins in their mail clients configuration: > user1.domain1.org Check out the auth_username_translation and auth_username_format variables in dovecot-example.conf. One of those might allow you to do what you want. Bill

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[Dovecot] migrate from cyrus with virtual domains
by Andrey Kolbasenko 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Hi All! I have worked cyrus+web-cyradm+mysql+virtualdomains configuration, and want migrate from cyrus to dovecot by some reason. But i don't know how i can switch my users to dovecot, wich have dotted logins in their mail clients configuration: user1.domain1.org user2.domain1.org user1.domain2.org ... I want preserve this dotted authentication theme, but don't know how do it with dovecot. --- Wbr, Andrey Kolbasenko

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[Dovecot] selinux
by Alfred Tuinman 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Probably a very know problem but I fail to find a solution. selinux enforced makes the /etc/init.d/dovecot start command fail If I change it to permiscious mode then it works. Any idea how to solve this? I use FC5 with dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7 Thanks, Alfred

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