August 2006 - dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot proxy: Too many open files
by Bill Boebel 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

On Sun, August 6, 2006 4:40 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 23:20 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >> It appears that when running Dovecot as a proxy-only box with >> "login_process_per_connection = no", it ignores the value of >> login_max_logging_users. > > Not really. It does enforce the maximum users _logging in_ limit, but > for that isn't counted SSL proxies or other proxies.. I rewrote this in > CVS. There's now login_max_connections setting which works pretty much > how expected. This is working great, fyi. Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot process dies
by Bill Boebel 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

On Wed, August 9, 2006 10:46 pm, "Ceasar V. Navato, Jr." <jhongjr(a)cebu.enomoto.com.ph> said: > I upgraded my dovecot from rc5 to rc6. Prior to upgrading, it was > working seamlessly. But now I couldn't start dovecot. You need this patch which came after rc6: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-August/006209.html Bill

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[Dovecot] dovecot process dies
by Ceasar V. Navato, Jr. 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hi to all. I upgraded my dovecot from rc5 to rc6. Prior to upgrading, it was working seamlessly. But now I couldn't start dovecot. Here's what the log says: Aug 10 10:39:17 proxy dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc6 starting up Aug 10 10:39:18 proxy dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Aug 10 10:39:18 proxy dovecot: child 29033 (login) killed with signal 11 Aug 10 10:39:18 proxy dovecot: child 29034 (login) killed with signal 11 Aug 10 10:39:18 proxy dovecot: child 29035 (login) killed with signal 11 Aug 10 10:39:18 proxy dovecot: child 29036 (login) killed with signal 11 Aug 10 10:39:18 proxy dovecot: child 29037 (login) killed with signal 11 Aug 10 10:39:18 proxy dovecot: child 29038 (login) killed with signal 11 I tinkered with the login_* configuration options but to no avail. The only configuration option that I removed is the login_max_logging_users, which is now deprecated in the new version. I tried to google about this problem but what I found were related to other processes such as imap etc. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Ceasar

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[Dovecot] IMAP/POP3 proxying and capability
by Laurent Papier 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hi, I setup a rather large POP3/IMAP configuration and want to use dovecot proxying feature. I have noted that the capability announce when connecting via the proxies are not the same before you are authenticated and after. Before you are authenticated the proxy announce is own capability and after it announce the final server capability. The problem is that some (most ? all ?) mail client ask for capability before authenticate to the server. So if the proxy capability are not the same as the final server capability the client gets wrong information. I use the QUOTA extension and it doesn't make sens to activate the quota feature on the proxy. Any other suggestion ? Perdition can hardcode the capability string the his configuration file. This is not perfect as the capability can change but it's an acceptable workaround for me. -- Laurent Papier - 03 88 75 80 50 Admin. système - SdV Plurimedia - <http://www.sdv.fr/>

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[Dovecot] openldap backsql as mysql + dovecot + postfix + maildir + virtual users
by suranga 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Dear All, I wrote a step by step how-to in the above topic Refer: http://www.ceylonlinux.com/pdf/openldap_backsql_postfix_maildir_cl.pdf http://www.ceylonlinux.com/pdf/openldap-success.pdf Best Regards, M.B.G.Suranga De Silva. CTO CEYLONLINUX

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[Dovecot] SSL hangs? Try this
by Timo Sirainen 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Since apparently 1.0 RC5 didn't fix the SSL hangs for everyone, could you try if replacing src/login-common/ssl-proxy-openssl.c with this helps: http://dovecot.org/tmp/ssl-proxy-openssl.c It's basically the old proxying but with some new changes, plus hopefully also fixing the original rarely occurring hang which my rewrite was intended to fix.

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[Dovecot] When auth_process_size is reached
by Bill Boebel 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

What does Dovecot do when dovecot-auth reaches the max size defined by auth_process_size? Does it just prevent it from growing further, or does it cause any problems? Thanks, Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP/POP3 proxying and capability
by Bill Boebel 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

On Wed, August 9, 2006 6:38 am, Laurent Papier <papier(a)sdv.fr> said: > I have noted that the capability announce when connecting via the proxies are > not the same before you are authenticated and after. > .. > I use the QUOTA extension and it doesn't make sens to activate the quota > feature on the proxy. Any other suggestion ? You can modify the "capability" variable around line 31096 of the "configure" file before you compile dovecot. Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] Pb with ssl_disable in 1.0RC6
by Bill Boebel 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

On Wed, August 9, 2006 6:01 am, Laurent Papier <papier(a)sdv.fr> said: > I don't use SSL at all so I have 'ssl_disable = yes' in my configuration. This > works > fine in 1.0rc1 but dovecot 1.0rc6 failed to start with the following error > message "dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down". > Setting 'ssl_disable = no' resolves the problem but now dovecot announce TLS > capability which is not what I want. Fixed in the latest CVS: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-August/006209.html Bill

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[Dovecot] Issue building rc6 on Mac OS X (quota)
by James Berry 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

I haven't had time to put together a patch, but quota-fs.c fails to compile on Mac OS X. Any chance we could get a configuration switch that says "--without- quota"? I've resolved the problem temporarily by forcing HAVE_FS_QUOTA to undef in quota-fs.h. James

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