September 2006 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Nuby experiences
by Victor Rini 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Hello all, I am new to dovecot and have had a good experience so far. I'm using fetchmail - exim - dovecot - my email clients (mac os mail and thunderbird so far). I'm also using Ubuntu Server i.e. debian. I didn't like the inflexibility of mbox so I did a tweak to exim to deliver mail to a Maildir folder in my home directory on the server. I restarted Dovecot and it found it! Very nice but mysterious. I don't remember if I did anything to the dovecot.conf file. My clients balk at the ssl certificate that was created at install time. I see a little bit of documentation on SSL. I'll struggle with it. I'm going to look at more client setups like evolution and a webmail client. Can anyone recommend a good ajax-driven webmail client? Dovecot is good software. I'm happy I found it.

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot dreate directory instead mailbox
by Roberto Tagliaferri 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Johannes Berg ha scritto: > Sorry, I can't really debug your problem. Please always post back to the > mailing list things originated from. > > johannes > > sorry :-( -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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[Dovecot] Dovecot using authsasld
by Dag Wieers 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi, Trying to simplify the postfix/dovecot/saslauthd setup with less than 10 users, I was looking for some way to NOT duplicate the username/password setup. Currently I need to use a seperate file for dovecot as I do for saslauthd. (One is a simple shadow-alike file, the other the sasldb) I know that postfix 2.3 can use dovecot directly for sasl authentication, and that would be a neat solution, but we're stuck with postfix 2.2. I was wondering if anyone ever succeeded in making dovecot use saslauthd for authentication so that saslauthd becomes the authoritative source for password authentication for virtual users. (both for smtp auth as pop3/imap) My other idea to simplify was using something like pam_unix, but modified to use a seperate file (not /etc/shadow) and use pam in both dovecot and saslauthd. But I can't find something like that, pam_unix is fixed, and pam_userdb is something I'd like to avoid. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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[Dovecot] put procmail between postfix and dovecot
by M. Fioretti 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Hello, a couple of months ago, also thanks to help from this list, I set up postfix and dovecot for virtual domains on a Centos 4 remote server. I have postfix set up to deliver all email for marco(a)domain1.net to /var/mail/vhosts/marco_domain1.net/ Everything is fine, as far as postfix is concerned: all email to marco(a)domain1.net goes in that mailbox, dovecot sees it, etc... Now I need to add sorting all incoming email in subfolders: mail from SOME_LIST to marco_domain1.net/SOMELIST/ (lots of other rules for custom folders) all else to main inbox I have to do all this sorting with procmail for two reasons: - I want to have as little sw as possible on that server, and update it semi-automatically, if possible only from the official repositories: procmail has these characteristics - I want to reuse as is, with the smallest possible amount of translation, filtering, etc, the very long and complicated procmailrc files I have built over the years on several servers. My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar script) the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders which: - are fully compatible with dovecot (and Squirrelmail) - (very useful, but not mandatory) can be viewed in categories and subcategories from Squirrelmail: personal/ friends/ family/ mailing_lists/ postfix/ dovecot/ .... work/ - *all* the messages, no matter how they were sorted on the server, can still be downloaded with fetchmail from home Note that I am not asking anybody to write the script for me (if you want to share a ready one, of course, I'll be glad). I just need to know what is the exact syntax/ folder naming conventions I have to follow to make all I wrote above happen. TIA, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 5 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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[Dovecot] Locally accessing IMAP folders from Windows
by Dídac Busquets 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi all, I've just configured Dovecot as my IMAP server in my Ubuntu machine. Everything works fine: I can access my IMAP folders remotely, I have also installed Squirrel webmail to access it thru the web... Although I'm most of the time working with Ubuntu, sometimes I boot my machine with Windows XP. However, since the server is not running then (because I'm not running Ubuntu), the only thing I can do is read the files directly. Is there any client able to display the messages directly from the files and folders stored in Maildir? Thanks, Dídac Busquets -- Didac Busquets i Font Dept. d'Electronica, Informatica i Automatica Institut d'Informatica i Aplicacions Edifici P-IV Despatx 128 Universitat de Girona Campus Montilivi 17071-Girona web: http://eia.udg.es/~busquets email: busquets(a)eia.udg.es Tel. (+34) 972.41.81.79 Fax. (+34) 972.41.80.98

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[Dovecot] help please with lda and exim transports
by razor 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

hello All i am trying to fix the dovecot quotas and red that LDA helps... so i looked wikki and : dovecot_delivery: driver = pipe debug_print = "T: ldap_maildir_home for $local_part@$domain" command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part@$domain message_prefix = message_suffix = user = mailnull group = mail delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add log_output but in exim.log i received 2006-09-15 15:40:41 1GOCzo-0006ih-Vw ** xxx(a)xxxxx.Xx R=ldap_user T=dovecot_delivery: Child process of dovecot_delivery transport returned 67 (could mean user nonexistent) from command: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver what it can be? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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[Dovecot] Problem with MySQL
by Emmeran Sollner 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi there, I tried to setup a passwddb with mysql, but it wont connect to my database, even if I patch the driver-mysql.c Here a test program I wrote to check the connection: int main() { MYSQL mysql; mysql_init(&mysql); if (mysql_real_connect(&mysql, NULL, "root", "asd2sdf3", "ccc", 0, "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock", 0) == NULL) printf("connection failed: %s\n", mysql_error(&mysql)); else printf("nos problemos\n"); return 0; } This program executed says "nos problemos" --> connection works The same data in dovecot.conf brings up this: Sep 15 03:08:38 suse10064lamp dovecot: auth-worker(default): ok... connecting to mysql: host='(null)', user='root', pass='asd2sdf3', db='ccc', port='0', sock='/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' Sep 15 03:08:38 suse10064lamp dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock (ccc): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry I added a i_info() in front of the mysql_real_connect command to test if the data from the config file is transmitted correctly (first line above) --> it is So i tried to connect to mysql with the line from my test-program. this is the patched code: i_info("ok... connecting to mysql: host='%s', user='%s', pass='%s', db='%s', port='%i', sock='%s'", host, db->user, db->password, db->dbname, db->port, unix_socket); /* failed = mysql_real_connect(conn->mysql, host, db->user, db->password, db->dbname, db->port, unix_socket, db->client_flags) == NULL; */ failed = mysql_real_connect(conn->mysql, NULL, "root", "asd2sdf3", "ccc", 0, "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock", 0) == NULL; And it still says: Sep 15 03:08:38 suse10064lamp dovecot: auth-worker(default): ok... connecting to mysql: host='(null)', user='root', pass='asd2sdf3', db='ccc', port='0', sock='/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' Sep 15 03:08:38 suse10064lamp dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock (ccc): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry Any ideas? Thx in advance, Emmeran

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[Dovecot] 1.0rc7 - dumb question
by Odhiambo WASHINGTON 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

I am configuring dovecot 1.0rc7 to authenticate users (system users) in /etc/passwd. Is it possible to use a different auth mechanism, other than "plain", when the encrypted password is in /etc/master.passwd (BSD style)? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash(a)wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson

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[Dovecot] ldap quota limitation problem
by razor 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

thx 4 your answer i thought that my post didnt in list, so i regestered and repost in: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-September/016132.html > Where does the message goes? Is it delivered to the recipient or to a > mailbox of the user? > First one is usual as it uses SMTP. > Bye, > - --Steffen Kaiser yes it is delivered to recipient maildir = Maildir/cur. and no error to my box ... -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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[Dovecot] ldap quota limitation (one more time)
by razor 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

hi there i have a such problem: in dovecot.conf ... protocol imap { listen = *:143 ssl_listen = *:993 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } ... quota = dirsize:storage=10240 ... in dovecot-ldap.conf: ... user_attrs = uid,,,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber,boxQuota=quota=dirsize:storage ... when an user try to answer out from overquoted box he got the message "overquota blahblahblah", BUT the message still goes... it seems that the imap_quota worked (report about the overquota) but plugin quota dont work. in dovecot logs : ... Sep 14 09:10:23 xxxxxxxxxxx dovecot: IMAP(test4): dirsize quota limit = 1000kB ... but in user maildir/maildirsize: 0S,0C 1179466 16 1248 1 what it can be? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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