January 2007 - dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 account + forward to somewhere else
by Duncan Morgan 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Please ignore this question. I seem to have stepped on some toes here. -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Morgan [mailto:duncan@gen2solutions.ca] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:10 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: POP3 account + forward to somewhere else Hello, I would like to set up a POP account which also forwards email elsewhere. In qmail for example it is easy to set up by creating a dot qmail file inside the users mailbox. How can this be done with Postfix? For awareness I'm using Postfix + Dovecot for POP3 authentication. Thanks, Duncan

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log
by Paul Warren 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

I've just installed dovecot and am trying to use it to access my Maildir folders. Unfortunately: 1 SELECT INBOX 1 NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2006-12-22 18:06:11] Log says: Dec 22 17:55:56 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Corrupted transaction log file /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x20, offset=24, size=0) Dec 22 17:55:57 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index Dec 22 17:55:57 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index Any clues? Deleting ~/Maildir/dovecot* doesn't seem to help. I can't find any documentation relating to the transaction log, or an explanation of why a fresh install of dovecot might choose to create a corrupt one. thanks, Paul

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[Dovecot] POP3 account + forward to somewhere else
by Duncan Morgan 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello, I would like to set up a POP account which also forwards email elsewhere. In qmail for example it is easy to set up by creating a dot qmail file inside the users mailbox. How can this be done with Postfix? For awareness I'm using Postfix + Dovecot for POP3 authentication. Thanks, Duncan

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[Dovecot] Allow plaintext auth from local network?
by Marc Haber 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi, I have dovecot 1.0rc15 on Debian and would like to allow plaintext auth not only from the local IP address but from the entire local network, but not from everywhere. Is that configurable? I am looking for something like "allow_plaintext_auth = 10.8.0.0/24". Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835

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[Dovecot] path field in mysql quota
by Marshal Newrock 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

What is the path field for in the quota table in mysql? Is the username not enough information for storing and updating quotas? -- Marshal Newrock, Ideal Solution LLC http://www.idealso.com

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[Dovecot] Custom login_greeting per virtual server?
by Cassidy B. Larson 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Just a quick question, nothing broke. I setup about 5 virtual servers. It's great! I can define which protocols to listen on per server. Just curious why I can specify a unique "login_dir" per server, but not a unqiue login_greeting? Appears dovecot always shows the first login_greeting from the first virtual server. Intended this way? -c

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[Dovecot] customizable idle login timeouts?
by Cassidy B. Larson 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

We're in the process of migrating from mbox over to maildir. I'm running into a problem with the proxy and timeouts. Appears the idle timeout is set to 60 seconds. This is a bit too low for some of our large mbox files :( Any plans on adding the: #define CLIENT_LOGIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT 60 #define AUTH_REQUEST_TIMEOUT to the .conf file to be tunable on the fly? I ended up just patching the couple of files in question, but it'd be nice.. Cassidy

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[Dovecot] Urgent - Setup DoveCot with Plesk
by iSquareOne LLC 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hey, all, I am trying to setup DoveCot with Plesk. But I could not go through the last step. Setup: MySQL 5.0.22 Qmail Plesk 7.5 DoveCot v1.0 RC15 The problem: I setup sql.conf for user query and password query. I tried different ways, DoveCot always says "Authentication failed". Here are my two SQLs. user_query = SELECT concat('/var/qmail/mailnames/', d.name, '/', m.mail_name) as home, concat('/var/qmail/mailnames/', d.name, '/', m.mail_name) as mail, 101 AS uid, 12 AS gid, 'dirsize:storage=1000000' AS quota FROM accounts a, mail m, domains d WHERE a.id = m.account_id AND d.id=m.dom_id AND m.mail_name='%n' AND d.name='%d' I manully fill in %n=admin and %d=test.com to test it and it worked fine The result is: home,mail,uid,gid,quota "/var/qmail/mailnames/test.com/admin","/var/qmail/mailnames/test.com/admin","101","12","dirsize:storage=1000000" password_query = SELECT concat(m.mail_name, '@',d.name) as user, a.password as password, concat('/var/qmail/mailnames/', d.name, '/', m.mail_name) as userdb_home, concat('maildir:/var/qmail/mailnames/', d.name, '/', m.mail_name) as userdb_mail, 101 as userdb_uid, 12 as userdb_gid FROM accounts a, mail m, domains d WHERE a.id = m.account_id AND d.id=m.dom_id AND m.mail_name='%n' AND d.name='%d' The result is: user,password,userdb_home,userdb_mail,userdb_uid,userdb_gid "admin(a)test.com","password","/var/qmail/mailnames/test.com/admin","maildir:/var/qmail/mailnames/test.com/admin","101","12" I don't know what DoveCot is expecting to get from the SQL result. Please let me know if I missed anything. Thank you very much! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Error reading configuration file
by Justin Pearce 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Good day, I seem to be having an issue using dovecot 1.0 rc15. I compiled the source with the following configure command: CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/mysql" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib/mysql" -lmysqlclient" ./configure -with-mysql -with-sql-drivers=mysql Did make and make install and set the dovecot-example.conf to dovecot.conf and tried running the program and got the following error: Error: Error in configuration file on line 50: expecting '=' Line 50 of the default config is a comment, which struck me as odd. So, I uninstalled and tried building with no options. I did a make uninstall, removed the /usr/local/lib/dovecot directory did make and make install and tried the program. This time it didn't crash about the config file, but the mail.err log notes that the child processes died on an error 89, apparently unable to figure our what pam was. I'm wondering why the thing seems to work if I do not build for mysql but if I want mysql, it breaks in the manner it does? Is it a bug, or am I doing it wrong (which is a real possibility). Any help soon would be appreciated, as my boss keeps asking 'So, when is that mail server going to be done?'. :) Justin Pearce Information Technology/Programming Price Video Productions JustinP(a)PriceVideo.com 361-572-3810 800-733-3810 Fax: 361-572-3894 www.PriceVideo.com

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[Dovecot] DvCot/PstFix Virtual Domains Virtual Users PAM Authentication - How pls
by Kyle 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi Folks, I'm hoping some one can set me straight here please. Postfix 2.1.5 Dovecot 0.99.11-2 I have Postfix set up on a new box with Virtual Domains and Virtual Users using MailDir format with their mail homes in /var/spool/mail/<domain>/<user> I want Dovecot to login using PAM Authentication. The idea is to host multiple domains which each have multiple aliases which resolve to one email account for their respective domain but using a user name which actually _is_ a system user. So I might have; jo(a)abc.com joe(a)abc.com joey(a)abc.com pete(a)abc.com peter(a)abc.com jo(a)xyz.com joe(a)xyz.com joey(a)xyz.com pete(a)xyz.com peter(a)xyz.com where 'joe' and 'peter' are both system users each with mail homes of; /var/spool/mail/abc.com/joe /var/spool/mail/abc.com/peter /var/spool/mail/xyz.com/joe /var/spool/mail/xyz.com/peter In my dovecot.conf, I have; auth_userdb = static uid=89 gid=89 home=/var/spool/mail/%d/%u auth_passdb = pam If I login with just 'joe', I get; Fatal: chdir(/var/spool/mail//joe) failed with uid 89: Not a directory Fair enough, that sounds logical to me. But if I then login with 'joe(a)abc.com', I get; PAM: pam_authenticate(joe(a)abc.com) failed: Authentication failure So it appears Dovecot is checking PAM for 'joe(a)abc.com' rather than just 'joe'. How can I make it check for just 'joe' please? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kind Regards Kyle

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