April 2007 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] 200 pop3-login processes
by Zbigniew Szalbot 03 May '07

03 May '07

Dear all, I am using dovecot 1.0.0 and have only 5 pop3 users. However, I have counted over 200 pop3-loging processes. I just wonder if it is normal for dovecot (has been running maybe for 2-3 weeks after installing the stable verion). Thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot

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[Dovecot] Courier-imap + dovecot simultaneously?
by Charles Marcus 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hi everyone, I have a client I've been trying to talk into switching from courier to dovecot, but the owner of the company wants me to set up two different accounts in Thunderbird (I finally got him switched to that from outlook express), one accessing his account through courier, and one through dovecot, so he can compare the speed... Is this even possible? I've never tried it before, so before I spend a lot of time, I want to know if I'd be wasting it (my time)... Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] INDEX on database
by kontak＠ramdhani.net 01 May '07

01 May '07

it maybe a feature request, but could you add an option to make INDEX dovecot files in the database?currently I use mysql as backend.thank you. _________________________________________________________________ Get the new Windows Live Messenger! http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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[Dovecot] dovecot-ldap and ldap_result() failed.
by Tan Shao Yi 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, I have configured dovecot for auth_bind against an LDAP server on the localhost and I'm seeing the following error in my dovecot logs: dovecot: Apr 30 09:03:18 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server dovecot: Apr 30 09:03:27 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server ... and so on ... When I turned on LDAP logging, this was what slapd logged. Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 848112 local4.debug] conn=3555 fd=11 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:47299 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 215403 local4.debug] conn=3555 op=0 BIND dn="cn=root,o=home" method=128 Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 600343 local4.debug] conn=3555 op=0 BIND dn="cn=root,o=home" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 588225 local4.debug] conn=3555 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= May I know what is causing Dovecot to log that it Can't contact the LDAP server when slapd does see the incoming connection. Strangely, everything is working fine, my users are able to authenticate against LDAP; the UIDs, home directories, quotas etc are all picked up correctly. It's just the annoying auth(default) errors that keep popping up every 20 seconds or so. Thanking in advance if anyone has any ideas. Cheers.

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[Dovecot] dovecot for imap
by dhottinger＠harrisonburg.k12.va.us 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I have been using uw-imap on my mailserver. I tried briefly to use dovecot with the default config. It seem to work faster, but users imap folders (user accounts are in openldap) disappeared. Is there a sample config somewhere I can look at to get some idea how to configure dovecot so all the imap folders users created will appear when I make the switch? Most of my users login via Horde. Server is an FC6 box, dovecot installed via yum install. -- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools

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[Dovecot] Sieve notify error?
by Láďa 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi, I am playing with Sieve, everything is working nice except notify method. Source script looks like this (generated with avelsieve): require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imapflags","relational","compara tor-i;ascii-numeric","notify"]; if #hashed-avelsieve-source true { keep; notify :method "mailto" :options "xxx(a)xxx.xx" :low :message "Nova zpráva."; } but with no success. Message is delivered fine, but notification is not sent. Deliver logs only this: deliver(xxx(a)xxx.xx): Apr 28 20:05:23 Info: sieve runtime error: Notify: Generic Error Thanks for any ideas how to get this working. Láďa

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[Dovecot] Auth(default): add one userdb - what does this mean?
by Wade Smart 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I got dovecot to start but then I had to reboot and now Im receiving errors: Apr 27 19:48:18 wadesmart dovecot: auth(default): You'll need to add at least one userdb Im still following the steps from http://wiki.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration wade

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[Dovecot] Doubled subjectlines in mailfolders
by Götz Reinicke 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi, after the upgrade from 0.99 to 1.0rc15 on our RHEL 5 Server I noticed, that some of my mailfolders do double the mails subject line in the listview of thunderbird. The mail itself isn't doubled and the second mail contains a different content from a mail that didn't show up in the list. SO it seams, that only the subject line is somehow wrong. Any ideas or tips? I haven't found anything on that googling or in the list archive; but maybe I'm searching with the wrong syntax ... Regards Götz

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Re: [Dovecot] New install on Ubuntu Fiesty 7.04
by Wade Smart 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Ok. I started with the example file and edited it as the Quick Start suggested and here is the final working result: wadesmart@wadesmart:~$ sudo dovecot -n Password: # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: ~/Maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot wadesmart@wadesmart:~$ I was able to login in via telnet like the tutorial said. In my Maildir/new I had 884 new messages. The tutorial said to access the Inbox, and I did and could. However, then my 884 messages were gone!!! I do not understand what the heck happened. Did I just loose all my messages?

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[Dovecot] dovecot sendmail mysql no inbox error
by jan gestre 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

hi guys, we are experiencing this particular problem with one of the webmail server we manage. the server is using dovecot as pop3 and imap server while sendmail is being used as mta. when this user tries to login via telnet, this is what i've got: $ telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user user1 +OK pass password +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host. when i looked at the maillog i saw this: Apr 25 20:52:32 samplemail pop3(samplemail): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/samplemail Apr 25 20:52:32 samplemail pop3(samplemail): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/samplemail Apr 25 20:52:32 samplemail pop3(samplemail): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-04-25 20:52:32] tried google but not much of help, they just suggested to update or replace dovecot. i already update dovecot and made some changes to default_mail_env parameter, still the same result. dovecot version is 0.99 on a fedora 4 box any idea?

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