January 2008 - dovecot

[Dovecot] question about mysql authentication
by Chantal Rosmuller 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi list, i use dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 installed from rpm centos 5.0 I cant get mysql authetication working: this is my /etc/dove-mysql.conf ######dove-mysql.conf should look like this########## #db_host = 127.0.0.1 #db_port = 3306 db = postfix db_user = postfix db_passwd = secret db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as mail, 150 AS uid, 12 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=',quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username ='%u' AND active ='1' ####################ends here#################### When I use this conffile: ##############dovecot configured to work with virtual users############ base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/%d/%n log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " log_path = /var/log/maillog mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 150 last_valid_uid = 150 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth = mysql_auth auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf ####################################ends here###################### i get this error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 13: Unknown setting: userdb When I use this: ##############dovecot configured to work with virtual users############ base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/%d/%n log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " log_path = /var/log/maillog mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 150 last_valid_uid = 150 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth = mysql_auth passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } ####################################ends here###################### i get the following error: Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 13: Unknown section type What is the correct syntax? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Dovecot installation with openldap shared libraries at Solaris 10
by Dovecot Jami 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I am installing dovecot-1.0.10 on Solaris 10 with LDAP support. I know that Solaris LDAP is broken and so I install openldap-2.3.35. My openldap-2.3.35 shared lib files are at /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include/. Barkley DB version is 4.2. Now I am configuring dovecot to use openldap as follows, PATH=$PATH:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin export PATH LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -R/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib" ./configure --with-ldap make make install After installation it shows the same Solaris broken LDAP error message as below, dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): LDAP: Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1 dovecot: [ID 128275 mail.error] Auth process died too early - shutting down Pls help me. Rgds, Mahmud Jami --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

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[Dovecot] Regarding the UIDLIST
by Kjartan Andreassen 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I wonder if the UID's in the UIDLIST will ever change for a given email? Eg with courier it is recreated sometimes, but can i 100% rely on that the UIDs will never change? Or is there anything else i can rely on that will never change? The reason I'm asking is that i want to link certain tasks etc etc to an email, and the only way to get a unique link is that if the uidlist or something else unique never changes. Thank you. -- Kjartan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot at Solaris 10 with LDAP : Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1
by Dovecot Jami 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I installed Dovecot-1.0.10 at my Solaris 10 with LDAP support. It runs fine without LDAP. But when I configured LDAP and start it, it shows the following error, dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): LDAP: Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1 dovecot: [ID 128275 mail.error] Auth process died too early - shutting down Pls help me to solve this. Rgds, Mahmud Jami --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot With cygwin
by Jaspreet Singh 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

I googled around web and found http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-December/005665.html by Johannes Berg that has a patch for dovecot + cygwin. but that does not work. Does anybody successfully compiled and running dovecot on windows XP + cygwin 5.1. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[Dovecot] Please remove me
by Mike McGonagle 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hello Mr List Administrator, I have tried to remove myself from this list, but for some reason, these requests are being ignored, and I am still receiving these mailings. Could someone in charge PLEASE remove me email address from this list? Thank you, Michael McGonagle

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[Dovecot] Quota per domain
by Michel Bulgado 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi People I have a two questions I use dovecot 1.0.10 I have quota maildir 1- I want to use the last version of quota 1.1 in my dovecot , i have to patch then, so which file i have to apply ? http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/ this one quota-rewrite-1.0.9.diff ??? my another question : 2- with the new quota (1.1) if is posible define a quota per domain? %n(a)domain1.com = 100M %n(a)domain2.com = 0 --- no quota limit or @domain1.com = 100M @domain2.com = 0 --- no limit quota Once again , sorry for my english Thanks -------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] old master.pid prevents dovecot startup
by Michael 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Summary ======= After an unclean shutdown the file /var/run/dovecot/master.pid remained behind. This prevented dovecot from starting, and gave a misleading error message. To be more resilient and fault-tolerant, I recommend that dovecot also check the validity of the PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid in order to determine whether or not another dovecot process is running. Detail ====== In testing out my automatic UPS shutdown I inadvertently shut down my system uncleanly ... oops! As the system rebooted, I saw that dovecot did not start properly, with an error message: Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf After the system came up, I tried to start dovecot manually. Turns out that there was an invalid PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid ----- [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 1965 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf [FAILED] [root@mykiss5 mth]# ps 1965 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [root@mykiss5 mth]# rm /var/run/dovecot/master.pid rm: remove regular file `/var/run/dovecot/master.pid'? y [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot stop Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# dovecot --version 1.0.7 [root@mykiss5 mth]# ----- This leads me to believe that dovecot is only checking for the existance of /var/run/dovecot/master.pid. It seems to me that it would be more fault-tolerant if it also checked the validity of the PID that is in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid. Michael

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Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
by Jerry Yeager 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

> > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:11 +0100 > From: Andreas Ntaflos <daff(a)dword.org> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at > */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <200801151519.11951.daff(a)dword.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 03:56:28 Jerry Yeager wrote: >>> while fiddling around with the configuration so Dovecot's LDA >>> "deliver" can be >>> used by multiple users by means of Getmail (you can read about that >>> in [1]) I >>> always end up running into the error message posted in the subject >>> line: ( stuff snipped out ) >> One last thing, as a security idea, try something like >> >> master { >> path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master >> mode = 0600 >> user = dovecot_user >> group = dovecot_group >> } >> >> and set your postfix line that calls deliver to match: >> >> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu >> user=dovecot_user:dovecot_group argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ >> deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} > > Thanks for this suggestion! But that would imply that I have a > virtual user > setup, wouldn't it? Because I don't, all my users are regular Unix > users with > shell accounts. That's why my Postfix main.cf contains just > > home_mailbox = Maildir/ > mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > > which is also what the LDA/Postfix wiki page says on > wiki.dovecot.org. No > Dovecot entry in master.cf at all. > Actually I was responding to what you had listed in your message i.e. socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: root group: dovecot -- which is a setup type you would use in a virtual style of user (either a "super user" or a group of non-system listed users with different uids / gids) setup . I had not encountered your other postings until later. Jerry > And, as also mentioned elsewhere in this thread, until yesterday I > didn't even > have the master { ... } section uncommented, and no auth-master > socket seems > to have been configured. But then again I only delivered through > Postfix and > didn't need to have deliver called by a regular user. > > Andreas > -- > Andreas "daff" Ntaflos > Vienna, Austria > > GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4 >

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[Dovecot] Keep pop messages, is it possible?
by "Fábio M. Catunda" 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi! I would like to find a way to not delete messages when they are downloaded via pop3, is that possible with dovecot? Gmail do this, I dont know how they mark messages that have been downloaded to avoid clients to download it again, but it looks like a good resource! Thanks for the help!

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