February 2008 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Set up shared mailboxes for secretary-boss-relationship
by Steffen Kaiser 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, some users are to read other users mailboxes (secretary-boss relationship), in order to filter out minor issues, SPAM, appointment requests etc. pp. The "boss" wants to see/access his/her mailbox the usual way, no fancy stuff. Furthermore, this is a N:N relationship, meaning one user needs to read one set of user's mailboxes, another user needs to read another set of mailboxes; both may or may not overlap. My idle solution would be to create some name space or a special "shared" directory in the secretary's Maildir/home dir and symlink the Maildir of all the "boss"'s Maildir roots. Because only the "secretary" shall use/see the definition, I'm not to make one namespace per relationship, but predefine one namespace and issue the path via userdb, right? Does somebody has some setup of this sort running? Are there some differences in v1.1 in this aspect? Currently I've setup that the secretaries connect with the real account of the boss(es), what is not good in my eyes, the secretaries should use their own accounts accessing the mails. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuT1QVJMDrex4hCIRAm5RAJ9ff3jWWhq3u2Lhk20pFKNbDe2sIACePToS cagaxkCLzzd494PzN6Jm9xo= =8eoM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] quota doesn't work?
by Mauro Sanna 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

I'm using dovecot 1.0.rc15 with debian etch. In dovecot.conf I have set mail_plugins = quota imap_quota for imap mail_plugins = quota for pop3 and quota = maildir:storage=10240. I seems that it doesn't work 'cause I send messages over 10M and it doesn't block my maildir box. I have to do something more?

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[Dovecot] 1.0.10 - Getting user-quota from an Apple Open Directory?
by Tobias Balle-Petersen 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Hello.... I'm running dovecot 1.0.10 with users in an LDAP database (Apples Open Directory). In Open Directory, a users mail-info is saved as XML-formated data in the field apple-user-mailattribute as seen below. I want to extract the value key "kUserDiskQuota". Nay ideas on how to accomplish this? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <dict> <key>kAPOPRequired</key> <string>APOPNotRequired</string> <key>kAltMailStoreLoc</key> <string></string> <key>kAttributeVersion</key> <string>Apple Mail 1.0</string> <key>kAutoForwardValue</key> <string></string> <key>kIMAPLoginState</key> <string>IMAPAllowed</string> <key>kMailAccountLocation</key> <string>blah.example.com</string> <key>kMailAccountState</key> <string>Enabled</string> <key>kPOP3LoginState</key> <string>POP3Deny</string> <key>kUserDiskQuota</key> <string>500</string> </dict> Thanks, Tobias

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[Dovecot] Passwordless Login Auth
by JL 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

I have Dovecot 1.0.5 running imaps successfully with Postfix on Ubuntu. Authorization is by SASL. Currently, my mail client (mutt) requests a password to access my folders. I would like to configure Dovecot so that a user logged into the localhost (i.e., already authenticated) does not receive the password prompt. Remote logins should of course demand the authentication, but if I'm logged into the server via SSH, for example, I'd like to be able to run mutt without the password prompt. Is this a viable proposition? Here is a relevant snippet from dovecot.conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } TIA -- JL <lists(a)jorge.cc>

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[Dovecot] mail server management
by Paul A 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hi, this is sort of off topic but I'm using dovecot with postfix on centos 5 and I have multiple virtual domains and I want to be able to have virtual admin's add/remove mappings/users for their own domains. I have looked around and haven't found many solutions just wondering what everyone is using for virtual mail management. TIA, Paul

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[Dovecot] 1.0.10 - Cached message offset lost
by Anton Yuzhaninov 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

After upgrading from dovecot-1.0.7 to dovecot-1.0.10 any time when I delete message in logs appeared messages like: Feb 16 23:54:05 mail-chaos dovecot: IMAP(citrin): Cached message offset lost for seq 2 in mbox file /spool/mail/citrin.ru/citrin/Trash Feb 16 23:54:05 mail-chaos dovecot: IMAP(citrin): copy -> Trash: uid=3589, msgid=<E1JHT55-0009fX-3E(a)spray.anyhost.ru> Removing the index files does not help. When new mail delivered same messages written to the log by deliver. dovecot -n: # 1.0.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf syslog_facility: local7 protocols: imap pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/mail.citrin.ru.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/mail.citrin.ru.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: dovecotauth login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 1 login_max_connections: 1024 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:~/ mbox_min_index_size: 1024 mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_log mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_log mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec(default): 700 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec(imap): 700 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec(pop3): 10 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: nobody username_format: %Lu verbose: yes worker_max_count: 15 passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=65000 gid=65000 home=/spool/mail/%Ld/%Ln socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: dirsize:storage=1024000 sieve: /spool/mail/sieve-scripts/%u OS: 6.2-RELEASE-p8 i386, SMP -- WBR, Anton Yuzhaninov

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0.10
by Tim Judd 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get dovecot to authenticate against LDAP. And it's a first time to run both dovecot (at all) and OpenLDAP (at all). Versions are below. Dovecot: 1.0.10 OpenLDAP 2.3.40 Dovecot cannot bind to the dn. This may be due to the fact that all google-able documentation doesn't give good examples or anyhting to hint. I'd prefer to use the rootdn by slapd.conf, but if I have to use a entry in the LDAP database, I will do that. I've tried the rootdn, password, overriding password with the same hash as in the slapd.conf via {SSHA} and nothing works. I then tried to create a uid (and dn) within the LDAP database, and it can't bind to that either. Long story short, I would very much appreciate a working example with OpenLDAP v2.3x and Dovecot 1.0x, on a FreeBSD 6.x host. If it makes any difference (I don't think it does), the mailserver is going to be located within a jail, which has given some problems to some software that are looking for a specific /dev entry or being able to customize that entry (permissions, links, etc). Thank you all for excellent software, and I really hope I can get this working. I'd like to point the finger at dovecot not being able to read userPassword but since no debugging information can be extracted, I have to assume. A working example as I have asked for above would probably help me alot. thanks! --Tim If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. "I can" is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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[Dovecot] ldaps support in dovecot-ldap.conf?
by Tim Tyler 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Dovecot experts, Does Dovecot support ldaps:\\ connections in dovecot-ldap.conf for ldap connections? I can get regular ldap:\\connections to work, but not ldaps:\\ connections. I have even downloaded the latest beta version of dovecot and it still doesn't work. If its not supported, will it be in the near future? Note: We are using Centos 5 and Redhat 5 systems. Tim Tyler Network Engineer - Beloit College tyler(a)beloit.edu

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[Dovecot] PAM libraries not found
by Jan van den Berg 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

When I add the --with-pam option in my configure command I get the following error: checking for pam_start in -lpam... no configure: error: Can't build with PAM support: libpam not found PAM is most certainly installed on the machine: ii libpam-modules 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM ii libpam-runtime 0.79-5 Runtime support for the PAM library ii libpam0g 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules library Dovecot from package worked just fine with PAM. Also this file already exists: cat /etc/pam.d/dovecot #%PAM-1.0 @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session I have run ldconfig etc. And I have the following files (all in /lib): /lib/libpamc.so.0 /lib/libpamc.so.0.79 /lib/libpam_misc.so.0 /lib/libpam_misc.so.0.79 /lib/libpam.so.0 /lib/libpam.so.0.79 So it seems that configure is not checking the right places for the libpam library? How can I tell it to look in /lib? Also what does (auto) mean (--with-pam (auto)): it's confusing. It gives the impression that, like (default), this option is added 'automatically'. Cheers, Jan

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[Dovecot] The function that returns existance of the user.
by Вострухин Максим 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

I'm changing the source code of Dovecot and I need of the function which only returns existanse of the user and doesn't do anything else. What function I should use? Thanks.

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