July 2008 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Maildir and Invalid data in file
by Patryk 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hi Timo, Regarding our conversation in IRC, I'm attaching the uidlist and copying in the original message just in case. I'm using dovecot version 1.0.13 on reiserfs on hardware RAID-0, but I'm getting the following error in the logs every time one user tries to access his old mails in the .Sent directory: dovecot: 2008-06-23 15:09:46 Error: IMAP(marek.chajecki): Invalid data in file /var/mail/Maildir/marek.chajecki/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist As a result he fails to get access to the emails in this folder. I've googled a bit and read that deleting the uidlist makes dovecot recreate it, but after some time the same thing happens. It's a new hard drive, so I don't think this is a hard drive fault. Some additional info: this server is being used by about 200 users who get about 100 emails daily each one of them. Config: root@warsaw Maildir # dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 15 login_max_processes_count: 512 max_mail_processes: 4096 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/Maildir/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: worker_max_count: 100 passdb: driver: pam args: cache_key=%u dovecot userdb: driver: passwd Any help will be appreciated! -- Regards, Patryk Rzadzinski

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + Postfix for Squirrel Webmail??
by Marcos Cabrera Goñi 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hi, I would like to use Dovecot as IMAP Server in order to Develope a Squirrel Webmail. I have a problem with the Dovecot configuration; I have my Postfix server in the host: 192.168.100.100, and I have installed Dovecot in the host: 192.168.1.253. Everything goes right, but I can't see any mail that I had received in my mailbox. How can I configure the dovecot.conf in order to use an mbox placed in a different host?? Thanks. Bye Marcos Cabrera Goñi Departamento de Operaciones Comitas Comunicaciones S.A. Ronda de Poniente 4 Centro Empresarial Euronova 3 28760 - Tres Cantos - Madrid - España Central: +34 91 151 76 00 Móvil: +34 666 578 885 mcabrera(a)comitas.es <mailto:mcabrera@comitas.es>

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Re: University of Washington lays off 66 technology workers.]
by Stewart Dean 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

I would expect this means the end of UWIMAP....which probably leaves DC as open-source IMAP of choice. There were 66 people doing IMAP and Pine/Alpine development that were laid off at UWash due to funding cuts; Mark Crispin, one of the fathers of IMAP, was among those laid off. From the keyboard of: James Morris Lead Engineer, UW Technology University of Washington ================================================================================= Here's the official text on the status of Alpine and UW imapd development for those that were asking: --- Here is what we know about our future plans for development of Alpine and UW IMAPd products. We are committed to completing our work on a new Web Alpine user interface and a corresponding release of Alpine and UW IMAPd. After this next release, which is anticipated later this summer, we'll continue assessing any future development plans and resources we can allocate to this effort. Thanks. ================================================================================== -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] sieve doesn't work with 1.1.1
by Benjamin Andreas 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hello This is my dovecot.conf : /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: imap imaps managesieve login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): ~/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): ~/.dovecot.sieve auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix I have updated from 1.0.15 to 1.1.1 because it was necessity to change the sieve path. Furthermore i needed the managesieve. If i create a file named .dovecot.sieve in the home directory the file will be ignored. But in the 1.0.15 version with the cmusieve plugin it worked I would be thankful for your help Kind regards Benjamin Andreas

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