August 2008 - dovecot

[Dovecot] syncml with server push email
by Harondel J. Sibble 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Any recommendations for server push email using syncml and dovecot? I am familiar with Funambol for syncing pim info, but not used it for email. Are there any recommended opensource or commercial syncml servers that are known to integrate nicely with Dovecot 1.x? Googling hasn't really turned up much in the way of useful info. To mix it up a little, I was using Funambol for the Pim stuff, but ran into a bunch of issues and switched to eGroupWare which has it's own syncml ability which works quite nicely with my pda. I stopped using Funambol as the server didn't properly deal with the conversion from vcal to ical and as a result appointments synced on the pda end, always ended up 8 hours early :-( This was going from ThunderBird to Windows Mobile, so I am hoping to avoid this happening again. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. help(a)pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)

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[Dovecot] Multiple network interface question
by Mike Henry 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hi all, Sorry if this question has been posted before. I have dug through the archives but haven't found any relevant answers to this question. I am running Dovecot on a server that serves a number of (virtual) domains each with a number of (virtual) users. To read mail I am providing a webmail client and have configured HTTPS connections using reverse DNS so that each domain has its own IP address and that each IP address gets mapped to a different virtual host. Each virtual host presents and HTTPS connection particular to their own domain using the SSL certificate for that domain so that each user only sees his or her own domain throughout. Is it possible to configure Dovecot so that mail-clients like Thunderbird or Outlook can connect via the default port using their own domain (maybe also using reverse DNS) and be presented with an SSL connection particular to that domain (i.e. using that domains certificate)? Any comments welcome. Thanks in advance, -Mike

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Re: [Dovecot] compile with ssl support
by Catalin Ciubotariu 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

it works, thanks Eduardo! i have a question for anyone who know, can i use SSL and system passwords not the plain text file (passwd.dovecot)? it's look a little strange to me to have the password in a plain text file. regards, ----- Original Message ---- From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo(a)kalinowski.com.br> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:42:43 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] compile with ssl support Catalin Ciubotariu escreveu: > I did'nt know that i have to install first SSL then recompile with CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib ./configure > > it's ok now but the server does not accept the password > > There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your User Name was rejected. Account: '10.10.10.4', Server: '10.10.10.4', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure connections.', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC91 > Your client is not connecting with SSL. I guess that's not what you want. In dovecot.conf, enable the protocol pop3s (right in the beginning), and configure your clients to use SSL. The default port for POP3 over SSL is 995, if I recall correctly.

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Re: [Dovecot] compile with ssl support
by Catalin Ciubotariu 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

I did'nt know that i have to install first SSL then recompile with CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib ./configure it's ok now but the server does not accept the password There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your User Name was rejected. Account: '10.10.10.4', Server: '10.10.10.4', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure connections.', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC91 i attached the dovecot.conf if anyone know? regards, ----- Original Message ---- From: Catalin Ciubotariu <ciubo67(a)yahoo.com> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:51:33 PM Subject: [Dovecot] compile with ssl support Hi, I have installed 1.1.2 first with ssl_disable=yes, work fine but when i set ssl_disable to no and configuring according to dovecot.org (SSL certificates) i get 'SSL support not compiled in but ssl_disable=no' CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib ./configure make make install what am i missing? i starting with a simple dovecot.conf protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { } auth default { mechanisms = plain cram-md5 passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/passwd.dovecot } } user = root }

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[Dovecot] compile with ssl support
by Catalin Ciubotariu 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hi, I have installed 1.1.2 first with ssl_disable=yes, work fine but when i set ssl_disable to no and configuring according to dovecot.org (SSL certificates) i get 'SSL support not compiled in but ssl_disable=no' CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib ./configure make make install what am i missing? i starting with a simple dovecot.conf protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { } auth default { mechanisms = plain cram-md5 passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/passwd.dovecot } } user = root }

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[Dovecot] vacation replies
by CJ Keist 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Another wrinkle with vacation replies. I have user forwarding their mail from one domain to our mail server with the vacation reply set. Here is the dovecot script file: require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; # BEGIN VACATION vacation :days 30 :from "joe(a)domainB.edu" :addresses ["joe(a)domainA.edu", "joe(a)domainB.edu"] "********************** OUT OF THE OFFICE ******************* I am on research cruise and will be out of office till Sept. 8th. I will respond to your email when I return. If you need to contact me before then, please send short (<10kB) email to joe(a)someplace.edu. This email is sent by automated responder. Dr. Joe *************************************************************"; domainA would be my server with dovecot installed. Sending to joe@domainA works fine and the vacation reply is sent. But if I send to joe@domainB there is no vacation reply sent. It doesn't even create the .dovecot.lda-dupes file. The log files shows that it is running the sieve script but nothing else. I thought the addresses line allowed you to state that these addresses are good source email addresses to send the reply to. Running dovecot 1.1.2 with Sieve 1.1.5 - -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFItElZA29OFr7C6jcRAtFhAJ9RQHVihxBBG71A6aaYPmCSYj6KHACfVchs 3NBx0Br0YnIO0uhjbss+/xc= =ZCSO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] namespaces...
by John Doe 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

> The SEPARATOR should just refer to the storage structure and the PREFIX > should refer to the hierarchy. So if you use "/" as your SEPARATOR, then > your storage structure will be user-directory/folder/sub-folder and if > you use "." as your storage structure (the default), then your storage > structure will be user-directory/.folder.sub-folder . A PREFIX of INBOX. > should cause all of the folders & sub-folders to appear under the inbox; > a PREFIX of "." should cause all of the folders to appear at the top > level; and a PREFIX of Mail. will should all of the folders to appear > under Mail with the exception of the INBOX. Thx for your long post! ^_^ I understood that it was something like .<prefix><separator>folder1<separator>folder2 But, from my tests, it seems not to work as expected... At least not with thunderbird. By default, Tbird has "allow server to override namespaces" prefix=INBOX. and separator=. => no prefix and Trash system not working. prefix= and separator=. => INBOX. prefix (from tbird) and Trash system working. '/' in prefix and separator seems to be ignored (converted to '.'). I guess I will leave it to prefix= and separator=. but one user who uses apple mail complained about some prefix problems... Thx, JD

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[Dovecot] unclear alias behaviour
by andel 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi all In /etc/aliases I have set up an alias for "root" pointing to "david" which is a unix account. Other email accounts are virtual dovecot accounts, one of them is "andel". They all work fine using /etc/postfix/virtual when used with the domain name which is defined in /etc/postfix/virtual.domains. But the alias "david andel" in /etc/postfix/virtual does work only when sending to "david(a)domain.com" but not for the local mails sent to "root". And then there is another behaviour I don't understand. In my virtual mail folder /srv/vmail/domain.com dovecot made a new directory structure "david" which I didn't intend, for postfix should rewrite it to "andel". Where is the error? Thanks for any hints, David

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[Dovecot] Custom Debian package bulding
by Juan Asensio Sánchez 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi I am using Debian source packages from http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/. When downloading dependencies, I have seen that the package requires MySQL, that I don't use. How could I remove this dependency or chanage them? Is that defined in any file? However, I would like to use SQLite or Postgres to store dict data for the Expire plugin. Where should I enable these flags? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] auth failed, 0 attempts
by Bruce Bodger 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Does anyone have any ideas what this may be? Aug 25 12:19:01 G520X2 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 0 attempts): rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.10 Aug 25 12:19:01 G520X2 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 0 attempts): rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.10 Hits the server every minute. Running v 1.1.2 on OS X 192.168.1.1 is the router 192.168.1.10 is the server on which dovecot is running. Just started noticing it. Thanks, B. Bodger

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