March 2012 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Thanks, was Re: need simpler instructions for user authentication
by David Benfell 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request. And I apologize that this message isn't properly threaded. I'm in trouble whenever I have to send mail from my gmail account because I automatically pull it down into the same place from which I send my regular mail (from benfell(a)parts-unknown.org ) and I haven't configured that to deal with the gmail account. That makes it difficult to reply properly to mail on this list which I have subscribed to with the gmail account so that I'd actually receive it even when I'm having problems with my main mail system. Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> responded that I needed a userdb and offered that I should probably add the following to dovecot.conf : userdb { driver = passwd } As near as I can tell--and it's been over a day now--that solved the problem. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] 2.1.1: subscriptions: Removing invalid entry
by Ralf Hildebrandt 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Admittedly, it's not a valid folder name and dovecot is right in removing it: Feb 28 17:50:05 postamt dovecot: imap(kbaessle): Warning: Subscriptions file /home/k/b/kbaessle/Maildir/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry: Entw�rfe ...but when looking at the subscription file AFTER the removal, that file contained an empty line. I don't think that's correct. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] need simpler directions on user authentication
by David Benfell 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi all, My situation is this: I have postfix running on a Linode under Arch Linux. A recent upgrade to dovecot broke the configuration. Now I get "Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)." I do not want virtual users. I do not particularly want SQL or LDAP. I do have multiple domains. I do use Maildir. I already have SSL certificates for the server which I did manage to get dovecot to quit complaining about. The documentation is driving me nuts. It keeps telling me about stuff I think I don't need. And I can't tell what I actually *do* need. All I want is for system users, including myself, to be able to get their mail. How do I do this? Thank you! David Benfell dbenfell(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] need simpler instructions for user authentication
by David Benfell 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi all, My situation is this: I have postfix running on a Linode under Arch Linux. A recent upgrade to dovecot broke the configuration. Now I get "Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)." I do not want virtual users. I do not particularly want SQL or LDAP. I do have multiple domains. I do use Maildir. I already have SSL certificates for the server which I did manage to get dovecot to quit complaining about. The documentation is driving me nuts. It keeps telling me about stuff I think I don't need. And I can't tell what I actually *do* need. All I want is for system users, including myself, to be able to get their mail. How do I do this? Thank you! David Benfell dbenfell(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Permission problems
by David Renstrom 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi, I've set up a Postfix and Dovecot (only IMAP) combination using MySQL and Postfixadmin on Fedora. Almost everything works correctly now. The only thing bugging me right now is that I always have to change the access privileges of the directories in /var/run/dovecot/ manually to 777 to make it work. As you understand, I'm not particularly happy about this as it doesn't feel secure at all. And I also have to do this every time I reboot since Dovecot resets the old access priviliges (600). As you see I've got a vmail user who belongs to the mail group. Almost all directories under /var/run/dovecot belong to user root and group root. They all have the permissions rw--------. Below is some output from the log file dovecot.log: Mar 01 03:31:17 auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) in directory /run/dovecot failed: Permission denied (euid=101(vmail) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm: /run/dovecot/auth-worker, dir owned by 0:97 mode=0755) Mar 01 03:31:17 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling Mar 01 03:31:46 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=94.254.99.6, lip=91.123.204.174 What is wrong here and how can I correct it? Thanks in advance! /David R.

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