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[Dovecot] disable plaintext auth ... only for some addresses
by Phil Howard 06 May '10

06 May '10

I'd like to disable plaintext authentication (e.g. only allow authentication that does STARTTLS or connects on SSL/TLS only ports) only for certain (most) IP addresses. I want to exempt a few addresses (users coming over known VPNs). Fortunately, all this is coming in over a firewall (Sonicwall) in which I can NAT traffic by IP address to go to specific port numbers. So, if I can establish a different disable_plaintext_auth policy by port number (for extra port numbers I'll choose later), that would let me accomplish this. If I cannot do this, then my only alternative is making the SSL/TLS only ports the only ones open to the internet, and use the non-SSL/TLS ports only for the VPNs (with disable_plaintext_auth = no). But I read somewhere that this is discouraged. What say ye?

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[Dovecot] adding users to passwd-file
by Phil Howard 06 May '10

06 May '10

Is there a tool equivalent to the system "passwd" command (or maybe "adduser" or "useradd") that can support a passwd-file by setting a password, encrypting it with the salted MD5 scheme? The system "passwd" command doesn't have an option to "do it to this alternate file instead of /etc/shadow".

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[Dovecot] dovecot and pigeonhole
by Vasiliy G Tolstov 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello. Today i'm compile dovecot and pigeonhole from hg repo. After start dovecot i get errors in log like this: May 6 12:04:15 selfip dovecot: imap: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_get_log_var_expand_table Google sasys, that this functions added in dovecto 2010-04-26, why a get this error when load sieve plugin? Thnak You. -- Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru> Selfip.Ru

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[Dovecot] !include
by Andre Hübner 06 May '10

06 May '10

dovecot 1.2.11 Hello, i do some tests with: !include /etc/dovecot/conf.d/*.conf dovecot fails to start if /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ is empty. Is this a expected behaviour? !include_try works without error but seems to me to be more usual when explicit, complete filename is given. is a little bit strange in contrast to behaviour of other servertypes which support a include-directive. Thanks, Andre

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Won't start on SLITAZ Linux
by Ludovic LEMARINEL 06 May '10

06 May '10

2010/5/6 Ludovic LEMARINEL <l.lemarinel(a)gmail.com> > 2010/5/6 Tom Hendrikx <tom(a)whyscream.net> > > On 06/05/10 13:40, Ludovic LEMARINEL wrote: >> > 2010/5/6 Charles Marcus <CMarcus(a)media-brokers.com> >> > >> >> On 2010-05-06 4:51 AM, Ludovic LEMARINEL wrote: >> >>> I've just compiled dovecot under Slitaz, but I can't get it to >> >>> run... >> >>> >> >>> It always die with this message in log : >> >>> >> >>> 2010-05-06 12:35:12 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.11 starting up >> >>> 2010-05-06 12:35:12 dovecot: Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 256): >> >>> Operation not permitted >> >> >> >> Google is your friend. Simply highlighting the above error: >> >> >> >> Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 256): Operation not permitted >> >> >> >> Provides the answer: >> >> >> >> http://tinyurl.com/25rmjod >> >> >> >> > >> > Thanks for your answer, but no, this page does not provide the answer. >> > The error message this guy gets is not the same as me >> >> Your original post says it does. If you receive another error message, >> please add it to your problem report. Also, please try to start dovecot >> from the commandline (as suggested in the url from Charles), and tell us >> about its behaviour, output and logging. >> >> > , and I don't have any >> > "/etc/security/limits.conf" file, so I can't change this setting . >> >> Dovecot tells you only what setting to to adjust. Where you put your >> settings is largely dependant on your OS or distro implementation. >> >> >> Ow, and please do not top-post. >> >> Regards, >> Tom >> > > > I've tried to run dovecot from the command line : it says what was the last > error (see my first post), and then nothing more. > When I do "ps", I can't see any process running, and the log says dovecot > finished... > > No more message than this :( > I'm going to try with 2.0 beta, and if no luck, I'll try to go down to 1.1. > Some news from my problem : I've tried 2.0 beta, 1.1, and both didn't worked. I went down to v1.0.15, and it works... Still haven't found what's wrong with newer versions...

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[Dovecot] 2.0 beta4 (5d76f5b13883): Home directory not recognized
by Thomas Leuxner 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hi, latest Mercurial seems to have problems with the Config Module unloads: May 5 19:18:16 spectre dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.beta4 (5d76f5b13883) starting up May 5 19:18:34 spectre dovecot: managesieve: Error: fd_read() partial input (54/88) May 5 19:18:34 spectre dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Error reading configuration: read(/var/run/dovecot/config) failed: EOF May 5 19:18:34 spectre dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotError: user root: Initialization failed: userdb didn't return a home directory, but plugin setting quota used it (%h): dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. $ tail /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf quota = dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=10%% acl = vfile:/var/vmail/conf.d/%d/acls:cache_secs=300 } Regards Thomas

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[Dovecot] migrating maildir from 1.1.7 to 1.2.11
by Romer Ventura 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hello, I have a SLES server running dovecot 1.1.7 and postfix which happens to be the production server. We are dumping all of the paid OSes so i have configured a Debian Lenny server to run the new mail server. The debian server has everything installed and it seems to be working fine. However, i need to get all the mailboxes from the SLES server, will there be any problem if i just copy the "vmail" folder to the new server...? Thanks ------ Romer Ventura

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin
by Thomas M Goerger 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hi, I'm testing out the dovecot expire plugin, and not seeing anything go into the database I've got set up. It's a mysql db. I've gone in and verified that the db is set up correctly. The socket is set up so that deliver should be able to talk to the db, but I'm not seeing anything in the expires table when I look. Is there anywhere that expire can log to so I can see what might be happening? It doesn't look like it logs to the dovecot log. Thanks! ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg(a)umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet Services Office: 626J WBOB * * * *************************************************************************

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[Dovecot] Plugin to handle message saved and handle move from tmp to cur/new
by Alex Baule 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hello everyone.... I need to finish my plugin, but i depends from some stuffs in the save/move process that i can't find how its work. In new zlib plugin (2.0) , the message is saved compressed now, but i dont find how is done the process to write the file to tmp, and move it to the cur or new directory (inside .Sent). I need to hook this function, to get access to some variables, like Flags and filename. There is a way to do this ? Tks.

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[Dovecot] [Bug] Case sensitive usernames and variables
by Неворотин Вадим 05 May '10

05 May '10

Today I've found a very irritating bug: I use mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u/ in my dovecot.conf. And if user type Username, username, USERname etc at login dovecot create a different Maildir's for one real user. But LDA works corretly and save all messages to lowercase username mailbox. No problem, add L: mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%Lu/ Then all works good. But I has also such namespace configuration: namespace shared { separator = / prefix = &BCAEMARBBEEESwQ7BDoEOA-/%%u/ location = maildir:/var/mail/%%u:INDEX=/var/mail/%u/shared/%%u subscriptions = no list = children } And here I can't replace %u with %Lu, because dovecot write to dovecot.log: IMAP(malamut): Error: Namespace '&BCAEMARBBEEESwQ7BDoEOA-/%Lu/': shared: Shared namespace prefix contains unknown variables So user has only one mailbox (with lovercase name), but a lot of different indexes for shared mailboxes, eg /var/mail/username/shared, /var/mail/USERname/shared etc. How can I tune dovecot to use always lowercase username? Dovecot 1.2.10

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