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[Dovecot] How do I get my mail from fetchmail into dovecot?
by Michael Steinbeck-Reeves 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

I have dovecot (with squirrel mail etc.) running without any problems but cannot understand how to get e-mail from a pop server into dovecot. I have fetchmail configured to pick up the mail from the pop3 server but don't understand how to get it from there into my dovecot mbox structure. New to mail servers! Thanks, Michael.

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[Dovecot] Virtual plugin - [SERVERBUG] BUG: Unknown internal error
by Brandon Lamb 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

/etc/dovecot/virtual/Inbox2/dovecot-virtual * -Trash -Trash/* -Deleted* -Junk* inthread x-references2 x-mailbox INBOX Using php to connect o {host}virtual/Inbox2 gives me [SERVERBUG] BUG: Unknown internal error. If I connect to virtual/Allmail which has "all" instead of the inthread line it works.

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Clarify rawlog example
by Matthijs Kooijman 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

# HG changeset patch # User matthijs(a)stdin.nl # Date 1240845142 -7200 # Branch HEAD # Node ID 19f4b6167b426c36b7b3b38db4397f2723dc75c2 # Parent c8de2237478fc01ee46e6ec8cda41e8d3cecb68c Clarify rawlog example. diff -r c8de2237478f -r 19f4b6167b42 dovecot-example.conf --- a/dovecot-example.conf Thu Apr 23 12:01:40 2009 -0400 +++ b/dovecot-example.conf Mon Apr 27 17:12:22 2009 +0200 @@ -543,6 +543,9 @@ # # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: # mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap + # Note that this writes into the homedir of the logged in user and will only + # work if the ~/dovecot.rawlog directory already exists. + # <doc/wiki/Debugging/Rawlog> # # This would attach gdb into the imap process and write backtraces into # /tmp/gdbhelper.* files:

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[Dovecot] Quota: ldap dict
by Marcio Merlone 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi, I have set a dovecot-1:1.0.10-1ubuntu5.1 server on top of a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS box and everything goes fine. All my users are on a LDAP database integrated via nss_ldap, so from the dovecot point of view they are all local system users. Now I want to set maildir quota for everybody, and was wondering if I could store quota limits per user on LDAP. As I read on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict, there seem to be no way to do that, am I right? It is ok for me to manage the current usage on Maildir++, but would like to retrieve the quota information from the LDAP server. What do you guys recommend? Thanks in advance for any hint or rtfm. Best regards. -- Marcio Merlone

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v2.0 hg tree
by Timo Sirainen 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/ I just did the initial commit for master process rewrite, which marks the beginning of Dovecot v2.0. Several things are still missing/broken, but at least I was just able to successfully log in using imap :) I left v1.3 hg tree there for now, but once v2.0 tree is fully usable I'll just delete the v1.3 tree. Note the new dovecot-master-example.conf, which you'll need to !include to get the services running. Some settings have also been removed because they're now more generically set in the dovecot-master.conf. I'm thinking that perhaps the config process could still be run in compatibility mode where it's able to use an existing v1.x dovecot.conf and translate the old settings to new settings.

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[Dovecot] Slow connections with POP3 service
by V S Rao 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi All, I am facing a very strange issue with the pop3 server for the past one week. I run my mail service using sendmail & use UW-IMAP for POP3 & IMAP service. We have around 5000 users. Suddenly for the past one week I am facing very slow connections for POP3 alone on that server. Other services such as SMTP, IMAP, telnet, ssh etc work fine. Assuming that UW-IMAP may have an issue, I download the latest dovecot, compiled it and installed it. This also gives the same issue. I do not any firewall issues nor iptables is enabled. I have checked on the network to ensure that I do not have any kind of virus or DoS attacks using an IDS. I am unable to see any 'Strange' messages in /var/log/messages or maillog. What is strange is that it works one day without any issues and the next day the problem persists. Even a telnet to localhost on port 110 is very very slow. Can someone help with any ideas on how to troubleshoot? This is our production box. Thanks V S Rao

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[Dovecot] Virtual plugin, timeout leaks
by Brandon Lamb 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Getting these Warning: imap <brandonl(a)pacwebdev.com>: Timeout leak: 0x461bd0 /etc/dovecot/virtual/Allmail/dovecot-virtual * -Trash -Trash/* all /etc/dovecot/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual virtual/Allmail inthread x-references2 x-mailbox INBOX /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf namespace private { prefix = "" separator = / list = yes hidden = yes } namespace private { prefix = virtual/ separator = / list = no hidden = yes inbox = yes location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:INDEX=~/dovecot-index } namespace private { prefix = RealMails/ separator = / list = no hidden = yes }

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[Dovecot] Links on MainConfig wiki page not working
by Matthijs Kooijman 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi all, while looking through the wiki page MainConfig, I noticed a lot of wannabe-links, for example: <doc/wiki/SSL> This looks like it should have been converted to a wiki link automatically, but apparently isn't. Would be good to have this fixed? Gr. Matthijs

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[Dovecot] Quota/Dict Postgres Trigger
by Warren Volz 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

I posted the trigger for v1.1 versions of Dovecot on the Wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict ) and while I understand the comment posted about two process inserting at the same time, I'm not sure I understand how this is fixed in v1.2 other than via the revised trigger in the Wiki. Does someone have a known working trigger that will handle a double insert correctly? Also, out of curiosity why wasn't the code for dict written to do an update first and then an insert if this failed? That would eliminate the need for this trigger. Thanks. -Warren

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[Dovecot] Mail statistics
by Timo Sirainen 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

I just committed a mail statistics gathering patch to v1.2: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/fdaf0bda70d5 It keeps track of: struct mail_private { .. /* open(), stat(), .. */ unsigned long stats_dentry_lookup_count; /* fstat() mostly */ unsigned long stats_attr_lookup_count; /* number of files we've opened and read */ unsigned long stats_files_read_count; /* number of bytes we've had to read from files */ unsigned long long stats_files_read_bytes; /* number of cache lookup hits */ unsigned long stats_cache_hit_count; So it's possible to write a plugin that does whatever with those values. You can get them per-command or even per-single-mail-access. Any thoughts on if those are good variables? Like would it be useful to split dentry lookups to opens and stats?

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