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[Dovecot] Rebuild folder listing?
by Roderick A. Anderson 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

I don't know what to call what I'm trying to do so I'll explain the situation. I had a total complete crash of the Linux-Vserver system that was hosting a Postfix+Dovecot guest with a three domains and 1-5 accounts per domain. Lots of mail though. Before it completely melted down I as able to get to the data (messages) and save them and the configuration files for both Dovecot and Postfix. I now have a replacement system up and running and have copied the directories onto it. I can log in to the accounts but I don't see the folders (I use Thunderbird as a MUA). Attempts to "subscribe" and "refresh" the list give me no results. No list of folders. What should I do? I'm thinking I could delete the dovecot files: dovecot.index, dovecot.index.cache, dovecot.index.log, dovecot-uidlist, subscriptions, and while I'm at it possibly dovecot-keywords. Then access the account(s) and Dovecot will rebuild them with the true/correct information. Am I heading anywhere near the right direction? TIA, Rod --

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Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected Log messages I'd like to disable?
by dovecot＠corwyn.net 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

I understand what the log message means. I currently have dovecot logging flipped up about as high as I can have it set in about every way that I can. What I'd like to know is which logging setting can I lower to not see this message (or if there is one), and what OTHER things won't log if I decrease that logging setting. thx. rick At 08:43 AM 2/9/2009, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, dovecot(a)corwyn.net wrote: > >>Feb 9 08:06:52 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): >>Disconnected: Logged out bytes=479/51185 > >Search the archive for a mail from Timo few times ago, it just means >that the user logges out (LOGOUT command). > >Bye, > >- -- Steffen Kaiser >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > >iQEVAwUBSZAzIHWSIuGy1ktrAQKQDQf/S0zCmCuQ+xtJI0o3goUdDo0++yGXRyCp >fGdDKQ7YnOL1VOM1FnBjGJkhfYs/K6WuVFqQzqVrBjCoItsFWIvZCoeGWeHYPQf1 >6qRYngFSJLfdFDg9Ift5UvCnIS9W5jYv6otkJlddoH0SHeypSb9RZbPR20Ywf2da >whV4bB41W8ys/upUkaBd7+gKKcYcbSp+l3ZBXCrLnDbj7pCISnv2sENkTz2df1eE >wQSgpnbazmr9ePCx1cWDdvN5Wy9RN5KoGc+H0axtI7Uav5tkP7nVJ8GSmqBBH54r >nkvOrtmAjTMwp4MbYh6x2wejZJAY8lp72wQOeg3sJak32f3la0ZLgw== >=mLed >-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Disconnected Log messages I'd like to disable?
by dovecot＠corwyn.net 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

I regularly get this message in my logs: Feb 9 08:03:59 mailserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=24.213.158.249, lip=192.168.250.80, TLS Feb 9 08:04:49 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=189/468 Feb 9 08:06:09 mailserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=24.213.158.249, lip=192.168.250.80, TLS Feb 9 08:06:52 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=479/51185 Feb 9 08:06:52 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=479/51185 (which I think is from my blackberry users) I'd like to not log Feb 9 08:06:52 mailserver dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=479/51185 Suggestions? rick Rick Steeves http://www.sinister.net "The journey is the destination"

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[Dovecot] v1.1.11 released
by Timo Sirainen 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.11.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.11.tar.gz.sig Hopefully this v1.1 release will last a few months. - IMAP: PERMANENTFLAGS list didn't contain \*, causing some clients not to save keywords. - dbox: INTERNALDATE and save date was returned wrong for converted maildir files. - auth: Using "username" or "domain" passdb fields caused problems with cache and blocking passdbs in v1.1.8 .. v1.1.10. - userdb prefetch + blocking passdbs was broken with non-plaintext auth in v1.1.8 .. v1.1.10. - If mail_chroot is set, don't fail at startup in dump-capability.

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[Dovecot] Maildir structure question
by Nicolas KOWALSKI 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

Hello, About the INBOX location when using maildir, in the wiki, http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir, I can read: " Directory Structure ~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain the messages for INBOX. The tmp directory is used during delivery, new messages arrive in new and read shall be moved to cur by the clients. " But in my Maildir, I see this: niko@petole:~$ ls -la Maildir/ total 144 drwxr-xr-x 35 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 08:37 . drwxr-xr-x 25 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 10:26 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 09:16 .INBOX ... There are no 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories in ~/Maildir, as written in the wiki, but instead this .INBOX directory which contains these 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. Is this expected ? Thanks. My configuration: petole:~# dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.28.3 i686 Debian 4.0 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/petole.demisel.net.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/petole.demisel.net.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir namespace: type: private separator: / list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] Best Imap Transfer Tool?
by Neil 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

So I'm looking to do a migration of my IMAP mailboxes, and I'm looking for the best tool to use. I used to use the uw-mailutil tool, a while ago, but that was a bit coarse of a tool. More recently I've used imapsync, but that was giving me some errors. I've sort of tracked those down; but I was wondering if anyone else had any other recommendations...? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Migrating mail between servers
by Knute Johnson 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

I've currently got dovecot running on a Fedora server and I want to move all my mail to my new server running ubuntu. Both use mbox and I have IMAP working in both. Can I just copy the ~user/mail directory and /var/mail/user file and replace them in the new server? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H.L. Mencken

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD pam auth problems
by Dmitry Samersoff 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

I'm impressed by dovecto and try to upgrade my home system from wu-imapd running there for last 5 years to dovecot. It's straghtforward FreeBSD setup with ssl-only auth, inboxes in /var/mail and user mail under %h/Mail But I get some strange error: Fatal: userdb didn't return a home directory, but mail location used it (%h): %h/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Thank you in advance! -Dmitry mircat:dovecot#./sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.10: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot log_path: /var/log/dovecot_main.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot_info.log listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: nobody login_chroot: no login_max_processes_count: 30 max_mail_processes: 30 first_valid_uid: 1 mail_uid: smmsp mail_gid: smmsp mail_location: mbox:%h/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mbox_lazy_writes: no auth default: failure_delay: 1 verbose: yes debug: yes worker_max_request_count: 1 passdb: driver: pam args: imap -- Dmitry Samersoff dms(a)samersoff.net, http://devnull.samersoff.net * There will come soft rains ...

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[Dovecot] Info regarding conversion of mbox to maildir
by Scott Silva 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

When I finally decide to convert to maildir, will I have to set up namespaces during the conversion, or will dovecot figure out where everything is by itself? Should I set up deliver to go to maildir/ globally, or per user? I have considered using the convert plugin, if there are not a lot of negatives. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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[Dovecot] Public namespace permissions documentation/questions
by Thomas Hummel 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Hello Timo, In my trials to setup a shared namespace with dovecot-1.1.8/LDAP passdb/userdb (prefetch)/Maildir, I found out that : 1) ACL are mandatory (at least if the acl plugin is triggered in dovecot.conf) Am I correct ? I'm still not sure if we can do without ACL at all (only with unix permissions and system_user userdb extra field). 2) the system_user userdb extra field is supposed to be ...the logname of the user the secondary groups of whom we want to check ! i.e. if user foobar belongs to secondary groups foogid, zgid, wgid and doveshared uid=xxx(foobar) gid=yyy(foogid) groups=zzz(zgid),www(wgid),vvv(doveshared) and we dovecot to take them into account, we have to make the usedb return the system_user extra field with the value foobar. Seems obvious now and said this way, but looking at the wiki : "system_user: If this is given, the user's groups are read from /etc/group (or wherever NSS is configured to taken them from)." I thought 'system_user' was a flag (a boolean) which, when triggered made dovecot look for the secondaries group of the user (user whose name is already known). a) am I correct ? b) why isn't system_user such a boolean ? Is there a case where we'd want system_user to be different than the user dovecot runs as at the moment the check takes place ? 3) same idea with acl_groups : since this extra_field holds a list of groups for the ACL plugin, why not rely on the native unix groups of the system the user belong to ? Thanks (and sorry for the 2 previous threads where I was blindly confused by the system_user thing). -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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