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[Dovecot] re-installation
by "M. Tolga Özses" 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hi, I reinstalled my system, therefore lost dovecot. I get this message after reinstalling imap-login: Authenticate plain failed: Plaintext authentication disabled.: method=plain, rip=192.168.1.2, lip=192.168.1.2. Can you help me? Thanks :) Regards, -- M. Tolga Özses Bilgi Teknolojisi Sabanci Üniversitesi Orhanli 34956 Tuzla Istanbul Tel: (216) 483 91 98 Web: http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/mtozses

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[Dovecot] dovecot mailbox to csv
by John Heim 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

We (the Math department at the U of Wisconsin) recently switched over from another server to dovecot One thing that a lot of people here do is set up an on-line form that sends them email. They use formmail for this. I have them edit their procmail config so that all the messages go into a particular mail folder.... So far so good. With our old system, all messages in a folder were kept in a single file. With dovecot, they go into a couple of different directories. This is problematic because we often need to convert the form field data to csv values so it can be imported into a spreadsheet. So a professor can create an on-line form and end up with the data from it in an Excell spreadsheet. Slick (when it works). I understand that I can make dovecot store messages in a file by leaving the trailing slash off when specifying the folder name. Sample procmail segment: :0: * Subject:.*\[feedback\] .feedback But I can't get the feedback folder to show up in the list of IMAP folders in my mail client. I've tried Outlook Express and Thunderbird. If I put the slash at the end, it creates a .feedback folder and then I can see it in my mail client. But then I can't export it to cvs. Anybody know why I can't see the .feeback folder? Or maybe somebody has a good way to get data from the body of messages stored in a dovecot folder, for example, .feedback/cur/ and .feedback/new/.

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[Dovecot] Site down?
by Michael Blinn 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

I'm getting a 'Forbidden' when accessing dovecot.org.. Have we been rooted, or is this scheduled maintenance, or..? -Michael

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[Dovecot] Website down? SSL2?
by Rick Romero 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

I think the website is down.. I can't get to the root, or any of the 'previously visited' links I still have in my browser. How do I turn off SSLv2 support?

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[Dovecot] bug with rsh/ssh connections
by David Lee 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

(Using rc7 code) There seems to be a bug in rsh/ssh-style connections. For reference, on a normal imap connection (port 143, 993, etc.) things are OK. The imap session ends (from a client-end command "a logout") thus: --- a logout * BYE Logging out a OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. unix-prompt% --- But when the connection had been established using rsh or ssh to the servers's "/etc/rimapd" which contains: exec /usr/dovecot/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap the session ends thus: --- a logout * BYE Logging out a OK Logout completed. imap(<username>): Info: Disconnected: Logged out unix-prompt% --- Note that additional, protocol-breaking, "imap(...): Info ..." line. This seems to be coming from "imap/cmd-logout.c" calling: client_disconnect(client, "Logged out"); which in turn ("imap/client.c") does: i_info("Disconnected: %s", reason); On the imap connection, this "i_info(...)" output goes (correctly) to syslog, but on the rsh/ssh connection this output seems to go to something like stdout. This strongly suggests a bug: an inconsistency between the two connection types, possibly regarding the way that stdout, stderr, syslog etc. are initialised, assigned, adjusted, etc. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : Durham University : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham DH1 3LE : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. :

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[Dovecot] Bug: auth_cache breaks master password feature
by Bill Boebel 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

When you set auth_cache_size to a value greater than zero, it breaks the master password feature in Dovecot. It appears that during a cache hit, Dovecot attempts to query the userdb for use the master user's home directory and other settings, rather than querying for the userdb settings of the user that the master was trying to log in for... causing the login to fail. Perhaps caching the userdb settings in addition to the passdb settings (since that is on the TODO list) would indirectly fix this problem. Bill

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[Dovecot] dovecot with vpopmail
by nq525＠singnet.com.sg 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

I have been using bincimap with vpopmail for awhile and would like to give dovecot a try. Does anyone has any success configuring dovecot with vpopmail? I have installed dovecot but didn't manage to get it up with vpopmail. It will be good if someone can share their settings on dovecot.conf with me. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Can't load certificate file: cert already in hash table
by Peter Abrahamsen 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi, I've searched for this error and found nothing. When I switch on SSL, I get the following errors: >>> Oct 3 20:05:23 [dovecot] Dovecot v1.0.rc7 starting up Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] Login process died too early - shutting down Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] imap-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.crt: error:0B07C065:x509 certificate routines:X509_STORE_add_cert:cert already in hash table Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] pop3-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.crt: error:0B07C065:x509 certificate routines:X509_STORE_add_cert:cert already in hash table - Last output repeated twice - Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] child 13344 (login) returned error 89 Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] child 13345 (login) returned error 89 Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] child 13346 (login) returned error 89 Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] child 13347 (login) returned error 89 <<< This is Gentoo on amd64 with openssl 0.9.8d. The cert and key were generated with tinyca and openssl 0.9.8c (I know, I know, it's upgrading now). I made 'em the same way I made my ldap and apache certs, which work fine. Any pointers? Also, why am I given a numeric error code? Thanks, Peter

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[Dovecot] Whatever happened to rc8?
by Charles Marcus 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

It sounded like there was going to be one, so that some of the fixes that didn't make it into rc7 could be easily tested before releasing 1.0? -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] No inbox for user error
by Ron 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, I'm getting 'no inbox for user' error. Set up sendmail, and can send and receive mail using Webmin/Usermin both to internal addresses and external ones. But Dovecot gives the no inbox error. I've tried telnetting in and get: +OK dovecot ready. USER myob -ERR Unknown command USER myob +UK PASS <password> +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. No idea why the first USER command gives an error. And, of course, when I try using Evolution I get 'Cannot get POP summary'. The Dovecot config file, less all the commented out bits is: imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] imaps_listen = [::] pop3s_listen = [::] ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login_chroot = yes login = imap login_user = dovecot login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root Any and all ideas very welcome. I'm a total newbie at this server business... Thanks in advance. Ron

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