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[Dovecot] Messages disappear and reappear when I check mailbox using KMail
by Lincoln Peters 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Not sure if this is a Dovecot bug or a KMail bug, but since it only seems to happen to people using KMail to access a Dovecot server or a Novell NetWare IMAP server, I thought I should mention it here. <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121866> From the bug report: When I check for mail on an IMAP account (not disconnected), all recently-received messages disappear prior to any mail check, any new messages appear, and then the messages that disappeared earlier reappear. This does not seem to cause any harm, but it is horrendously inefficient if there are a lot of messages in an IMAP folder so affected. Any ideas as to what could cause this behavior in a mail client when connecting to a Dovecot IMAP server but not when connecting to other kinds of IMAP servers? -- Lincoln Peters <sampln(a)sbcglobal.net> BOFH excuse #80: That's a great computer you have there; have you considered how it would work as a BSD machine? /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards

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[Dovecot] IMAP and Outlook XP Contacts
by DiskMan 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I was wondering, does Dovecot's IMAP server hand Outlook XP's contact lists? I tried to enter a contact on my IMAP server and received an error from Outlook stating that the Contacts formatting was too complex and thus couldn't be saved. I went ahead and swung my box over to MailDir and scrapped Sendmail for Postfix [for maildir support], I was wondering, would this issue continue? In other words, by swinging over to MailDir, would Dovecot be able to handle Outlook's Contacts information? Will L G

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[Dovecot] Another permissions problem?
by Anne Wilson 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

The rebuild server is now almost complete. Dovecot is running, and I can telnet and log in. In kmail on this workstation I have created an imap account, for which Inbox was created. I also created Trash and sent-mail as top-level folders, and they display correctly with the cur, new and tmp sub-folders on the server. I now want to create subfolders of Inbox, and there I'm coming unstuck. According to the info box URL: (unknown) Date and time: Saturday 18 February 2006 16:51 Additional information: imap://anne@192.168.0.30:143/INBOX/LAN//;INFO=ASKUSER Possible causes: Your access permissions may be inadequate to perform the requested operation on this resource The location where the folder was to be created may not exist A protocol error or incompatibility may have occurred This is what I have at the moment: ls -al -R ~/Maildir /home/anne/Maildir: total 44 drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 49 anne anne 4096 Feb 18 17:23 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:48 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 61 Feb 18 17:21 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 .INBOX drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 new drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .sent-mail -rw------- 1 anne users 16 Feb 18 16:48 .subscriptions drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 tmp drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .Trash /home/anne/Maildir/cur: total 28 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. -rw------- 1 anne users 18063 Feb 18 17:21 1140283312.P16651Q0M725303.wkstn.domain.lan:2,FS /home/anne/Maildir/.INBOX: total 32 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 17:21 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.tree /home/anne/Maildir/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail: total 48 drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:51 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 new drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 tmp /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash: total 48 drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:51 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 new drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 tmp /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. Any suggestions, please? Anne

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[Dovecot] Login processes don't die
by Jürgen Herz 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hello, I'm a fresh dovecot user (resp. admin), using dovecot 0.99.14 (a little old, but that's what Debian Sarge provides). In general everything works as it should, but there's something that makes me wonder. The wiki says "By default each login process will handle only a single connection and afterwards kill itself." But it does look different to me. On startup there are two imap-login processes running (login_processes_count is 2). When connecting with Sylpheed, one additional imap process is running. But when connecting with Mozilla (Seamonkey), I get three imap-login and one imap process at minimum (Maximum number of server connections to cache set to 1 in Mozilla). If the cached connections is set to 2, there are four imap-login and two imap processes. So it looks to me as the login processes don't get killed. Is this a client issue (but how could it keep the login alive?), is this a known bug in the older dovecot, or something unknown? BTW, login_process_per_connection is default. Regards, Jürgen

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[Dovecot] Second user problems
by Anne Wilson 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

I have dovecot (0.99.14 under FC4) set up and working beautifully for my mail, handing on to procmail, and handling many subfolders. Today I needed to set up a second user. I added his account in kmail and created a sub-folder, but no sent-mail, trash etc. were created. I have sent test messages and /var/log/maillog says they have been processed, but they are not arriving in his inbox. /var/log/mail.info shows that he has logged in to dovecot. He has a simple .procmailrc to handle the one subdirectory. I'm sure that it must be something I've missed in dovecot.conf, but I can't see anything there that shouldn't work just as well for him as it does for me. Any pointers? Anne

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Re: [Dovecot] Second user problems
by Anne Wilson 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:55, Stroller wrote: > On 16 Feb 2006, at 20:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > > ... Today I needed to set > > up a second user. I added his account in kmail and created a sub- > > folder, but > > no sent-mail, trash etc. were created. I have sent test messages > > and /var/log/maillog says they have been processed, but they are > > not arriving > > in his inbox. > > How did you create the user on the server, please? Using Fedora's User management tool > Can you show us the output of `grep -ie FirstUser -ie SecondUser /etc/ > passwd`? grep -ie anne -ie david /etc/passwd anne:x:500:100:Anne Wilson:/home/anne:/bin/bash david:x:502:100:David Wilson:/home/david:/bin/bash > Of `ls -la ~FirstUser ~SecondUser`? > Do you really want that - it's huge - or do you want me to look for specific lines? I'll post all of it if you need it. Anne

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[Dovecot] "undefined reference to `yes_storage'"
by DiskMan 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Well after the 'issues' with Compaq C, I decided to attempt compile using GCC-3.4.3... To put it short, that didn't fair well either. Will L G. Redhat 7.2 [Alpha] GCC 3.4.3 Binutils-2.16.x Kernel-2.6.13.4 ccache gcc-3.4.3 -std=gnu99 -g -O5 -finline -fstrict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -mieee -w -mtune=ev56 -mmax -pipe -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wl,-lots -Wl,-lcpml -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o imap cmd-append.o cmd-authenticate.o cmd-capability.o cmd-check.o cmd-close.o cmd-copy.o cmd-create.o cmd-delete.o cmd-examine.o cmd-expunge.o cmd-fetch.o cmd-idle.o cmd-list.o cmd-login.o cmd-logout.o cmd-lsub.o cmd-namespace.o cmd-noop.o cmd-rename.o cmd-search.o cmd-select.o cmd-sort.o cmd-status.o cmd-store.o cmd-subscribe.o cmd-thread.o cmd-uid.o cmd-unselect.o cmd-unsubscribe.o client.o commands.o commands-util.o imap-expunge.o imap-fetch.o imap-fetch-body.o imap-messageset.o imap-search.o imap-sort.o imap-sync.o imap-thread.o mail-storage-callbacks.o main.o namespace.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a ../../src/lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a ../../src/lib-index/libindex.a ../lib-storage/libstorage.a ../lib-storage/subscription-file/libstorage_subscription_file.a ../lib-imap/libimap.a ../lib-mail/libmail.a ../lib-dict/libdict.a ../lib-charset/libcharset.a ../lib/liblib.a -ldl ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a(mail-storage-register.o): In function `mail_storage_register_all': /usr2/www/linux-related/servers/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/lib-storage/register/m ail-storage-register.c:6: undefined reference to `yes_storage' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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[Dovecot] Segmentation fault
by DiskMan 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Receiving nothing but a 'segfault' when ever I attempt to run any of the binaries after building... Redhat 7.2 [Alpha] Compaq C 6.5.9 Binutils-2.16.x Kernel-2.6.13.4 CC="ccache ccc" CXX="ccache cxx" \ CFLAGS="-shared -O2 -fast -ansi_alias -arch ev56 -mieee -w -pipe" \ CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fast -ansi_alias -arch ev56 -w -pipe" \ ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --build=alpha-alpha-linux \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-passwd \ --with-mysql \ --with-storages \ --localstatedir=/var make -s This GDB was configured as "alphapca56-alpha-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr2/www/pub/alpha-RH7/servers/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3/pop3 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000002000100a4c0 in __do_global_dtors_aux () (gdb) (gdb) (gdb) bt #0 0x000002000100a4c0 in __do_global_dtors_aux () Cannot access memory at address 0x120019f24 TIA, Will L G

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[Dovecot] Growing pools and disconnects
by mmaurer＠betterbe.com 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Since a couple of hours I see *a lot* of the following messages in my maillog: Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 32768 Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 65536 Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 131072 This happens also when viewing small inboxes (but the number being ~1024). This is dovecot 1.0.beta2, which has been running for about 2 days. Any indication where this message is coming from? The first day we never saw this message appearing. Dovecot now also seems to randomly disconnect people from time to time. Any insights would be appreciated. Marc

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[Dovecot] Authentication failing - Ant Internet Suite (Risc-OS)
by Simon Waters 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Switched to using dovecot for POP3, PLAIN login. One client with "Ant Internet Suite" can't use the service with this client, he used the same setting with another email client and it worked. On inspection of the packets, it is sending one packet with; "user username\r\npass password\r\nstat\r\n" Dovecot sends an "-ERR Unknown command", then a "+OK Logged in". I'm wondering if things got out of sequence here, since a "STAT" to dovecot before authentication causes the "Unknown command" error. "STAT" isn't allowed in the authentication stage... but well it issued it last.... Anyway I'm unclear here on the precise details of the packet trace, possible it is responding to an earlier packet, but thought I'd ask before pursuing this further in case some one leaps up and says "oh that'll be...". The client software has an option to disabled "queued commands" buried deep within it (append /ucb to user details), I suggested trying this if possible, will report back if it works. Also mentioned in a Google search. I'm curious as to what is right here, but the "/ucb" is presumably the practical answer if it works. Simon

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