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[Dovecot] chroot directory question
by Lisa C Boyd 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users are getting this error message: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this: dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user Looking through the dovecot.conf file I see where it says not to add in home directories under valid_chroot_dirs if the users have access to those directories. So I'm stuck now as to what I need to add to the conf file and I'm a little confused as to why it works for my email account and not the other users. Everything with these user accounts is setup the same (same maildir format, etc.). Thanks for any help :) Lisa B.

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[Dovecot] Mailbox usage
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I use dovecot-0.99.11 from RHEL4. dovecot-mysql.conf: === db_host = dbhost db_port = 3306 db = db db_user = dovecot db_passwd = pass default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = '%u' user_query = select maildir AS home,u_id AS uid,g_id AS gid from users WHERE username = '%u' === When I try "telnet localhost 110" and enter test login, I get in errorlog: === dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'andy@domain' dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: select maildir AS home,u_id AS uid,g_id AS gid from users WHERE username = 'andy@domain' pop3-login: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: Login: andy@domain [::ffff:127.0.0.1] dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: Login process 9 disconnected dovecot: Jun 06 07:21:49 Fatal: chdir(/var/mail-domain/andy@domain) failed with uid 506: Not a directory dovecot: Jun 06 07:21:49 Error: child 19446 (pop3) returned error 89 === I think, dovecot use "/var/mail-domain/andy@domain" as maildir - not as mailbox. What need set in dovecot config for work with mailbox? Thanks. -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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[Dovecot] Debugging test72
by Doug Luce 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

When attempting to save a message from the INBOX to a folder in a collection (like, .projects.dovecot), I get behavior like this (in GDB). Any clue what might be going wrong? Here's where a SIGABRT happens: 280 return array->buffer->used / array->element_size; This is the stack trace: (gdb) where #0 mail_index_map_get_ext_idx (map=0x1200c0db0, ext_id=0, idx_r=0x11ffe828) at ../../src/lib/array.h:280 #1 0x120058dcc in _view_lookup_ext_full (view=0x1200c0db0, seq=0, ext_id=0, map_r=0x11ffe898, data_r=0x11ffe8a0) at mail-index-view.c:395 #2 0x120059468 in mail_index_lookup_ext_full (view=0x1301100d4, seq=0, ext_id=301983784, map_r=0x1300e2078, data_r=0x1200c4f14) at mail-index-view.c:561 #3 0x12005912c in mail_index_lookup_keywords (view=0x1200c4e00, seq=0, keyword_idx=0x11ffe8f8) at mail-index-view.c:475 #4 0x12003e880 in index_mail_get_keywords (_mail=0x1200c0db0) at index-mail.c:184 #5 0x120063238 in mail_get_keywords (mail=0x1301100d4) at mail.c:39 #6 0x120063550 in mail_storage_copy (t=0x1200c2880, mail=0x1200e7020, dest_mail=0x0) at mail-copy.c:22 #7 0x12002a90c in maildir_copy (_t=0x1200c2880, mail=0x1200e7020, dest_mail=0x0) at maildir-copy.c:155 #8 0x120064dac in mailbox_copy (t=0x1301100d4, mail=0x0, dest_mail=0x11ffe828) at mail-storage.c:456 #9 0x120011b78 in fetch_and_copy (t=0x1200c2880, srcbox=0x0, search_args=0x1200e7020) at cmd-copy.c:28 #10 0x120011d98 in cmd_copy (cmd=0x1200c0268) at cmd-copy.c:88 #11 0x120017598 in client_handle_input (cmd=0x1200c0268) at client.c:334 #12 0x120017748 in _client_input (context=0x1200c0db0) at client.c:383 #13 0x12007e670 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x1200c2000) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #14 0x12007dd5c in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x1200c2000) at ioloop.c:218 #15 0x120022b10 in main (argc=537660848, argv=0x11ffeb10, envp=0x11ffeb20) at main.c:228 And, stepping from this position results in the bomb: (gdb) s Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x130247908 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5 I'm not too familiar with the source code, so figuring out exactly what this is up to would be a major chore. I'm hoping someone can give me a little clue as to what direction I should take to fix this problem. Thanks! Doug

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[Dovecot] assertion failed -0.99 -> 1.0-stable
by Thomas Hummel 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hello Timo, I've upgraded from dovecot-0.99 to dovecot-1.0-stable (the 2005-05-09 version) on FreeBSD 5.4 and encountered the following problems (problem #4 (assertion failed) made me downgrade back to dovecot-0.99...) : 1. mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/gopauld (5230 > 4407) --> OK, that's documented on the Wiki, not a real problem 2. imap(cxxx): mkdir_parents(/opt/dovecot/c/cxxx/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied --> I can't understand why since /opt/dovecot/c is rwxrwxrwt and belongs to root:wheel 3. dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /yyyy/zzzz/xxxx/Mail/Drafts 4. dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: +(rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) --> That one occured each time a user connected with Eudora (on OS-X) moved messages from INBOX to some of her IMAP mailboxes. Since it was in real life, I hadn't time to get a gdb backtrace. Notes : . that user had restarted her client (Eudora). . my messages moves from one IMAP mbox to another did work. . the assertion failed occured with the version of 2005-06-04 as well (which I tried since the ChangLog mentionned some similar problems). Any clues ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] CONTROLDIR directive
by Alan Premselaar 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Is the CONTROLDIR directive only available (undocumented as it may be) in the 1.0 series? I'm currently using 0.99.13 and I didn't find CONTROLDIR with grep. Thanks alan

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[Dovecot] Error on pop3
by Roberto Tagliaferri 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi, I've installed dovecot on my server (pop3 service on dovecot 1.0 stable plus patch for more logging, postfix as mta) and it's ok (not all, need more fine-tuning) but on one account i've a problem.. the account is read by oe 6, message on server mode. dovecot: Jun 09 15:00:18 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:00:19 Info: info-cipani,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: Logout. top=0, retr=0, del=0/122 dovecot: Jun 09 15:04:05 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:04:18 Error: info-xxx,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: file mbox-sync.c: line 1129 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion failed: (offset == 0 || offset > 31) dovecot: Jun 09 15:07:19 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:07:19 Info: info-xxx,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: Logout. top=0, retr=0, del=0/0 Where is the 122 messages of first login???? -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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[Dovecot] mail directory in user home?
by Knute Johnson 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hey: When I run dovecot and retrieve any mail for a user, a mail directory is created in the users home. It has a subdirectory Inbox. No mail goes there however, it all goes to /var/spool/username. What is that directory for and how do I get it to not make it or can I? I am only using POP3. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] Fedora Core 4 and certificates
by Kenneth Porter 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

This is a heads-up that certificates will be moving to a new location in FC4. See section 6.2.3.1 in the release notes: <http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/>

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[Dovecot] IP in rawlog
by Andreas Goertz 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi, i'm using dovecot with rawlog enabled. Well, i need to log the IP of the user, too. Could you give me a hint, how this can be implemented? Thanks and regards, Andreas Goertz.

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[Dovecot] Problem with configure.in in dovecot-stable CVS
by Brian T Glenn 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I am having trouble with using dovecot-stable from CVS. I get the following error when running autogen.sh: configure.in: 4: required file `./[config.h].in' not found I see the config.h.in file in the root dir, but I cannot figure out what the brackets are for. If I modify the file and remove the brackets, it works properly and I can compile dovecot. What are the brackets in the name for? Am I breaking something by removing them? Thanks, -- Brian T Glenn delink.net Internet Services

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