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[Dovecot] index files
by Jonathan Salomon 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hi Timo, I am sorry to bug you about this, but I am a bit confused and I have approx 200 users so I don't want to screw this up. I am using the latest FC2 Dovecot RPM: dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. I am using NFS to mount the /home dirs on the fileserver from the mailserver with mbox. In the docs you said that I should probably use :INDEX=MEMORY. However I think this really pushes the server to its limits with large mailboxes (I have sometimes loads of 8+!). Also I want to use mailaccounts that are shared by users (to multiple users acces the same mailbox simulateously). If I write the index file to a location on the filesystem, will this improve performance and still work with simultaneous logins? Should I upgrade to version 1.00.something because I read somewhere you rewrote the mbox functions? Thanks again, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Request for testing: BSD kqueue ioloop handler
by Andrey Panin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, attached patch adds experimental ioloop handler which uses BSD kqueue API. It compiles and survives my small test program, but not thoroughly tested because I have no suitable BSD machine to torture. Brave owners of (Free|Net|Open)BSD please test and report results :) Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] move iolist functions into separate file
by Andrey Panin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, attached patch extracts iolist related functions into separate file and makes it a little more generic. This functions will be used by the new ioloop handler based on the BSD kqueue API. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Period at end of folder in Pine
by doug＠dovecot.con.com 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

When using folder-name completion, Pine sticks a period at the end of dovecot mediated IMAP folder names. This is invalid, of course, and I end up having to backspace the period to use the proper name. Anyone have a clue on a workaround? I'd imagine this is a FAQ type issue.... Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] login with alias
by Gasha 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

Hi all, i'm setting up mail server and here is the question: if, for example "firstname.lastname(a)domain.com" is e-mail address, then how can i setup login as "firstname.lastname" and "password" not only "firstname". Of course, users want all things simple. But i don't want to use login names longer than 8 chars. Any ideas? Or should i try to create users as "firstname.lastname" in /etc/passwd file ?? Gasha

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test51
by Timo Sirainen 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ This release is built with autoconf 2.59 and libtool 1.9. We'll see how it works out :) The required changes were done by Matthias Andree. - The last fix for connection hanging made IDLE use 100% CPU - We don't use Maildir/.INBOX/ directory anymore, indexes are stored in Maildir-root - Don't crash with FETCH BODY[n.MIME] - Changed %p (protocol) -> %s (service) and %P (pid) -> %p. Hopefully people weren't using these much yet :) - Added simple caching for sql passdb requests. Should be implemented soon for sql userdb and ldap passdb/userdb. See auth_cache_size and auth_cache_ttl settings. By default it's disabled.

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[Dovecot] direct access or local IMAP access?
by Alan Schmitt 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

Hello, Thanks to much help from Timo Sirainen, I now have a running dovecot on my Mac, that works great both with mutt and Mail.app. I'm going to have a lot of mail stored there (about 40000 messages for 1.4GB in 30 folders), and I was wondering if it was better (in terms of performance and stability) to directly access the mail using the maildir hierarchy, or access it using local IMAP. Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] assertion failed
by Tom Sommer 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

Using test51: Oct 22 23:37:21 one dovecot: 2657(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): file mail-cache-fields.c: line 338 (mail_cache_header_fields_get): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(dest) == sizeof(hdr) + (sizeof(uint32_t)*2 + 2) * hdr.fields_count) Oct 22 23:37:21 one dovecot: child 2657 (imap) killed with signal 6 What does it mean? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test51 / POP3 broken
by Brad 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

OS: OpenBSD 3.5 -stable/macppc dovecot: Oct 21 01:59:01 Info: pop3-login: Login: wendy [192.168.3.6] dovecot: Oct 21 01:59:02 Error: child 13213 (pop3) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 21 02:03:32 Info: pop3-login: Login: robb [192.168.3.6] dovecot: Oct 21 02:03:32 Error: child 17627 (pop3) killed with signal 11 (gdb) bt #0 0x1813bb8 in maildir_transaction_save_commit_post () #1 0x180f504 in maildir_transaction_commit () #2 0x183aff4 in mailbox_transaction_commit () #3 0x180b204 in clients_deinit () #4 0x180be9c in client_command_execute () #5 0x180a808 in client_send_storage_error () #6 0x184f43c in io_loop_handler_run () #7 0x184eba4 in io_loop_run () #8 0x180c4d4 in main () #9 0x1809c78 in _start ()

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env problems
by Neil Marjoram 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

I am having problems setting the default mail environment.# I am using Fedora Core 2 with version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 My users all have an NFS mounted home directory, and all mail is delivered to ~Mail/.mailbox it is all mbox format. I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}. So I set these parameters for default_mail_env : mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/Mail/.mailbox Which produced the error : imap(test): stat() failed with mbox file ~/Mail/.mailbox: No such file or directory I set the mail environment back to default, linked inbox to .mailbox in the ~/Mail directory and all worked fine. Is there a better way to do this ? I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}, so I decided to set: default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n and got this error: imap(test): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/indexes//test dovecot: child 9142 (imap) returned error 89 I also tried : default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%u And got the same error. I guessed at permissions, so I tried changing the ownership to dovecot and then test and then root and then 777, but I still get this error. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL

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