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[Dovecot] mail location questions
by Chris 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi all, I'm reading the docs and confs and it's not quite sinking in, mostly cuz I've been reading IMAP docs for a week now trying to find one that I want. :) I have a mail server that will have about 800 webmail users without actual home directories. Can I set up the IMAP dir in another location, like /var/imap, where everyone can read/store their mail? Or just use the /var/spool/mail/<user> mbox file and make a sub dir for the indexing files? Sorry if this is basic, all I saw was ~/Maildir locs. :P Thanks! -- C

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[Dovecot] What version am I running
by Mark Lidstone 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi all, This is probably a silly question, but is there an easy way to get the dovecot executable to report it's version number? Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== ==

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test38
by Timo Sirainen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Recent flag fixes - saving/copying mails into maildir which didn't have index files was broken - output stream fix - pop3 crashfix - mbox_dirty_syncs fixes, also disabling it didn't work before - etc. There are still some crashes and I don't remember if I fixed a problem with mboxes where expunging mails while new mails were coming caused some breakages.. but I can't reproduce it anymore. Anyway I think that could be fixed with disabling dirty syncs.

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RE: [Dovecot] Dovecots pop3-UIDL command impl. not RFC compliant ?
by Mark Lidstone 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Errr. 0x21-0x7E is !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefgh ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ I can see 0-9 and \. in there. Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: mymailingslists(a)gmx.at [mailto:mymailingslists@gmx.at] Sent: 02 September 2004 14:15 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecots pop3-UIDL command impl. not RFC compliant ? Hi ! POP3-RFC (1939) speaks about UIDL command: The unique-id of a message is an arbitrary server-determined string, consisting of one to 70 characters in the range 0x21 to 0x7E, which uniquely identifies a message within a maildrop and which persists across sessions. When I issue an UIDL command (dovecot 0.99.10.9) I get replies like 1 1093990148.1 2 1093990148.2 3 1093990148.3 ... . You see the problem ? '0'-'9' and '.' are not in range 0x21-0x7E ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently I'm tracking down a nasty problem with Outlook 2003 together with dovecot acting as pop3 server. Multile pop3 accounts, with 'leave mail on server' on. (cant turn it off) for no apparent reason, a couple of mails (just a few out of thousands/hundrets) get re-downloaded again, and again, and again ... as if client had not seen it before. Might be a client problem ... while trying to find out the reason for this behaviour if found this UIDL thing. I fear it might not be the true reason/problem for my problems with outlook redownloading certian mails forevr, but I thought it doesnt hurt to report it ;)

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[Dovecot] starting multiples instances of dovecot listening on same port
by mymailingslists＠gmx.at 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Of course it's useless and this just can't work ... if I try it returns with an error message. Can't bind to port xy. No problem, that's the way it should be, but further strange things worth mentioning happen. After the second instance quits with error msg, the currently running instance doesn't accept any client connections anymore. Needs to be restarted. (currently I'm only using dc 0.99.10.9 as pop3 server) That's really no problem, but strange :> (I admit I'm somewhat curious if this problem is specific to my setup or if its happening everywhere)

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[Dovecot] mutt polling imap mailboxes
by Martin Ehmsen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi... I have the exact same problem as being described in this posting from february: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-February/002950.html That mutt in combination with dovecot dosen't show correctly which folders contains new messages. It is starting to bug me very much, so i'm willing to do about everything to help fix this problem. The problem is, that I don't know if it's a mutt or dovecot problem? I'm not a novice c-hacker, so I shoud be able to test about every idea that someone has about where this problem comes from. Hope someone will help me in my quest to crush this bug. Thanks in advance Martin

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[Dovecot] Dovecots pop3-UIDL command impl. not RFC compliant ?
by mymailingslists＠gmx.at 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi ! POP3-RFC (1939) speaks about UIDL command: The unique-id of a message is an arbitrary server-determined string, consisting of one to 70 characters in the range 0x21 to 0x7E, which uniquely identifies a message within a maildrop and which persists across sessions. When I issue an UIDL command (dovecot 0.99.10.9) I get replies like 1 1093990148.1 2 1093990148.2 3 1093990148.3 ... . You see the problem ? '0'-'9' and '.' are not in range 0x21-0x7E ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently I'm tracking down a nasty problem with Outlook 2003 together with dovecot acting as pop3 server. Multile pop3 accounts, with 'leave mail on server' on. (cant turn it off) for no apparent reason, a couple of mails (just a few out of thousands/hundrets) get re-downloaded again, and again, and again ... as if client had not seen it before. Might be a client problem ... while trying to find out the reason for this behaviour if found this UIDL thing. I fear it might not be the true reason/problem for my problems with outlook redownloading certian mails forevr, but I thought it doesnt hurt to report it ;)

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[Dovecot] dovecot+postifx+ldap
by venne 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

hi, i'm trying to set a dovecot/pop + postfix couple with ldap authentification. and i'v got a lots of troubles. hers's my dovecot.conf protocols = pop3 login = imap login = pop3 first_valid_gid = 1000 last_valid_gid = 0 mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir mbox_locks = dotlock flock auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_verbose = yes here's dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = 192.168.128.1 dn = cn=manager,o=dental-on-line dnpass = dolmaster ldap_version = 3 base = ou=002f83,ou=machines,ou=fr,o=dental-on-line deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) default_pass_scheme = PLAIN user_global_uid = 1000 user_global_gid = 1000 and, a ldif exempl: dn: uid=mwerly, ou=002F83, ou=machines, ou=fr, o=dental-on-line displayName: WERLY Marc shadowExpire: -1 mobile: 000 objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: shadowAccount userPassword:: eHh4 shadowLastChange: 10000 facsimileTelephoneNumber: 01.43.21.54.75 uid: mwerly uidNumber: 12164 cn: Marc WERLY shadowInactive: -1 loginShell: /bin/bash shadowMin: 0 gidNumber: 100 shadowMax: 999999 gecos: mwerly homeDirectory: /home/mwerly sn: Marc shadowWarning: 99 1 it seems unable to authenticate with pop3-login: Login: mwerly [192.168.1.7] Aug 31 17:47:35 dental01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050d70 (0) Aug 31 17:47:35 dental01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084db0 (1) :o( 2 if I comment user_global_uid = 1000 user_global_gid = 1000 dovecot can't get uidnumber from ldap, in spite of its presence in ldap entry :'o( 3 postfix seem able to send messages to local virtual users(thanks of ldap/pam ldap authentification). the /var/mail/%u files are up2dated by postfix, but I simply can't get any mails with thoses dovcot logs: pop3-login: Login: mwerly [192.168.1.7] Aug 31 17:47:35 dental01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050d70 (0) Aug 31 17:47:35 dental01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084db0 (1) :`o[[[[[ please help

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[Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2
by Timo Sirainen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Changes since rc1: + Create PID file in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid - THREAD and SORT commands crashed with some mails If nothing new comes up, this is the final release tomorrow.

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Re: [Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1
by Timo Sirainen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

On 2.9.2004, at 09:09, Zoong Pham wrote: > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox format: > /var/mail/user1 .. > Does anyone know what's happening? Dovecot probably has left an extra empty line at the beginning of the mbox file and after that it treats it as invalid. This happens sometimes with 0.99 code, 1.0-tests have much better mbox implementation.

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