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RE: [Dovecot] Unread mail problem
by Mark Lidstone 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi Clinton, I've come across the same problem several times before - Outlook keeps messing up it's list of seen UIDLs. Try using Thunderbird instead. I moved a load of people in our company to Thunderbird because they kept having that problem and it's not happened for them since. As a matter of interest - I've seen both Outlook and Outlook Express do this on dovecot, mercury/32 and Exchange (when using pop3 for pickup). I hope this helps, 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: Clinton Mills [mailto:clinton.mills@hitcents.com] Sent: 03 November 2004 14:13 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Unread mail problem Okay, here is the set up. I have Outlook set up to keep mail on the server for 5 days. At some point I started downloading all my mail that was on the server over and over again, even though I already have the mail. The weird thing is that it did not download all the mail, just a few. For example it would download 6 messages, then 18, then 12, etc! After I tried it a few times I had 50 of the same message in Outlook? A small fix, but I do not want to so this ever time If I unclick save on server and then check my mail, it will delete all the mail in my mail box. Then I reclick the leave on server for 5 days and it will work fine! Any idea what is going on? Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] yet another NTLM update
by Andrey Panin 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hello, after more than week using dovecot as exim4 authentication backend, I noticed that some strange clients send type 3 messages with LM response only. Attached patch allows them to log in. 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] Logging and libwrap
by Jesse 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, A few things regarding logging and libwrap.. a) PAM_RHOST patch Back in July, dean gaudet helpfully posted a patch to dovecot PAM_RHOST the remote IP. Is this going to be included in the main dovecot tree? It seems like a worthwhile addition. The more informative and concise the logging the better. See http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-July/004011.html for the original message. b) Better logging Is it possible to get logging of when a client connects and disconnects? I'm very used to seeing this information and it's very useful for debugging user sessions. It's frustrating not being able to easily tell whether a user has opened a connection. Really many of the log messages could be more verbose. For instance, on disconnect, I see imap-login: Disconnected [ip.here] but the username they were logged in as isn't included. It would be nice to have that rather than having to dig back for a login message with the same IP. Heck, even the pid isn't logged. That would be nice too. c) libwrap Any chance of getting libwrap support built into dovecot? Right now I'm running dovecot out of xinetd, so that I can see when tcp connections are opened, and take advantage of tcpwrappers. But this causes the problem that dovecot thinks all connections come from the local host. Correlating logins to IPs gets to be a lot of hassle, with the information divided over so many lines, while needing multiple ways to track which messages from xinetd, dovecot and pam match each other. With some of the minor logging changes (more info on one line, notification of tcp connections), plus libwrap, it'd be much simpler and much more informative. :) Thanks for the great imap server. Just thinking of some improvements. :) --- Jesse <j(a)lumiere.net>

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[Dovecot] Test51 compile problems
by Greg Deputy 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

First of all, thanks for a great product. I've been able to get dovecot up and running with minimum pain. Very nice. Running Fedora Core 2 with postfix using mysql for virtual mailbox config. Got release version of dovecot working with a passwd-file, then I wanted to try it out with using the same mysql db as postfix, so I downloaded test51. I run ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-mysql And it seems happy. Completes with: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with user database modules . : static passwd passwd-file checkpassword mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword mysql (modules) Then I run make, and it errors out with: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-module.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -ldl /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x5c): In function `sha1_result': : multiple definition of `sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x7f4):/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src/lib/sh a1.c:242: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 158 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] new crash in dovecot-auth test51
by Dan Sully 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

#0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 51 if ((io->condition & IO_NOTIFY_MASK) != 0) { (gdb) bt #0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 #1 0x0804fd68 in auth_client_connection_destroy_wait (conn=0x80877d8) at auth-client-connection.c:494 #2 0x08050acd in auth_callback (request=0x84716b8, result=134681554, reply=0x0, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:104 #3 0x08050950 in auth_client_input (context=0x80877d8) at auth-client-connection.c:286 #4 0x0805f170 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80898a8) at ioloop-epoll.c:243 #5 0x0805e698 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop.c:218 #6 0x080525a5 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.c:296 Linux 2.6.9 / glibc 2.3.3 / epoll (also does it with poll()) / vpopmail & passwd-db dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: auth(vpopmail): Authentication client 8908: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: auth(vpopmail): Authentication client 8908: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: imap-login: Error sending request to auth server: Broken pipe dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Error: child 5689 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Error: child 8908 (login) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: auth(default): Authentication client 10685: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: auth(default): Authentication client 10685: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Error: child 5687 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: imap-login: Error sending request to auth server: Connection reset by peer dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Error: child 10685 (login) killed with signal 11 -D -- <iNoah> you know, most free operating systems come preinstalled with their own high horse.

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[Dovecot] GNUTLS bug?
by Grant Goodyear 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

We recently received a bug report about a compiler issue when using GNUTLS: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67628. I can confirm the same bug using 0.99.11. Help? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer g2boojum(a)gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

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[Dovecot] v0.99.11
by Knut Rauscher 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello Timo, we are using dovcot v0.99.11 under Fedora Core 1. We tested following reproducible action with Outlook 2000 SP3, Outlook XP SP3 and Outlook 2003 SP1: folder test with subfolder test1 test test.test1 choose 'move folder' from the context (right-mouse-click) menu of test choose that we want to move folder test into his subfolder test1 (nonsense action, but quite a few employees trying to do that...) Outlook displays error message subscriptions shows correctly: test test1 BUT the directory structure of maildir is .test.test1.test.test1 .test.test1.test.test1.test Is this a mishap of Dovecot or Outlook? Regards, Knut

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[Dovecot] dovecot seems to be slow
by Götz Reinicke 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, after the update from wu-imap to dovecot, opening e-mails on the imap server seems slower than with wu-imap. I haven't measured any speed yet, but clicking on a message in a folder takes sometimes a couple of seconds to open the mail. Any ideas or performance tips or information you need? Regards Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] Hooking on renaming actions
by Adam Pordzik 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello, A short question: is it possible to intercept user's action whe he renames a folder? My goal is to adjust shell-scripts or procmailrc to the new name. A --

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[Dovecot] Possible Feature request
by Chris L. Franklin 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I've Looked over the list of Auth methods that dovecot can use But i didn't see a option for a custom auth option. Would it be possible to add in a way for dovecot to call a script to check a users login info. have it able to retun the the homedir,gid/uid, and weather or not the password matched. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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