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[Dovecot] patch for test31 compile problem
by Cor Bosman 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

If you grab test31 you might want to apply this small patch. *** dovecot-1.0-test31/src/lib-ntlm/ntlm-message.c Fri Jul 30 05:00:19 2004 --- ../dovecot-1.0-test31/src/lib-ntlm/ntlm-message.c Fri Jul 30 09:23:42 2004 *************** *** 76,83 **** va_start(args, buffer_offset); do { - type = va_arg(args, int); const char *data; memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); write_le16(&info.type, type); --- 76,83 ---- va_start(args, buffer_offset); do { const char *data; + type = va_arg(args, int); memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); write_le16(&in

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot mounts user home dir?
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

On 29.7.2004, at 11:38, Peter Evans wrote: > TM (offmct(a)yahoo.com) wrote: >> Why does dovecot mount the user home directory >> whenever the user checks his email (either pop or imap)? > >> Is there a way to disable this? > > Ask the system nicely, its not dovecot per se, > its the system doing things when dovecot becomes > the user for the duration of the check. I don't think simply changing user id for process does that. It's more likely because of this code in src/master/mail-process.c: /* NOTE: if home directory is NFS-mounted, we might not have access to it as root. Change the effective UID temporarily to make it work. */ if (reply->uid != master_uid && seteuid(reply->uid) < 0) i_fatal("seteuid(%s) failed: %m", dec2str(reply->uid)); ret = chdir(full_home_dir); if (reply->uid != master_uid && seteuid(master_uid) < 0) i_fatal("seteuid(%s) failed: %m", dec2str(master_uid)); /* If user's home directory doesn't exist and we're not trying to chroot anywhere, fallback to /tmp as the mails could be stored elsewhere. */ Dovecot just wants to set current directory to user's home directory as that's the most logical location. I hadn't thought about any automounters.. One way to fix it would be to not use home directories in userdb at all, instead set the "mail" setting in it. Then Dovecot would chdir to /tmp. Another fix would be to just delete the code above and make it always chdir to /tmp. Maybe there should be a setting for this? ..

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test31
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixed mbox corruption in some cases where it wrote headers over beginning of message body. Fixed recent flags to work correctly with mbox. Fixed LSUB command to send LSUB replies instead of LIST replies. Then there's NTLM support from Andrey (which I hopefully didn't break) and dovecotpw utility from Joshua. And then some generic status report: For last few weeks I've been trying to make all network I/O non-blocking but that work is going quite slowly. This means that IMAP and POP3 commands which send lots of data to client must be able to stop processing if output buffer is getting full and continue later. Not very difficult, but a bit boring to implement.. This would allow in future to make a single process handle multiple IMAP connections for same user. Although that might not be such a good idea since there's still lock waits and SEARCH command can take a long time.. Anyway, it makes the code less kludgy. Maybe in future we'll have non-blocking lock waits and file I/O too. Adding some support for threading might not be a bad idea either, as long as it doesn't require adding locks all over the place (threads would perform searches, threading, sorting, etc.). Oh, and another thing it enables is processing multiple commands simultaneously. IMAP supports that, although I don't know if any clients do it. So for example a client could send: 1 fetch 1:* envelope 2 status mailbox (unseen) Then Dovecot would process the fetch command until it's output blocks, then it would send the status reply in the middle of it and then again continue the fetching. The nice thing with this is that client can do some "urgent" requests in the middle of some long running commands without the need to create multiple connections to server.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.8 released
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

v0.99.10.8 2004-07-30 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + LDAP support compiles now with Solaris LDAP library - IMAP BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE replies were wrong for MIME parts which didn't contain Content-Type header. - MySQL and PostgreSQL auth didn't reconnect if connection was lost to SQL server - Linking fixes for dovecot-auth with some systems - Last fix for disconnecting client when downloading mail longer than 30 seconds actually made it never disconnect client. Now it works properly: disconnect when client hasn't read _any_ data for 30 seconds.

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[Dovecot] md5 password is not working
by Farkas Levente 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

hi, i setup a new mail server (dovecot-0.99.10.7) with ldap authentication (openldap-2.1.29-2). everything works properly until i switch the user's password from crypt to md5 in the ldap server (of course in this case in the ldap server it stores es {MD5}.... but dovecot gives such error messages: ----------------------- dovecot-auth: Jul 29 17:30:08 Info: ldap(lfarkas(a)x.com): password mismatch ----------------------- it it possible to use dovecot with openldap's md5 password? should I hav to change anything in dovecot's config file if i'd like to use other encrypt schema than crypt? thanks in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Marcus Rueckert 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

On 2004-07-29 22:54:12 +0100, David Marsh wrote: > [Unreadable in Outlook, here's why: http://viewport.co.uk/outlook ] something like that sucks. it really makes me consider not to help people. > What do I need to do to configure it? > > I haven't touched the mailserver since installing SuSE, mailservers tend > to frighten me (not least with worry as to what can go wrong if I mess > up!) depends on your needs the comments are very helpfull. and look in the printed manuals or the pdf versions of it. > > 6. chkconfig dovecot on > > I was going to ask what that does, but the man page explains all. > Ah, so *that*'s the right way to fiddle with /etc/init.d/ entries.. yes. it will check dependencies of services e.g. darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[Dovecot] Problems compiling PHP --with-imap - can't find rfc822.h
by Chris Weiss 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

I'm trying to add webmail (IMP/HORDE) to my OpenBSD 3.5 mail server (Procmail/Amavid/SA/DCC/Razor/Dovecot 0.99.10.7), which means adding PHP and several other libraries. I'm building PHP 4.3 from the ports tree and, as per the IMP/HORDE readme files, added --with-imap to the makefile. Makeing PHP barfs with a "Cannot find rfc822.h. Please check your IMAP installation." error. I did some digging around and this seems to be part of Courier-IMAP and Mutt, but not part of Dovecot. Can this header file just be grabbed from Courier or Mutt and dropped into /usr/include? Is there something else that's got to be done here?

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[Dovecot] dovecot mounts user home dir?
by TM 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Why does dovecot mount the user home directory whenever the user checks his email (either pop or imap)? Is there a way to disable this? I have indicated in the default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/:INBOX=/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY. The users are in ldap. Windows users' home is in /home/%u so this is ok but unix users' home are in their local computers and are mounted (via automount) at /d1-data/pcname/username. Even if mounted, the users' home directory isn't used by dovecot since nothing gets written to it. The users only checks his pop mail but still, his home directory gets mounted. Is it possible that dovecot won't try to mount the user's home directory whenever the user checks his mail? Thanks a lot. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.8-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ + LDAP support compiles now with Solaris LDAP library - IMAP BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE replies were wrong for MIME parts which didn't contain Content-Type header. - MySQL and PostgreSQL auth didn't reconnect if connection was lost to SQL server - Linking fixes for dovecot-auth with some systems - Last fix for disconnecting client when downloading mail longer than 30 seconds actually made it never disconnect client. Now it works properly: disconnect when client hasn't read _any_ data for 30 seconds.

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[Dovecot] Errors with a blackberry
by Jeremy Sanders 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hi - We tried to access a dovecot-0.99.10.7 IMAPS server with a Blackberry 7230. The Blackberry was on loan so we don't have much access to it for testing. We got the following in our logs: Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap-login: Login: testuser [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for modify log file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.log Apparently the blackberry didn't see the new mail. Has anyone had any luck with such a Blackberry? Thanks Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss(a)ast.cam.ac.uk> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053

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