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[Dovecot] breakin' dovecot
by Tom Allison 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

I know this is cruel, but I figured out a way to break dovecot, temporarily. The really great news is that it recovers nicely. I'm also not sure if anything can be done about this, since I've seen the same thing happen with courier-imap, uw-imap, and maybe cyrus-imap. I used cyrus-imap for such a short period of time that I didn't get to really test it much. how to... (this was done on a fast ethernet network) get a folder with some 1,000+ unread/unseen emails. pop in with mozilla mail and wait for it to download all the mail information from ther server. press and hold the delete key. After about 300 emails being deleted, the imap server will appear to "freeze" and the "M" will keep cycling as if it's doing something. This will not recover until I move off the directory and return to it. hold delete key and repeat. If you do anything less than holding it down, it probably won't fail. It's a timing issue. I'm really not sure if it's even worth looking at. I'm not trying to identify this as a bug/defect/anything. But when I get a new piece of software I am really interested in what it does when it chokes. An old boss of mine would take my user applications and test them my rolling his hands across the keyboard for about a minute and if it hadn't crashed or entered bad data, it was a success. Please note that when I did this under courier-imap, it would stop refreshing itself from any/all directories until I logged out ( quit mozillia ) and logged back in again. So I would consider this to be a vast improvement in that regard. I should check what it logs when this happens, my guess is...nothing because it's frozen.

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[Dovecot] Fedora dovecot Testing Needed
by Warren Togami 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/dovecot/ dovecot-0.99.10.5 binary packages for FC1 and FC2 are available here. I need feedback from Fedora users with THESE ACTUAL BINARIES before pushing them to official updates. Note: This does not solve the SSL related crash issue. That requires a patch to OpenSSL or kernel. I am still trying to convince the maintainers to patch it. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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[Dovecot] folders via softlink
by Chris Barnes 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

I have recently switched from the UW imap server to dovecot and things seem to be working nicely. One thing that I can't seem to figure out however, is how to get dovecot to show folders that are a softlink. We run SpamAssassin. Users can use both their own personal spam folder as well as a shared spam folder. For messages that everyone would consider spam, the user can simply drag the message to the shared spam folder (messages that are only "spam to them" would go into their own spam folder). sa-learn is then run nightly for each user against both the shared spam folder and their personal spam folder. The shared spam folder is simply a file that everyone has rwx access to and is softlinked to ~/mail/SharedSpam. This used to work fine with UW imap because it didn't seem to care that this was a softlink. However, apparently Dovecot DOES care because when the user resets their folder list and the user selects the folder and chooses "show", they get the error message: Could not show "SharedSpam". The server refused to show it. The folder might already be shown. I have tried editing the .subscriptions file by hand and it does cause the folder to show up, but when the user trys to use it, they get the same error. Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing? -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris-barnes(a)tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University

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[Dovecot] some messages showing up twice
by alan premselaar 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

I've recently installed dovecot 0.99.10.5 on a redhat 7.3 machine. Everything seems to be running fine and smoothly for the most part, however in the past few days I've seen a couple of duplicate emails (and so have a few of my users) which don't appear to have been processed twice by sendmail. also, on one of my IMAP sub-folders my mail client (mozilla thunderbird version 0.6+ (20040610) nightly) reported 1 unread email, but it didn't show up in the list. it appears that the index for that subfolder got corrupted (i moved all the .index* files to a backup directory and when i checked that folder, it recreated the index files and then showed me the one unread email) I realize that i'm using a nightly build of a beta mail client, but some of my users reporting similar troubles are using Mail.app and other clients. does anybody have any suggestions as to what I might do to get some useful debug info and/or find the cause of this problem? thanks, alan

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[Dovecot] 'append aborted'
by Tom Allison 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

I'm copying all my archives from one imap server on one machine to the imap-ssl dovecot server on another machine. After a bit, there's an error that's tossed up on my mozilla client that says the imap server couldn't complete the operation with the message append aborted. It keeps popping up after anything from 50 to 300 emails. Last night I was able to move ~12000 emails from one machine to the other without the ssl enabled. Any hints on what to look for?

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RE: [Dovecot] tcp wrappers?
by Villalovos, John L 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > How can I secure dovecot listening on port 143 to specific machines > only? > > Squirrelmail suggests using non-ssl if the imap daemon > is on the same host... > > Otherwise squirrelmail could use TLS but what about other > clients wanting to use SSL on port 993? (sorry I don't know enough > about TLS). I use iptables so that only 127.0.0.1 can access IMAP. Everyone else has to use IMAPS. John

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[Dovecot] IMSP server that works with Dovecot
by Mark Williamson 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

Hi All, Is there a IMSP server that can work with Dovecot, or would I have to change to Cyrus Imap server to have a server component that will integrate. Cheers Mark

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[Dovecot] tcp wrappers?
by Roman Bogoyev 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

How can I secure dovecot listening on port 143 to specific machines only? Squirrelmail suggests using non-ssl if the imap daemon is on the same host... Otherwise squirrelmail could use TLS but what about other clients wanting to use SSL on port 993? (sorry I don't know enough about TLS). Thanks, Roman. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Roman Bogoyev, I.T. Manager School of Mathematics and Statistics email: roman(a)maths.uwa.edu.au University of Western Australia tel: +61 8 6488 3379 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009 fax: +61 8 6488 1028 Western Australia

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

here is the full error output as in my log file dovecot-auth: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: Can't open configuration file /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf: Permission denied dovecot: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Error: child 9341 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe pop3-login: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:34 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Let me give a bit more infor > > Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc > and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing > > So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file > or a mistake i did during compiling OK, to avoid ambiguity, can you show the output of: # ls -ld / /home /home/dovecot /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf Then check you get the same log error as before. Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

builind the rpm worked great still don't know what it was though ***************8 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 03:23 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home > drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot > -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf > > this what you wanted Yep. I am stumped as to why open(path, O_RDONLY) fails on that with EACCES, as it appears to be doing. 'cat /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf' works, I presume? Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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