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[Dovecot] customflags considered a folder?
by Peter Schuller 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello, i just switched from courier-imap to dovecot on a machine. The transition was painless except for one issue - when using the "Check mail" feature of kmail, one gets the message: "Unable to get information about folder customflags. The server replied: internal error..." So it looks like the server isn't properly hiding the .customflags file for some reason. I googled and only found one person who had seen something similar, but no solution. This is with dovecot 0.99.10.5. Similarly, 'customflags' does show up as a folder when using mutt. How would I go about preventing this problem? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller(a)infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey(a)scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller(a)infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test20
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ One more for today :) Again mostly mbox fixes and optimizations. Don't try it with maildir because it crashes with COPY and APPEND commands. This release supports now UIDPLUS extension. It was mostly a side effect of making saving mails store the X-UID header immediately to mbox and adding the mail to index. So, a Dovecot LDA would finally make sense now. Besides keeping indexes updated, it could also ask user's home dir, uid and gid from dovecot-auth. Now, that combined with postfix-dovecot-auth patch, Dovecot would be very simple to install with Postfix :)

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[Dovecot] Compile error
by Greg T. Harber 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

On dovecot-1.0-test21: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-auth -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/local/sbin"\" -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:11:2: #error broken currently ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:310: error: conflicting types for `ssl_proxy_new' ssl-proxy.h:12: error: previous declaration of `ssl_proxy_new' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_new': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:319: warning: passing arg 2 of `gnutls_transport_set_ptr' makes pointer from integer without a cast ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_dh_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:417: warning: `gnutls_dh_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:82) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_rsa_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:443: warning: `gnutls_rsa_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:77) make[3]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1 On dovecot-0.99.10.6: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/local/sbin"\" -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_handshake': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:280: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_handshake_get_direction' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `initialize_state': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:302: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_cert_type_set_priority' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_new': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:318: warning: passing arg 2 of `gnutls_transport_set_ptr' makes pointer from integer without a cast ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_dh_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:416: warning: `gnutls_dh_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:82) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_rsa_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:442: warning: `gnutls_rsa_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:77) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_init': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:508: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_certificate_allocate_cred' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:520: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:523: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_deinit': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:545: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_certificate_free_cred' make[3]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1 Environment: Solaris 8 (2.8) gnutls 1.0.13 gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --disable-nls --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3 Process: # ./configure # make

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[Dovecot] Update: Compile error
by Greg T. Harber 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Offending lines in src/login-common/ssl-proxy-gnutls.c 519 ret = gnutls_certificate_set_dh_params(x509_cred, dh_params); 520 if (ret < 0) 521 i_fatal("Can't set DH parameters: %s", gnutls_strerror(ret)); 522 ret = gnutls_certificate_set_rsa_params(x509_cred, rsa_params); 523 if (ret < 0) 524 i_fatal("Can't set RSA parameters: %s", gnutls_strerror(ret)); Problem: gnutls.h lists these two functions as returning void Solution: remove the ret and the check code Compilation continue but link fails: Undefined first referenced symbol in file gnutls_cert_type_set_priority ../login-common/liblogin-common.a(ssl-proxy-gnutls.o) gnutls_certificate_allocate_cred ../login-common/liblogin-common.a(ssl-proxy-gnutls.o) gnutls_certificate_free_cred ../login-common/liblogin-common.a(ssl-proxy-gnutls.o) gnutls_handshake_get_direction ../login-common/liblogin-common.a(ssl-proxy-gnutls.o) Solution: Add #include "/usr/local/include/gnutls/compat4.h" to ssl-proxy-gnutls.c Successful compile afterwards. -- Greg T. Harber gth(a)cs.sfasu.edu Director, McGee Computing Laboratory 936 468-2508 Department of Computer Science P.O. Box 13063 Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, TX 75962 USA

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test21
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Should work again with maildir. - Some bugfixes to indexes (possibly fixing the still persisting maildir sync errrors?) - Enabled cache file again. If client asks about something that can be cached for future, it's done. There's currently no smart logic about when not to do it or when to cache more than was asked for future use. Currently nothing is ever deleted from cache. Currently it's disabled if mmap_disable = yes. - Removed UIDPLUS extension after all. It needs more thinking with maildir, because for performance reasons new messages are given UIDs once at the end transaction rather than separately for each one. So, the UID would have to be 0 temporarily until transaction is committed. But the current API make the new messages visible without syncing, and then the sequences don't match anymore and we can't get the UIDs. So, this one needs thinking, mostly from API designing point of view.

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[Dovecot] LDAP Bind
by Hervé Commowick - NewSports 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

hi all 2 Questions : - how not using the authentication bind feature of ldap server ? i rewrite checkpassword-ldap recently to use in bincimap server, and it take 3 lines to do this, so i don't understand how you don't use it. it is more powerful and more secure than retrieve pasword from the base and use crypto api to compare it. - is the dovecot server support the IMAPdir feature like bincimap or not ? thx for this great software, who replace my imap and pop3 server when it support that :) Vr.

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[Dovecot] Delete message
by Marius Stan 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hello, I'm seeing that our favourite pop3 server only deletes the messages upon logoff: dele 1 +OK Marked to be deleted. quit +OK Logging out, messages deleted. Connection closed by foreign host. This is causing me some trouble with a certain webmail app. Is there a way I can instruct Dovecot to immediatelly delete a message ? 10x, Marius

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[Dovecot] proxy plugin
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

I've updated the proxy plugin at http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/quota.c. It doesn't exactly work, even against latest CVS Dovecot as it crashes in save/copy, but it shows how it's basically going to work. Pretty ugly to do objects with C, but works.. If you're interested about writing support for some specific quota backend (maildir++, sql, ..), now would be a good time to begin :) Well, the reason it crashes is because it needs to find out the message's size, but Dovecot doesn't yet really like being asked about messages that haven't been committed to index. I guess that needs to change, hopefully won't require too large changes. I think I'm going to merge mail-index-view and mail-index-transaction into same thing..

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[Dovecot] I/O Leak?
by Paul McMurphy 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Is the I/O leak message normal? (from syslog) Jun 22 02:12:39 xbox pop3(paul): lstat(/var/mail/Maildir/paul/INBOX/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 22 02:12:39 xbox pop3(paul): lstat(/var/mail/Maildir/paul/INBOX/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 22 02:12:39 xbox pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050ce0 (0) Jun 22 02:12:39 xbox pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084b10 (1) Jun 22 02:13:22 xbox pop3-login: Login: paul [192.168.1.10] Jun 22 02:13:23 xbox pop3(paul): lstat(/var/mail/Maildir/paul/INBOX/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 22 02:13:23 xbox pop3(paul): lstat(/var/mail/Maildir/paul/INBOX/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 22 02:13:23 xbox pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050ce0 (0) Jun 22 02:13:23 xbox pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084b10 (1) Oh... and any hints on the permissions problem would be ok also. ;) Debian 1.0.1 / dovecot 0.99.10.6-1 Thanks!

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[Dovecot] The Status: header is forced
by Olivier Tharan 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Hi, I started testing dovecot for our next POP/IMAP server (nearing production state), and noticed that the Status: header is always added, with a value of 'O' or 'RO'. This happens in `lib-index/mbox/mbox-rewrite.c'. This does not seem to happen in the Maildir case. Is the Status: header really needed in every case? This breaks mutt which displays mails with a 'O' flag instead of 'N'. My dovecot is 0.99.10.4 (FreeBSD port), but the behavior is still the same in the CVS version. -- olive

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