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[Dovecot] Migrating from UW: mbx detection and conversion
by Kenneth Porter 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I want to migrate my big mail folder hierarchy in preparation for converting from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. I've got a bunch of mbx format folders but some remain mbox. Has anyone done this? Any scripts out there for automating the conversion to all-mbox? I believe the only format conversion available is mailutil (part of UW-IMAP) and it works by opening an IMAP connection to the server and moving messages from one folder to the other. Is there any simpler method?

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[Dovecot] dovecot crash
by Simon Bell 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I woke up this morning and my dovecot server had died with the following in the dovecot.log file: pop3-login: Jan 23 10:23:08 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: child 16321 (login) returned error 89 How can I find out whats going wrong?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not creating dirs
by marko sarunac 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I have looked trough the archives and found similar scenarios but mine is a bit diff I got dovecot running (0.99.10.4-2) on debian testing and what is happening is that i created /home/marko/mail directory and configured my postfix to deliver mail to ~/mail/Inbox my default mail env is default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=%h/mail/Inbox:INDEX=%h/mail/.indexes Now when i first started my mozilla imap client what happened was! Jan 26 21:46:34 imap(marko): Can't create temp index /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.temp.limbic.7523: No such file or directory Jan 26 21:46:34 imap(marko): utime() failed with index file /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory after i manually :~/mail$ mkdir .indexes :~/mail$ cd .indexes/ :~/mail/.indexes$ mkdir .imap :~/mail/.indexes$ cd .imap/ :~/mail/.indexes/.imap$ mkdir INBOX :~/mail/.indexes/.imap$ cd INBOX/ :~/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX$ i only get Jan 26 22:06:34 limbic imap(marko): utime() failed with index file /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory On the other note...when i try to delete any mail from Inbox using IMAP client i get "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: trash" This obviously shows that dovecot can't create neither files nor directories I am using non system wide readable directories and just to try things i did chmod -R 777 mail from /home/marko didn't help any ideas and comments are greatelly appreciated!!!

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[Dovecot] State of MySQL authentication
by Ian Armstrong 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I am looking for a pop3 server that can authenticate via MySQL. It also needs to be able to do a POST_LOGIN_QUERY. I want to be able to update a "date" field in the database, so that I can see which accounts are active, and which are not. Please let me know more about Dovecot and MySQL. Thanks Ian. Ian Armstrong ---------------------------------- ika(a)expressmail.dk

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[Dovecot] Problem starting dovecot..
by Mitchell Baker 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Sorry if this is newbie question.. but I'm a newbie to dovecot.. Trying to crank it up on our RedHat 8.0 system... I get the following.. I am sure it is something simple in the config.. just don't know what... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Here is from the log.. If there is a way to get more log info that might help he as well.. Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: child 3517 (auth) returned error 127 Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Thanks... See-ya Mitch -- /####################################################################/ /# Mitchell "Buzz" Baker "To Infinity And Beyond..." #/ /# Sr. Systems/Security Admin Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology #/ /# Mitchell.D.Baker(a)rose-hulman.edu www.rose-hulman.edu #/ /# For PGP Public key, check out www.keyserver.net #/ /####################################################################/

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[Dovecot] pgsql-dovecot auth problem
by Ewald Geschwinde 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Jan 28 13:55:48 bachata dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Query "SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = 'foo(a)foo.bar'" failed: I have this error in /var/log/mail.log I have installed a debian machine with dovecot debian packages in my test environment it runs perfect I have used the tutorials on wiki.dovecot.org And there is nothing in the postgresql log about this query And I'm logging queries HAs anyone encountered this error? Postfix send the mail in the right maildir Only the IMAP login does not work. Regards Ewald Geschwinde

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[Dovecot] Customflags problem?
by Rick Johnson 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

I'm new here, but I'll just jump right in. I've been using Dovecot with Fedora for a bit with the default mbox format. I recently transitioned to the Maildir format since some users were getting mailboxes in excess of 1GB in size, which made expunging and flagging no easy task. Anyway, it appears now with Maildir, that customflags are "added" instead of "replaced". I.E. in Thunderbird or Mozilla, if I set a message label of 5 (Later), and then change it to 3 (Personal), all's fine. However, if I switch it back to Later, or attempt to remove it, the flags are not removed. When I examine the flags on the filename, I see something like :2,FSag. If I attempt to change to additional labels and/or flag the message, I'll end up with aefg on the same message. Unfortunately only the first flag is accepted, and Moz/Tbird keeps label 5 as "a" was "read" delivered first. If I mark label as none, the flags remain, meaning I have to manually rename the file to remove the flags. This wasn't a problem using the mbox format, since the flags were stored in the file itself. Is this something broken in how the reader is requesting or is it a fault in the dæmon itself not removing old customflags before adding new? I suspect something inside src/lib-index/maildir/maildir-index.c Also of note, Evolution can seem to remove them, but only does so upon exit. I've reproduced it in 0.99.10-6 (fedora core 1) and 0.99.10.4-1 (fedora devel) versions. I filed a Bugzilla report at bugzilla.redhat.com under 114230 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114230) -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson(a)medata.com Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc

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[Dovecot] Internal error during expunge
by Tim Jakobsen 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi, I'm using dovecot-0.99.10.4_1 on Freebsd. CPU architecture is i386. When ever I try to move messages og delete dem i get an internal error. Below I've tried to show what dovecot says. Mail gets stored using mbox format. After giving the internal error you kan try to expunge the mail again and it works without error. Any suggestions or ideas as to what could be wrong? is it a bug? A003 STORE 1 +FLAGS (\Deleted) * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) A003 OK Store completed. A004 expunge imap(foo): Error: Error indexing mbox file /home/foo/Mail/INBOX.Drafts: LF not found where expected A004 NO Internal error [2004-01-14 14:08:13] Tia. -- Regards, Tim

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[Dovecot] Certificate Authority-signed certs in dovecot?
by Benjamin J. Weiss 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi! Sorry if this has been covered. I've just started using dovecot and I've searched via google and I've downloaded the maillist archives, but I haven't found a solution. I'm using Fedora Core 1, with dovecot-0.99.10-6. When I'm at work, I access my home mail server using Outlook Express (I know, I know, but it's the only client I'm allowed to use at work). Now, I'm able to get to my email, but I get a warning popup box each time I connect to the server, that the authenticity of the certificate can't be verified. I'm assuming that that's because I am using a self-signed certificate. Now, I'm also using postfix, and it allows for me creating my own CA certificate, and using it to sign my own certificates. The /etc/postfix/main.cf entries are: smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/newreq.pem smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/newcert.pem smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem but while I see the following two lines in /etc/dovecot.conf: ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem I don't see how to specify my CA cert. I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to openssl, but I've been able to follow directions to get the TLS working in both postfix and dovecot. I just want to get rid of that annoying message. I figure that there's a way to sign my dovecot certs with the ca cert I've already created for postfix, and tell dovecot about it somehow. Has anybody done this? Thanks! Ben

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2002 sp-2 and initial connection after OS reboot
by David Crisp 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

I have a strange problem that I have been experienceing with dovecot: Dovecot version : 0.99.10.4-1 Using IMAP: When I restart the OS (windows XP) and open up Outlook 2002 SP2 I don't automatically get my IMAP folders on the DOVECOT imap server. (the one on the uw_imap server open up straight away) When I click on inbox I cam given a message saying : unable to connect to imap folders When highlight the inbox and go to "file" "connect to <imap server>" I get the error again.. "unable to connect to imap folders" If I just leave Outlook open for a while the folders mysteriously connect themselves. Has anybody seen this before and does anybody have any ideas on what to do to fix things. Is this an Outlook problem or a dovecot problem? I searched the archives and theres been nothing recently about this kind of problem. I need to get this system running in production very soon. --- David Crisp IT Systems Administrator WSL Consultants Pty Ltd dcrisp(a)wsl.com.au 2-8 Harvey Street Richmond Vic 3121 Australia Phone: +61 3 9429 4666 Fax: +61 3 9429 2294 Web: www.wsl.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WSL Consultants Pty Ltd www.wsl.com.au Head Office: 2-8 Harvey Street, Richmond VIC 3121 Ph: (03) 9429 4666 Fax: (03) 9429 2294 Bendigo Office: Gate 6, Sharon Street La Trobe University, Bendigo PO Box 106, Strathdale VIC 3550 Ph: (03) 5444 7890 Fax: (03) 5444 7895 This message is intended solely for the individual(s) and entity(s) addressed. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. The use, copying or distribution of this message or any information it contains, by anyone other than the addressee, is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify wsl(a)wsl.com.au. The mailbox address from which this message has been sent is for business mail only. Mail sent to it may be subject to security scanning and delivery of non-business messages sent to this address may not occur. Please note that the opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and are not necessarily those of WSL Consultants Pty Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ###################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal http://www.marshalsoftware.com ######################################################################

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