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[Dovecot] when/where to set MAIL env variable?
by Mike Brown 12 Jun '03

12 Jun '03

I am trying to get dovecot to work on a system that uses qmail as its MTA. As is typical on such systems, the user's primary inbox is an mbox file called Mailbox, in their home directory. Global shell config files /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile set the MAIL environment variable to ~/Mailbox for the users, which is enough to satisfy their interactive mail clients such as pine, mutt, and elm. The mail-storages.txt file in the dovecot docs seems to say that dovecot will not have a problem with this kind of setup. However, I can't figure out how to make it work. The MAIL variable is only set for users who are using shells like tcsh, bash, etc. The server apparently does not operate in a shell, so it is looking in some other location, perhaps /var/mail/$USER, so everyone's INBOX appears to be empty. It would help if mail-storages.txt, when referring to environment variables such as MAIL, would clarify *whose* environment variables are being referred to. Is it the environment of the user who built dovecot? Is it the environment of the user running the main dovecot process? Is it the environment of the user who is checking their mail / the user that dovecot runs setuid as? When and where do I set the MAIL variable so that dovecot will see it? Or is there some other problem? Any help appreciated...

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[Dovecot] Help setting up SSL?
by Mike Matz 11 Jun '03

11 Jun '03

Hi, Sorry to bother, I don't know if this mailing list is the right place to look for help setting up dovecot.. Anyway I've got standard IMAP working fine, and I used mkcert.sh after editing the openssl config, and it seemed to work properly (I had to change some directories, I am using the FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT port).. Anyway, when I try to connect using Outlook, here is what the log shows: (without the exact ip address shown, dont hax0r my windows machine!) imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Warning: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408F455:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac [12.106.77.x] imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Warning: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [12.106.77.x] imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Panic: key not found from hash dovecot: Jun 10 13:13:14 Error: child 32935 (login) killed with signal 6 imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Warning: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408F455:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac [12.106.77.x] imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Warning: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [12.106.77.x] imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Panic: key not found from hash dovecot: Jun 10 13:13:14 Error: child 32937 (login) killed with signal 6 so it says "decryption failed or bad record mac".. Does this mean I don't have my .pem files set up correctly? Or is there a problem with the OpenSSL libraries? I'd sure appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks, Mike

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[Dovecot] gnutls_handshake problem
by Jacob Elder 07 Jun '03

07 Jun '03

I'm trying to bring dovecot up on Debian/stable using Christof Meerwald's unofficial packages (cmeerw.org/debian/) This package seems to work fine on Debian/testing. There error I'm getting on the stable box is: gnutls_handshake: A TLS fatal alert has been received.(Bad record MAC) Any guesses? -- Jacob Elder

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[Dovecot] Dovecot for Gentoo portage
by Zach Bagnall 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Hi all - I've added an ebuild for 0.99.9.1 to bugzilla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22080 It includes the CR+LF patch. Should be trivial to update for .10 when it makes an appearance :-). Feel free to fix/improve this ebuild - I'm fairly new at them. Zach. -- Services & Support Bulletin Wireless | www.bulletinwireless.com This email is digitally signed | Key ID 0x3F9AA9A2

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[Dovecot] error
by Farkas Levente 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

hi, I've got the following alert window in mozilla (with dovecot): --------------------------------------- The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command: Too long argument.. --------------------------------------- although there is not any messages in my imap.log file. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99.10-test10
by Andrew Basterfield 31 May '03

31 May '03

Hiya builds fine on BSD now (thanks) Now I am getting index corruption again May 30 03:11:53 snigger imap(bob): Corrupted binary tree file /home/bob/Mail/.INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (1 <= 1) and so on until the client hangs test7 is stable here. Also what are the correct permissions for /var/run/dovecot/login? I get a message about correcting the permissions every time I start dovecot --Andrew -- http://cemetery.homeunix.org

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[Dovecot] the most serius problems [part 3]
by Farkas Levente 30 May '03

30 May '03

hi, so the third problem is ssl. the imaps is still not working (and I assume the same apply to pop3s too). I already send the log file which was generated when verbose ssl is set. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] the most serius problems [part 2]
by Farkas Levente 30 May '03

30 May '03

hi, the second thing is the webmail. we use squirrelmail. actualy I don't know whose fault is, but they told that them imap server's:-) first problems is that those mails which has empty body (even if they has an attachments) simple not shown in the mail list (as they even not exists). it'd be nice to check this and find the reason of the problem. this happend with more people. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] the most serius problems [part 1]
by Farkas Levente 30 May '03

30 May '03

hi, I try to collect out most serious problem with dovecot. so I write a series of mails:-) the first on is the load. has anybody else use dovecot in a real enviromnt with at least hundreds of users and at least 50 concurrent user at the same time? it seems to me no one else just me. the weekend I move the whole mail system to a quad P4 with 1Gb ram and this server do nothing just imap. yesterday evening I have to delete all .imap.index and other dovecot specific files. and as I wrote today morning the load was about 20-30 !!!. but even in an average day the load is over 2-3 white the cpu load is 1-2% in each of the 4 processor. the system is totaly unusable. what more today I've got other errors. of course all the time when I can't find the colution I try to escape to the latest cvs. today finally I compile a new courier install it to another port and those clients which can't connect to dovecot reconfigure to courier. but they are not compatible!!! I have to set root directory to INBOX in courier while not for dovecot and this is a real big problem. is there any way to compile dovecot to use INBOX as a root directory? since in this case at least there is a chance to switch to courier without reconfigure 300 OE6. I try to help to find out the reason for the load in any way, but it seems to me than it's better to change to courier or cyrus since our users getting angry not to mention my boss. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10-test8
by Timo Sirainen 30 May '03

30 May '03

http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/test/ Again major maildir syncing updates: - uidlist file is accessed and rewritten a lot less often now than before - mail duplicates are detected and handled properly by renaming them to new base name - message flag updates and expunging before did two full syncs for cur/ directory. now it does only one. - some fixes to syncing in read-only / out-of-quota conditions - before we did always a full sync in cur/ directory when mailbox was opened. now it's done only when needed. - fixed some crash/index corruption cases I think syncing should be now very close to having perfect possible performance.

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