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[Dovecot] Dovecot -- basic setup
by Tom 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Hey all, After some kind soul made me understand what I can expect from Dovecot, I feel really embarassed for not being able to set it up correctly. What I already had was ~/Mail, containing about six maildirs. Exim got mail, delivered it to procmail, and procmail dropped it in my inbox; a needless extra step that I keep for future, ehm, needs that I might start to care about when I can just succesfully use the most basic mail configuration I can think of. As far as I understood, I just have to point Dovecot to my maildir for it to serve my mail when I connect appropriately with a client. When I test that with KMail connecting to localhost, I get a bizarre overview of my mailfolders, that looks like this: http://www.xs4all.be/~verbreyt/img/scrots/dovecot-kmail.jpg The error message on top is what I get when I try to catch up with any possible new mail: "Unable to get information about folder antwort.index. The server replied: Internal error." Syslog says "lstat(/home/tom/Mail/.antwort.index/cur) failed: Not a directory". Could be, of course: the directory should be ~/Mail/antwort/cur. After I ran KMail and got those errors, ~/Mail, previously only containing some folders, each in turn containing cur/, new/ and tmp/, is stuffed with index files, and three new folders (cur/, new/ and tmp/) directly in the toplevel. ##### $ ls -a Mail . .drafts.index.ids .sent.index.ids .. inbox sent-mail antwort .INBOX .sent-mail.index .antwort.index .inbox.index .sent-mail.index.ids .antwort.index.ids .inbox.index.ids spam check .inbox.index.sorted .spam.index .check.index new .spam.index.ids .check.index.ids outbox tmp cur .outbox.index trash .customflags .outbox.index.ids .trash.index drafts sent .trash.index.ids .drafts.index .sent.index ##### I'm not sure just where it all goes wrong. Yes, I feel stupid about that, but what did, then, did I misunderstand? The only relevant thing in /etc/dovecot.conf I guess would be "default_mail_env" which I have set to "maildir:~/Mail:INBOX=~/Mail/inbox". Documentation may be sparse, it'd still make me sad to be the cause of it being extended for use by the clueless. :-/ Grateful for any corrections, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: Predominance - Luftschiffe (flac)

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[Dovecot] File synchronization friendly indexes
by Aredridel 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

I've been doing some tests of file synchronization with Unison (think "two way rsync"), and run into one problem: Synching between servers has conflicts on the index file. I can manually exclude, but what seems to me to be a really wonderful feature would be to, preferably, make the indexes somewhat atomic, so that files, once written, don't change (this is a feature of maildirs in general), and barring that, that they include the machine name as part of the filename, so there's no conflicts. Also, on a completely unrelated and somewhat offtopic note: I'd love to hear some brainstorms on how to prevent duplicate messages when maildirs are synched, files are moved from new on one or more ends, flags are changed inconsistently, and synched back. Ari

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[Dovecot] More Benchmarks, and a question about indexing
by Anthony Wendell Kay 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi, We are thinking of converting to Dovecot to lighten our I/O load. I have done some performace tests comparing UW-IMAP to Dovecot when using mbox format if anyone is interested. They primarily examine the I/O improvements that can be gained from using Dovecot over UW when staying with mbox format: http://whizzo.uoregon.edu/public/src/mailperf/results.html I had too much cached for this set of tests, and I am going to re-run some with the recommended cache settings...so stay tuned. Anyway, we are stuck with the mbox format for the forseeable future, and I noticed how hard hitting Dovecot is on initial access to a large mailbox, so we need a way to pre-create some of those indexes. I saw in the docs that such an indexer has been planned, but does anyone have a hack for doing it now? -- Anthony Kay Phone: (541) 346-1719 Student Consultant Key Signature: 7195 40B9 FC4F 6F43 C04A University of Oregon Computing Center B4D9 BAF1 C76E AB6E 33E5 "Don't wish your life away." - Mom's best advice

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[Dovecot] LDAP configuration
by Giacomo Cariello 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Hello, I've just installed dovecot to replace courier-imap and I've found out it didn't support some of the typical LDAP userPassword schemes, so I've written some based on OpenSSL API. Furthermore I noticed that the MD5 one seems broken. If it isn't a requirement to ship its own implementation of a crypto algorithm, I would send in a patch to replace schema checks with those based on libcrypto. I also noticed that if I try connecting to an account that doesn't contain a real maildir (es. maildir:%h/.mail, but .mail doesn't exist), the imap segv's. I suppose it would be cool to ship a maildirmake program and have imap use it whenever necessary, if a flag allows it to do so. Giacomo Cariello, jwk(a)bug.it KeyID: 3072/1024/0x409C9044 Fingerprint: 7984 10FD 0460 4202 BF90 3881 CDE4 D78E 409C 9044 "Put that mic in my hand and let me kick out the jams!" - MC5

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[Dovecot] Basic questions concerning mail...
by Tom 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hey all, A few minutes ago, I installed Dovecot, hoping things would get clear by just looking at the relevant config files, but since they don't, I hope someone here could give me a clue... What I want to achieve is really only basic functionality. It's just for personal use, so it shouldn't get too complicated. Up til now, I have been using fetchmail to get my mail off of several POP3-accounts, exim to hand it over to procmail and procmail to drop it in the mail directories of my girlfriend and I. I'd like to be able to remotely use a webmail program of some kind to check mail without having to use ssh to login. So I thought an IMAP-server might be the way to go, but, embarassing though it may be, I can't quite grasp how Dovecot (any IMAPd of course, for that matter) fits in the whole. Should Dovecot receive mail from fetchmail and put in it it's proper place in the user's home directories? Or does Dovecot merely read any mail that might belong to users, told where to look by dovecot.conf? Since I now notice my questions are put in a way that is equally embarassing as the questions themselves, I'll keep it short: could anyone enlighten me about the role of Dovecot / an IMAPd it the whole of a mail system (mail directories for each user, fetchmail, procmail, an MTA, a MUA)? Sincerely apologizing for wasting your undoubtedly valuable time, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: Vive La Fête - Assez (flac)

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[Dovecot] your /etc/dovecot.conf
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Hi. Please send me your /etc/dovecot.conf what edited. Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] SOS
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi,When i run "service dovecot start",I receive following line: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Please guide me until i can make a key file.... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Configure dovecot.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi. I installed dovecot,via RPM.But i don't know that i how to configure it. Please guide me...... ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] dovecot..
by Cami 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hi All.. Has anyone got any experimental patches for mysql auth? Regards, Cami

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[Dovecot] Error While compiling with the Mysql patch
by Xavier Orduña 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hi! When I'm trying to compile the source-code I get this error message: mycrypt.o: In function `mycrypt': /root/soft/dovecot-0.99.10.4/src/auth/mycrypt.c:11: undefined reference to `crypt' /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o): In function `my_compress_alloc': my_compress.o(.text+0xb4): undefined reference to `compress' /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o): In function `my_uncompress': my_compress.o(.text+0x12a): undefined reference to `uncompress' I Included the FLAGS: AUTH_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/mysql -DPASSDB_MYSQL -DUSERDB_MYSQL" \ AUTH_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient" \ Before to compile, and I'm using a Debian woody. Do you know what happens? Thanks Xavi

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