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[dovecot] Dotlocking doesn't work?
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

A Debian developer had this to say: > >> Files in the above dir are group mail, and the dir is group mail. However, > > > all binaries in /usr/lib/dovecot are root/root. I have set them all to g+s, > > > and group mail, and now the imap process can lock the INBOX. > > > > > imap should be the only one that needs to be setgid mail. > > Actually, I've looked at the dovecot source code. There is no way having > setgid on the executable will work. The source drops the privledges long > before it tries to do a dotlock. > > This is an upstream problem. > > For now, I've disable dotlock, and use fcntl instead, as that is what exim > uses anyways. Is dotlocking still a work in progress or are we missing something here? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[dovecot] Re: some problem with dovecot
by Marcus Rueckert 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

On 2003-03-19 13:52:18 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: > >mozilla 1.3b + cvs 2003-03-18 is working well here. with the old > >0.99.8.1 i had some problems with attachments. working well after > >updating dovecot. > > we also use 1.3b but with 0.99.8.1, so I waiting for 0.100.... try CVS. maybe it solves your problems. marcus -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[dovecot] big mail problems..
by Jesse Peterson 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Attachments, large mails & etc. seem to have problems with my installations of dovecot. As we know, Mozilla likes to take it's mail in chunks, and after Mozilla, (or Mail.app, it likes to do this, too) takes its first chunk, it doesn't start getting the rest, even though ethereal tells me that dovecot OK'ed the 10K chunk. 9 UID fetch 4 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY[]<0.10240>) * 4 FETCH (UID 4 RFC822.SIZE 3958069 BODY[]<0> {3958069} <snip> 9 OK Fetch completed. Nothing gets transfered beyond this point. I think this would be mozilla's fault, but I dont think this would happen with a release, and I dont think Mail.app would have the same problem, too. Thanks for any help, - Jesse

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[dovecot] Configure SSL problem
by Leslie Viljoen 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Hi everyone I have been trying to get Dovecot installed with OpenSSL support, but no matter what I do, when I run Configure, it says "Building with SSL support.........No". I have even tried configure --with-ssl=openssl, to no avail. I have built and installed OpenSSL, and libssl.so and libcrypto.so are in the /lib directory - what more does Dovecot want? I have tried figuring it out from the Configure script itself but it's cryptic and I am no shell script boffin! Thanks for any tips Les ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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[dovecot] Failed to create storage with data: ::
by Jesse Peterson 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

# dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps login = imap login_user = mail default_mail_env = maildir:%h/ auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd-file /tmp/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /tmp/imap.passwd auth_user = mail auth_verbose = yes In the log files I get: Mar 15 23:36:30 pos dovecot: Dovecot starting up Mar 15 23:36:37 pos imap-login: Login: testuser [10.0.66.1] Mar 15 23:36:37 pos imap(testuser): Failed to create storage with data: :: Mar 15 23:36:37 pos dovecot: child 23150 (imap) returned error 89 A typical entry in the imap.passwd: testuser:<md5>[34]:12345:12345::/some/home/directory/testuser:0:: -- Jesse Peterson / jesse(a)pixeltechs.com

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[dovecot] missing files...
by Jesse Peterson 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

I'm probably missing something but.. from cvs: gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/erage/dovecot/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-index' source='mail-lockdir.c' object='mail-lockdir.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/mail-lockdir.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/mail-lockdir.TPo' \ depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../../depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c `test -f 'mail-lockdir.c' || echo './'`mail-lockdir.c gcc: ./mail-lockdir.c: No such file or directory gcc: No input files Any ideas?

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[dovecot] dovecot/vpopmail auth problems
by Chris Doyle 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Hello. I am having problems getting dovecot to authenticate correctly through vpopmail. I have used vpopmail for some time, and I understand how it works. vpopmail is using mysql to store it's authentication data. vpopmail's tools can access the user database just fine, and vchkpw is working so far as authentication goes. I took an "strace -f dovecot", in case it can help. It is about 900k, and can be accessed at http://www.narshe.net/~umaro/dovecot.log please help! Thanks Chris Doyle

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[dovecot] Shared Folders?
by Moe Wibble 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Hello everybody (esp. Timo ;)), in an attempt to replace our cyrus imapd with something less bloated I have recently evaluated some of the younger imapd implementations, namely bincimap and also dovecot. Bincimap didn't work properly with mozilla for me, dovecot hasn't failed on any test, yet. Unfornationally, since we have been using cyrus for over 1.5 yrs, we pretty much depend on the "shared folders"-feature. Are there any plans to make shared folders available in dovecot anytime soon? best regards! -- MW

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[dovecot] Starting Dovecot?
by Leslie Viljoen 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Hello! I have laid SSL aside for the time being, and continued compiling and installing Dovecot. Now I don't know how to start it! I have been through the config file and mostly left things as-is. I have created the dovecot user and group and put only dovecot user in the dovecot group. Then I tried imap-master, as specified in the INSTALL documentation, but there is no such file! Under src/master, "dovecot" gets built. I tried running this, and /var/log/messages says "dovecot starting", but this process seems to just end. If I run it twice very quickly, I get told that port 143 is busy - so it seems that it is starting up, but only staying up for a very short while. Messages gives no more clues as to why the server quits. Any ideas? Les PS: I am trying dovecot 0.99.8.1. ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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[dovecot] Sorry (Starting Dovecot)
by Leslie Viljoen 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Sorry, I didn't check all my logs. PAM password DB was not found - it was in syslog. Les ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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