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[dovecot] compilation errors
by Mark E. Mallett 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Hi- I always encounter the same two minor compilation issues which are easily addressed simply by a quick edit, but this time I figured I'd mention it in case you can work around it. This is on a BSD/OS 4.2 system. First, the generated config.h always creates a definition for OFF_T_MAX which conflicts with the one in the system's limits.h config.h defines: #define OFF_T_MAX LLONG_MAX whereas /usr/include/machine/limits.h defines: #define OFF_T_MAX UQUAD_MAX /* max value for an off_t */ I simply comment out the definition from config.h . Second, in src/lib/mmap-anon.c there's a preprocessor conditional: #if SSIZE_T_MAX >= LLONG_MAX (etc) Unfortunately /usr/include/machine/limits.h defines LLONG_MAX thusly: #define LLONG_MAX (__extension__(9223372036854775807LL)) (evidently to suppress pedantic warnings about the gcc long long constant extension) but the cpp prepreprocessor stumbles over this comparison. This might be fixed in a later gcc, I dunno- it's gcc 2.95.2 here. Yours, -mm-

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[dovecot] dovecot and virtual users
by Jej 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Hello, I set up a virtual smtp with exim (mails stored in /var/virtual/{domain}/{user}, passwd in /etc/virtual/{domain}.passwd). I have a patched pop3 server to deal with these mail boxes. Would it be possible to use dovecot as imap server, or (even better) for imap and pop3, with this virtual domain model ? Thanks, read you. -- jej

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[dovecot] Error: child 12625 (imap) killed with signal 12
by Johan Willard 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hi! I have tried to install dovecot as my imap service on my FreeBSD server. At first all looked fine and worked flawless. But after a while i started to get errors. The imap process dies with signal 12 when the client tries to check the contens of the folder. dovecot: Apr 07 09:55:17 Error: child 12625 (imap) killed with signal 12 Any ideas what may cause this problem? MvH Johan Willard

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[dovecot] New installation - error 89 on connect
by David Knudsen 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

I've recently installed dovecot (0.99.8.1) from the Debian/woody backport at 'deb http://src.braincells.com/debian woody/' Previously, all mail have been delivered to mbox'es in ~/Mail by exim/procmail -- ~/Mail/inbox being my main mailbox. Whenever I attempt to connect with an IMAP client, the connection is closed and the following error is reported in /var/log/syslog: imap-login: Login: dk [192.168.0.2] imap(dk): Unknown client workaround: outlook-idle^I### dovecot: child 17653 (imap) returned error 89 What does error 89 signify? My current configuration is: (non-comment lines only) imap_listen = 192.168.0.2 imaps_listen = * login = imap login = pop3 verbose_proctitle = yes client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mailbox_check_interval = 60 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes In my confusion, I blindly tried changing settings, attempting to get a different error message at least. :-) These are the settings I have tried, without success: default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=~/Mail/inbox mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mbox_locks = fcntl auth_passdb = shadow There is no subdirectories in ~/Mail, neither visible nor hidden. I did try to read the docs, and I did browse the mailing list archives, but either I missed something or it is not there. Any ideas? Thank you, David Knudsen

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[dovecot] Re: command line version of dovecot?
by Timo Sirainen 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 18:52, Kyler Laird wrote: > > There's the "imap" binary that should do exactly that. Usually installed > > into /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap > > Ah! That's just the kind of solution I sought. > > Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me. It doesn't > appear (via strace) to read any configuration file. It just > looks in /var/mail/[user] for a Maildir. I need to to go to > the Maildir in the user's home (and follow other behaviors > defined in the config file). It should look into ~/Maildir first, then ~/mail and ~/Mail unless it's overridden in MAIL environment. You probably have MAIL=/var/mail/user set, which is why it looks into there. Currently it doesn't read any configuration file, and I'm not sure if I should make it do that.. Well, it could be useful but I'd have to figure out how to prevent unneeded code duplication for config file parsing. All settings are passed via environment settings, but they're not documented (they're basically uppercased versions of the setting names in config file). > Should I have found all of this in some documentation? I > appreciate the help but I feel like I should be reading > about this on my own somewhere. doc/mail-storages.txt explains the MAIL environment.

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[dovecot] command line version of dovecot?
by Timo Sirainen 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

> From: Kyler Laird <kyler-keyword-dovecot.a0ff9b(a)lairds.org> > I finally have dovecot mostly working and I was thinking that > I'd been saved from having to use UW-IMAPd, but I just now > noticed that there doesn't appear to be any way to run > dovecot over standard I/O; it always wants to listen on a > socket. There's the "imap" binary that should do exactly that. Usually installed into /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap Or did you mean you wanted to run it from inetd? CVS version supports that too if you execute imap-login.

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[dovecot] message order reversed on copying
by Kimura Fuyuki 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Hi, I noticed an annoying behavior of dovecot: the message order (sequence numbering) is reversed on COPYing in the maildir. I suspect that the following code in maildir-save.c is working like "pushing". mf->next = ctx->files; ... ctx->files = mf; Later ctx->files is used like this. for (mf = ctx->files; mf != NULL; mf = mf->next) { -- fuyuki

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[dovecot] Patch for passdb-passwd-file.c
by Armin Wolfermann 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Index: passdb-passwd-file.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/passdb-passwd-file.c,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -u -r1.6 passdb-passwd-file.c --- passdb-passwd-file.c 18 Feb 2003 19:24:44 -0000 1.6 +++ passdb-passwd-file.c 8 Apr 2003 15:59:53 -0000 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ crypted_pass = pu->password; scheme = password_get_scheme(&crypted_pass); - if (scheme == NULL) scheme = "DES"; + if (scheme == NULL) scheme = "CRYPT"; ret = password_verify(password, crypted_pass, scheme, request->user);

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[dovecot] Mbox spool; dovecot rewriting and rewriting and rewriting
by Ask Bjoern Hansen 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

Hi, jaldhar recommended dovecot to me - http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2003/04/07/000286.html ... and so far it seems much nicer than the other imapds. yay. I use the OS X Mail.app client. I tested it with a test account with no problems, but trying to use it with my usual mail folders (~1.3GB; 120MB in the inbox) it's not working at all. It seems like dovecot keeps copying the full inbox into a temp file in mail/.imap/INBOX. It did it at least 10 times while I was watching without any noticable progress doing anything at all in Mail.app. I am running FreeBSD on an ancient box with 384MB ram (but nice SCSI drives). I tried stopping new mail deliveries to the inbox while I testing, but it didn't seem to make a difference. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();

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[dovecot] Why can't hierarchy sep be changed?
by Timo Sirainen 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

>From: Charlie Brady <charlieb(a)e-smith.com> There's something wrong with manually accepting posts from non-subscribed addresses now, they're just left to queue directory for some reason.. Please try to keep the From-address the same as the subscribed one. > >From maildir-storage.c: > > ... > '.', /* hierarchy_sep - can't be changed */ > ... > > Why can't it be changed? Is this just for courier compatibility, or is > there a deeper reason why it can't be changed? Actually I'm going to change it to '/' to allow folders such as shared/timo.sirainen/mailbox. The directory names themselves will still contain '.' separator to stay compatible with Courier's Maildir++ format. So even though new IMAP separator will be '/', '.' still can't be used in mailbox names.

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