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[Dovecot] problem with default_mail_env
by Roi Efrati 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

I'v set the default_mail_env to maildir:/var/maildir/%d/%u where /var/maildir/ is the root dorectory for my maildir tree and I'm getting the folowing error in the maillog : Jan 3 15:16:58 websrv pop3(roi): unlink(/var/maildir//roi/cur/new:2,T) failed: Is a directory Notice that the %d is missing. If I change to 'default_mail_env = maildir:/var/maildir/example.tld/%u' then it's all working fine only I can't create other virtual domains. If anybody can help me solve this one...

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[Dovecot] header search for splitted word
by Kazuo Moriwaka 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hello, I wrote a patch for header search about a word over two lines. Please check it. For example, following header string contains a word splitted into two mime encoded block. It's normal behavior of MUAs in CJK environment. Subject: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?Sk1CGyRCJUQlIiE8JUslZSE8JTkhIRsoQkpBTBskQiVBJWMhPCU/GyhC?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCITxKWCRHOVQkLxsoQiAbJEI0WjlxGyhCLxskQiVRJWklKhsoQi8bJEIlNSUkJVElcxsoQg==?= And now, dovecot search command miss to search the word. word : "ABCDE" … [View More]

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[Dovecot] possible bug with mail->get_header and caching?
by Johannes Berg 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I don't know if this is intended or not, but here it comes. I have * that copy plugin I was working on * dovecot 1.0-test59 * thunderbird test client My copy plugin looks for the X-DSPAM-Signature header line, and reports it to syslog as such: imap: we have a signature: "X-DSPAM-Signature: <sig>" where <sig> is replaced by what is found in the header line. This only happens when I copy in/out of the SPAM folder (which works fine). Now, when a mail is copied from INBOX to … [View More]

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[Dovecot] PostgreSQL user database
by Marco Herrn 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hi, I am using postgresql for my password and user databases. The problem is, that the information needed in the user database is held in more than one table. But it seems to me that dovecot expects to get all the information for mailbox, uid, gid and home in _one_ query. Is there a way to get around this? Maybe even getting some of this information by another way than pgsql (this is more a rethorical question, since I have this information in the DB, but sometimes it is useful to get, for … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + MySql (NO PAM) Howto
by Roi Efrati 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

As mentioned before, I got Dovecot with Fedora and it does not have the necessary documentation. Can some one please direct me to the correct path of making this type of configuration work. I got Dovecot to authorize the users Via PAM & Mysql but still getting errors (acct_mgmt & setcred) that I can't figure out how to solve.

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[Dovecot] virtual hosting
by Tom Allison 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I'm trying to figure out how I might set up some virtual hosting accounts for my server. domain1 would be delivered via procmail to ~/Maildir mail directories domain2 would be delivered via postfix to /var/mail/vhosts/domain2/username and similarly for additional domains. There's also one domain that's delivered to another machine, but that's not a dovecot issue. I just mention it for completeness. currently I have only domain1 and only: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir I'm not … [View More]

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[Dovecot] why dovecot try to access the uses's home?
by Farkas Levente 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

hi, after i try to use dovecot with ldap i configure dovecot as: ------------------------ first_valid_uid = 499 last_valid_uid = 499 first_valid_gid = 499 last_valid_gid = 499 default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mail/%d/%n auth_userdb = static uid=499 gid=499 home=/home/users/%d/%n auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf ------------------------ but after this i've got the error in imap.log: ------------------------ dovecot: Dec 29 14:39:14 Fatal: chdir(/home/users/<username>) failed with … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Outlook can't download messages with no subject and empty body
by Bob 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

My Outlook POP3 clients can't download messages that have empty subjects and bodies. I'm running 0.99.11-1.1.fc2 and have added the following line to dovecot.conf client_workarounds = outlook-pop3-no-nuls This didn't help. Any help would be appreciated, Bob

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[Dovecot] Debugging msync() failed errors
by Doug Luce 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

>From today's maillog: maillog:Dec 28 09:29:40 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/.projects.job591/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:30:21 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:30:22 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): msync() failed with index file /home/doug/Maildir/dovecot.index: Invalid argument maillog:Dec 28 09:30:28 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Assistant access
by Doug Luce 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Does anyone have a clue how I might set Dovecot up to allow another account to have read/write access to my INBOX and one other folder? I want to set things up so my assistant can pre-scan my post-Spamassassed email to remove more spam from it. Thanks! Doug

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[Dovecot] 0.99.1[12] IMAP problems with Apple Mail.app?
by Jim Tittsler 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Is anyone else having trouble using the Apple OS X Mail.app with a Dovecot IMAP server? With 0.99.11 and 0.99.12 attempting to read certain messages using IMAP or IMAPS seems to put Mail.app into spinning pizza of death mode. Sniffing the connection, it looks like it happens after the client issues a BODY.PEEK[] and the server has responded with the (UID XXXX BODY[] {YYYY}...) and OK Fetch completed. I've only been able to catch it happening with messages that are either (a) Base64 … [View More]

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[Dovecot] failed with uid Permission denied
by Rein Laaneser 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hi Does somebody know the workaround I have some users, who are able to log in to dovecot but others not.... even the failpermissions in directories are same. Also mbox folder is excatly same mail Some settings in /etc/dovecot.conf first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_uid = 1500 first_valid_gid = 500 last_valid_gid = 515 default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u So the "someuser" is able to log in but "testuser" not log from testuser logging in somehost imap-login: Login: … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Mozilla/Thunderbird secure authentication
by Stewart Dean 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I am finishing up getting SSL/IMAP working on our mail server and I notice the Use secure authentication box....very little I can find out about it, except that everyone says NOT to use it and maybe it's only for POP, not IMAP. Can you confirm?...googled you on this. Also, isn't authentication secure with SSL/IMAP anyway????? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] pop3 and home directory
by Shane Kerschtien 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I have a question regarding dovecot (1.0-test52) and pop3. I have users that do not have home directories, they only have an inbox in /var/mail. When they try to pop their email, dovecot tries to create ~/mail and then fails. Is there a way around this or will all email users need to have a home directory? Cheers, Shane Kerschtien dovecot: Jan 04 09:37:58 Error: POP3(fran): mkdir_parents(/none/mail) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Jan 04 09:37:58 Error: POP3(fran): Failed to create … [View More]

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[Dovecot] 0.99.13 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

v0.99.13 2005-01-06 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * GNUTLS support hasn't been working for a while, so it's not even tried to be used anymore unless explicitly wanted. + Added CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism. Patch by Joshua Goodall + Added SMD5 and LDAP-MD5 password schemes and changed MD5 scheme to use LDAP-MD5 if the password isn't in MD5crypt format. Patch by Joshua Goodall + Workaround for some POP3 client bugs: if message doesn't contain the "end of headers" empty … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Crashing after MySQL Auth
by 'Donovan Craig' 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hi, I'm running a mixed Debian Woody/Sarge system with Dovecot version: (0.99.12-1) I can't seem to be able to get dovecot working with mysql. It seems to authenticate successfully then crash. This happens when I use the Debian package and also when I've compiled from source. dovecot: Jan 06 12:21:14 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:15 Info: MySQL: connected to localhost dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:15 Info: Login process 8 connected dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:15 Info: … [View More]Login process 8 sent handshake: PID 11587 dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:16 Info: Login process 9 connected dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:16 Info: Login process 9 sent handshake: PID 11589 dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:17 Info: Login process 10 connected dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:17 Info: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 11590 dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:32 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT substring(password_hash, 6) AS password FROM popbox WHERE local_part = 'donovan' AND domain_name = 'somedomain.com' dovecot: Jan 06 12:21:32 Error: login: Authentication process 11585 doesn't exist imap-login: Jan 06 12:21:32 Info: Internal login failure: donovan(a)somedomain.com [127.0.0.1] dovecot: Jan 06 12:21:32 Error: child 11585 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:32 Info: MySQL: connected to localhost dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:33 Info: Login process 8 connected dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:33 Info: Login process 8 sent handshake: PID 11587 dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:33 Info: Login process 9 connected dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:33 Info: Login process 9 sent handshake: PID 11589 dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:33 Info: Login process 10 connected dovecot-auth: Jan 06 12:21:33 Info: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 11590 ---- Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x402c0284 in mallopt () from /lib/libc.so.6 dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imap disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_chroot = no login = imap login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = no login = pop3 first_valid_uid = 20 mail_extra_groups = vmail default_mail_env = client_workarounds = outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes dovecot-mysql.conf db_host = localhost db_port = 3306 # db_unix_socket = /var/tmp/mysql.sock db_unix_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock db = vmail db_user = vmail db_passwd = xxxxx db_client_flags = 0 # Default password scheme. # # Currently supported schemes include PLAIN, PLAIN-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, and # CRYPT. # default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 # Query to retrieve the password. # # The query should return one row, one column. If more than one row or # column # is returned, authentication will automatically fail. # password_query = SELECT substring(password_hash, 6) AS password FROM popbox WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain_name = '%d' # user_query = SELECT CONCAT('maildir:',domain.path,'/', # popbox.mbox_name) AS home, '508' AS uid, '508' AS gid FROM popbox, # domain WHERE popbox.local_part = '%n' AND popbox.domain_name = '%d' # AND popbox.domain_name = domain.domain_name user_query = SELECT CONCAT(domain.path,'/', popbox.mbox_name) AS home, '508' AS uid, '508' AS gid FROM popbox, domain WHERE popbox.local_part = '%n' AND popbox.domain_name = '%d' AND popbox.domain_name = domain.domain_name Any ideas? The spool directories are maildir and are set with 700 permissions as 508.508 (vmail). Regards, Donovan Donovan Craig Go4 Multimedia Phone : +61 3 95 306 658 Fax : +61 3 95 306 435 Mobile : 0414 666 518 Web : http://www.go4.com.au/ 14B Warleigh Grv, Brighton VIC 3186 GnuPG Key : http://bilby.snapfrozen.com/gpg/dcraig.asc Fingerprint: 3E73 E01A D24F 3737 9427 58A7 90F4 9671 ADAB CA76 "Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'". --- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader [View Less]

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[Dovecot] Internal login failure
by Peter Clark 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I have discovered an odd problem; some users are able to connect to Dovecot either via pop3 or imap without any problems. Other users, however, aren't, and the following message appears in /var/log/mail.log: --- dovecot-auth: Login process 13 connected dovecot-auth: Login process 13 sent handshake: PID 1313 pop3-login: Internal login failure: user(a)mydomain.tld [195.242.16.30] dovecot: child 1311 (auth) killed with signal 11 --- I'm using Dovecot 0.99.11 (Debian Sarge), and all user … [View More]

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[Dovecot] imap client library.
by Oon Arfiandwi M. 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Dear Dovecot developers, I have several question about imap client: - Is there any difference if we want to create imap client that connect to Imap server with user mail format Mailbox or Maildir? Dovecot support both of them, are we need to create different imap client to support both of them? - Does anyone have imap client library other than UW's c-client? thanks for your information, -- Oon Arfiandwi M.

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[Dovecot] authenticate authenticated users
by Tzafrir Cohen 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hi I'm using dovecot on a LAN server. I sometimes read mail from the server itself locally with mutt and sometimes remotely with mutt or mozilla . I would like to avoid typing my password whenever necessary but without writing a plain-text equivalent copy of it locally. It feels quite silly to have to type the password locally becase the imapd does not know that the process is indeed a process of the user tzafrir. It has all the information it neeeds to check that. wu-imapd has something … [View More]

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[Dovecot] FW: Failed to create storage with data
by Christopher Cheng 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

I've found out the problem already. After postfix delivered the mail to my mailbox, I can login now... -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Cheng [mailto:mylist@chrishome.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:55 PM To: 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' Subject: Failed to create storage with data I am trying to setup dovecot with postfix and postgres. After I got dovecot connected to postgres and use Outlook Express to try to login, I have the following problem: Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Failed to create storage with data
by Christopher Cheng 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

I am trying to setup dovecot with postfix and postgres. After I got dovecot connected to postgres and use Outlook Express to try to login, I have the following problem: Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain imap-login: Login: chris [::ffff:192.168.1.2] Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain dovecot-auth: Login process 9 disconnected Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain imap(chris): Failed to create storage with data: /var/local/mail/mydomain.com/chris Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain dovecot: child 24616 (imap) returned … [View More]

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[Dovecot] compact folders, expunge, etc
by Mail Admin 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Test58 and test59 breaks "compact folders" and "expunge" in thunderbird and evolution. Messages marked for deletion just sit there as if compacting folders or expunging have no effect. Thunderbird continues to behave erratically with dovecot test builds. I haven't been able to test the imap_client_workarounds=tb-negative-fetch option yet as I'm still running test52. Thunderbird displays blank messages when they are opened, but "Edit as new" shows the message contents. Thunderbird also … [View More]

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[Dovecot] PLAIN-MD5 passwords?
by Peter Clark 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

After I found out that {CRYPT} doesn't support passwords longer than 8 characters, I decided to switch over to MD5 for user passwords in my LDAP database. However, while I have no problem with Postfix + SASL, Dovecot fails to authenticate. Relevant bits from /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf: user_attrs = mailAddress,,,,, # The search string is identical to what's found in /etc/saslauthd.conf: user_filter = (&(|(uid=%u)(mailAddress=%u))(status=active)) pass_attrs = mailAddress,userPassword … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Wanted: gnutls11 support
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

I talked to Timo about this before and even provided the beginnings of a patch but don't have enough time to really do a proper job. Anyway, dovecot doesn't work with recent versions of the GNU TLS library. As a result, I compile the Debian package with OpenSSL. However some of the other libraries used, such as OpenLDAP are linked against GNU TLS so Dovecot is linked against both. And it is suspected this is leading to bugs. So could some kind soul provide Timo with a patch he can include … [View More]

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildir owner importance
by Roi Efrati 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

That last line actually made it possible for me to be able to log into the server :) I am still getting errors from PAM but it starting to look good. Is there a good HowTo on setting Dovecot to comunicate directly to MySql without using PAM in the middle ? Also, Since Postfix is still not working on my server, I can't actually recive Emails. Is there somewere an example of the files that need to be in the maildir that I can put them in there and test that the email client get's the mail out ? … [View More]

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