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[Dovecot] 1.0-test47
by Timo Sirainen 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Been a while since last release. Still seems there are some mbox problems, but I haven't been able to break anything for last few days. I guess it's stable enough. At least more stable than test46 which crashed quite often when expunging. - pretty much rewrote "index extension" support. it's now possible to add extensions to headers and to message records. it's possible to resize them. I'll probably use it soon to change mbox code to use 32bit offsets and automatically grow to 64bit offsets once mbox grows over 4GB (well, yes, rare, but.. :) - login_greeting and login_greeting_capability settings - auth_verbose is even more verbose - mbox fixes/optimizations - other fixes/additions

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[Dovecot] Error in IMAP command UID
by Jan Kuipers 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

I get this error with some messages in my inbox: The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in <102400.-100124> The <102400.-100124> at the end depends on the message. Client is Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 using imaps. Server is Dovecot 1.0-test47. Is this a bug or did I configure something wrong? Jan Kuipers Systemadministrator Lauwers College

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[Dovecot] cvs build broken in auth/db-mysql.c?
by Tom Brown 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

After running ./configure --with-ldap --with-ssl=openssl --with-pgsql --with-mysql --without-cyrus-sasl2 --sysconfdir=/etc (Settings taken from the debian/rules of debian package version 0.99.11-3) of the cvs HEAD or test46 I get the following error during make: db-mysql.o(.text+0x116): In function `db_mysql_query': /tmp/dovecot-1.0-test46/src/auth/db-mysql.c:82: undefined reference to `mysql_conn_open' The following trivial change seems to let the build finish: RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/db-mysql.c,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -r1.11 db-mysql.c 82c82 < if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) --- > if (!db_mysql_connect(conn)) This little error snuck in between -r1.10 and -r1.11 of src/auth/db-mysql.c . Tom -- 28 70 20 71 2C 65 29 61 9C B1 36 3D D4 69 CE 62 4A 22 8B 0E DC 3E mailto:mail@thecap.org http://thecap.org/

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[Dovecot] dovecot and (no) new incomming mail - migration from wu-imapd
by Götz Reinicke 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Hi, I recently installed dovecot 0.99 on a fedora core 1 Server which used the wu-imap-server. dovecot starts and I can subscribe to my old imapfolders, but if I send mails to my account, this new mail arent downloaded. If I quit Mozilla and restart Mozilla, the recently send mails are in my inbox. We use also a webmailsystem, so I could verify that the mails are in the inbox without relogging in. This phenome is not showing up by all my imap accounts. I'm testing with mozilla 1.7.3 and 1.8a4 on a mac os x 10.3.5 Client. The Inbox-folder for the "defect" account is showing in italic and grey ghosted (in the folder list), the folder in the working account is normal. A user using Netscape 7.1 on a Windows XP Client has also no Problems.... Any Ideas? regards Götz Reinicke -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] ldap SMD5 vs. CRYPT
by Adam Pordzik 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Hello, am I right, that dovecot can't cope with ldap so authentification is handled by ldap itself? And, for that I have to use {CRYPT} and cannot use other mechanisms as {SMD5} Are there any other possibilities? A --

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] change old style SASL discovery code
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hello, this patch reworks old-style SASL discovery code. With this patch applied it advertises all configured SASL mechanisms. It makes possible for MS Outlook to use all installed security service providers (SSP), so if someone crazy enough will write CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 SSP we'll support it readily :) Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] add missing error check in epoll code
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hello, this patch adds missing epoll_create() error check. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] fix NTLM2 endianness buglet
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hi, this patch fixes endianness problem in NTLM2 code. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] how to backup inboxes in dovecot ?
by Faisal 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

I upgraded my server from Mandrake 9.2 (Imapd , postfix & SQ mail) to Fedora core 2 (dovecot, postfix & SQ mail) i backed up /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow files & all home directories of users account on my server .. after resotration & configuration of the servers everything seems to work , except users email they had on the server saved :( man this is embaracing .. can u tell me wat i did wrong ? where were the mails stored .. & wat is the right way to do it ? thanks

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[Dovecot] Spaces removed from subjects in FETCH response
by Kenneth Porter 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

I'm using SpamAssassin to tag spam and prefix the spam score to the subject line. To make the scores sort properly in the client's message list, I pad the score with spaces to right-align it. It looks like dovecot-0.99.10.9-1.FC3.2 is frustrating this by stripping the excess spaces from the subject before reporting it in FETCH responses. Here's an actual subject line: Subject: (SPAM? 6.9) Urgent Response !! Note the multiple spaces before the "6.9". Here's the matching FETCH command and reply, as reported in Mulberry's IMAP.log (just the relevant message is shown here): A00035 FETCH 1507:1524 (FLAGS RFC822.SIZE UID INTERNALDATE ENVELOPE BODYSTRUCTURE) * 1517 FETCH (UID 1557 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "02-Oct-2004 12:24:40 -0700" RFC822.SIZE 6263 BODYSTRUCTURE (("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "8bit" 1168 24 NIL ("inline" NIL) NIL)("message" "rfc822" ("x-spam-type" "original") NIL "original message before SpamAssassin" "8bit" 3855 ("Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:52:28 -0400" "Urgent Response !!" (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) NIL NIL NIL NIL "<E1CDo3Y-0002FZ-9f(a)host.cell04.com>") ("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 2731 35 NIL NIL NIL) 63 NIL ("inline" NIL) NIL) "mixed" ("boundary" "----------=_415F007A.0DECCC93") NIL NIL) ENVELOPE ("Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:52:28 -0400" "(SPAM? 6.9) Urgent Response !!" (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) NIL NIL NIL NIL "<E1CDo3Y-0002FZ-9f(a)host.cell04.com>"))

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth
by Piviul 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

Thank you very much for your prompt reply and I hope you can forgive me to have erroneusly send the previous message directly to your address instead of the ML address. Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 5.10.2004, at 18:46, Piviul wrote: > It probably means that the dn you gave in dovecot-ldap.conf doesn't have > read access to everyone's userPassword field. This is required by > Dovecot's current implementation. As far as I know the *dn* I've inserted in the dovecot-ldap.conf have read access to the userPassword field. In effect I've setted it in slapd.conf and if I run > ldapsearch -x -D *dn inserted in dovecot-ldap.conf* -w password I can read the userPassword field of every user in the tree. But if the problem is in the password field can be connected to the crypted password stored in userPassword? I wrong to set *pass_attrs = uid,{SSHA}userPassword* in dovecot-ldap.conf? Piviul

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[Dovecot] 'Connection dropped by imap-server' when doing searches in
by Mike Jakubik 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, It seems that on larger folders (32k emails) searching fails with the following error under squirrelmail 1.4.3a. (The server continues to work, as the hard drive stays on for a bit after the error is displayed) --- Search Results ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL SUBJECT {9} 5.3-BETA7 SUBJECT {9} available --- Oddly enough, when searching for just '5.3-BETA7' instead of '5.3-BETA7 available' the search completes OK. I can search with multiple strings on smaller (3k) folders however. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] >From escaping
by Dean Earley 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi all Is there an option in dovecot to remove the >From escaping in the body of mbox mails? Thanks -- Dean Earley AKA Dee (dean(a)earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk phone: +44 (0)780 8369596

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth
by Piviul 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, I'm a new list member, I’m a not an English native speaking (so, please forgive any error you can find in this mail) and I'm trying to install Dovecot in Debian Woody. I've installed the Dovecot package from backports and I’m trying to configure it to get the credential authentication from an LDAP backend. This is the configuration process summary I’ve done; if you need some configuration file I can post it with great pleasure. In LDAP I’ve created the user cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org, I’ve configured this user to have read access to the userPassword field in slapd.conf (the other parameter such as uid, directoryHome… can be read as anonymous), I’ve configured the dovecot-ldap.conf to bind using the “cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org” and I set the *auth_userdb* and *auth_passdb* of dovecot.conf to *ldap /path/to/dovecot-ldap.conf*. When I’m trying to start dovecot in the mail.err log file I can find > Oct 5 11:13:29 PDC-SMB dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed (dn cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org): Invalid credentials Is the problem that the ldap-password is stored in SSHA crypted mode and in *dnpass* I've inserted it in plaintext? Or more in general, someone can help me to find where I wrong and how can I try to solve it? Piviul

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[Dovecot] timeout when retrieving folder list w/ Evolution 2.0?
by leon breedt 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

hi, i have a problem with some maildir folders, where Evolution times out when retrieving the header list. It only happens with one particular folder, but i can't seem to find a pattern behind it. The amount of headers it does manage to retrieve varies, from between 3% to 50%. Its not a particularly large folder either (only 520 messages). The error message I get from Evolution is "Server response ended too soon". I did an Ethereal trace, and the closest IMAP command before the failure is: FLAGS (\Answered \Seen) RFC822.SIZE xxx INTERNALDATE "xxx" UID nnn)\r\n its a different UID value that fails each time though. after this response from the server, it seems to get through the message header (not sure if the entire message header was sent back). i'll keep this folder around as a test case. any ideas on where to start debugging? i'm fairly familiar with C and gdb. leon

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and fcntl errors
by Eric Joe 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hello, I am new to the list and after searching the net for a solution to this problem, I have yet to find it. Maybe someone here can help. I had been using Dovecot that came with FC2 for about 1200 POP3 and IMAP mail accounts. At random times (1-5 days) an imap process would run the cpu usage up to 99% on one of my cpus (Running SMP P3-866) and hang. That process was unkillable and only a reboot would fix the problem. If I let it go, eventually it would lock up the server completely. I am seeing this error in my /var/log/maillog <snip> Oct 4 08:23:21 ns2 imap(editorial): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/editorial/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:00:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:02:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:04:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index </snip> I have since upgrade (built from source) Dovecot 0.99.11 and have been running for 2 days without a hung process or lockup, but I still see these errors in the maillog. Can anyone suggest a fix? Regards Eric

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL setup ?
by Marius Stan 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 1.10.2004, at 18:25, Marius Stan wrote: > >>> --ssl, not -ssl >> >> >> damn. I'm tired... anyway, I swear I've RTFM but I didn'n find this >> switch. > > > Well, preferred way to start Dovecot is to run it via dovecot master > binary, not via inetd. I should write some page about it to wiki I > guess.. >> What's tho switch for debug ? now I've got this: >> pop3-login: Oct 01 16:49:56 Fatal: SSL initialization failed >> and some more verbosity would prevent me from bothering you again > > > The error messages are usually quite good I think. This is one > exception, I'll fix it. Anyway, two possibilities: > > a) Dovecot wasn't compiled with SSL support at all. Install prefix ...................... : /usr File offsets ........................ : 64bit Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with user database modules . : static passwd passwd-file ldap pgsql mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam ldap pgsql mysql (modules) > > b) ssl_disable = yes it's not disabled... Marius

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[Dovecot] Dovecot/IMP Bug with RFC822.SIZE and BODYSTRUCTURE
by Ryan Hulsker 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Ok, I have narrowed my IMP/Dovecot attachment problem down to what I think is a bug in Dovecot. The test that follow are performed on 0.99.11. When you download an attachment in IMP it uses the php function imap_fetchbody() which contacts the IMAP server and retrieves just the mime chunk you are looking for. It does this by first fetching some information about the email, and then grabs the specific chunk you are looking for in a second request. The first request looks like this. "FETCH 258 (ENVELOPE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Path Message-ID Newsgroups Followup-To References)] BODYSTRUCTURE INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE FLAGS)" Dovecot responds properly on all parts of this request except for the BODYSTRUCTURE portion which gets returned as this. "BODYSTRUCTURE ("text" "plain" NIL NIL NIL "7bit" 0 0 NIL NIL NIL)" This causes the imap_fetchbody() funtion to freak out and not do the 2nd request, and it returns 0 bytes. If I manually try "FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE)" Dovecot returns the expected data properly. I figured there must be an interaction between the BODYSTRUCTURE fetch and one of the other items that are requested, so I tried them all and narrowed it down to this. FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE) <- works OK FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE RFC822.SIZE) <- BODYSTRUCTURE reply is wrong. I have been surfing through the dovecot source looking for a way to fix or work around this, but I am only a mediocre C coder. Can anyone enlighten me? Ryan Hulsker

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test46: Assertion failed
by dovecot 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, I'm experiencing there assertions in the mail log (about 8 times during the last 2 days): Oct 5 11:20:51 web dovecot: POP3(xxxxx): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) What is it? I'm running 1.0-test46 and sendmail on FC2. This is in dovecot.conf: #fcntl_locks_disable = no #mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl Thanks. Martin

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[Dovecot] trouble accessing mbox folders with simultaneous logins
by 2 m＠le / Jonathan Salomon 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Hi all! I have setup dovecot (RPM) on a Fedora Core 2 machine using LDAP for authentication. It all seems to work pretty well, except for simultaneous logins. I am using mbox files to store the mail as follows (from /etc/dovecot.conf): default_mail_env = mbox:~/.mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY So the INBOX file is stored in /var/mail, other mailfolders are stored in the users home directory in the .mail folder. Because the /home directory of this machine is mounted from fileserver through NFS, I have set the INDEX=MEMORY options (see http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt) As said before I am getting some problems when using simultaneous logins for the same mail account (for instance when multiple users that work on a specific project want to share a mail account containing all the mail about the project in addition to their private account). The client used is Microsoft Outlook and besides some outlook specific problems, it also gives these errors (translated from Dutch) when many users are simultaneously logged in to the same account: 'Your server reported that a UID does not comply with the IMAP standard, which signifies an error on the server.' 'The UID of a message is unexpectedly deleted. This signifies an error on the server.' I am not sure where to look... I assume a problem with the index files? Does NFS cause the problem? Will this be fixed if I switch to maildirs? I would be grateful for any tips on the subject! Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------- Dit E-mail bericht met eventuele attachments is gescanned op virussen ----------------------------------------------------- Dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Indien de e-mail bij vergissing bij u terecht is gekomen, wilt u ons dan direct bellen? Wij verzoeken u in dit geval de e-mail te vernietigen, de inhoud ervan niet te gebruiken en niet onder derden te verspreiden, omdat het bericht vertrouwelijke informatie kan bevatten. Telefoon: + 31 20 494 24 24 This is an e-mail from 2 m@le Computer Services. This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or privileged legal or sensitive business data . This e-mail is intended for the addresse(s) stated above only. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please delete this e-mail. Thank you.

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Re: [Dovecot] trouble accessing mbox folders with simultaneous logins
by Michael Cosby 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

I can help you narrow the problem down a bit. I'm assuming you're using 1.0-test45 or 46, in which case I see the same problem using mbox, index files stored on disk and no NFS. I access my mail via pine and chatter email (an imap client for the palm). While I've not seen any errors that specifically say UID, the client for the palm will occasionally reload messages from a few days back thinking they're new, which eventually crashes the client when the count of mail it should be loading doesn't match what it actually got (the palm client's in beta, too :) ). I solved the problem by moving back to the 0.99 series, which other than performance issues works just fine for me. - Michael ------------------- In response to: Hi all! I have setup dovecot (RPM) on a Fedora Core 2 machine using LDAP for authentication. It all seems to work pretty well, except for simultaneous logins. I am using mbox files to store the mail as follows (from /etc/dovecot.conf): default_mail_env = mbox:~/.mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY So the INBOX file is stored in /var/mail, other mailfolders are stored in the users home directory in the .mail folder. Because the /home directory of this machine is mounted from fileserver through NFS, I have set the INDEX=MEMORY options (see http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt) As said before I am getting some problems when using simultaneous logins for the same mail account (for instance when multiple users that work on a specific project want to share a mail account containing all the mail about the project in addition to their private account). The client used is Microsoft Outlook and besides some outlook specific problems, it also gives these errors (translated from Dutch) when many users are simultaneously logged in to the same account: 'Your server reported that a UID does not comply with the IMAP standard, which signifies an error on the server.' 'The UID of a message is unexpectedly deleted. This signifies an error on the server.' I am not sure where to look... I assume a problem with the index files? Does NFS cause the problem? Will this be fixed if I switch to maildirs? I would be grateful for any tips on the subject! Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------- Dit E-mail bericht met eventuele attachments is gescanned op virussen ----------------------------------------------------- Dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Indien de e-mail bij vergissing bij u terecht is gekomen, wilt u ons dan direct bellen? Wij verzoeken u in dit geval de e-mail te vernietigen, de inhoud ervan niet te gebruiken en niet onder derden te verspreiden, omdat het bericht vertrouwelijke informatie kan bevatten. Telefoon: + 31 20 494 24 24 This is an e-mail from 2 m@le Computer Services. This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or privileged legal or sensitive business data . This e-mail is intended for the addresse(s) stated above only. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please delete this e-mail. Thank you. )

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[Dovecot] Slow squirrelmail login/IMAP CPU 80%
by rusecure＠rogers.com 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

I've been having a problem with Dovecot on Fedora Core 2 with SquirrelMail on the same system. When ever I login through SquirrelMail the imap process consumes around 80% of my CPU and the login takes forever (about 10 minutes). 1 Once I do manage to login, everything is fine and can even log out and back in without issue. Has anyone encountered this? Thanks, Nelson

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[Dovecot] Public folders / namespace documentation
by Keith Edmunds 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Does Dovecot support public folders? I thought it may do via namespaces, but having searched the Wiki and the documentation, I can't find how namespaces are defined. I've probably not looked in the right place - any pointers? Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] using %d in passdb
by leon breedt 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

hi, i'd like to seperate the password file for seperate virtual domains into seperate files. i tried specifying: passdb = passwd-file /etc/exim_incoming/local/accounts/pwdb/%d but i get an error message that it couldn't open the particular file, and then Dovecot shuts down. is there a way to do lazy-lookups? or, would i be required to write a little helper program and have Dovecot connect to its socket to do auth? leon

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[Dovecot] evolution and received by header
by Dan Stromberg 03 Oct '04

03 Oct '04

Evolution has a nice feature where it can sort messages by the most recent received-by date, instead of the Date: header. This is nice, because then if something gets stuck on a server somewhere in the world for a couple of days, it shows up at the end of your mail list, instead of way back where you might miss it. However, when using dovecot with evo, if I sort of received by instead of date, it takes forever. I assume this is because date is indexed, and received by is not. So the natural question becomes, is there a way of getting dovecot to index received by? TIA.

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