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[Dovecot] duplicate message headers in Thunderbird with dovecot server
by Matt McClure 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

I've been trying to diagnose some strange interaction between dovecot and Mozilla Thunderbird. If two clients are connected to a dovecot IMAP server, Mozilla-based clients start showing multiple messages in the message list for each message that arrives after the sessions were started. There is really only one copy of the message in the mbox file on the server. However, its UID changes repeatedly during the session, and Mozilla gets confused. From looking at Thunderbird's log of the IMAP conversation, it seems the message sequence number does not change, and I'm guessing that other clients handle the situation better because of this. Nevertheless, I found this in the IMAP RFC 3501, so my interpretation is that there is a dovecot bug involved: The unique identifier of a message MUST NOT change during the session, and SHOULD NOT change between sessions. Any change of unique identifiers between sessions MUST be detectable using the UIDVALIDITY mechanism discussed below. Persistent unique identifiers are required for a client to resynchronize its state from a previous session with the server (e.g., disconnected or offline access clients); this is discussed further in [IMAP-DISC]. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a known solution? I've been logging what I've found so far at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209561 -- Matt Funky like your grandpa's drawers

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[Dovecot] 0.99 mail env
by Curtis Maloney 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Greetings, all Last night I migrated our mail between two machines... both running dovecot 0.99.xx. In the process, I wanted to make some small changes, namely that new mail be delivered to mboxs in /var/mail/%u and IMAP mail stored in Maildirs at ~/.imap ... I tried using: default_mail_env = maildir:~/.imap/:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u But had no luck. Is it only 1.0 that can work with two different mailbox formats? Or did I screw up somewhere else? In the end, it actualy saved me a fair bit of work, since I'd have had to move everyone's old inbox. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] IMAP session freezes
by Brad 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

I've been having IMAP sessions "freeze" with fetchmail trying to retrieve larger e-mails, typically over 20K and always with an attachment. When I switch to POP3 I am able to retrieve the same e-mails just fine. This started at test33. I'm currently using test42 on a OpenBSD 3.5/macppc system with Maildir.

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[Dovecot] Multiple domains
by Daniel L. Miller 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

How do I setup Dovecot to read both local UNIX account maildirs and a separate virtual user area? Or do I need to run two servers? Daniel

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test40
by Timo Sirainen 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Fixed dying with SIGIO signal with busy Maildir + Linux + IDLE system - Fixed maildir syncing: "UIDs not ordered in file" errors could have occured sometimes wrongly - --with-ioloop=epoll enables epoll code with Linux 2.6. Untested after my changes. - Pretty big changes in internal index handling code (I started this change 2-3 months ago..) Keywords are now the only big missing feature that is planned for v1.0.

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[Dovecot] "Invalid offset returned by binary tree"
by Andy Isaacson 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hi, I'm running 0.99.10 on OpenBSD 3.4/i386, with Squirrelmail as the only client. I recently had dovecot fail with this in syslog: Sep 10 14:34:55 pirx imap(alisgray): Corrupted index file /home/alisgray/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: Invalid offset returned by binary tree: 118 Sep 10 14:34:55 pirx dovecot: child 20827 (imap) killed with signal 11 Poking around some, I see that dovecot.org recommends mmap_no_write=yes for OpenBSD... but that option's not implemented in 0.99.10, afaics. Does the symptom I'm seeing match the expected failure mode of OpenBSD's noncoherent mmap? I deleted .imap.* (after saving a backup) and that seems to have fixed the problem. I can provide a copy of the bad file for debugging, if necessary. And of course, if it's a known bug fixed in 1.0-test, I'd be happy to upgrade. -andy

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test42
by Timo Sirainen 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - fixed the last remaining cache corruption problems (I hope, no known ones left) - internaldate was never read from cache, but it was always cached again. this grew cache file uselessly and triggered cache compression constantly - buffer_set_used_size() assertfixes with mmap_no_write=yes (although it hasn't been much tested since the recent large index file changes, hopefully works..) - POP3: Replaced timestamp in APOP challenge string with 128 bits of base64d randomness - Added pop3_enable_last setting to enable LAST command

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[Fwd: [Dovecot] login process died too early]
by Adrian Roye 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

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[Dovecot] About maildir
by Jean-Edouard Babin 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hi, i just discover dovecot, and it's what i always wanted to have i read that it support qmail Maildir, i use postfix, but read on postfix site that postfix Maildir are compatible with qmail. so i have something like /var/mail/vhosts/domaine.tld/testuser/ i tried a simple setup to 'test' auth_userdb = static uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n auth_passdb = passwd-file /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot-passwd.conf all thing work exept that i don't see my email. dovecot has created /var/mail/vhosts/domaine.tld/testuser/mail/ and it seems that inbox email are stored in /var/mail/vhosts/archives.jeb.be/test3/mail/inbox (i have put an email on my inbox folder into my email client) but when i get a mail it's in /var/mail/vhosts/archives.jeb.be/.new/ so i'am wondering what is wrong, thank you, -- Jean-Edouard BABIN Mail: Jeb(a)jeb.com.fr Web : www.Jeb.com.fr IRC : Jeb @ Undernet

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[Dovecot] newbie question - no users can retrieve email (login works) pop3
by Web Enabled Info Systems 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

not sure where to go from here.... OS : Red Hat Fedora 2.6.5-1.358 #1 sendmail: sendmail dovecot version : 0.99.10.5 i can send email to the server. the email is then appended to the /var/mail/{user} file. i can view the /var/mail/{file} and see the email. i cannot retrieve the email from the local machine using Ximian Evolution (version 1.4.6). however if i use good ole #mail in a terminal it access the file and reads all emails. also as an added twist if i type in an incorrect email for the receiving email server it fails to login. however if i change it back it gets pass the login but it just hangs at retrieving messages. (again this is all on the local machine) i am sure i am just leaving out a pointer or permissions, or something crazy like that... thanks in advance Jack Taffar

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test41
by Timo Sirainen 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I think this release should be quite stable one. - fixes parsing mails with header lines longer than 8192 bytes - cache file corruption fixes - fixed "corrupted offset in mbox file" errors - don't return extra INBOX replies in LIST Those mbox and cache problems were pretty tricky to figure out. Thanks to Tomi Hakala for tons of testing while I tried to fix them. I've also began working with keywords support which hopefully doesn't take too long to finish. After that 1.0-alpha1 should be near.

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[Dovecot] mail not received from dovecot
by Tanim Islam 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hello all, I cannot receive emails to my dovecot IMAP server. Are there any WIKIs or anything in the dovecot mailing list that can address this issue? I use fedora core and dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. Tanim Islam

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0-test32 fails with assertion
by dovecot 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hello, dovecot-1.0-test32 continuously fails on one of our customers mboxes with the following error: Sep 11 16:27:15 web dovecot: POP3(xxxxxxxxxxxxx.de1): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 360 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == -mails[idx].space) About 200 other mboxes are working perfectly on the same server. Where should I start looking for the cause of this? Regards, Martin

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[Dovecot] Errors with NFS root filesystem?
by Nate Carlson 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hey all, I've been testing out Dovecot, and it works nicely. However, when I tried to roll it to my production server, I'm getting the following error: Sep 10 17:14:22 tungsten imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying to get list of authentication servers: Stale NFS file handle Any ideas on what I can do for this? I am running on a NFS root filesystem on the production server, so that's likely where this error is coming from. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars(a)natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Re: evolution/dovecot
by Stephen Waters 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:57, Stephen Waters wrote: > This bug may interest you: > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65679 I've updated it... looks like there's a problem with using /var/spool/mail/user for INBOX and subfolder creation/deletion using mbox in ~/Mail. The result is this: Request: A00099 LIST "" INBOX Response: * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX Request: A00100 LIST "" {7+} Response: * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "INBOX/" Which makes Evolution think INBOX is unreadable. :) Thanks for looking at this. -s

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[Dovecot] pop/imap & smtp auth installation with just one userdb
by Christoph Steigmeier 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Hi First of all thanks to the authors of dovecot. It's a pleasure to work with it. I would like to ask, if somebody has an idea about how I can combine all mailusers (dovecot pop/imap & sendmail smtp) into one db, given that I'd like to use sasl with CRAM-MD5 as authentication mechanism to ensure security. The idea behind my question is, that it is easier to administer all mail users, which in my case are mostly non-interactive users, into one db, instead of creating native unix accounts for them. Any input appreciated. Thanks and Kind regards Chris

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[Dovecot] Re: 0.99 mail env - mbox to maildir
by C.Lee Taylor 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Greetings ... > I'm all sorted now, anyway... but it has inspired me to build > a mailbox conversion tool using the dovecot mail handling > code.... watch this space. mbox to maildir converter ... There are a few perl scripts which could do this ... But I like the idea of mbox to maildir in dovecot ... But I wonder if that is the right place to put it ... Mailed Lee P.S. If anybody has scripts or a system that moves mail from mbox to maildir, I would be happy to use them ... I run FC2, with procmailrc setting maildir, but it seems when the system is busy or something, my mail is still put into mbox ...

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[Dovecot] ah ha!!
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

i don't know what happened, but it just started giving me better errors. i had to set first_valid_uid=100 since that's where my users start. wow, dovecot is FAST. -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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[Dovecot] blank line at the top of mbox
by Brad.Allen＠edwardjones.com 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

I am having this same problem. We are running on a Solaris 8 server and Dovecot puts a blank line at the top of the mailbox and can no longer process until the line is deleted. Any idea how to fix this? Brad Allen IS EMS Projects and Planning

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[Dovecot] Internal login failure
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

ok, so, dovecot 0.99.11, Solaris 9. i have: auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow in my dovecot.conf, which gets me logged into dovecot in the first place, but then i get: Sep 9 09:52:41 ford.4amlunch.net imap-login: [ID 457029 mail.info] Internal login failure: wonko [10.0.1.6] in /var/log/syslog how do i track down exactly what the problem is so i can fix it? i would love to add SSL to my imap service, and don't care to mess with cyrus seeing how dovecot seems to be so nice. thanks!! -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Timo Sirainen 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

On 6.9.2004, at 03:28, Zoong Pham wrote: > > Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing > (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen > with other mailboxes. > The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. > They are all in mbox format. Probably because one of the lines in it is larger then 4096 bytes? Header parser doesn't really like that. I should get that fixed in 1.0-tests..

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[Dovecot] Problem with mysql...
by Jacek Osiecki 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hello, I am trying to run dovecot on my Linux. I am using an exim 3.30 as the MTA with vmail-sql virtual users. I have installed latest dovecot release and ran through the config file. Some options seemed unclear to me, but generally I think it is OK. The problem is, that MySQL authentication does not work. It even does not try to authenticate! Dovecot connects correctly with MySQL database, but then no activity is shown in MySQL logs - but when I try to login manually with the telnet, i get: [root@mainframe root]# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1.143... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 login [my_email] [my_password] 1 NO Authentication failed. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I have spent two days with this problem, even modifying source files could not help me localize the source of my troubles :( Here are the important (I think) entries from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ------- # Authentication process name. auth = default # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 anonymous auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf ------- Any suggestions? Best regards, -- Jacek Osiecki joshua(a)ceti.pl Poland

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[Dovecot] Mail cut on CR character
by Tom Mraz 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hi all, when I move the attached mail from local folder in Mozilla to an IMAP folder on dovecot, it is cut just before the ... characters. There is an extra CR character. I have setup the dovecot to use Maildirs. When I copy the file with the message manualy to one of the Maildir folders it is shown correctly in Mozilla however it if I move it using Mozilla to another IMAP folder the mail is cut again. Thanks for any reply, Tomas Mraz P.S. Using self compiled dovecot 0.99.11 on Fedora Core 2 >From - Wed Sep 8 08:18:55 2004 X-UIDL: 2f50f9a50ff6d9a016b79e964aa3bbg9 >From users-return-3131-t8m=centrum.cz(a)cs.openoffice.org Tue Sep 7 20:39:39 2004 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44525 "HELO data2.centrum.cz") by mail.centrum.cz with SMTP id <S2310612AbUIGSjU>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:39:20 +0200 X-Virus-Scanner: This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus system NOD32 for Linux Mail Server. For more information on NOD32 Antivirus System, please, visit our website: http://www.nod32.com/. Received: from s002.sfo.collab.net ([64.125.133.202]:62908 "HELO openoffice.org") by mail.centrum.cz with SMTP id <S279819AbUIGSiB>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:38:01 +0200 X-SpamDetected: 0 Received: (qmail 13761 invoked by uid 5302); 7 Sep 2004 18:38:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help(a)cs.openoffice.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: <mailto:users-help@cs.openoffice.org> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:users-unsubscribe@cs.openoffice.org> list-post: <mailto:users@cs.openoffice.org> Reply-To: users(a)cs.openoffice.org Delivered-To: mailing list users(a)cs.openoffice.org Delivered-To: moderator for users(a)cs.openoffice.org Received: (qmail 29370 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2004 16:57:14 -0000 Message-ID: <413DF687.5010705(a)zoznam.sk> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:57:27 +0100 From: Skusac <skus(a)zoznam.sk> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users(a)cs.openoffice.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: CSS Styly Return-Path: <users-return-3131-t8m=centrum.cz(a)cs.openoffice.org> X-Orcpt: rfc822;t8m(a)mail3.centrum.cz Zdravim, ako sa daju pouzivat css styly v Open Office? Potrebujem aby styly boli v externom dokumente napr styly.css a v dokumente html aby bol len link na styly. Mne to vzdy link vyhodi a uklada mi styly priamo do html dokumentu. Skusal som to ukladat aj pre HTML 3.2 aj s pomocou ignore font settings, vtedy styly neuklada, ale zase popisuje farby, velkosti ... pre kazdu cast textu. Ale styly si to z externeho .css dokumentu nenatiahne. Tools->Options->Load/Save->HTML Compatibility (Sorry za anglicku verziu) Vdaka za prispevky. Alex Fischer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe(a)cs.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help(a)cs.openoffice.org

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[Dovecot] better way to create home dirs for mail servers
by ramana 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Dear all, Autodir is for creating home directories and group directories much better then pam_mkhomedir as pam_mkhomedir does suffer some limitations like, 1) There are some applications which never need to authenticate users But they need home dirs -- for example mail servers configured to use home dirs for mail delivery and storage but not configured to use pam. 2) Some do use other ways to authenticate, bypassing pam all together. 3) Servers must be root so that pam can create home dirs. Otherwise make /home similar in permissions to /tmp And there are other interesting features with Autodir like transparent backup for 24x7 online systems and many more. Autodir uses autofs kernel module to transparently create home dirs And for more information check http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/ And here is Autodir-HOWTO http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/intraperson/Autodir-HOWTO.html?download Regards ramana -- http://www.intraperson.com

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[Dovecot] Workaround for outlook UIDL handling bug ??
by Nikolaus Gerstmayr 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Scenario: Using Dovecot 0.99.10.9 as pop3 server. With delete on retrival off. clients: outlook* Problem: Everytihng work perfectly, except that outlooks keeps re-downloading SOME mail over and over. Though it already got them. No obvious pattern which, but only a small percentage. First of I looked at dovecots UIDLs. Initialy I thought it's broken (see my previous thread) Sorry for even thinking that, it's ok, my bad :) Rather, outlooks UIDL handling seems to be very broken :( But I think I found an easy workaround. Dovecots UIDLS seem to be timestamp.message# eg. 1 1093990148.1 2 1093990148.2 3 1093990148.3 4 1093990148.4 5 1093990148.5 6 1093990148.6 7 1093990148.7 8 1093990148.8 9 1093990148.9 10 1093990148.10 11 1093990148.11 12 1093990148.12 The problems started with #10 -> Asumption: outlook falsy only takes a fixed numbers of chars to hold the UIDL, the rest ist ignored. Perhaps only the first 13 or so. What I did is reversing the order in UIDL generation. Instead of timestamp.message# -> message#.timestamp. Seems to work perfectly. Well, a bit too early too tell if it really works. Need to wait a couple of days and see if the problem re-appears or not. The only thing I'm 100% sure is that outlooks UIDL handling is broken. BTW: very nice source code. Very easy to follow, took me 5 minutes to find the correct .c and routine. In /pop3/command.c, list_uids() all I changed is ... mail->seq, client->uidvality, mail->uid to mail->seq, mail->uid, client->uidvality. (2 times) If anyone is interested, I'll keep you informed if the problem is really gone with this mini-patch.

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