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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql'
by Alex Low (e-wise) 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi, I am trying this way(mailinglist), as I cant find good 'support'/howto/tutorials on the website. I am running Fedora Core II, using postfix with mysql, and I want to use dovecot as imap server. Now I installed Dovecot using dag wieers SRPM, I compiled it with mysql, pgsql; %configure \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_datadir}/ssl" \ --with-ldap \ --with-pgsql \ --with-mysql \ --with-cyrus-sasl2 \ --with-rawlog %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags} After compiling it, I installed the rpm. No problem at all. I configure the dovecot.conf like this; #auth = plain digest-md5 #auth_methods = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mail/virtual/%d/%n # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log1 # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log2 Then I try run it: [root@octa SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log1 dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: child 2118 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe dovecot-auth: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: child 11137 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe [root@octalys SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log2 dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:28 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:38 Info: Dovecot starting up [root@octalys SPECS]# Can anyone tell me whats wrong please ? Thank you in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Courier
by Michael Baird 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hello, I've been testing dovecot, and it appears to be much faster then courier-imap. I am using the latest .99 version, trying to make the transition from courier to dovecot as smooth as possible. We really only use IMAP via squirrelmail, I think I've got that worked out fine, changing a few settings in squirrelmail as the FAQ instructs and migrating the courier subscriptions to .subscriptions. I've noticed the folders .Trash .Sent are no longer subfolders of the INBOX,, and when I create new folders in a Client, it creates .INBOX.foldername, and a .INBOX. I would really like all folders to be subfolders of .INBOX, I've set dovecot up as the following. default_mail_env = maildir:/var/export/%h/.maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%n I've also tried putting the INBOX:/var/export/%h/.maildir in there as well with no luck. I essentially want .INBOX to be .maildir, and any subfolders would be called .Sent or .Trash or whatever, like in courier, is this possible? Regards MIKE

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[Dovecot] Adding mail to dovecot directories
by Chris Dean 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

I run mailagent (which is similar to procmail) to filter all my incoming messages. I would like mailagent to put these messages directly into my dovecot server. What I'm doing right now is to create files (one per message) in the "~/mail/.folder-name/new" directory, or in the case of INBOX, in the "~/.mail/new" directory. I have ~/.mail as my maildir. The files created have MH style names: "1", "2", etc. and the names are often reused throughout the day. That is, the file named "1" might be created dozens of times per day with new contents. Is this the right way? Regards, Chris Dean

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[Dovecot] what is the plan for 1.0?
by Farkas Levente 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

hi, i'm just look trhough the todo file, but it's rather large. i assume only a small part of it will be finished for 1.0. what is the schedule for 1.0? what kind of features will be included in 1.0? what is in 1.1 etc.. it'd be useful to see in the todo file that what features scheduled for which version. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL CA root certificate
by Mail Admin 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Problem solved. In my case I was using the 0.99.10.x release of dovecot, which does not recognize the ssl_ca_file directive. Upgrading to 1.0-test32 was step one. The next step was finding the right format for DST's root certificate. I think the format that finally worked was the format DST distributes for Apache Raven. Thanks! On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 19:47, Zach Bagnall wrote: > It's probably not a matter of getting dovecot to recognise the > certificate, it'll be getting the MUA to recognise the signer. > > When you get the warning, can you click through to the certificate > details and see what it says? Is it showing the signer as DST? Get DST > to confirm that their CA is recognised and trusted by Outlook Express, > Thunderbird, etc. > > Zach. > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:59:40 -0400, Mail Admin > <postmaster(a)psy.miami.edu> wrote: > > I bought a certificate from Digital Signature Trust which is a well > > known certificate authority. The reason I bought my certificate, was > > so that email clients connecting to my imaps server wouldn't be > > bothered with warnings of unrecognized certificate authority as they > > would see with a self-signed server certificate. However, I haven't > > been able to configure dovecot with my Digital Signature Trust signed > > certificate so that the unrecognized certificate authority warning > > doesn't appear. >

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[Dovecot] [PATCH 0/10] NTLM patchset submission
by Andrey Panin 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Hello all, as I promised some days ago here is NTLM (aka SPA, aka MSN) authentication support patchset. It contains common code in src/lib-ntlm directory, Samba compatible NTLM password scheme and authentication mechanism itself. All patches are against 1.0-test30. Please take a look. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] SSL CA root certificate
by Mail Admin 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

In reading through the mailing list, this question seems to have come up before, but never quite answered. I bought a certificate from Digital Signature Trust which is a well known certificate authority. The reason I bought my certificate, was so that email clients connecting to my imaps server wouldn't be bothered with warnings of unrecognized certificate authority as they would see with a self-signed server certificate. However, I haven't been able to configure dovecot with my Digital Signature Trust signed certificate so that the unrecognized certificate authority warning doesn't appear. I have the root certificate for Digital Signature Trust, but I don't know where to put it so that dovecot will use it. I tried appending the CA root certificate onto my server's certificate file with no success. The answer here is not, load my server's certificate into thunderbird or outlook express, because that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid by purchasing my certificate from a recognized authority. Help. Thanks, Derek

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[Dovecot] Patch: fix $-terminated MCF
by Joshua Goodall 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

p/t_strdup_until wasn't returning a terminated string: Index: src/lib/strfuncs.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/lib/strfuncs.c,v retrieving revision 1.41 diff -u -p -r1.41 strfuncs.c --- src/lib/strfuncs.c 18 Jul 2004 01:44:59 -0000 1.41 +++ src/lib/strfuncs.c 31 Jul 2004 08:43:35 -0000 @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ char *p_strdup_until(pool_t pool, const mem = p_malloc(pool, size + 1); memcpy(mem, start, size); + mem[size] = '\0'; return mem; } Noticed while testing $-terminated modular crypt strings, because I didn't (and still don't) understand the reason for line 65 of password-scheme.c; ... /* stop at next '$' */ p = strchr(p+3, '$'); if (p != NULL) *password = t_strdup_until(*password, p); ... and I have ln -s 'J' /etc/malloc.conf on freebsd 5-current, so malloc'd memory isn't zeroed, causing a segfault. Is there some system that appends dollar signs to MCF formats? The commit message for r1.3 of password-scheme.c doesn't explain. Joshua. -- Joshua Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua(a)roughtrade.net - FW109

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[Dovecot] Too many open files with test32
by Jens Gutzeit 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

Hi Timo and others, I'm using test32 since today and I'm getting this error once every 2 hours or so: dovecot: Jul 30 20:21:26 Error: IMAP(jens(a)gutzeit.at): open(/var/mail/data/jens/jens(a)gutzeit.at/maildir/.INBOX.Gentoo.Security/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Too many open files dovecot: Jul 30 20:21:26 Error: IMAP(jens(a)gutzeit.at): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 147 (maildir_uidlist_deinit): assertion failed: (!UIDLIST_IS_LOCKED(uidlist)) The problem is not specific to this mailbox. I hadn't this problem with the stable releases and I've also not set any special limits for the dovecot processes. I'm using a grsec pathed kernel (linux 2.6.7), the kern log says: grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 1024 for RLIMIT_NOFILE against limit 1024 by /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap[imap:19114] uid/euid:1011/1011 gid/egid:448/448, parent /usr/local/sbin/dovecot[dovecot:7799] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0 Does dovecot really need more then 1024 filedescriptors or is it a bug? If you need more information just ask. best regards, Jens

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.9 released
by Timo Sirainen 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

v0.99.10.9 2004-07-31 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> - MySQL compiling got broken in last release - More PostgreSQL reconnection fixing

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[Dovecot] mailsync: NO Unexpected EOF
by SAiello＠Jentoo.com 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

Hello, I am trying to migrate off a MS Exchange 5.0 server. I am using mailsync (http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/) to copy the files to a Dovecot server, version 0.99.10.7. For particular messages I get the following error: Couldn't append msg #114081 (Subject:[RE: balh blah]) to folder INBOX: Error trying to append: 826 NO Unexpected EOF I think this is Dovecot, complaining about the message text that imapsync is trying to append/write. If this is Dovecot, is there any setting I can set to fix this?

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test32
by Timo Sirainen 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Ok, another one. Fixes somewhat rare crashes with transaction log. mbox won't deadlock anymore. read-only mboxes work finally .. I hope .. and then the one compilation fix in lib-ntlm. Updated the Dovecot serving public mailing list archives, hopefully this version stays working instead of just returning internal error after a while.

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[Dovecot] Patch for 0.99.10.8
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

I uploaded 0.99.10.8 to Debian but I needed the patch below to get it to compile. --- dovecot-0.99.10.8.orig/src/auth/db-mysql.h +++ dovecot-0.99.10.8/src/auth/db-mysql.h @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ #ifndef __DB_MYSQL_H #define __DB_MYSQL_H -#include <mysql.h> +#include <mysql/mysql.h> +#include <mysql/errmsg.h> struct mysql_connection; struct mysql_request; -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] patch for test31 compile problem
by Cor Bosman 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

If you grab test31 you might want to apply this small patch. *** dovecot-1.0-test31/src/lib-ntlm/ntlm-message.c Fri Jul 30 05:00:19 2004 --- ../dovecot-1.0-test31/src/lib-ntlm/ntlm-message.c Fri Jul 30 09:23:42 2004 *************** *** 76,83 **** va_start(args, buffer_offset); do { - type = va_arg(args, int); const char *data; memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); write_le16(&info.type, type); --- 76,83 ---- va_start(args, buffer_offset); do { const char *data; + type = va_arg(args, int); memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); write_le16(&in

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot mounts user home dir?
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

On 29.7.2004, at 11:38, Peter Evans wrote: > TM (offmct(a)yahoo.com) wrote: >> Why does dovecot mount the user home directory >> whenever the user checks his email (either pop or imap)? > >> Is there a way to disable this? > > Ask the system nicely, its not dovecot per se, > its the system doing things when dovecot becomes > the user for the duration of the check. I don't think simply changing user id for process does that. It's more likely because of this code in src/master/mail-process.c: /* NOTE: if home directory is NFS-mounted, we might not have access to it as root. Change the effective UID temporarily to make it work. */ if (reply->uid != master_uid && seteuid(reply->uid) < 0) i_fatal("seteuid(%s) failed: %m", dec2str(reply->uid)); ret = chdir(full_home_dir); if (reply->uid != master_uid && seteuid(master_uid) < 0) i_fatal("seteuid(%s) failed: %m", dec2str(master_uid)); /* If user's home directory doesn't exist and we're not trying to chroot anywhere, fallback to /tmp as the mails could be stored elsewhere. */ Dovecot just wants to set current directory to user's home directory as that's the most logical location. I hadn't thought about any automounters.. One way to fix it would be to not use home directories in userdb at all, instead set the "mail" setting in it. Then Dovecot would chdir to /tmp. Another fix would be to just delete the code above and make it always chdir to /tmp. Maybe there should be a setting for this? ..

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test31
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixed mbox corruption in some cases where it wrote headers over beginning of message body. Fixed recent flags to work correctly with mbox. Fixed LSUB command to send LSUB replies instead of LIST replies. Then there's NTLM support from Andrey (which I hopefully didn't break) and dovecotpw utility from Joshua. And then some generic status report: For last few weeks I've been trying to make all network I/O non-blocking but that work is going quite slowly. This means that IMAP and POP3 commands which send lots of data to client must be able to stop processing if output buffer is getting full and continue later. Not very difficult, but a bit boring to implement.. This would allow in future to make a single process handle multiple IMAP connections for same user. Although that might not be such a good idea since there's still lock waits and SEARCH command can take a long time.. Anyway, it makes the code less kludgy. Maybe in future we'll have non-blocking lock waits and file I/O too. Adding some support for threading might not be a bad idea either, as long as it doesn't require adding locks all over the place (threads would perform searches, threading, sorting, etc.). Oh, and another thing it enables is processing multiple commands simultaneously. IMAP supports that, although I don't know if any clients do it. So for example a client could send: 1 fetch 1:* envelope 2 status mailbox (unseen) Then Dovecot would process the fetch command until it's output blocks, then it would send the status reply in the middle of it and then again continue the fetching. The nice thing with this is that client can do some "urgent" requests in the middle of some long running commands without the need to create multiple connections to server.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.8 released
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

v0.99.10.8 2004-07-30 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + LDAP support compiles now with Solaris LDAP library - IMAP BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE replies were wrong for MIME parts which didn't contain Content-Type header. - MySQL and PostgreSQL auth didn't reconnect if connection was lost to SQL server - Linking fixes for dovecot-auth with some systems - Last fix for disconnecting client when downloading mail longer than 30 seconds actually made it never disconnect client. Now it works properly: disconnect when client hasn't read _any_ data for 30 seconds.

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[Dovecot] md5 password is not working
by Farkas Levente 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

hi, i setup a new mail server (dovecot-0.99.10.7) with ldap authentication (openldap-2.1.29-2). everything works properly until i switch the user's password from crypt to md5 in the ldap server (of course in this case in the ldap server it stores es {MD5}.... but dovecot gives such error messages: ----------------------- dovecot-auth: Jul 29 17:30:08 Info: ldap(lfarkas(a)x.com): password mismatch ----------------------- it it possible to use dovecot with openldap's md5 password? should I hav to change anything in dovecot's config file if i'd like to use other encrypt schema than crypt? thanks in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Marcus Rueckert 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

On 2004-07-29 22:54:12 +0100, David Marsh wrote: > [Unreadable in Outlook, here's why: http://viewport.co.uk/outlook ] something like that sucks. it really makes me consider not to help people. > What do I need to do to configure it? > > I haven't touched the mailserver since installing SuSE, mailservers tend > to frighten me (not least with worry as to what can go wrong if I mess > up!) depends on your needs the comments are very helpfull. and look in the printed manuals or the pdf versions of it. > > 6. chkconfig dovecot on > > I was going to ask what that does, but the man page explains all. > Ah, so *that*'s the right way to fiddle with /etc/init.d/ entries.. yes. it will check dependencies of services e.g. darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[Dovecot] Problems compiling PHP --with-imap - can't find rfc822.h
by Chris Weiss 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

I'm trying to add webmail (IMP/HORDE) to my OpenBSD 3.5 mail server (Procmail/Amavid/SA/DCC/Razor/Dovecot 0.99.10.7), which means adding PHP and several other libraries. I'm building PHP 4.3 from the ports tree and, as per the IMP/HORDE readme files, added --with-imap to the makefile. Makeing PHP barfs with a "Cannot find rfc822.h. Please check your IMAP installation." error. I did some digging around and this seems to be part of Courier-IMAP and Mutt, but not part of Dovecot. Can this header file just be grabbed from Courier or Mutt and dropped into /usr/include? Is there something else that's got to be done here?

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[Dovecot] dovecot mounts user home dir?
by TM 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Why does dovecot mount the user home directory whenever the user checks his email (either pop or imap)? Is there a way to disable this? I have indicated in the default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/:INBOX=/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY. The users are in ldap. Windows users' home is in /home/%u so this is ok but unix users' home are in their local computers and are mounted (via automount) at /d1-data/pcname/username. Even if mounted, the users' home directory isn't used by dovecot since nothing gets written to it. The users only checks his pop mail but still, his home directory gets mounted. Is it possible that dovecot won't try to mount the user's home directory whenever the user checks his mail? Thanks a lot. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.8-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ + LDAP support compiles now with Solaris LDAP library - IMAP BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE replies were wrong for MIME parts which didn't contain Content-Type header. - MySQL and PostgreSQL auth didn't reconnect if connection was lost to SQL server - Linking fixes for dovecot-auth with some systems - Last fix for disconnecting client when downloading mail longer than 30 seconds actually made it never disconnect client. Now it works properly: disconnect when client hasn't read _any_ data for 30 seconds.

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[Dovecot] Errors with a blackberry
by Jeremy Sanders 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hi - We tried to access a dovecot-0.99.10.7 IMAPS server with a Blackberry 7230. The Blackberry was on loan so we don't have much access to it for testing. We got the following in our logs: Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap-login: Login: testuser [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for modify log file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.log Apparently the blackberry didn't see the new mail. Has anyone had any luck with such a Blackberry? Thanks Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss(a)ast.cam.ac.uk> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053

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[Dovecot] mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox
by Wouter Van Hemel 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hello, I found this in the logs of a Dovecot v1.0-test29 test server (OpenBSD 2.9, as mentioned in a previous email): Jul 24 05:37:47 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/username/.mailbox (235 > 234) Jul 24 05:37:52 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 357 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == -mails[idx].space) Jul 24 05:37:52 myhostname dovecot: child 28601 (imap) returned error 1 Is this bad? :) / Wouter Van Hemel

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Marcus Rueckert 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

hi as i created the rpms: my steps to get a working setup: 1. install postfix,fetchmail,dovecot 2. configure postfix via /etc/sysconfig/mail /etc/sysconfig/postfix 3. run SuSEconfig 4. create a selfsigned cert for ssl (script in /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot) 5. enable ssl in the dovecot config 6. chkconfig dovecot on 7. rcdovecot start 8. configure fetchmail (not a topic on this list) 9. working setup reached at least for system users hope that helps darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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