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[Dovecot] imap support question
by Tom Allison 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

OK, I'm actually trying to write something which interacts with IMAP. I'm trying to run the FETCH command and it goes OK, but I'm wondering how I might be able to call both RFC822.SIZE and BODY[HEADERS.FIELDS(..) in the same call. Right now I'm only able to get this to work with two calls to the server. I was hoping to avoid making two calls. Any suggestions? (I realize it isn't exactly "on topic" for the mailing list, but I can't think of any list I'm on that's even close to the topic)

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[Dovecot] Newbie question: configuration for virtual users
by Rory Campbell-Lange 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Hi! I'm looking forward to deploying dovecot as an IMAP server. I did some research into the various options and it looks like dovecot is the right daemon for me. I'll be using it with Exim. I am running a few tens of users on my server, most of them small numbers of people part of a small company, e.g. example.com. At present I have exim delivering to mbox in each virtual user's mail folder. So, for chris, john and mandy @ example.com, I have /home/example/Mail/ chris john mandy All of the users in example.com run under the same uid and gid (example). I like to separate these 'virtual' users from the real system users for security reasons. I presently serve up these mboxes via teapop, which allows for per-domain configuration. I couldn't find a similar setup after a cursory read of the config file examples on the dovecot website. I'd like some advice on how to support different non-system users under dovecot, ideally storing mail in a similar configuration to above, except (presumably?) that the user files will be under each user name? Thus: /home/example/Mail/ chris/ john/ mandy/ I may use postgresql to store user configuration data if appropriate. Advice gratefully received. Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] 1.0.0-test28 Problem with INDEX
by Tim Southerwood 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Hi Using this line in dovecot.conf (ignore linewrap) default_mail_env = mbox:%h/IMAP/:INBOX=%h/.email:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/%n The INBOX indexes are being built correctly in /var/cache/dovecot, but all other indexes for folders are still being built in the user's home directory. I had it working once - but it seems fragile - almost as if the config parser is sensitive to context??? Sorry - seems vague, but I can't pin this down reliably. Anyone else had problems? Cheers Tim -- Tim J Southerwood Senior Programmer CSG, Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London

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[Dovecot] Idea to enhance migration from UW-Imap
by Klaus Steinberger 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hello, i want to migrate from UW-Imap to dovecot, but want to avoid changing clients (that would be really hard to do). All my users have their Mailboxes in ~/Mail. My idea would be now to strip off "Mail" from the imap commands, so that both a client which prepends "Mail" as well as one who doesn't would see the same mailboxes. Can somebody give me a hint where in the dovecot source I could do that stripping (at best some central function, so this stripping has to be done just one time). I would be glad to make the changes and then to contribute that change, I just need a hint where in the sources I will find the right place. Sincerly, Klaus Steinberger -- Klaus Steinberger Maier-Leibnitz Labor Phone: (+49 89)289 14287 Am Coulombwall 6, D-85748 Garching, Germany FAX: (+49 89)289 14280 EMail: Klaus.Steinberger(a)Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE URL: http://www.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~k2/ In a world without Walls and Fences, who needs Windows and Gates

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test29
by Timo Sirainen 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Huh, I almost got stuck with this one. It's boring to do larger rewrites to things that already kind of work. This time it was rewriting how caching headers work. The old way was kind of ugly and it didn't really guarantee the order in which cached headers could be fetched. So there were a few theoretical problems that could have broken things. 0.99.10 didn't support caching headers at all, so it didn't have this problem. I think the new caching code is finally nearly finished. Just a few small things left and it's done. This release also fixes some other crashes and problems. I've been running it nearly an hour now without problems :)

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[Dovecot] Problem with IMAP and MAIL environment
by Luis Miguel Cruz 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Here is the problem: Jul 19 10:40:17 mail1 pop3(master): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/usuarios/master/mail: Permission denied Jul 19 10:40:17 mail1 pop3(master): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /home/usuarios/master) Jul 19 10:40:17 mail1 dovecot: child 3528 (pop3) returned error 89 Is there anyway to avoid it? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] fix MD5 code buglet
by Andrey Panin 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hello, md5_final() function contains minor buglet, it clears first 4 bytes of md5_context instead of whole structure. Patch attached. 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 build error with HAVE_MODULES not set
by Andrey Panin 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hello, attached trivial patch (against 1.0-test28) fixes build error with unset HAVE_MODULES. Error is caused by missing second argument of module_dir_load() stub. 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] Dovecot LDAP Auth strange mailbox behavior
by Ryan Bloch 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Hello everyone. I have setup a Debian Sarge server, with openldap, postfix, and Dovecot. I have been able to fix all the problems that have been logged thus far, and it seems to work. I am able to use a mail client to login to the pop3 server. The authentication works, and it logs as a successful login, but no messages download. I get a response: No New Messages. I have checked the user's maildir directory, and there are mails sitting in the new directory, so it should download. Anyone have any clues? Thanks in advance, Ryan

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[Dovecot] init script
by Luis Miguel Cruz 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Hi all, Can someone send me or tell me where I can find an init script for dovecot? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] login process died too early
by Adrian Roye 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

Hi ! I have dovecot working on a SUSE 9.0 machine. Everything works fine. When I boot, I get this message: snip............. Dovecot starting up Login process died too early-shutting down snap........... rcdovecot status : unused a rcdovecot start starts dovecot. What can I do to start dovecot when I boot up ? Adrian Roye

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[Dovecot] Authentication Problems.
by Tom Ray [Lists] 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

Hey- I'm kinda new to Dovecot and I'm trying to do something and it seems I've hit a wall. I put together a server with Fedora Core 2, Exim 4.34, and Dovecot 0.99.10.6 and I need support mail for multiple domains so this is how I have my virtual setup: Virtual Aliases Files: /var/virtualdomains/$domain/etc/aliases Virtual Accounts Passwd File: /var/virtualdomains/$domains/etc/passwd with the following layout: user:passwd:uid:gid:Virtual User:/var/virtualdomains/domain.com/mail/user:/dev/null Virtual Mailboxes: /var/virtualdomains/$domain/mail/$user I got exim working without problem but when I tried to login via IMAP on Dovecot I'm getting 'a001 NO Authentication failed.' Now I have this setup in dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/virtualdomains//%d/mail/%n/:INBOX=/var/virtualdomains/%d/mail/%n auth_userdb = passwd-file /var/virtualdomains/etc/virtpasswd It's my understanding that Dovecot can't parse out the domain name in the auth_userdb command so I modifed my setup to use just the one password file and modified it to this; user@doman.com:passwd:uid:gid:Virtual User:/var/virtualdomains/domain.com/mail/user:/dev/null Ownership/Group: -rwx------ 1 dovecot dovecot 36 Jul 13 18:41 passwd Is there a setting I have wrong, a step I'm misisng, a permission I don't know about....let me know if there is any other information you might need and I will provide it. TIA Tom Ray

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[Dovecot] SSL Certificates and multiple domain names
by Daniel L. Miller 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

How can I have Dovecot either return a different certificate for each domain/hostname or a certificate that supports multiple names? I currently access my imap server through two different hostnames and three domain names. Daniel

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[Dovecot] Testimonial
by Kenneth Porter 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

I just switched my main "library" of over 100 mailboxes from UW-IMAP on a gutless wonder with 600 BogoMIPS and 200 MB to a box with 2000 BogoMIPS and 1 GB, and also switched from UW-IMAP under RH7.2 to Dovecot under Fedora Core 2. Using Mulberry on Win2k as the client, it used to take several minutes to check for new mail in all folders. Now it takes just 2-3 seconds. Opening large folders with 100's of messages used to take a dozen seconds or more, and is now down to at most a second or so. IMAP is no longer frustratingly slow. Now to figure out what to do with all my spare time....

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[Dovecot] can't see IMAP folders - Fedora Core 2
by Ralph Brown 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Recently, I upgraded (switched) to Fedora Core 2. Previously, I was running Fedora Core 1, with Cyrus-IMAP, and life was good. Now, I can not see any of my folders. I suspect it is a simple dovecot.conf configuration edit, but i'm not experienced enough with it to make the correct edits. I am using Postfix with Dovecot. My mail directory is; /home/(user)/mail snip from the conf file; --------------------------- You can also limit a width of string by giving the number of max. characters # after the '%' character. For example %1u gives the first character of # username. Some examples: # # maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env =/home/%u/mail ---------------------------- Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Ralph "Do what ya can...but behave yourself"

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[Dovecot] POP3 fails on non-existent inbox
by Kenneth Porter 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Using the latest RPM (dovecot-0.99.10.5) on Fedora Core 2. I connected to the server by POP3 for a user who'd not yet received email (ever) so she didn't have a spool file in /var/spool/mail, and dovecot was failing on login. I just tested it by removing my own mailbox and see this in maillog: pop3-login: Login: ken [127.0.0.1] pop3(ken): stat() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/ken: No such file or directory pop3(ken): stat() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/ken: No such file or directory pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050c20 (0) pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084b90 (1) pop3: Timeout leak: 0x8065d00 >From the client, I enter the USER and PASS command and get: +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.7 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

outlook-pop3-no-nuls didn't actually work in rc1. Works now. v0.99.10.7 2004-07-14 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + Added outlook-pop3-no-nuls workaround to fix Outlook hang in mails with NULs. + Config file lines can now contain quoted strings ("value ") - If client didn't finish downloading a single mail in 30 seconds, Dovecot closed the connection. This was supposed to work so that if client hasn't read data at all in 30 seconds, it's disconnected. - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks

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[Dovecot] Shared folders
by D Canfield 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Several months back shared folders based on ACL's were discussed here, and it was mentioned that support for these had been added to CVS. Since the web site still says shared folders aren't implemented, I just wanted to check and see if the shared folder code is just in CVS for a future, post-1.0 release, or if the code ever made it into any of the 0.99x relases. Thanks DC

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD and MySQL error
by cdmon.com 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Greetings I have been installed dovecot-0.99.10.6 in my FreeBSD 4.10 with WITH_MYSQL=1 , but when I try to configure it to use mysql.conf file: auth_userdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf the program gives me the next error: dovecot: Jul 13 10:49:03 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: Jul 13 10:49:04 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Jul 13 10:49:04 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 13 10:49:04 Error: child 13659 (auth) returned error 89 Somebody knows why? What I'm doing wrong? It's possible to use MySQL with dovecot in a FreeBSD? Thanks a lot in advanced. -- _____________________ http://www.cdmon.com ¿dominios a 9,95 euros? ¿servidores DNS públicos? ¿se han vuelto locos?

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[Dovecot] [patch] gssapi support
by Colin Walters 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Hi, I've been working on a patch for GSSAPI (Kerberos) support. It seems to work pretty well for authentication (I've tested it with Evolution, fetchmail, and mutt). I have also been working on implementing integrity/confidentiality protection. Unfortunately not many clients support this - the only one I've found really is mutt, which seems to disconnect from the server for some unknown reason not long after a Kerberos-secured conversation. I'm still trying to track that down. But anyways the patch is far along enough that I think it's worthy of review and testing. Some todo items: 0) Track down bug preventing mutt from working 1) Audit integrity proxy a bit more 2) Make sure we're handling mechanisms other than Kerberos 3) Test with more clients

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.7-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Yet another 0.99 release. If it works, tomorrow comes the real one: + Added outlook-pop3-no-nuls workaround to fix Outlook hang in mails with NULs. + Config file lines can now contain quoted strings ("value ") - If client didn't finish downloading a single mail in 30 seconds, Dovecot closed the connection. This was supposed to work so that if client hasn't read data at all in 30 seconds, it's disconnected. - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks Strange that I heard about the 30sec bug yesterday for the first time. It's been there forever. Guess people have fast internet connections nowadays :)

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[Dovecot] postfix patch does not compile on freebsd 4
by Kevin 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

i'm trying to use timo's postfix-2.1.2-dovecot-auth.patch on freebsd4 with postfix-2.1.4 the problem is that smtpd_sasl_glue.c tries to include stdint.h which isn't present with fbsd4. is there another lib that'll provide the same functionality? i've tried using inttypes.h but i don't know of any other similar ones stdint is in fbsd5 apparently but i'm still scared of it have any ideas?

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Re: [Dovecot] ldap auth problems
by Karl Latiss 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

That didn't seem to help either. In the end I re-compiled the Fedora Core 2 release from SRC RPM and that seems to be working. I'm not sure what the difference is. On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 18:42, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 12:17, Karl Latiss wrote: > > [pid 24674] close(8 <unfinished ...> > > [pid 24674] <... close resumed> ) = 0 > > [pid 24674] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > > Process 24674 detached > .. > > Hmm. Doesn't really help. Getting gdb backtrace would show where it > crashes, but I'm not sure if there's any easy way to do it. > > One would be to put sleep(10); to beginning of src/auth/main.c, then > start dovecot and "gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth pid" > where pid being the running dovecot-auth's process id. then "c" to > continue, wait for crash and "bt" to get backtrace.

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[Dovecot] mailbox problem
by Jean-Francois Theroux 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Hi guys, I use a virtual mailbox setup with dovecot/postfix. Which reside under /virtual. I get an error message which doesn't return anything interesting in Google. I get this: imap(user(a)domain.com): File isn't in mbox format: /virtual/domain.com/user/imapd/Trash I have no idea on how to fix this. I seem to be able to delete messages though. But I'd like to repair this, since I like to have clean logs ;) Thanks for your time, -- Jean-Francois Theroux Systems administrator 514.726.3732 PrivalODC http://www.privalodc.comp

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test28
by Timo Sirainen 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Fixed some crashes with cache file. THREAD and SORT especially crashed it. - Fixed the SSL infinite looping in login processes - Recent flags are working again with maildir. Almost with mbox too. - Maildir code moves mail into cur/ directory directly if the mail contains flags, so we don't violate maildir spec anymore by placing them into new/ with the flags. Although.. now that I think about it, that breaks recent flags, as only mails in new/ are treated as being recent.. Well, I guess next version implements my another idea for it: Store flags only into index and keep the file in new/, flags will be added when the file is moved to cur/. Non-Dovecot MUAs don't see the flags in the mean time though. - SIGHUPing dovecot master process finally reloads configuration completely and without crashing - Added --exec-mail parameter to dovecot. It can be used to launch imap/pop3 processes with configuration from dovecot.conf - Changed client_workarounds to imap_client_workarounds and pop3_client_workarounds. Added the first pop3 workaround: outlook-no-nuls

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