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[Dovecot] dovecot and fc2
by Javi Pardo (DAKOTA) 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Hello I am migrate FC1 to FC2, in FC1 i use ipop3d, but in the migration to FC2 this programa is obsolete, i decide migrate to dovecot, but i have problems with the old mail i have the mail stored into /var/spool/mail/USER and this error appears with examine the mail with Oulook Express: Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: Permission denied Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: Permission denied Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050b08 (0) Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x807c2b4 (1) Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: Timeout leak: 0x8062520 into dovecot.conf i have proved differents options ###default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u #mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u #maildir:/var/spool/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir default_mail_env =mbox:~/mail/imap/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u with pine not have problem to read the mail, but i need pop3 and imap for the external users i need help, i have 1 week without email :( regards and sorry for my english dakota(a)dakotabcn.net Administrador Servidor dakotabcn.net LINUX Registrered USER 93707 :) P.o Box 579 08913 Badalona (Barcelona) SPAIN firmas GnuPG en http://pgp.escomposlinux.org/ dakota(a)menta.net || dakota(a)escomposlinux.org - Equipos PIV 2.2 Ghz - 1.5 Gb RAM - W-XP Pro Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz - 1 Gb Ram - Linux Fedora Core 1 Firma para spammers: test(a)spamout.com.ar (no usar!!!)

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[Dovecot] Errors and periodic corruption using 99.10.5 release with mbox
by Stephen K. Gielda 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Hi, I'm seeing these errors in our logs periodically: file istream.c: line 135 (i_stream_skip): assertion failed: (stream->v_size == 0 || stream->v_offset + count <= stream->v_size) Timeout leak: 0x8069328 Any idea on what may be causing these? System is freebsd, format is mbox. I'm also seeing periodic corruption of mailboxes. It's easily fixed because it's always a few stray lines of text left at the beginning of the mbox file above the From I'm currently trying to find out more about what actions may cause it. /steve

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[Dovecot] Corrupted Indexes
by Fred Mulharin 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

I am using the latest Stable version of Dovecot on a Redhat 9.0 box with the Squirrelmail Webmail Client, and my Indexes seem to be getting corrupted. Here is an example of what is showing in the Error Logs Error: Corrupted index data file /home/user/mail//.imap/releases/.imap.index.data: Missing location field for record 271 When they Try to access the corrupted folders thee get an IMAP Login error ERROR: Connection dropped by imap-server Query: THREAD REFERENCES ISO-8859-1 ALL thanks Fred -- Fred Mulharin Systems Technology Supervisor Times Herald-Record fmulharin(a)th-record.com ..We are the trusted leader in news and information for the communities we serve ..because we all live here

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[Dovecot] mta/mda config
by Jure Pecar 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Hi all, I'm at the stage of planning our new mail system and am evaluating dovecot for it. For large mailstore setups, it makes sense to split maildirs across many directories. I see that setting default_mail_env to something like maildir:/var/imap/domain/%1d/%d/%1u/user/%u/ would create almost identical on-disk layout as multidomain cyrus setup. Now, as dovecot does not have its own mda or lmtp daemon, how does one configure mta (eg. postfix) to deliver mail in such maildirs? Related question ... any cyrus to dovecot migration tales? :) -- Jure Pečar

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[Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. So far so good. But I would like to convert my system to start using the Maildir format. How easy is this to accomplish? Can I keep my Inbox /var/spool/mail/user_name as an mbox format and have my other folders as Maildir? What would I have to change for Sendmail to make it use Maildir for the Inbox? Can procmail support Maildir? Any pointers or help would be much appreciated? John

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RE: [Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

John Duino wrote: > That was the one question I haven't had answered (and it's > mostly just out of pure paranoia that I ask it :) Yes. POP email works fine with Maildir for me. I am using dovecot-0.99.10.5-1 which was on the development tree of Fedora. Though I would think the one that came stock with Fedora 2 should work as well. I have no reason to think it won't. One note. I don't use POP that much. I have one person who uses it and they haven't complained. > So if all the mail is moved to Maildir (thus eliminating the typical > mailspool), and somebody pop's onto the server, Dovecot will use the > Maildir/Inbox for the pop? Yes it will. If you read the mail-storages.txt documentation file it talks about it. I would read the section on "Detecting what to use". I did NOT set the default_mail_env variable in my /etc/dovecot.conf and it figured it out automagically :) Good luck, John

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.5 imap flag update issues
by Hauke Fath 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi, there is an issue left in 0.99.10.5 which (I think) is a problem with imap status flags. It shows up in two places: (1) When new mail is delivered to the inbox, the last read mail changes to "unread". (2) When you move mails from the inbox to another folder with Mozilla (1.6 on win32, Linux, NetBSD), they are not removed from the inbox, effectively performing a copy instead of a move. And, while I am at it, (3) I see a regular log entry from a MS Outlook 2000 SP 3 Jun 3 10:26:23 bounce imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [130.83.XXX.XXX] The setup here: OS NetBSD 2.0beta, MTA sendmail 8.12.11, LDA maildrop 1.3.9, dovecot 0.99.10.5, OpenSSL 0.9.7d Any ideas? hauke -- Hauke Fath /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Institut für Nachrichtentechnik \ / No HTML/RTF in email TU Darmstadt X No Word docs in email Ruf +49-6151-16-3281 / \ Respect for open standards

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RE: [Dovecot] Getting POP3 up and running
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > According to my understanding of the documentation I changed > the protocols > line in dovecot.conf to: > > #protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s Did you really just change the commented out line? If so then you didn't do anything :( You will need to uncomment the line and restart it. The "#" at the beginning of the line is a comment. John

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[Dovecot] Getting POP3 up and running
by Antonio Nunes 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi! Now that I happily smiling have Squirrelmail working on the new setup (Fedora Core 2), the next hurdle seems to be getting POP3 to work. According to my understanding of the documentation I changed the protocols line in dovecot.conf to: #protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s then restarted dovecot, but still can't connect to pop3 (not even after rebooting the whole system). Doing an nmap on my server does not show port 110 as open. Any clues as to what I may be overlooking? Thanks for your support, Antonio There is a world of difference between searching for happiness and choosing to be happy!

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RE: [Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to > this. A client > has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to > dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir > format over > mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is > what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to > make sendmail > write to Maildir. > > My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and > imap/maildir. My suggestion would be to use Dovecot as your POP and IMAP server. And convert everything to use Maildir unless there is some special reason you want to keep mbox format for. Setup procmail to deliver all mail to the maildir folders. See my previous message on how to do it. John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] Loggin error with Squirrelmail on Fedore Core 2
by Antonio Nunes 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi! I am switching a mail server setup to a new machine which has RHL Fedore Core 2 installed, which uses Dovecot. I managed to get Squirrelmail to work on my personal account, but when logging in with some other accounts I get the following error as response: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: Capability I did a web search on this and found a message from Tim Middleton who experienced the same problem. He also suggests a workaround: "I put in a chron job to touch into existance any non-existing mailboxes for everyone in the passwd file periodically, which mostly eliminates the problem. But I'd still like to know why the server is having the problem, if anyone can make any suggestions." I would like to try this, but I am still fairly new to Unix. Could anyone show me how to set up such a chron job? Are there other, manual, ways to touch the mailboxes? Thanks, Antonio Nunes Don't let who you can be keep you from being who you already are.

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[Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by John Duino 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Greetings! I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to this. A client has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir format over mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to make sendmail write to Maildir. My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and imap/maildir. While running dovecot in imap-only it will use mbox format to read the /var/mail/user as the Inbox and then create the full imap structure under ~user/mail but in mbox format, not maildir. If/when I turn on both pop and imap in dovecot will it allow this with the current config? Or will I still need to convert sendmail output to maildir...and then I assume dovecot/pop will read from ~user/Maildir/Inbox even though it is in Maildir format? Basically, if I'd prefer to not have to convert sendmail to Maildir format, have dovecot always treat /var/mail/user as the Inbox for both pop and imap, and for those who switch to imap, have it store their other folders in ~user/Maildir. Asking too much? Thanks! John

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RE: [Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

To recap what I have learned :) dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to > convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? > > I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered > that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. > So far so > good. > > But I would like to convert my system to start using the > Maildir format. > > How easy is this to accomplish? Fairly easy on the small system I had. I only have around 8 people using email off of my system. > Can I keep my Inbox /var/spool/mail/user_name as an mbox > format and have > my other folders as Maildir? Timo says that it is NOT available in the version that comes with Fedora Core 2. It will be available in the 1.0 series by defining multiple namespaces. The current 1.0-tests allow this. > What would I have to change for Sendmail to make it use > Maildir for the Inbox? Sendmail does NOT need to be changed. > Can procmail support Maildir? Yes and that is what you need to change. I setup /etc/procmailrc to have the line: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ Make sure there is the terminating / on that line. What this will do is make all new mail that is delivered via procmail go to each user's Maildir folder. But what you need to do first is convert your existing mbox mail into maildir format. I used the program that was recommended to me: mb2md http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ This program worked great to convert my /var/spool/mail/user_name stuff and also folders that I had created under ~/mail/ So now my whole system is using Maildir format. If you had a big system this might be a big pain :( John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] Lost messages when "Moved to Trash"
by Fred Mulharin 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

We are using Dovecot 0.99.10.5 on a Redhat 9.0 Box. We are using the Squirrelmail Webmail client, and have occasionally had a problem with users move messages from their Inbox to the "Trash" folder. The Selected messages move to the Trash folder, but the rest of the messages in the INBOX disappear. Fred -- Fred Mulharin Systems Technology Supervisor Times Herald-Record fmulharin(a)th-record.com ..We are the trusted leader in news and information for the communities we serve ..because we all live here

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[Dovecot] inbox file read/write
by Yedidia Klein 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi, If I config my mta to write incoming mail to /var/mail/[username] and dovecot (or any other imap/pop server) is serving email from this file, can't the fie be corrupted while mta and dovecot read/write at the same time ? is there any mechanism to avoid it ? thanks --Y

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[Dovecot] dovecot and virtual hosting
by Vegard Svanberg 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi. A usual hosting provider setup depends on having one IP ("virtual mailserver") per domain. Using dovecot on servers handling hundreds or thousands of domains today equals to having multiple instances of dovecot running. This problem could be solved by making dovecot take into account the IP address the user connects to and authenticate against the proper {database, table, pw-file, [...]} based on that. Comments? -- Vegard Svanberg <vegard(a)svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]

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[Dovecot] IMAP folders missing after migrating to Dovecot
by Chris Horry 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm migrating to Dovecot from Courier-IMAP. I use Postfix with Maildir for delivery. When I use Dovecot as the IMAP server all of my folders are missing, the only thing that remains is the Inbox folder. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I have enclosed my configuration. Thanks, Chris - -- Chris Horry "Winter is the season in which people zerbey(a)wibble.co.uk try to keep the house as warm as it was PGP: DSA/2B4C654E it was in the summer, when they complained Amateur Radio: KG4TSM about the heat" --Author Unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkC+TwAACgkQnAAeGCtMZU5/IwCeNAac9HXNmZpWn7aoeINC2RH+ SeIAnRASJdvDIOi6/ZvBMzBJwWrKPJVZ =iK37 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: [Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Dan Stromberg wrote: > For converting from mbox to Maildir, check out mb2md. I converted a > huge collection of folders using it. Thanks. I'll look into that. >> Can procmail support Maildir? > > I'm using the procmails that come with RHEL3 and FC2 for > Maildir folders > without any problem. So how did you setup procmail? Did you setup a /etc/procmailrc And then setup a: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ line in the file? Thanks, John

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[Dovecot] Fedora 1 packaged version or upgrade to newest dovecot
by Daniel 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hello I running dovecot that is packaged with Fedora 1 with about 1500 email accounts approximately 5k messages per day. I have had to restart dovecot twice over a period of about 3 months due to it not responding. Overall I'm happy with the setup, however would I see and improvement if I upgraded to the latest version, at time of writing 0.99.10.5. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] Serve list archives by dovecot IMAP
by Kenneth Porter 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Has anyone considered setting up a Dovecot public server to serve the list archives by IMAP? Or does Dovecot not do anonymous read-only access? (I note by comparison that the Cyrusoft Mulberry list archives are served by an IMAP server. <http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/support/anonimap.html>) It should be sufficient to set up Dovecot on some server in the dovecot.org domain and subscribe it to the lists.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + SSL + Fedora
by David Keegel 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

I've been seeing the Dovecot/SSL/Fedora 1 problem. I have a dovecot server which tends to die at least once a day, with messages like these :- May 24 13:44:44 mail pop3-login: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded May 24 13:44:44 mail dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down I noticed Timo's email about this at: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-May/003316.html with the patch that just ignores the return code of RAND_bytes(). Would disabling SSL in dovecot.conf also be a reasonable way of avoiding the problem of dovecot crashing? My plan is to set ssl_disable = yes and also take out pops and imaps from protocols. That is a lot easier for me than getting source, patching it, re-compiling and re-installing. We are using Fedora Core 1 (fedora-release-1-3 i386 rpm) Dovecot 0.99.10 (dovecot-0.99.10-4 i386 rpm) OpenSSL 0.9.7a (openssl-0.9.7a-33.10 i386 rpm) ___________________________________________________________________________ David Keegel <djk(a)cybersource.com.au> http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/ Cybersource P/L: Linux/Unix Systems Administration Consulting/Contracting

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.5 release candidate
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Thought I'd still make one 0.99.10.x release now that mbox corruption problems are (hopefully) fixed. Please test, if no problems are found this will be the final 0.99.10.5. Changes since .4: + MySQL authentication, patch by Matthew Reimer - mbox: APPEND reversed given \Draft and \Deleted flags - mbox: "LF not found" errors happened sometimes when X-IMAPbase header was updated. Possibly corrupted mbox sometimes. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet for finding this bug. - Custom flags couldn't be unset - Maildir: make sure ":2," is appended to filename when moving mails from new/ to cur/.

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[Dovecot] Postfix SASL AUTH from Dovecot
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Again today got annoyed at Cyrus SASL. Upgrading it to newer version had broken PAM support. Trying to login as "user@domain" resulted it only asking for "user" from PAM. Well, got it patched and working again, but I'd rather not go through it all the time.. So I finally did what I had been thinking about a year or so, change Postfix to use dovecot-auth directly. This required cleaning dovecot-auth quite a lot, but it seems to be working now. Actually I finally implemented support for initial SASL response as well. POP3's AUTH command had required support for it, strange that no-one ever complained about it not working. If you want to try it, you need very latest CVS version of Dovecot and this patch for Postfix: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix-dovecot-auth.patch dovecot-auth can be run on it's own (configuration in environment variables), or you can use extra_sockets auth setting which is a ':' separated list of UNIX sockets where to listen in. You'd probably want to set it to /var/spool/postfix/etc/dovecot-auth, the location is hardcoded to /etc/dovecot-auth in the patch for now (smtpd is chrooted). The only real problem is that Dovecot creates the dovecot-auth socket using 0660 root:root modes, so you have to manually chmod it to 0666 or fix owner/group. I guess that needs some more thinking.. Probably each socket should have separate settings for it, but how to do it easily in configuration? .. The patch has also hardcoded dovecot path in Makefile.in, you'll need to change that.

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.0-test14: no sendfile() in Solaris 8
by Andreas Jaekel 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

At 14:35 01/06/2004 +0300, you wrote: >On 1.6.2004, at 13:13, Andreas Jaekel wrote: > >>The current CVS snapshot and 1.0-test14 will not build on Solaris 8 >>because it does not provide a sendfile() funtion. It just has sendfilev(). >>Solaris 9 has sendfile(), though. > >Doesn't the configure detect that you don't have it? It shouldn't define >HAVE_SOLARIS_SENDFILE if it isn't there (if sendfile library doesn't have >sendfile() function). No, it doesn't. The test for the linux sendfile() function uses ac_compile, no ac_link. So all you get is an "implicit declaration" warning in configure.log, but since the final check is for test -z a.out configure will always happily detect linux sendfile. Greetings, Andy

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[Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion
by Zoong Pham 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hi all, Out IMAP client (Outlook and others) use login name like joedirt(a)domainname.com I need dovecot to convert it to joedirt-domainname_com since that is the local login name. Can someone give me a hint how to do that? Is there any simple way to do it or do I have to modify any source code? Thanks, Zoong

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