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[Dovecot] Basic questions concerning mail...
by Tom 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hey all, A few minutes ago, I installed Dovecot, hoping things would get clear by just looking at the relevant config files, but since they don't, I hope someone here could give me a clue... What I want to achieve is really only basic functionality. It's just for personal use, so it shouldn't get too complicated. Up til now, I have been using fetchmail to get my mail off of several POP3-accounts, exim to hand it over to procmail and procmail to drop it in the mail directories of my girlfriend and I. I'd like to be able to remotely use a webmail program of some kind to check mail without having to use ssh to login. So I thought an IMAP-server might be the way to go, but, embarassing though it may be, I can't quite grasp how Dovecot (any IMAPd of course, for that matter) fits in the whole. Should Dovecot receive mail from fetchmail and put in it it's proper place in the user's home directories? Or does Dovecot merely read any mail that might belong to users, told where to look by dovecot.conf? Since I now notice my questions are put in a way that is equally embarassing as the questions themselves, I'll keep it short: could anyone enlighten me about the role of Dovecot / an IMAPd it the whole of a mail system (mail directories for each user, fetchmail, procmail, an MTA, a MUA)? Sincerely apologizing for wasting your undoubtedly valuable time, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: Vive La Fête - Assez (flac)

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[Dovecot] your /etc/dovecot.conf
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi. Please send me your /etc/dovecot.conf what edited. Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] SOS
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi,When i run "service dovecot start",I receive following line: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Please guide me until i can make a key file.... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Configure dovecot.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi. I installed dovecot,via RPM.But i don't know that i how to configure it. Please guide me...... ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] dovecot..
by Cami 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hi All.. Has anyone got any experimental patches for mysql auth? Regards, Cami

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[Dovecot] Error While compiling with the Mysql patch
by Xavier Orduña 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hi! When I'm trying to compile the source-code I get this error message: mycrypt.o: In function `mycrypt': /root/soft/dovecot-0.99.10.4/src/auth/mycrypt.c:11: undefined reference to `crypt' /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o): In function `my_compress_alloc': my_compress.o(.text+0xb4): undefined reference to `compress' /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o): In function `my_uncompress': my_compress.o(.text+0x12a): undefined reference to `uncompress' I Included the FLAGS: AUTH_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/mysql -DPASSDB_MYSQL -DUSERDB_MYSQL" \ AUTH_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient" \ Before to compile, and I'm using a Debian woody. Do you know what happens? Thanks Xavi

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[Dovecot] dovecot-IMAP-SSL-StartUp
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Hi everybody. I downloaded RPM of dovecot for RH9. & i installed it with "rpm -ivh ThatFILE.rpm" then i ran "service dovecot start" & i receiving following lines: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Then i go to /usr/share/ssl/certs/ & i ran make dovecot.pem then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received following lines: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Then i ran "cp /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem /usr/share/ssl/private/" Then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received following lines: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): [ OK ] But i after it,I ran "service dovecot status" & i received following line: dovecot dead but subsys locked Please guide me...... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Configuring MySql Patch
by Xavier Orduña 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Hi! I have installed the patch, compiled and installed Dovecot. But how I modify the dovecot.conf to use it? I've been searching in the mailing list archive but I did'nt find anything. Thanks. Xavi

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[Dovecot] Quitting list
by Ted S. Garaventa 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

I have tried all the methods outlined in the original email received from the list on unsubscribing and none work. Can someone tell me how to unsubscribe. All the links in the email sent to me when I subscribed are broken.

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[Dovecot] The problem is in the folder, not in the messages
by Karl Eklund 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

About my problem with "dovecot crashes on certain spam messages", I have found that deleting the mail it is working on when it crashes just makes it crash on some other message, but deleting .imap.index.* from the directory of the folder in question makes everything good again.

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[Dovecot] How to use Mysql Patch
by Xavier Orduña 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Hi Sorry to post something that could be trivial, But how I apply the patch to use Mysql? Or is better that I wait to the new version? How long it will take to see the version with the patch inside? I have thinked about to use (vpopmail with MySql)+Dovecot. What about this option? Thanks a lot Xavi

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on FreeBSD 4.9 - "Invalid Password Field"
by Jamie Heckford 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Hi, I am attempting to get dovecot up and running on FreeBSD 4.9..... Tried with the default config file and my own one (below) but when trying to login I get the following: Feb 10 17:59:53 cobain dovecot-auth: passwd(jamie): invalid password field '*' It seems like it is trying to read straight from /etc/passwd? I thought it called getpw(). Is this a common error and could anyone shed some light on how to fix it? Thanks :) Jamie -- dovecot.conf ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file base_dir = /var/dovecot/ protocols = imap imap_listen = 192.168.120.7 login_dir = /var/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes ssl_disable = yes ## IMAP login process login = imap login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 16 ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. max_mail_processes = 300 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 8000 first_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_gid = 5100 default_mail_env = maildir:/u/home/%u client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mail_save_crlf = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes mbox_locks = fcntl ## IMAP process imap_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256 ## Authentication processes auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd auth_user = root auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_verbose = yes

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[Dovecot] a newbie question.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi, I'm a newbie.Sorry for my question. I have RH9 & downloaded rpm of dovecot for RH9. I installed it: rpm -ivh nameOfthatrpm & when i ran #service dovecot start ,I recieved following lines: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Please guide me........ ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Start-up
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi. I dovecot RPM on RH9,Of course,I used RPM fro RH9,But when i run "service dovecot start" I receiving a OK But when i run "service dovecot status" I receiving folloing line: dovecot dead but subsys locked & even when i run "ps -A |grep dovecot" ,i'm not receiving anythings. Please guide me..... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Again SSL.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi. I uninstalled dovecot.After it,I build a rpm from dovecot.org ,& installed it. Now,when i run service dovecot start ,I received following line: Starting dovecot: Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Please guide me... ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] SSL certificate.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi. I had generate a SSL cetificate. I performed following actions: mkdir /opt/LocalCA cd /opt/LocalCA mkdir certs mkdir private chmod 700 private echo '01' > serial touch index.txt cd /opt/LocalCA PATH=/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH export PATH OPENSSL_CONF=/opt/LocalCA/LocalCA.cnf export OPENSSL_CONF openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa -out cacert.pem -outform PEM -days 1825 Then made following files: /opt/LocalCA/cacert.pem # CA public certificate /opt/LocalCA/private/cakey.pem # CA private key Then i performed 2 actions: mv /opt/LocalCA/cacert.pem /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem mv /opt/LocalCA/cakey.pem /usr/shar/ssl/private/dovecot.pem Now,I run service dovecot start & i received following line: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): [ OK ] But now i run service dovecot status & i recieving following line: dovecot dead but subsys locked PLEASE GUIDE ME......... ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] ANNOUNCE: Mailadmin - New web interface for virtual domains
by John Thompson 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hey there, I've written a(nother) web front end for postfix + dovecot + mysql, it's called Mailadmin. (I'm sure you could use it with another POP/IMAP server, I haven't though) You can download it at: http://waste.org/~jello/mailadmin/ Some features are: o Licensed under the GPL o Written in perl o Written with security in mind o Supports regular mailboxes, forward-only boxes, and catchalls. o Ability to undelete deleted users (You'll have to do this manually for now (see TODO)) o You can add as many admins as you want, and they can only see or modify their own domains/users. o Uses HTML::Template, so you can edit the pages to appear as you want without having to muck through a bunch of code There are still a few features left to add (deleting domains for instance), but it's been working great for me for a while. Also, Debian Sarge (or later) users can use the install script and brief instructions to go from a bare-bones install to fully working postfix + dovecot + mysql virtual domains with web front-end in 5 or 10 minutes. Guaranteed! (ok, maybe not _guaranteed_, but it's quite easy). Feedback is much appreciated.

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[Dovecot] Bugzilla
by Kenneth Porter 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

--On Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:32 AM +0100 Lars Skovgaard <lars(a)misterp.dk> wrote: > Thanks a lot. Wow, I didn't even know about Bugzilla ...what a great site. Yep, a great thing. It grew out of Mozilla. I've installed it at my office for bug tracking. You just need Perl and MySQL. Timo, do you get Bugzilla's for Dovecot from Red Hat forwarded to you? It looks like Jeremy Katz of Red Hat is the component owner, but you could get listed as "QA contact" so that you get cc'd as new bugs are entered. The following query shows all bugs against the Dovecot component in all Red Hat "products": <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=dovecot>

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7
by Lars Skovgaard 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

>> As you can see, procmail puts a slash in the middle of the name, which >> of course is not allowed. This causes the rule to break, and the mail >> to be delivered to the default mailbox instead of the intended. > > That looks like this procmail bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62859 > > Upgrading to procmail 3.22 should fix the problem. > > Paul Thanks a lot. Wow, I didn't even know about Bugzilla ...what a great site. I've upgraded to procmail 3.22, and the problem is solved! /Lars On 8/2-2004, at 11.00, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: >> As you can see, procmail puts a slash in the middle of the name, which >> of course is not allowed. This causes the rule to break, and the mail >> to be delivered to the default mailbox instead of the intended. > > That looks like this procmail bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62859 > > Upgrading to procmail 3.22 should fix the problem. > > Paul >

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[Dovecot] CRAM-MD5 support?
by S Tanaka 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

Hi, I'm wondering what is dovecot's support for CRAM-MD5? The mailing list for November 2003 seems to indicate that Timo has included it into the CVS tree, however the ChangeLogs in the latest version does not say anything about it. The online docs has indicated that it's supported, but the doc files in 0.99.10.4 doesn't seem to mention about it.... Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Re: Illegal characters in message names
by Paul Adams 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

> As you can see, procmail puts a slash in the middle of the name, which > of course is not allowed. This causes the rule to break, and the mail > to be delivered to the default mailbox instead of the intended. That looks like this procmail bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62859 Upgrading to procmail 3.22 should fix the problem. Paul

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[Dovecot] Illegal characters in message names
by Lars Skovgaard 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Hi all I've set up Dovecot to use maildir-storage according to the previous hint from Blair Zajac, and it's working perfectly. However, I still have a problem with the way procmail wants to name the received emails. The following is a slightly modified extract from my logs: procmail: [5373] Thu Feb 5 23:59:14 2004 procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/Users/name/Maildir/" procmail: Assigning "ORGMAIL=/Users/name/Maildir/" procmail: Assigning "DEFAULT=/Users/name/Maildir/" procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/Users/name/Library/rc.myrules" procmail: Match on "^From:.*someone@somewhere.com" procmail: Error while writing to ".Folder/tmp/1076021954.5373_0.y/rc.myrulessomewhere.com" procmail: Couldn't create or rename temp file ".Folder/tmp/1076021954.5373_0.y/rc.myrulessomewhere.com" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/Users/name/Maildir/new/ 1076021954.5373_1.rp.comsomewhere.com" procmail: Notified comsat: "name@0:/Users/name/Maildir/new/1076021954.5373_1.rp.comsomewhere.com" As you can see, procmail puts a slash in the middle of the name, which of course is not allowed. This causes the rule to break, and the mail to be delivered to the default mailbox instead of the intended. Does anyone know how to control which characters are allowed in procmail, or how to control the naming eg. by way of grep? /Lars

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[Dovecot] Password prompt
by Zachary Schneider 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

When checking multiple POP3 accounts against Dovecot + ldap AUTH with outlook XP and Mail.app password dialogs randomly request that you reenter the password. I see stuff like this in the logs: Feb 4 19:02:25 geonosis dovecot: login: received another "not listening" notification (if you can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) Feb 5 08:53:19 geonosis dovecot: login: received another "not listening" notification (if you can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) and: Feb 4 12:00:41 geonosis pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050cc0 (0) Feb 4 12:00:41 geonosis pop3: I/O leak: 0x80848d0 (1) Feb 4 12:02:05 geonosis pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050cc0 (0) Feb 4 12:02:05 geonosis pop3: I/O leak: 0x80848d0 (1) and: Feb 4 11:35:02 geonosis dovecot-auth: Login process has too old (125s) requests, killing it. Feb 4 11:35:50 geonosis dovecot-auth: Login process has too old (123s) requests, killing it. This is the most recent version of Dovecot. IMAP appears to work pretty flawlessly. Please advise Thanks z

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[Dovecot] Newbie question: How to make dovecot read /var/mail/user while using Maildir
by Lars Skovgaard 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Hi I've been trying to figure out how to make dovecot read the system standard /var/mail/user, which is in mbox-format, while at the same time using Maildir as the preferred method of storage. When in Maildir-mode, I can store mail on the server without a hitch, but I don't receive mails. When in mbox-format, I can read and write, but the risk of corrupting mails is to high for me to consider mbox as an option. I would appreciate to hear from anyone who has a possible solution to this. Info about my system: MacOSX 10.2 Jaguar Apache 2.0.47 running Squirrelmail 1.4.2 PHP 4.3.2 Sendmail 8.12.9 Procmail v3.21 /Lars

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[Dovecot] Dovecot crashes on certain spam messages
by Karl Eklund 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Dovecot crashes. I think it's because of some message in my spam folder. It has happened once before, and that time I solved it by deleting that folder. It happens when I start gnus ("Checking messages in folder spam" or something like that), which makes gnus just stop, or when I try to enter that folder in mutt. Jan 30 17:07:09 kalle imap(ke): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 278 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Is there something I can do to determine which message it crashed on? Maildir format, version 0.99.10.4.

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