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[Dovecot] dovecot crash on sendfilev64 on solaris 8 (32bit) (WORKAROUND)
by Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

Hi, related to my previous email i found that setting "mail_save_crlf = no" instead of yes make dovecot working. However if enabled on solaris 8 it doesn't work hanging on sendfilev64() call. I noticed that maildir file names are still different from maildrop and dovecot but now works. However moving bigger mailbox from local storage to remote imap server i receive "Disconnect for inactivity while waiting for command data" error triggered by client_input_timeout function in imap/client.c . The timeout is defined as CLIENT_CMDINPUT_TIMEOUT which is defined as CLIENT_OUTPUT_TIMEOUT which is 1 minute (60*1000) . I think that could be usefull to have this timeout tunable because when you tranfer into the imap server large quantity of data if it takes more than 1 minutes, process goes timeout ( altought with mutt 1.4i client ) . Regards -naif

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[Dovecot] dovecot crash on sendfilev64 on solaris 8 (32bit)
by Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

Hi, i'm running dovecot on a SMP sparc 32bit server with solaris 8(latest patch installed). Dovecot with ssl. Postfix+imap+maildrop . Dovecot work fine with every email and folders delivered by maildrop, but now i'm trying to move all my local folders (i'm using mutt and i'm storing my emails locally on my pc) to the imap server . The upload of an entire 12000 mails folders worked fine, when i try to access that folder i can see "fetching headers" and all it's ok but when i attempt to read a message dovecot imap process crash. Dovecot crash even if i attempt to read one single email moved from my local inbox to remote imap INBOX maildir. Dovecot work fine on every folder created by maildrop. I made some debugging with truss and found that he die on sendfilev64 call: 5113: 0 7 O K S t a t u s c o m p l e t e d .\r\n 5113: poll(0x0008B450, 1, 204) = 0 5113: poll(0x0008B450, 1, 0) = 0 5113: poll(0x0008B450, 1, 999) = 1 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: read(0, 0x000925AC, 3796) = 35 5113: a 0 0 0 8 U I D F E T C H 1 2 5 1 3 B O D Y . P E E K [ 5113: ]\r\n 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: fcntl(4, F_SETLKW64, 0xDFFFF510) = 0 5113: open64("/mailboxes/pietrosanti.it/lists@pietrosanti.it/.Cyber-Rights/cur/1075891040.P3168Q12514M511660.supertolla.itapac.net:2,S", O_RDONLY) = 14 5113: fstat64(14, 0xDFFFF550) = 0 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: write(1, 0x00093488, 40) = 40 5113: * 1 2 5 1 3 F E T C H ( U I D 1 2 5 1 3 B O D Y [ ] 5113: { 1 9 5 7 }\r\n 5113: sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xDFFFF3C0, 1, 0xDFFFF3BC) Err#124 EAFNOSUPPORT 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: fcntl(4, F_SETLKW64, 0xDFFFF5F8) = 0 5113: close(14) = 0 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: close(9) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF230000, 1608) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF220000, 10264) = 0 5113: close(10) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF1A0000, 1560) = 0 5113: close(12) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF190000, 2576) = 0 5113: close(13) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF1B0000, 5) = 0 5113: close(11) = 0 5113: close(4) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF4C0000, 330120) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF240000, 2563740) = 0 5113: close(5) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF1C0000, 330072) = 0 5113: close(7) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF520000, 2576) = 0 5113: close(8) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF790000, 5) = 0 5113: close(6) = 0 5113: fstat(3, 0xDFFFFAE0) = 0 5113: close(3) = 0 5113: alarm(0) = 16 5113: sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xDFFFFA48, 0x00000000) = 0 5113: llseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR) Err#29 ESPIPE 5113: _exit(0) I noticed that maildir files created by dovecot have the following file names format: 1075891040.P3168Q12514M511660.supertolla.itapac.net:2,S and maildrop one are in this other format: 1075893689.M267966P5215V01540032I001B6706_0.supertolla.itapac.net,S=1381:2,S I'm working on SPARC 32 bit architecture with the following compile options: CC=gcc CXX=gcc CFLAGS="-O9 -msupersparc -mcpu=supersparc -mtune=supersparc -fno-omit-frame-pointer -m32" CXXFLAGS="-O9 -msupersparc -mcpu=supersparc -mtune=supersparc -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -m32" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include/ -I/data/chroot/mysql/mysql/include/mysql" LDFLAGS="-L/data/chroot/mysql/mysql/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/ssl/lib" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/data/chroot/mysql/mysql/lib/mysql export CC CXX CFLAGS CXXFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./configure --prefix=/dovecot --without-passwd --without-passwd-file --without-shadow --without-pam \ --without-ldap --without-vpopmail --without-pgsql --without-cyrus-sasl2 --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --without-pop3d --with-mysql --with-static-userdb vi config.h #define PASSDB_MYSQL 1 #define USERDB_MYSQL 1 vi src/auth/Makefile add -lmysqlclient to LIBS LIBS = -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -lsendfile -lmysqlclient Regards -- Fabio Pietrosanti ( naif ) - f.pietrosanti(a)inet.it I.NET SpA - ( Operation Group, Network Security ) Sede: Via Darwin, 85 20019 Settimo Milanese (MI), Italy Tel: +39 02 32863.1 - Fax: +39 02 32863.7709 PGP Key avaiable on request -- Free advertising: www.openbsd.org - Multiplatform Ultra-secure OS

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[Dovecot] Dovecot died due to some SSL related error
by Christof Baumgärtner 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

Hi, Dovecot (pre-compiled version of Fedora Core 1, configured for Maildir) is running fine for me since a few days. It happened now twice to me that dovecot died with the following error message in /var/log/maillog: Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette imap-login: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down As these previous log messages indicate the login was working before without any problem: Feb 4 11:02:37 hundehuette imap-login: Login: andrea [192.168.2.138] Feb 4 11:05:56 hundehuette last message repeated 30 times Feb 4 11:09:02 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times Feb 4 11:12:08 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times Feb 4 11:15:15 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times Feb 4 11:18:21 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times Feb 4 11:18:26 hundehuette last message repeated 12 times Dovecot is running as user "dovecot" who does not have a ~/.rnd file Any idea? Thanks, Christof

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot crashes on certain spam messages
by Dan Sully 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

I'm also seeing this - I wasn't able to get a core dump, but was able to get info from strace/lsof to track down the message: strace shows in a continuous read loop, as it's trying to go past EOF. pread(9, "", 3502, 30524) = 0 pread(9, "", 3502, 30524) = 0 pread(9, "", 3502, 30524) = 0 I've attached the problem message (gzipped). -D -- <dr.pox> does whistling in the dark make me go blind faster?

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[Dovecot] SpamAssassin
by Kenneth Porter 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

--On Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:16 PM +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > I don't yet really even want Dovecot to be too well known, it's not > ready yet. When 1.0 comes (this spring I hope) I'll start publicizing it > more. After that I should only need to add new features - existing ones > should be perfect and better than anyone else's ;) Just a heads-up, then. A regular FAQ on the SA-Talk list is how to integrate SA into someone's IMAP/POP3 server, and once Dovecot gets popular, you'll start seeing that question here. I run SA from sendmail via MIMEDefang (to reject the egregious stuff), and from procmail on delivery (to tag and quarantine the borderline stuff). I'm not sure why people would use it in the IMAP server, but the question does come up.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot dies on startup????
by Mitchell Baker 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Trying to crank it up on our RedHat 8.0 system... I get the following.. I am sure it is something simple in the config.. just don't know what... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Here is from the log.. If there is a way to get more log info that might help he as well.. Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: child 3517 (auth) returned error 127 Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Thanks... See-ya Mitch -- /####################################################################/ /# Mitchell "Buzz" Baker "To Infinity And Beyond..." #/ /# Sr. Systems/Security Admin Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology #/ /# Mitchell.D.Baker(a)rose-hulman.edu www.rose-hulman.edu #/ /# For PGP Public key, check out www.keyserver.net #/ /####################################################################/

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[Dovecot] Assert in Fedora dovecot-0.99.10.4-1
by Blair Zajac 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hello, I'm seeing this in my dovecot log file: imap(blair): Dec 16 13:53:06 Panic: file istream.c: line 93 (i_stream_set_read_limit): assertion failed: (stream->v_size == 0 || v_offset <= stream->v_size) I get this consistently when I search for the string "unknown C primitive" across 10 mailboxes using the Windows Netscape 4.80 client. If there's any more information I can provide, please let me know. Best, Blair -- Blair Zajac <blair(a)orcaware.com> Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/

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[Dovecot] Migrating from UW: mbx detection and conversion
by Kenneth Porter 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I want to migrate my big mail folder hierarchy in preparation for converting from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. I've got a bunch of mbx format folders but some remain mbox. Has anyone done this? Any scripts out there for automating the conversion to all-mbox? I believe the only format conversion available is mailutil (part of UW-IMAP) and it works by opening an IMAP connection to the server and moving messages from one folder to the other. Is there any simpler method?

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[Dovecot] dovecot crash
by Simon Bell 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I woke up this morning and my dovecot server had died with the following in the dovecot.log file: pop3-login: Jan 23 10:23:08 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: child 16321 (login) returned error 89 How can I find out whats going wrong?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not creating dirs
by marko sarunac 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I have looked trough the archives and found similar scenarios but mine is a bit diff I got dovecot running (0.99.10.4-2) on debian testing and what is happening is that i created /home/marko/mail directory and configured my postfix to deliver mail to ~/mail/Inbox my default mail env is default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=%h/mail/Inbox:INDEX=%h/mail/.indexes Now when i first started my mozilla imap client what happened was! Jan 26 21:46:34 imap(marko): Can't create temp index /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.temp.limbic.7523: No such file or directory Jan 26 21:46:34 imap(marko): utime() failed with index file /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory after i manually :~/mail$ mkdir .indexes :~/mail$ cd .indexes/ :~/mail/.indexes$ mkdir .imap :~/mail/.indexes$ cd .imap/ :~/mail/.indexes/.imap$ mkdir INBOX :~/mail/.indexes/.imap$ cd INBOX/ :~/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX$ i only get Jan 26 22:06:34 limbic imap(marko): utime() failed with index file /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory On the other note...when i try to delete any mail from Inbox using IMAP client i get "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: trash" This obviously shows that dovecot can't create neither files nor directories I am using non system wide readable directories and just to try things i did chmod -R 777 mail from /home/marko didn't help any ideas and comments are greatelly appreciated!!!

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[Dovecot] State of MySQL authentication
by Ian Armstrong 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I am looking for a pop3 server that can authenticate via MySQL. It also needs to be able to do a POST_LOGIN_QUERY. I want to be able to update a "date" field in the database, so that I can see which accounts are active, and which are not. Please let me know more about Dovecot and MySQL. Thanks Ian. Ian Armstrong ---------------------------------- ika(a)expressmail.dk

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[Dovecot] Problem starting dovecot..
by Mitchell Baker 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Sorry if this is newbie question.. but I'm a newbie to dovecot.. Trying to crank it up on our RedHat 8.0 system... I get the following.. I am sure it is something simple in the config.. just don't know what... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Here is from the log.. If there is a way to get more log info that might help he as well.. Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: child 3517 (auth) returned error 127 Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Thanks... See-ya Mitch -- /####################################################################/ /# Mitchell "Buzz" Baker "To Infinity And Beyond..." #/ /# Sr. Systems/Security Admin Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology #/ /# Mitchell.D.Baker(a)rose-hulman.edu www.rose-hulman.edu #/ /# For PGP Public key, check out www.keyserver.net #/ /####################################################################/

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[Dovecot] pgsql-dovecot auth problem
by Ewald Geschwinde 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Jan 28 13:55:48 bachata dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Query "SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = 'foo(a)foo.bar'" failed: I have this error in /var/log/mail.log I have installed a debian machine with dovecot debian packages in my test environment it runs perfect I have used the tutorials on wiki.dovecot.org And there is nothing in the postgresql log about this query And I'm logging queries HAs anyone encountered this error? Postfix send the mail in the right maildir Only the IMAP login does not work. Regards Ewald Geschwinde

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[Dovecot] Customflags problem?
by Rick Johnson 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

I'm new here, but I'll just jump right in. I've been using Dovecot with Fedora for a bit with the default mbox format. I recently transitioned to the Maildir format since some users were getting mailboxes in excess of 1GB in size, which made expunging and flagging no easy task. Anyway, it appears now with Maildir, that customflags are "added" instead of "replaced". I.E. in Thunderbird or Mozilla, if I set a message label of 5 (Later), and then change it to 3 (Personal), all's fine. However, if I switch it back to Later, or attempt to remove it, the flags are not removed. When I examine the flags on the filename, I see something like :2,FSag. If I attempt to change to additional labels and/or flag the message, I'll end up with aefg on the same message. Unfortunately only the first flag is accepted, and Moz/Tbird keeps label 5 as "a" was "read" delivered first. If I mark label as none, the flags remain, meaning I have to manually rename the file to remove the flags. This wasn't a problem using the mbox format, since the flags were stored in the file itself. Is this something broken in how the reader is requesting or is it a fault in the dæmon itself not removing old customflags before adding new? I suspect something inside src/lib-index/maildir/maildir-index.c Also of note, Evolution can seem to remove them, but only does so upon exit. I've reproduced it in 0.99.10-6 (fedora core 1) and 0.99.10.4-1 (fedora devel) versions. I filed a Bugzilla report at bugzilla.redhat.com under 114230 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114230) -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson(a)medata.com Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc

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[Dovecot] Internal error during expunge
by Tim Jakobsen 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi, I'm using dovecot-0.99.10.4_1 on Freebsd. CPU architecture is i386. When ever I try to move messages og delete dem i get an internal error. Below I've tried to show what dovecot says. Mail gets stored using mbox format. After giving the internal error you kan try to expunge the mail again and it works without error. Any suggestions or ideas as to what could be wrong? is it a bug? A003 STORE 1 +FLAGS (\Deleted) * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) A003 OK Store completed. A004 expunge imap(foo): Error: Error indexing mbox file /home/foo/Mail/INBOX.Drafts: LF not found where expected A004 NO Internal error [2004-01-14 14:08:13] Tia. -- Regards, Tim

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[Dovecot] Certificate Authority-signed certs in dovecot?
by Benjamin J. Weiss 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi! Sorry if this has been covered. I've just started using dovecot and I've searched via google and I've downloaded the maillist archives, but I haven't found a solution. I'm using Fedora Core 1, with dovecot-0.99.10-6. When I'm at work, I access my home mail server using Outlook Express (I know, I know, but it's the only client I'm allowed to use at work). Now, I'm able to get to my email, but I get a warning popup box each time I connect to the server, that the authenticity of the certificate can't be verified. I'm assuming that that's because I am using a self-signed certificate. Now, I'm also using postfix, and it allows for me creating my own CA certificate, and using it to sign my own certificates. The /etc/postfix/main.cf entries are: smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/newreq.pem smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/newcert.pem smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem but while I see the following two lines in /etc/dovecot.conf: ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem I don't see how to specify my CA cert. I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to openssl, but I've been able to follow directions to get the TLS working in both postfix and dovecot. I just want to get rid of that annoying message. I figure that there's a way to sign my dovecot certs with the ca cert I've already created for postfix, and tell dovecot about it somehow. Has anybody done this? Thanks! Ben

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2002 sp-2 and initial connection after OS reboot
by David Crisp 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

I have a strange problem that I have been experienceing with dovecot: Dovecot version : 0.99.10.4-1 Using IMAP: When I restart the OS (windows XP) and open up Outlook 2002 SP2 I don't automatically get my IMAP folders on the DOVECOT imap server. (the one on the uw_imap server open up straight away) When I click on inbox I cam given a message saying : unable to connect to imap folders When highlight the inbox and go to "file" "connect to <imap server>" I get the error again.. "unable to connect to imap folders" If I just leave Outlook open for a while the folders mysteriously connect themselves. Has anybody seen this before and does anybody have any ideas on what to do to fix things. Is this an Outlook problem or a dovecot problem? I searched the archives and theres been nothing recently about this kind of problem. I need to get this system running in production very soon. --- David Crisp IT Systems Administrator WSL Consultants Pty Ltd dcrisp(a)wsl.com.au 2-8 Harvey Street Richmond Vic 3121 Australia Phone: +61 3 9429 4666 Fax: +61 3 9429 2294 Web: www.wsl.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WSL Consultants Pty Ltd www.wsl.com.au Head Office: 2-8 Harvey Street, Richmond VIC 3121 Ph: (03) 9429 4666 Fax: (03) 9429 2294 Bendigo Office: Gate 6, Sharon Street La Trobe University, Bendigo PO Box 106, Strathdale VIC 3550 Ph: (03) 5444 7890 Fax: (03) 5444 7895 This message is intended solely for the individual(s) and entity(s) addressed. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. The use, copying or distribution of this message or any information it contains, by anyone other than the addressee, is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify wsl(a)wsl.com.au. The mailbox address from which this message has been sent is for business mail only. Mail sent to it may be subject to security scanning and delivery of non-business messages sent to this address may not occur. Please note that the opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and are not necessarily those of WSL Consultants Pty Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ###################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal http://www.marshalsoftware.com ######################################################################

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[Dovecot] dovecot and evolution
by Farkas Levente 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

hi, in evo when I open my mailbox INBOX is in the middle of my foder list. it seems evo sort folders alphanumericaly and eg Drafts is before INBOX. is there any way to put the inbox as the first folder? it very annoying:-( ps. anyway what is the status of the new indexing code and the thread view bug? thanks. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] imap sync
by Arnold Cano 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Has anyone used any of those utilities that synchronize imap email from one server to another? I tried using imapsync-1.65 and it reports that dovecot has no namespace support and requires me to manually enter the separator? Would this be "."? or ".INBOX"? or "/"? Thanks, Arnold

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[Dovecot] some questions about log errors
by Charlie Allom 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Hello, I migrated from the release target to the CVS target a few nights back, as I only use Maildir, and wanted look for improvements.. I am getting these errors in the maillog, and they keep coming up. I can delete the indexes, but wonder if it should be updateable by the mail-index process first? Jan 10 16:37:48 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 16:42:56 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 17:08:18 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 19:54:09 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 20:02:12 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 21:15:35 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 22:17:48 lazy imap(yeled): Corrupted index file /home/yeled/Maildir/.spam-caught/.imap.index: Duplicated message 1073729953.P4300Q320.lazy:2,S Jan 10 22:17:48 lazy imap(yeled): /home/yeled/Maildir/.spam-caught/dovecot-uidlist: Found duplicate filename 1073729953.P4300Q320.lazy, rebuilding Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Corrupted index cache file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index.cache: record points outside file Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Corrupted index cache file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index.cache: invalid record size Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Corrupted index file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index: Filename mismatch for UID 492: 1073739016.P11415Q5M850434.lazy vs 1073739017.P4404Q26M178284.lazy Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Couldn't lock created modify log file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index.log Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Warning: Inconsistency - Index /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index was rebuilt while we had it open Jan 10 23:50:20 lazy imap(yeled): IndexID mismatch for modify log file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index.log As you can see the error says that it is `Updating broken sync_id' multiple times. The other errors - I'm not sure if they can be fixed.. C. -- charlie(a)rubberduck.com - Melbourne, Australia http://rubberduck.com/~yeled/ PGP: 0x14AA7941 || finger yeled(a)lazy.spodder.com

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[Dovecot] no such file or directory
by Arnold Cano 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

I successfully installed dovecot 0.99.10 on a fedora box using postfix 2.0.11 and when I try to connect using my mozilla mail client I get the following error in the maillog... Jan 7 18:52:16 www1 imap(arnoldc): utime() failed with index file /home/arnoldc/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory As you can see I'm using maildirs located in the home directories. Here is a copy of my dovecot.conf and I've removed all the commented out lines to save space... protocols = imap imap_listen = * ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes Also, I created the maildir manually and placed a copy in my /etc/skel so that all new users receive a copy. Here is the structure and permissions from the home directory... >ll drwx------ 5 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 Maildir >ll Maildir/ drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 cur drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 new drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 tmp Any help would be appreciated! Arnold

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[Dovecot] POP Before SMTP for Sendmail
by SIMflex Support 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Does anyone have a patch or information resource on implementing POP before SMTP with sendmail and DoveCot? I implemented it using a qpopper patch before we swiched to DoveCot for Maildirs. We have been using DoveCot for almost a year now and love it better than any other IMAP or POP3 server. Thanks for the info, Doug Eubanks SIMflex Internet Support support(a)simflex.com SIMflex Telephone Support is available from 8am-8pm Mon thru Fri and 9am-12pm Sat 206-7934 Wilson Area 800-847-2979 All Other Areas

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[Dovecot] Maildir and Mail at the same time.
by Dan Slowik 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

I am trying to use Maildir format for My inbox and be able to save the messages in ~/Mail. Problem is dovecot only show the Maildir mailboxes not the ~/Mail formatted boxes. How can I get this to work? If I use namespace or something how would this be configured I cannot find much documentation that explains it well enough. example: what would I have to configure in dovecot.conf or otherwise? I would like to see this. INBOX -- sent | drafts |- (Maildir format from ~/Maildir) trash -- sent -- recieved | deamons |- (mbox format from ~/Mail) unixfolk -- Currently I can only see the ~/Maildir like so. INBOX -- sent | drafts |- (Maildir format from ~/Maildir) trash -- Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003

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[Dovecot] SSL and STARTTLS
by Mark E. Mallett 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

I wanted to enable SSL on some alternate ports so that a limited number of people could try SSL access. But doing so enabled STARTTLS in IMAP, so that all IMAP users got surprised (at least those whose clients attempted to use it automatically). e.g.: # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above non-SSL equilevants if not specified. imaps_listen = *:xxxx pop3s_listen = *:yyyy # Disable SSL/TLS support. ssl_disable = no Is there a way to enable imaps/pop3s without enabling STARTTLS? (If so it's probably blindingly obvious and I am missing it..) Yours, mm

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[Dovecot] folders not subscribed
by Jerry Chiu 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

when migrated from courier-imap, I found that all the sub-folders are not subscribed, I have to manually subscribe all of them. It is not very practical since many of my users have complicated folder structure... Is it possible that the dovecot server auto-subscribe all sub-folders if the ".subscriptions" is not present in the Maildir? Thanks, Jerry

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