- dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] NFS and Filesystem quota
by Joseba Torre 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, I've recently moved my mailboxes to a NFS share (on an emc Celerra), and, as expected, the quota extensions no longer works. However, I've read that adding http://dovecot.org/patches/quota-rquotad.c to $DOVECOT/src/plugins/quota, adding a line to $DOVECOT/src/plugins/quota/Makefile.am and rebuilding, it should work again. Unfortunately, it doesn't compile in my RHEL 4.0: /usr/bin/gcc4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -MT quota-rquotad.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-rquotad.Tpo -c quota-rquotad.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-rquotad.o quota-rquotad.c: In function 'debugmsg': quota-rquotad.c:50: warning: implicit declaration of function 'i_vinfo' quota-rquotad.c: In function 'rquotad_quota_add_storage': quota-rquotad.c:90: error: storage size of 'statbuf' isn't known quota-rquotad.c:97: warning: implicit declaration of function 'statfs' quota-rquotad.c:99: error: 'MNT_LOCAL' undeclared (first use in this function) quota-rquotad.c:99: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once quota-rquotad.c:99: error: for each function it appears in.) quota-rquotad.c:104: error: 'MNAMELEN' undeclared (first use in this function) quota-rquotad.c:90: warning: unused variable 'statbuf' quota-rquotad.c: At top level: quota-rquotad.c:225: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type quota-rquotad.c: In function 'rquota_get': quota-rquotad.c:256: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules quota-rquotad.c:267: warning: passing argument 3 of 'clnt->cl_ops->cl_call' from incompatible pointer type quota-rquotad.c:267: warning: passing argument 4 of 'clnt->cl_ops->cl_call' from incompatible pointer type quota-rquotad.c:267: warning: passing argument 5 of 'clnt->cl_ops->cl_call' from incompatible pointer type quota-rquotad.c:267: warning: passing argument 6 of 'clnt->cl_ops->cl_call' from incompatible pointer type quota-rquotad.c: In function 'rquotad_quota_root_update': quota-rquotad.c:275: error: storage size of 'statfsbuf' isn't known quota-rquotad.c:291: error: 'MNT_LOCAL' undeclared (first use in this function) quota-rquotad.c:275: warning: unused variable 'statfsbuf' make[4]: *** [quota-rquotad.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/lgstosej/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.1/src/plugins/quota' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/lgstosej/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.1/src/plugins' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lgstosej/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lgstosej/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any help? Is there any plan to have official support for this? Aaaaaaaaaagur. -- Joseba Torre. CIDIR Bizkaia.

2 1

[Dovecot] Migrating subscription lists
by Stewart Dean 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

I thought this would be relatively straightforward....I would create .subscriptions by doing an ls -1 of ~/mail. I'm running into some problems. 1) the ~/mail directories haves directories in them for 5% of the accounts! AFAIK, our mail sevice has always been UWIMAP with mbox format INBOXes, and it was my understanding that the mbox format is flat and NOT hierarchical and thus I'd have thought that ~/mail would be all folders and wouldn't have a directory with folders in it. Plus our users are not, as a rule, power/geek user that would understand even making subdirs in ~mail, so I don't know how this would have come to pass. Should this be? Or am I misunderstanding things? 2) Some people are consciously or unconsciously using the UWIMAP .mailboxlist subscription file as it is meant to be used, namely to *restrict* the folders shown. If/when I generated the Dovecot .subsbcriptions file by just doing an ls -1 of their mail directory, they will be surprised to see stuff not previously displayed....that they may very well not know they'd had. Murphy must be a terribly overworked deity...you'd think he'd take a rest now and then from maximizing entropy -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

2 1

[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir
by Don Russell 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

I'm using Dovecot 1.0.1-12 on Linux/Fedora 7 along with sendmail and procmail all running on the same box mail is stored in mbox format It's a small system with a half dozen or so e-mail "accounts". Each with 40-60MB of messages in various folders. I keep seeing messages about how mbox is antiquated and anybody with more than 100 messages etc should not use mbox, but use maildir instead. I'm not entirely convinced.... there seem to be pros and cons for each. Is there a discussion somewhere that really highlights why one format is so much better than the other? The last time I tried to convert from mbox to maildir, things got pretty botched up, no data loss, but it wasn't pretty. :-) Can Dovecot handle mbox for some users and maildir for others? I'd like to try a conversion for one user... I'll probably create a new user, then have procmail copy (via ! action code) all mail for one user to that new user. Thank you

16 40

[Dovecot] secure pop for outside pop inside
by arjan 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Hi all, I've a server with dovecot running in secure pop mode. For connections from the outside world, I don't want to enable pop. However, this machine is also the host for a vserver. In this vserver I have a webserver running the WebGUI Content Management System. One can add content via email. For this the cms has to be able to check a pop emailbox. The cms doesn't support secure pop. It's not nescessary either, because dovecot and cms are on the same machine. How can I configure Dovecot in such a way that I can enable pop just for one ip-adress and have secure pop for connections on another adress? Any help would be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Arjan

2 3

[Dovecot] Repeated references to non existent users table
by Frank Church 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Dovecot keeps returning messages in the general log about a users table, where my users table is called mailbox, based on my postfixadmin configuration. dovecot: Jul 10 11:37:27 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)domain.com): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)domain.com' dovecot: Jul 10 11:37:27 Info: auth(default): prefetch(user(a)domain.com): passdb didn't return userdb entries I get errors stating that table postfix.users does not exist which is right because my table is named mailbox my dovecot-sql.conf files don't contain any references to a table named users. dovecot.conf ========= protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)abc.meripol.net mail_plugins = quota log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log } main.cf ========== # ---------------------- SASL PART START ---------------------- smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks = smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes # ---------------------- SASL PART END ---------------------- master.cf ======= dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:mail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient}

1 0

[Dovecot] dovecot lda with fetchmail
by JC Júnior 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

hi all, I'm new in dovecot, and i need to setup a machine that download emails from an external pop3 server, and delivers to my internal network via imap, for this , i want ( if possible ) to use fetchmail with the option mda to dovecot's deliver, because all user must be virtual users stored in a sqlite database, and my question is: 1- it is possible?? 2- theres a better way to do this?? 3- someone knows some howto about this configuration??? thanks for all JC Júnior

3 6

[Dovecot] Upgrade from 1.00 to 1.0.1
by Jon 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Hi, I'm getting a bunch of errors since I upgraded to 1.0.0. I understand now that some of them are bug related to release 1.0.0. I'm about to upgrade to 1.0.1. Does anyone know if there are changes in the config file btwn these to versions? Also, what is the best way to do the upgrade? Can I just run ./configure : make : make install : killlall -HUP dovetcot? Best Regards - Jon

7 9

[Dovecot] Tbird-DC state problem
by Stewart Dean 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

A experienced sysadmin who's doing some guinea-pig use of DC just ran into the following situation: 1) He brings up SeaMonkey 2) About 30 minutes later, he's in the middle of some involved messaging, mistakenly hits the redX in the top right of the SeaMonkey window, knocking himself out of SeaMonkey. 3) He immediately reinvokes SeaMonkey, all appeared to be OK Viewed some e-mail and some web page references, tries to send a message and then the Send hung for a time with a message "Sending Authenticate Info"..after some minutes, a new E-mail window appeared stating the "Server reported a timeout". As far as the message, it was apparently sent successfully, and saved in the Sent folder successfully. 4) He calls me in. I look through the syslog logging. There is nothing in the syslog critical stuff...and everything in the maillog looks normal. 5) He starts another message, tries to save it to Drafts and that hangs 6) I look more closely at the maillog and see a lot of logins (one a minute in some cases, but all appear to have been cleanly executed) plus one bunch of disconnected messages with one disconnected in idle in the period when the write to the Drafts would have been hung. Could it be that DC was in the middle of clean up in the initial disconnect/reconnect and SeaMonkey came back in the middle of it and one or the other's state tables got messed up (or both of them)? Shutting out of SeaMonkey, waiting a minute and reconnecting seems to have gotten things working again. Any comments? Anything I should be looking for? OTOH, this is the first real problem I've seen in some person-months of testing..... -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

1 0

[Dovecot] PHP implementation of dovecotpw passwords
by Frank Church 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

I am looking for PHP functions that implement passwords that much the dovecotpw implementation. I downloaded one from PEAR, Crypt_HMAC, but the passwords it generates look nothing like the dovecotpw passwords, which could be my fault because I know nothing about the field. Is there a guide or some library that implements them to match dovecotpw?

4 4

[Dovecot] Your IMAP server has closed the connection.
by Dehnert James Sr 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

I'm getting a large number of ... "Your IMAP server has closed the connection. This may occur if you have left the connection idle for too long." errors. These are confusing my clients. Is there a way to set the timeout on the dovecot server to help avoid this?

4 6

[Dovecot] Unable to send email out using Dovecot SASL
by dovecot＠convergenz.biz 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi, I am currently using Dovecot 1.0.rc17 with Postfix 2.3.8 on Ubuntu. So far I'm able to receive my email using dovecot pop3 but I can't send out the email. Anybody managed to get Postfix with Dovecot SASL support so far? What do I missed out? Below is my configure: #-----------/dovecot.conf-------------- base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_timestamp: .%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S . protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail-key.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 150 last_valid_uid: 150 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: user: nobody verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: mail #-----------/dovecot.conf end-------------- #-----------/dovecot-sql.conf-------------- driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=Password default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT user_query = SELECT '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as mail, 150 AS uid, 8 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' password_query = SELECT username as user, password, '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 8 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' #-----------/dovecot-sql.conf end-------------- Rgds CH

4 3

[Dovecot] utime : operation not permitted
by Jim Horner 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

With the upgrade to 1.0.1, I am seeing some errors/warnings dovecot: IMAP(jhorner(a)arinbe.com): utime(/home/arinbe/Maildir/.info/tmp) failed: Operation not permitted: 1 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(jhorner(a)arinbe.com): utime(/home/arinbe/Maildir/.resumes.vabch/tmp) failed: Operation not permitted: 1 Time(s) Different directories on different days. Different users on different days. Always /tmp directory. Always a /tmp of a shared namespace. The /tmp directory in question is mode 770, with group users, just like the rest of the /arinbe/Maildir hierarchy. As far as I can tell it doesn't affect anything on the client side. dovecot -n ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/arinbe/arinbe-godaddy.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/arinbe/arinbe.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!LOW:!SSLv2:+EXP:@STRENGTH login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: I am the IMAP Whisperer and I am ready. mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir umask: 7 mail_plugins: acl imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle namespace: type: public separator: . prefix: COMPANY. location: maildir:/home/arinbe/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/shared-settings/company/control:INDEX=%h/shared-settings/company/index namespace: type: public separator: . prefix: ROOTMAIL. location: maildir:/home/rootmail/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/shared-settings/rootmail/control:INDEX=%h/shared-settings/rootmail/index namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: arinbe.com user: nobody passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-arinbe.conf passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-domains.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-arinbe.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-domains.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 438 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: nobody group: mail plugin: acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acls

2 9

[Dovecot] Debian packages for Dovecot 1.0.1xx (sarge)
by Moritz Mertinkat 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi there, i'm looking for Debian sarge dovecot packages (yes, still running sarge). Anyone here that has a backported package? Greetings, Moritz

2 1

[Dovecot] modules/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota_set
by Philipp Kolmann 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi, I wanted to enable FS quota support in dovecot, and have configured the following directives: protocol imap { mail_plugins = imap_quota } plugin { quota = fs } With this additional settings, my normally working dovecot.conf doesn't start anymore: Starting mail server: dovecotEdlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota_set Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 I have tested this issue on the following versions: * Debian etch: 1.0.rc15 * RedHat AS 5: 1.0.rc15 * Debian sid: 1.0.0 Thanks for any help in this issue. Philipp Kolmann -- If you have problems in Windows: REBOOT If you have problems in Linux: BE ROOT

3 3

[Dovecot] assertion failed & invalid password field
by Ralf Hildebrandt 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

I'm getting these in my log: Jul 6 09:52:51 postamt dovecot: imap-login: file ssl-proxy-openssl.c: line 460 (ssl_proxy_new): assertion failed: (fd != -1) Jul 6 09:52:51 postamt dovecot: child 31576 (login) killed with signal 6 Jul 6 10:37:44 postamt dovecot: imap-login: file ssl-proxy-openssl.c: line 460 (ssl_proxy_new): assertion failed: (fd != -1) Jul 6 10:37:44 postamt dovecot: child 25241 (login) killed with signal 6 Jul 6 13:14:51 postamt dovecot: imap-login: file ssl-proxy-openssl.c: line 460 (ssl_proxy_new): assertion failed: (fd != -1) Jul 6 13:14:51 postamt dovecot: child 4418 (login) killed with signal 6 and I get those for accounts I deactivated using "usermod -L", maybe dovecot should log something like "account disabled" instead: Jul 6 11:07:01 postamt dovecot: auth(default): shadow(vnedwed,77.128.63.72): invalid password field Jul 6 11:07:06 postamt dovecot: auth(default): shadow(vnedwed,77.128.63.72): invalid password field Jul 6 14:12:40 postamt dovecot: auth(default): shadow(jechafch,141.42.4.251): invalid password field This is dovecot-1.0.1 -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) plonk(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.

1 0

[Dovecot] Virtual servers
by John Hedges 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hello I'm migrating from Courier to Dovecot (1.0.rc15) on Debian. I am trying to set up virtual servers based on the principal in this thread: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-October/017165.html which suggests something like this to support multiple certificates: server foo { listen = 1.2.3.4 ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/foo.cer } server bar { listen = 1.2.3.5 ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/bar.cer } My virtual configs look like this: server mail.domain1.org { listen = 1.2.3.4 protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/mail/hosts/domain1.org/ssl.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/mail/hosts/domain1.org/ssl.key auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/mail/hosts/domain1.org/userdb } userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/mail/hosts/domain1.org/userdb } } } server mail.domain2.org { listen = 1.2.3.5 protocols = imap imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/mail/hosts/domain2.org/ssl.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/mail/hosts/domain2.org/ssl.key auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/mail/hosts/domain2.org/userdb } userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/mail/hosts/domain2.org/userdb } } } but I can't get ithis to work. Dovecot starts but authorisation fails. Is this kind of setup possible - is it possible to configure different passwd-files for connections on different IPs, or am I going to have to run separate instances of Dovecot for each virtual host? Thanks John

2 1

[Dovecot] Dovecot with iPhone
by Erik Dasque 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi, anyone using their Dovecot server with an iPhone ? While the iPhone is able to see the Inbox, I can't get it to see the other folder. I have tried ~/Maildir, /home/ed/Maildir and Maildir as the IMAP prefix but to no avail. Anything I am overlooking ? Erik

3 4

[Dovecot] Index question
by Stewart Dean 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

The day I switch our user to dovecot and it goes into production, there will be a few thousand people all generating their indices for the first time (we have a legacy requirement for procmail, at least for now), so I wondered: 1) Is there is anyway to pre-emptively force indexing? 2) Is there any value in doing so? That is, will I gain much in terms of making the first time everyone connects to dovecot quicker (not that big initial wait)? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

7 8

Re: [Dovecot] Permission errors when creating/reading files in users' mail directories
by Bryan K. Wright 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

tss(a)iki.fi said: >> Jul 5 09:25:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): open() failed with mbox file >> /var/spool/mail/uid: Permission denied > Sounds like your userdb is returning wrong uid. Set mail_debug=yes to see what > Dovecot is really using. Excellent! After looking at the uids, I found that my test user had both an entry in our ldap database and the local /etc/passwd file. Removing the spurious /etc/passwd entry (and fixing the local file ownerships) gets rid of the permission problems. Thanks for your help. Bryan -- ======================================================================== Bryan Wright |"If you take cranberries and stew them like Physics Department | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes University of Virginia | than rhubarb does." -- Groucho Charlottesville, VA 22901| (434) 924-7218 | bryan(a)virginia.edu ========================================================================

1 0

[Dovecot] Mark E-Mail as read
by Jens M. 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi all, is there a way to configure Dovecot, so that it marks my e-mails as read, when I recieve them with pop3, but leave them on the server? Regards, Jens

4 4

[Dovecot] Permission errors when creating/reading files in users' mail directories
by Bryan Wright 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi folks, I'm trying to migrate an old uw-imap server to dovecot, and running into puzzling (to me) permission problems. I've configured mail_location as follows: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u and each user's mail directory has permissions like this: drwx------ 2 uid gid 4096 Jul 5 09:26 /home/uid/mail But when I try to check a user's mail using an imap client, I see the following error: Jul 5 09:59:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): mkdir_parents(/home/uid/mail/.imap/ INBOX) failed: Permission denied If I open up the permissions so anyone can write, I find that the .imap directory is successfully created, and owned by "uid". Is dovecot initially creating the directory with some other ownership, and then changing the ownership to "uid"? I can get around this problem by setting INDEX in mail_location, and pointing it to a directory with more open permissions, but then I run into the next problem: Jul 5 09:25:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): open() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/uid: Permission denied In this case, the permissions are set as follows: -rw------- 1 bkw1a mail 1267 Jul 5 08:47 /var/spool/mail/uid How should the permissions be set on the spool files? Thanks in advance, Bryan -- ======================================================================== Bryan Wright |"If you take cranberries and stew them like Physics Department | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes University of Virginia | than rhubarb does." -- Groucho Charlottesville, VA 22901| (434) 924-7218 | bryan(a)virginia.edu ========================================================================

2 1

[Dovecot] dovecot.conf pop3_uidl_format
by Peter Eriksson 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

From the Dovecot 1.0.1 sample dovecot.conf file: # If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use: # UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu ... # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which was # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. # # NOTE: Nowadays this is required to be set explicitly, since the old # default was bad but it couldn't be changed without breaking existing # installations. %08Xu%08Xv will be the new default, so use it for new # installations. # pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv Notice the *very* small difference in the format between UW's ipop3d and the ones mentioned a little bit below? I think I just got bitten by this (we moved from UW's ipop3d to Dovecot). Loooots of users just got a lot of new (old) mail again ("Leave mail on server" is a popular setting). Ah well. They really should move to IMAP anyway and now they got some summer reading to do :-) Is the difference intentional? If so then perhaps this should be more clearly pointed out! - Peter

2 2

[Dovecot] dotlock O_EXCL query
by derek kit hoong foo 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi there, I was wondering if someone can assist with clarifying why O_EXCL does not always work with NFS. Is it related to NFS protocol version support or export permissions mode out of the Celerra/Netapp ( e.g: mixed mode, unix file permissions ? ) Please advise. Thanks. Regards, new dovecot user.

2 1

[Dovecot] MailMan option
by Sergey A. Kobzar 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi guys, Is it possible receive my own posts to the list? I have configured such option "Receive your own posts to the list? - Yes" on Mailman page but it still does not work. Any ideas? -- Sergey

2 2

[Dovecot] problem with quota
by juan carlos 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

hi everyone I have dovecot 1.0.rc15-2, postfix 2.3.8 and virtual users and domains installed in debian sarge, the users quota are not working. I have applied the pacth VDA and didn't work, if a I sent a mail to another user which exceeds his quota this user can receive the mail without problem, this said to me that the quota doesn't work. I use maildir in mi configuration. Please help me with this problem.

3 2