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[Dovecot] Postfix + Doveot SASL
by Marco Nenciarini 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi, i'm trying to configure my postfix to use dovecot SASL instead of saslauthd with rimap to authenticate my users. I've modified my postfix/dovecot configuration as is described on http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostfixAndDovecotSASL but when an user try to login it fails with the following log (debug_auth = on): Dec 12 15:07:53 lorien dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=smtp^Iresp=<hidden> Dec 12 15:07:53 lorien dovecot: auth(default): passdb(mnencia(a)prato.linux.it,master): Attempted master login with no master passdbs Dec 12 15:07:55 lorien dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=mnencia(a)prato.linux.it The question is? Why i need a master login to use SASL? How to make my postfix SASL using usual userdb? Ciao, Marco -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marco Nenciarini | Debian/GNU Linux Developer - Plug Member | | mnencia(a)prato.linux.it | http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = FED9 69C7 9E67 21F5 7D95 5270 6864 730D F095 E5E4

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[Dovecot] Postfix/Dovecot virtual - directory structure
by Johan Folin 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi, perhaps I should post this in a Postfix forum but I'll give it a shot: I want my accounts sorted under /home/vmail/[domain]/[username] (and I managed to get Dovecot to look for mail there with %d and %n ), but how do I tell Postfix to sort the mail? I can't figure out how to do it. The virtual_mail_base is /home/vmail/ but there I get a bunch of folders in the form [username]@[domain]. I use mysql for the virtual mailboxes if that matters. I'll be grateful for any suggestions. /Johan Folin

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[Dovecot] Filter logging
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi, I have question i have loadbalancer that's connects every x seconds to my pop3 and Imap to see if it's still working. Every time it connects I see its ip is there a way to say don't log ip x.x.x.x ? With kind regards, Bas van den Dikkenberg

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[Dovecot] Feature request: don't allow subscriptions to deleted mail boxes
by Erik van Oosten 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hello, Due to Thunderbird's mailbox deletion problem I was able to remove a mailbox while keeping the subscription. This was hugely annoying as Thunderbird is totally incapable of removing the subscription, even though the mailbox is long gone. It took me a while before I found a work around: I had to actually log in and remove a line from the .subscriptions file. You will probably get the same problem when you manually delete or rename a mailbox. So here is my feature request: please check for subscriptions to non-existing mail boxes and delete these when found. I am not sure what events would be appropriate for triggering the check, but I am sure there are some. Environment: - Dovecot 1.0 rc15 - SuSE Linux 10.0 - Thunderbird 1.5 Regards, Erik. PS. Thanks for Dovecot, it is the best IMAP server I have ever used. -- Erik van Oosten http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/

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[Dovecot] NFS
by Timo Sirainen 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

I've finally managed to run Dovecot without errors in two computers with maildir and indexes stored in NFS. I added a page to wiki about this: http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS Suggestions how to keep attribute cache enabled but to allow Dovecot to specifically request not to use a cached value (when it's important) would be welcome.

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[Dovecot] Telnet Listing of IMAP mailboxes
by Lovell McIlwain 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hello all, I am trying to figure out why I am can't seem to access any of my mailboxes that I moved from my OS X machine using UW-IMAP and I followed the directions on the wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MissingMailboxes) to try and figure this out. I believe based on what I saw that my client seems to be the problem, but my question is. Can anyone tell me what the difference between (\NoInferiors) and (\NoInferiors \Marked) All of my mailboxes showed up when I telnet'd to my IMAP server but I noticed some had that tag and some didn't and I'm just wondering if I should be concerned with the difference? If your not sure what I mean, here is a snipet of the command I ran and a small output: B list "" * * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX * LIST (\NoInferiors \Marked) "/" "Junk E-mail"

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[Dovecot] Dovecot killing OpenLDAP
by Gavin Henry 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi all, For some reason, dovecot is holding a connection up, so we can't shutdown our directory server. OpenLDAP just sits there waiting for the thread to finish. Our OpenLDAP logs show (binding example and shutdown): connection_input: conn=1 deferring operation: binding daemon: shutdown requested and initiated. conn=1 fd=12 closed (slapd shutdown) slapd shutdown: waiting for 1 threads to terminate Sometimes the IMAP connection is also dropped. We are storing our users in the directory for passdb and userdb, no prefetch enabled. Running rc15 on FC6. This is crashing OpenLDAP 2.3.31 (bdb 4.2.52), as it won't shutdown. We have to do a db_recover after removing alock. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] NEWBIE: Package Requirements List?
by Aaron J Weber 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

I can't seem to find a succinct listing of the packages (and optional packages) required to compile dovecot. I see references to various RDBMS's, but nothing that says I actually _require_ one, etc. I see references to openssl, but similarly, I don't see that it's technically required. Is there a link I'm missing that indicates the pre-conditions (pre-installed/configured software) before compiling and linking dovecot? Thanks in advance! -AJ

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[Dovecot] First Login (Thunderbird) Aborted in RC15?
by Timothy White 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Not sure if this is anything to worry about. Just upgraded to RC15 to do some testing, and like always, I monitor the logs when I do this. I restarted the server (basically a clean install, uninstalled RC2, installed RC15, same config file), and then opened Thunderbird. (Ip's masked) Dec 15 14:35:50 mafeking dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<joeblogs>, method=plain, rip=<me>, lip=<server>, TLS Dec 15 14:35:50 mafeking dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=<me>, lip=<server>, TLS Dec 15 14:35:50 mafeking dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<joeblogs>, method=plain, rip=<me>, lip=<server>, TLS It seems ether Thunderbird tried to login twice and one failed, or it failed the first time but succeeded the second time? Doing the equivalent from Sylpheed (all IMAP, same account) produced just the following line. Dec 15 14:38:31 mafeking dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<joeblogs>, method=PLAIN, rip=<me>, lip=<server>, TLS Any ideas? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] dovecot and yahoo
by jason oommd 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi gang, We just yum updated BQ server and now use dovecot instead of imapd/pop3 with a slight config all is well accept for one of our users that has a fancy yahoo account that allows them to pop other accounts into it. Used to work great until we switched to dovecot. any ideas ? jason intuitiveisp

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[Dovecot] dovecot lda truncates messages
by Jef Driesen 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

I'm running dovecot 1.0.rc2 (package from ubuntu 6.10) and use the dovecot lda 'deliver' (also a package from ubuntu 6.10 with sieve filtering) to deliver messages to maildir. Everything works well, until I discovered a truncated message this week. The problematic message is a message bounced by the majordomo mailinglist software. I think the problem is related to the fact that the message body is another mail message (including the original headers and body). I attached two (scramled) versions of the message. The first one (message-normal.txt) is the file which is delivered to the maildir by the built-in postfix lda. The second one (message-truncated.txt) is delivered by the dovecot lda. 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[Dovecot] Configuration Question.
by James Andrews 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi Everyone. I have recently installed dovecot for the first time on a RHEL3 server. I have it working for the most part, but am a bit baffled by part of the configuration, something that I am sure I am just doing incorrectly. I can successfully access my normal mailbox which is in /var/spool/ mail/username, but I also want to create mail folders, and that's the problem I am having. I want the folders to live in ~/mail/ I have tried default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u and default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u What on earth am I doing wrong? I'm sure it's something small that I just don't understand. Thanks James

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[Dovecot] Bug: (dovecot-auth), exited on signal 6
by art 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hello What additional information I should give? uname -a FreeBSD mail 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Oct 19 16:57:14 UTC 2006 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/my i386 mail# dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 mail# dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=kqueue notify=kqueue openssl SQL drivers: mysql Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file sql Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file sql static Dec 19 12:49:42 mail dovecot: auth(default): cache(m52(a)academ.org): Password mismatch Dec 19 12:49:42 mail dovecot: auth(default): file passdb-blocking.c: line 125 (passdb_blocking_verify_plain): assertion failed: (request->extra_fields == NULL) Dec 19 12:49:42 mail dovecot: child 91510 (auth) killed with signal 6 Dec 19 09:20:39 mail pid 96304 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 09:43:31 mail pid 21093 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 09:49:54 mail pid 36637 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 10:02:08 mail pid 40803 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 10:52:43 mail pid 50557 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 10:57:30 mail pid 91182 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 11:33:11 mail pid 94522 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 11:38:21 mail pid 27978 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 11:43:22 mail pid 32969 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 11:48:31 mail pid 36764 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 11:53:32 mail pid 40849 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 11:58:41 mail pid 45037 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:03:52 mail pid 49541 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:08:51 mail pid 54324 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:14:02 mail pid 58746 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:19:02 mail pid 63283 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:24:11 mail pid 68142 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:29:22 mail pid 72969 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:34:21 mail pid 77396 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:39:32 mail pid 81976 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:44:36 mail pid 86217 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 Dec 19 12:44:41 mail pid 91404 (dovecot-auth), uid 65534: exited on signal 6

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[Dovecot] auto-detection of user mailbox type
by John Harper 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

The config file indicates that if mail_location is empty, dovecot will try to find the mailboxes automatically (and by implication determine if the user is using mbox or Maildir format). But if the mbox inbox is non-standard (I have procmail delivering to ~/.mail) then one needs to specify mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/.mail and presumably dovecot will no longer try to determine what each user is doing. I'd like to slowly convert users from mbox to Maildir (putting DEFAULT=Maildir/ in the users' .procmailrc accomplishes that from the delivery side) and have dovecot still automatically figure out which way to work, based on finding ~/Maildir (or not). Somehow I don't think mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/.mail is going to do what I want. I saw the example on multiple mailboxes using namespaces, but I confess I'm not clear on that especially with ragard to the INBOX setting. I know I can set mail_location on a per-user basis using the userdb (eg ldap) but was hoping to avoid that. Is there a way to specify the details of the mbox configuration, but have dovecot instead use Maildir if that exists? Thanks, John Harper ------------------------------------------------- Senior Systems Administrator Information and Instructional Technology Services University of Toronto Scarborough harper(a)utsc.utoronto.ca

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[Dovecot] Lazy expunge plugin
by Timo Sirainen 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

There's now a plugin called lazy_expunge in CVS. Instead of EXPUNGE expunging the mails directly, they're moved to a mailbox with same name in another namespace where user can still copy the mails back. Also DELETEd mailboxes are moved to another namespace. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge for more information. This is similar to Cyrus's two phase expunge: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/cyrus/two_phase_expunge.html

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[Dovecot] TR: Mail location
by Fatou Ndiaye 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

-----Message d'origine----- De : Fatou Ndiaye [mailto:fatou.ndiaye@orange.sn] Envoyé : jeudi 21 décembre 2006 08:47 À : 'Dovecot Mailing List' Cc : 'Timo Sirainen' Objet : Mail location Hi all, Is it possible to have two mail locations in the dovecot.conf? In fact, the disk where were the mailboxes is almost full and It will be easier for me to just add an other disk hotplug and add an other mail location. -----Message d'origine----- De : dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] De la part de Timo Sirainen Envoyé : mercredi 16 août 2006 13:02 À : Marcin Deranek Cc : dovecot(a)dovecot.org Objet : Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 1.0rc6 and LDAP problem On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 09:38 +0200, Marcin Deranek wrote: > Aug 15 18:58:36 ftp dovecot: login: tried to change state 2 -> 2 (if you > can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) I'm not sure about the LDAP problems, but this is interesting. Are you using login_process_per_connection=yes or no?

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[Dovecot] umask 007 ineffective with newly created Maildir message
by Steve James 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

This is for Dovecot 1.0.rc15 from Debian Backports on 3.1 Stable, x86; Filesystems are local reiserfs; IMAPs client is KMail 1.9.5 Non-default settings in dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/mail.cert.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/dovecot/mail.key.pem mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/ambrosia.plus.com/%n mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 1000 first_valid_gid = 1000 umask = 007 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes To reproduce:- 1. Using your IMAP client with two IMAP accounts, copy a message from a folder in one account, to a folder in the other account 2. See that the newly created message file is -rw------- If a message is moved between folders on the _same_ account, however, the group permissions are preserved (ie not masked off). So it seems that the umask option is ineffective when the imap daemon creates a new maildir message file. Thanks, Steve. -- BOFH excuse #400: We are Microsoft. What you are experiencing is not a problem; it is an undocumented feature.

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[Dovecot] Assertion failed
by Steven F Siirila 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

We have been running 1.0-rc15 for some time on a very small set of users. We recently have increased the user population and just ran into a problem with one user. That user is using a client we apparently had not tested yet and is causing us to get these errors in the logs: [Host name, IP address, and user name are not real] Dec 21 15:23:00 [hostname] dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<username>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.10.10.10, lip=10.10.10.11, TLS Dec 21 15:23:00 [hostname] dovecot: IMAP(username): file strfuncs.c: line 151 (p_strdup_until): assertion failed: ((const char *) start <= (const char *) end) Dec 21 15:23:00 [hostname] dovecot: child 7151 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: sfs(a)umn.edu Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

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[Dovecot] Deleting mail accounts older than 6 monthes
by Najib Abi Fadel 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi, i have a mail server with many users and i am using dovecot as pop3 server. I was wondering if there is a way to detect the last date each user logged in to the server for retrieving his mail. I need to delete the users that has not logged in to their accounts the last 6 monthes. Many thanks for any help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] dbox support state
by Farkas Levente 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

hi, what is the current state of dovecot dbox support? is it stable, fast and usable? is it have current advantage over maildir or it will only have when it'll be optimized? is it worth to choose as a default mailbox format in a new dovecot install? thanks. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [Dovecot] dbox support state
by Bill Boebel 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

On Fri, December 22, 2006 2:14 am, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot(a)smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de> said: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >> One optimization left for it would be to not store flags and keywords to >> the dbox files at all, but keep everything in index files. Once I get >> that implemented, I'll start benchmarking it. Of course the problem with >> that is that it relies on index files completely then. > > IMHO this is not good for disaster recovery and makes life needlessly hard > in such case. Esp. when both files become out-of-sync, you need a cunning > tool to re-construct any good state, rather than a simple "REINDEX". This > should apply to each kind of "index" file. Also, consider upgrades to > newer index file formats etc.pp. > > Are there really that many writes of message attributes? I mean, there is > only an improvement because you have just one write into the indexes > rather than two, one to the indexes and one into the message. > You've wrote that you reserve space for the flags in mbox, in case they > get updated, so you reduce the probability to rewrite the whole mbox for > each flag. Doing so should apply to dbox as well? It should be an option. Big mail systems can benefit from this optimization, but many systems may not see anything noticeable. You can do a lot of cool things with your storage once you're dealing with write-once mail data, where all actions after receiving a message get written somewhere outside of where the mail content is stored... including expunges. This is a step in that direction. Bill

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Re: missing /etc/aliases file]
by Kartagis 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Forgot to Reply All -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: missing /etc/aliases file Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:42:46 +0200 From: Kartagis <kartagis(a)kunduz.org> To: Keith Roberts <keith(a)karsites.net> References: <D2B43561-0BAD-440F-97C0-712616E1E560(a)cox.net> <200612210856.40994.ml(a)awinkelmann.de> <64A0FED1-F20E-4D90-A0E9-0FE8A67DC0EC(a)cox.net> <20061221182636.GM8372(a)piias899.ms.com> <6F42AC60-7A86-4ABE-BC15-2200C347472A(a)cox.net> <2f8462f30612211433v63cfbf1eu8c1bdb56ebe32e6a(a)mail.gmail.com> <317AC147-BEB2-4365-9DAE-719A8CD1658E(a)cox.net> <2f8462f30612211525t35664570m5c1ebdb102566309(a)mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612220702470.29122(a)karsites.net> Keith Roberts wrote: > Hi all. I've been getting the following errors on FC6 when > trying to start postfix: > > The following error occured after a clean installation of > postfix and fetchmail. > > part contents of /var/log/maillog: > > Dec 22 07:08:16 fedora-laptop postfix/postalias[3132]: > fatal: open /etc/aliases: No such file or directory > > Dec 22 07:08:18 fedora-laptop postfix/postfix-script: > starting the Postfix mail system > > Dec 22 07:08:18 fedora-laptop postfix/master[3178]: daemon > started -- version 2.3.3, configuration /etc/postfix > > Dec 22 07:09:43 fedora-laptop postfix/smtpd[3198]: fatal: > open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory > > Dec 22 07:09:44 fedora-laptop postfix/master[3178]: warning: > process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 3198 exit status 1 > > Dec 22 07:09:44 fedora-laptop postfix/master[3178]: warning: > /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- > throttling > > The problem appears to be no /etc/aliases text file in the > said directory, /etc. > Try *find /etc/ -name aliases* and see where its exact location is > I see that postfix will actually generate the > /etc/aliases.db file from /etc/aliases, on each startup of > postfix. > That's incorrect. You need to run *newaliases* each time you edit aliases file and a new aliases.db will be generated. > My main question is where does the text file /etc/aliases > originate from? > > Is it part of the standard Linux distribution? > > Or is it generated somehow for each specific Linux > installation? > > Also, Can I use the /etc/aliases text file on my laptop for > my main machine, if one does not exist there after > installing postfix on it? > > I need to know that the postfix installation will complete > successfully with FC6 on my main machine, before installing > FC6 there, in place of SuSE 10.1. > > TIA > > Keith Roberts > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > http://www.karsites.net > http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk > > This email address is challenge-response protected with > http://www.tmda.net > ------------------------------------------------------------ >

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[Dovecot] email message size limit
by Fred Bauer 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Simple question: I've discovered that dovecot's IMAP server imposes a ~5Mb limit on email message size. After a day of searching I cannot find the configuration parameter that governs this size. What is it? Or is there no such parameter? Thanks in advance, Fred P.S. ... and yes I've discovered the quota, Maildir++, etc plugin but that doesn't seem to be what I'm after.

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Fix for dovecotpw on powerpc and other architectures
by Fabio Tranchitella 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi, please apply the following patch to dovecotpw. Without this, it will be unusable on powerpc and (maybe) other architectures where the char is unsigned by default. --- dovecot-1.0/src/util/dovecotpw.c (revisione 2066) +++ dovecot-1.0.new/src/util/dovecotpw.c (copia locale) @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ const char *user = NULL; char *scheme = NULL; char *plaintext = NULL; - char ch; + signed char ch; int lflag = 0, Vflag = 0; lib_init(); Thanks! Fabio Tranchitella <kobold(a)debian.org> .''`. Proud Debian GNU/Linux developer, admin and user. : :' : `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~kobold/ `- _____________________________________________________________________ 1024D/7F961564, fpr 5465 6E69 E559 6466 BF3D 9F01 2BF8 EE2B 7F96 1564

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[Dovecot] HELLO IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE ????
by Rian Booyer - Camden County Library District 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

hey guy's anyone have a clue as to why my dovecot is going so slow??? Rian Booyer Library Systems Analyst Camden County Library District rian(a)ccld.us <http://www.ccld.us/> http://www.ccld.us Phone: 573-346-7733 Fax: 573-346-1263

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