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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP/POP3 proxying and capability
by Bill Boebel 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

On Wed, August 9, 2006 6:38 am, Laurent Papier <papier(a)sdv.fr> said: > I have noted that the capability announce when connecting via the proxies are > not the same before you are authenticated and after. > .. > I use the QUOTA extension and it doesn't make sens to activate the quota > feature on the proxy. Any other suggestion ? You can modify the "capability" variable around line 31096 of the "configure" file before you compile dovecot. Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] Pb with ssl_disable in 1.0RC6
by Bill Boebel 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

On Wed, August 9, 2006 6:01 am, Laurent Papier <papier(a)sdv.fr> said: > I don't use SSL at all so I have 'ssl_disable = yes' in my configuration. This > works > fine in 1.0rc1 but dovecot 1.0rc6 failed to start with the following error > message "dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down". > Setting 'ssl_disable = no' resolves the problem but now dovecot announce TLS > capability which is not what I want. Fixed in the latest CVS: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-August/006209.html Bill

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[Dovecot] Issue building rc6 on Mac OS X (quota)
by James Berry 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

I haven't had time to put together a patch, but quota-fs.c fails to compile on Mac OS X. Any chance we could get a configuration switch that says "--without- quota"? I've resolved the problem temporarily by forcing HAVE_FS_QUOTA to undef in quota-fs.h. James

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot imap with Postfix and using Thunderbird as client
by Shawn Needham 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of the mysterious fix to this problem that Curtis describes in his followup: "I vaguely remember something like this, but I don't recall the fix" I recently installed dovecot on a server running RHEL4-AS-U2 and have updated to RHEL latest dovecot package, dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1. Seeing as this is close to the version Curtis is running (dovecot-0.99.14) I was wondering if anyone had some insights. There seems to be a Thunderbird specific problem when trying to retrieve messages from the server. Other imap clients (Mac OSX Mail, squirrelmail, etc) don't experience this problem, however Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 experiences it on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows boxes. In thunderbird, new messages don't reliably appear and the retrieval button doesn't work when new mail is present. Clicking on an email which isn't cached retrieves new ones as well as waiting around an hour to retrieve messages. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide. Shawn Curtis Maloney wrote: > Ben Ware wrote: >> Hi, >> I just recently installed dovecot, and I am having the following problem: >> If I send an email to my account on this new machine, I can log in via SSH >> and use the unix mail command, and instantly my email is visible. If I turn >> on Thunderbird, it will show my new message. If Thunderbird was already on >> and had already checked the mailbox, even if I click on get new mail for >> that specific mailbox, the new mail does not show up until I restart >> thunderbird. Is there something that I have set wrong in the config files >> that is preventing the IMAP part of dovecot from refreshing the messages >> quickly for me to see? I dont see anything in the log files at all except >> for it showing me logging in. >> Thanks, >> Ben > > I am using pretty much the same setup - Dovecot (0.99.14), Postfix and > Thunderbird. I vaguely remember something like this, but I don't recall the > fix. What happens when you click on another folder, and back to the folder > with the new mail? Does it show then? > > -- > Curtis Maloney

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[Dovecot] Can't move messages
by Paul van Erk 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hi, I use dovecot with IMAP over SSL and with Plain Text authentication. I've been using that for quite a while, but now (with my new PC), it's not working like it should (I tried several 1.0* releases, including 1.0-rc6. The problem is that I can't move messages from one IMAP folder to another, no matter which mail client. When I use KMail, I get: "The connection to the server parena was unexpectedly closed or timed out. It will be re-established automatically if possible." But everything still works. The messages hasn't moved (deleting (so send to Trash folder) also doesn't work), it stays where it is. With Thunderbird, it just goes nuts in the status bar saying "Connecting..." and some other messages: clearly it tries to move, loses the connection and tries again and again... An extra weird thing is when I move a message from my IMAP account to a local folder, it works. And then I can move that message from the local folder to my IMAP account. It only doesn't work when moving messages within the IMAP account. I use: openssh 4.3_p2-r1 openssl 0.9.7j I hope someone can help me, 'coz my wife will soon start to find it just as annoying as I already do. ;) Paul van Erk

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[Dovecot] rc6 compilation problems (obsd 3.9 stable)
by Michal Soltys 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Starting with rc6, there seem to be problem with compilation on openbsd 3.9, (possibly due to autoconf 2.60 switch mentioned in other thread ?). Either way, this is what configure reports at some point (further compilation fails of course): checking for crypt... yes checking for dlopen... yes checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no ./configure: echo $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/libstorage_maildir.a: not found ./configure: echo $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/libstorage_mbox.a: not found ./configure: echo $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/dbox/libstorage_dbox.a: not found checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes

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[Dovecot] quota plugin
by lenny＠edpausa.com 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

I keep getting this when enabling quota plugin for pop/imap dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 22990 (imap) killed with signal 10 protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota } quota = dirsize:storage=1024000 the user has only 40+mb in the home dir and the quota plugin properly shows 4% usage. However, messages can not be deleted or moved.

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[Dovecot] dovecot and mysql replication
by Joseph W. Breu 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hello, How does one go about configuring dovecot to use 2 mysql servers. The code looks like it may handle it - but I have not found a config guide that answers my questions. Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] Dynamic server address
by Kresimir Tonkovic 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alan Premselaar <alien(a)12inch.com> Date: Aug 8, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dynamic server address To: kresimir.tonkovic(a)gmail.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kresimir Tonkovic wrote: > > > On 8/8/06, *Johannes Berg* <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net > <mailto:johannes@sipsolutions.net>> wrote: > > Kresimir Tonkovic wrote: > > My mail server (ubuntu breezey badger) is connected by ADSL and has a > > dynamic address. I have noticed that, every day after the IP address > > changes, dovecot is no longer reachable from the net. Iguess this is > > because dovecot doesn't register this change and continues to listen > > on a non-existing interface/address. > > > Any comments? > Just make it listen on 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0>? > > johannes > > > Not an option. I want local users to connect by pop3 and remote by pop3s. > > -- > kresho Kreshmir, You should still be able to achieve that by using tcpwrappers or iptables to restrict access on the appropriate networks. Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE2EPDE2gsBSKjZHQRAv/jAKDkf/E2nlZ5+aNeTHuMdX2iw46tyACfTp5w lnQZjQnRtG6O0hB6gFq0tjk= =xgKj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Alan, I believe we should keep the discussion on the list :-) Please "reply all" Correct me if I'm wrong, by default POP3 and POP3+SSL both work at the same port, 110. I want to let local users connect by plain POP3 and external users to use POP3+SSL. I don't see how I can set this up using iptables and tcpwrappers. Can you please provide more details? -- kresho

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[Dovecot] Dynamic server address
by Kresimir Tonkovic 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi! My mail server (ubuntu breezey badger) is connected by ADSL and has a dynamic address. I have noticed that, every day after the IP address changes, dovecot is no longer reachable from the net. Iguess this is because dovecot doesn't register this change and continues to listen on a non-existing interface/address. I'm trying to solve this problem by putting a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up/ dovecot --===--- #!/bin/sh # By kresho # dovecot ip-up script (/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/dovecot) # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart ---===--- So far, it seems to work. I doubt I'm the first one to come across this problem, yet I couldn't find anything similar on google. Any comments? -- kresho

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[Dovecot] [1.0.rc6] Bug in deliver (still exists)
by Claus Alboege 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi, The bug reported in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-July/014786.html still exists in 1.0.rc6 % grep "$ ./configure" dovecot-1.0.rc6/config.log $ ./configure --prefix=/srv/software/dovecot Install prefix ...................... : /srv/software/dovecot File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: I'm letting 'qmail' deliver one copy of the message and dovecot's 'deliver' another copy to the same maildir. % cat /home/csa/.qmail |preline /srv/software/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver ./Maildir/ Then I'm sending this mail to myself. % cat /tmp/mail.txt From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:01:49 2006 This part of the body will be zapped by Dovecot's deliver... This is bad.... Injecting the message: % cat /tmp/mail.txt | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject Having qmail process the message: % sudo /var/qmail/rc status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 new msg 1596241 info msg 1596241: bytes 364 from <csa(a)csa-net.dk> qp 23105 uid 1000 starting delivery 1: msg 1596241 to local csa(a)csa-net.dk status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 1: success: did_1+0+1/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 end msg 1596241 Looking at the result: % cd /home/csa/Maildir/new/ % ls -l total 8 -rw------- 1 csa csa 423 2006-08-07 10:21 1154938875.23114.silver -rw------- 1 csa csa 334 2006-08-07 10:21 1154938875.P23113Q0M326713.silver First one (delivered by 'qmail') looks good: % cat 1154938875.23114.silver Return-Path: <csa(a)csa-net.dk> Delivered-To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Received: (qmail 23105 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Date: 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20060807082102.23104.qmail(a)csa-net.dk> From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:01:49 2006 This part of the body will be zapped by Dovecot's deliver... This is bad.... /Claus A Second one (delivered by Dovecot's 'deliver') doesn't look good: % cat 1154938875.P23113Q0M326713.silver >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:21:15 2006 Return-Path: <csa(a)csa-net.dk> Delivered-To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Received: (qmail 23105 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Date: 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20060807082102.23104.qmail(a)csa-net.dk> From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail -------------------- As we see, Dovecot's 'deliver' zapped everything in the message from and including the MBOX From line.... If more info is needed, please let me know. Regards /Claus A

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[Dovecot] Purging old mails
by Dave Hatton 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hi all, Firstly if this is a FAQ and I've missed it - let me apologise in advance. I use dovecot as a backup mail store and would now like to purge all mails over a certain age. Is it as simple as using find and rm'ing the results or is there more to it? I'm using maildir if that make a difference? Thanks in advance. Daveh

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[Dovecot] RC6 startup failure: "Login prcess died too early"
by S JList 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Greetings. I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last couple of weeks. No problems. However, when I installed RC6 this morning, Dovecot refused to launch completely. Here's the relevant snippet from /var/log/maillog: Aug 7 10:08:36 mercury dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc6 starting up Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26127 (login) killed with signal 11 Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26128 (login) killed with signal 11 Both RC2 and RC6 compiled cleanly with "--with-pop3d". For reasons beyond my control, I have to set protocols = imap pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes I do have a valid /etc/pam.d/dovecot file (we're using PAM). I made certain that the localized settings for /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf matched what they were in RC2 for RC6. (I did use the RC6 dovecot-example.conf as source for RC6, then made the local changes. I also tried testing RC6 with my old RC2 config file--same failure). So, RC2 starts just fine. RC6 fails to start with the messages logged above. Can anyone give me any pointers? RHEL (Linux Kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp), built from source, nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Right now, I've reverted back to RC2. TIA. S JList sjlist(a)heidelberg.edu

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[Dovecot] rc6 build pb
by Thomas Hummel 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello, with rc6 on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE, I encounter the following when running make after the usual configure [ Note : that worked with rc5 ] /usr/local/bin/zsh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -L/usr/local/lib -o dovecot-auth -export-dynamic auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -lldap -export-dynamic ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// libtool: ignoring unknown tag ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated. *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified. ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// (eval):1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// mkdir /.libs mkdir: /.libs: Permission denied *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6/src/auth. *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6. *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6. munster2% pwd /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6 -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] rc6 compilation problem?
by Alan Schmitt 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello, I usually have no problem compiling dovecot on my OS X.4 machine (last one I compiled was rc2), but rc6 is giving trouble: if /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc - 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 -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/ quota-fs.Tpo" -c -o quota-fs.lo quota-fs.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/quota-fs.Tpo" ".deps/quota-fs.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/quota-fs.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc -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 -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota- fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o quota-fs.c: In function ‘fs_quota_get_resource’: quota-fs.c:219: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘quotactl’ makes pointer from integer without a cast quota-fs.c:219: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘quotactl’ makes integer from pointer without a cast quota-fs.c:234: error: ‘struct dqblk’ has no member named ‘dqb_curblocks’ make[4]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 Here is what I did: - run configure - edit config.h to remove the use of MADVISE - run make Am I doing something wrong? Alan -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] flag changes - duped notifications
by Joshua Goodall 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Seeing the following with 1.0-rcX : * OK Dovecot ready. 001 login xxx@xxx xxx 001 OK Logged in. 002 select INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 18 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1146630080] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 46] Predicted next UID 002 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 003 STORE 1 FLAGS (\Deleted) * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted)) * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted)) 003 OK Store completed. The flag change results in a duplicated notification. With a large number of deletes over a slower link this causes client problems. JG ________________________________ Joshua Goodall | Senior Systems Engineer Pacific Internet (Australia) Pty Ltd P: +61 3 9674 7552 Australia | Singapore | Hong Kong | Philippines | India | Thailand | Malaysia http://www.pacific.net.au/disclaimer/

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[Dovecot] Stale imap processes
by Martin Jackson 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello, I'm new to the list, but I noticed a buildup of stale imap processes after upgrading to 1.0rc2. My IMAP server actually ran over maxpipekva, and I had to reboot it. I got to spend some time learning about kern.ipc.maxpipekva in the process of troubleshooting. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3, and I have a small home office LAN setup. 2 XP client PC's, one which uses primarily Thunderbird 1.5.0.5, one which uses primarily Outlook Express. I had been running with SSL under Thunderbird (only), but disabled that in hopes of fixing the problem. It appears not to have helped. I am using the FreeBSD dovecot port, currently at rc2, with default settings. I use the default authentication scheme, and Maildir storage (my MTA is Postfix). I am running a number of other daemons on this machine but mail is its main function. I am interested in helping to solve this problem; is there anything I can do to help? Thanks, Marty

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Re: [Dovecot] LIST command ignores "hidden=yes" for default namespace
by Bill Boebel 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

On Sun, June 11, 2006 1:51 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 22:03 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >I'm not sure if this is a bug or just an undesirable feature, but when I >have our namespace configured to match Courier's "INBOX." functionality, >Dovecot forces me to also define a default namespace (with no prefix). >Without the default namespace defined I get "NO Unknown namespace." errors >when trying to subscribe or unsubscribe folders. > > It was a bug when tb-extra-mailbox-sep workaround was enabled. Fixed: > http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-June/005709.html > The second part of this still seems to be the case with RC2... the LIST command ignores "hidden=yes". http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-May/013253.html Running with the following namespace settings causes a LIST comand to show the folder listing twice, once the INBOX. prefix and once without. But it should only be listing the folders with the prefix since hidden=yes on the second. The patch I listed in my original post fixes it in RC2 as well. namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes location = maildir:%h } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = no hidden = yes location = maildir:%h }

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[Dovecot] 1.0 RC6 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc6.tar.gz.sig Back to rc1's SSL proxying code with some improvements, which hopefully now makes everyone happy. I'm seeing all kinds of problems with namespace prefixes and LIST code. I guess it would be important to fix it before v1.0 since it makes upgrades from other servers easier.. I also tried looking into the "Unknown namespace" problems that happens if you try to create only one namespace with "INBOX." prefix. I couldn't really figure out what causes those errors. Could someone show me what commands the client tries to use which causes it? * Removed login_max_logging_users setting since it was somewhat weird in how it worked. Added login_max_connections to replace it with login_process_per_connection=no, and with =yes its functionality is now within login_max_processes_count. + Added --with-linux-quota configure option to specify which Linux quota version to use, in case it's not correct in sys/quota.h. Usually used as --with-linux-quota=2 + acl plugins: If .DEFAULT file exists in global ACL root directory, use it as the default ACLs for all mailboxes. - Fixes to login process handling, especially with login_process_per_connection=no. - Back to the original SSL proxy code but with one small fix, which hopefully fixes the occational hangs with it - Several fixes to handling LIST command more correctly.

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot proxy: Too many open files
by Bill Boebel 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

On Sun, August 6, 2006 4:40 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 23:20 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >> It appears that when running Dovecot as a proxy-only box with >> "login_process_per_connection = no", it ignores the value of >> login_max_logging_users. > > Not really. It does enforce the maximum users _logging in_ limit, but > for that isn't counted SSL proxies or other proxies.. I rewrote this in > CVS. There's now login_max_connections setting which works pretty much > how expected. Ahh, ok. I will give it a try. Thanks, Bill

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[Dovecot] Dovecot proxy: Too many open files
by Bill Boebel 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

It appears that when running Dovecot as a proxy-only box with "login_process_per_connection = no", it ignores the value of login_max_logging_users. And in Linux, since each socket requires a file descriptor, if you don't increase the maximum number of open files that each process is allowed to have open, imap-login will reach the 1024 open file limit and start logging the following errors: imap-login: socket() failed: Too many open files imap-login: Internal login failure: user=... imap-login: socketpair() failed: Too many open files Here are the settings I am testing with: login_process_per_connection = no login_max_logging_users = 225 login_processes_count = 20 login_max_processes_count = 30 And here the output of "lsof -nu dovecot" when one of the imap-login processes reaches its open file limit. In this case PID 20087 had 362 users connected, but it should have allowed no more than 225 users, which would have kept it from reaching the open file limit: (sent directly to Timo since it was too big to post to the list) Also, I am running CVS dovecot-20060725. Bill

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[Dovecot] Using mail_chroot and default_mail_env
by Daniel Kauffman 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

Settings for mail_chroot and default_mail_env are not playing well together. It seems that default_mail_env is verified to exist *before* the chroot but is later used *after* the chroot. A configuration like this: * mail_chroot = /var/mail/example.com/username * default_mail_env = maildir:/Maildir Fails with the message: * stat(/Maildir) failed: No such file or directory As a work-around, I created an empty directory named Maildir *outside* of the chroot. The relevant portions of the filesystem now look something like this: * /Maildir * /var/mail/example.com/username/Maildir/... NOTE: The empty /Maildir directory is owned by root. NOTE: Each /var/mail/example.com/username directory and up is owned by root. NOTE: Each /var/mail/example.com/username/Maildir directory and below is owned by the email user. After successful testing with the "static" settings above, I was able to pull the per-user settings for mail_chroot in from PostgreSQL using home to over-ride mail_chroot. If anyone else has been having trouble with mail_chroot + default_mail_env, hopefully this work-around will help. Finally, I should mention my system, just in case I am the only one affected... * Xen + Linux 2.6.16.13 + Debian 3.1 + ( Dovecot 1.0rc2 in chroot ) Regards, Daniel Kauffman

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[Dovecot] ldap + dovecot
by Gert Horne 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

Hi again, I am still struggling with ldap and dovecot. I have my dovecot authenticating against ldap. The problem now seems to be of a permission type. I am also trying to figure out the default_mail_env and valid_chroot_dirs settings. may maillog gives me: IMAP(user): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/spool/mail/ (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) server dovecot: IMAP(user): Failed to create storage with data: /var/spool/mail/ Can anyone help me please.

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf
by Magnus Granberg 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

Can we move dovecot.config to /etc/dovecot/ ? MVH Magnus Granberg Ume.Nu

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[Dovecot] daemontools
by Rick Romero 05 Aug '06

05 Aug '06

Hi, I just started running RC2 on Thursday. I migrated an old Courier IMAP server, and the only issue I had was that I didn't understand how to enable quotas :) It's impressively fast, and I'm quite happy with it so far. This morning I found that dovecot had crashed, I had exceeded FreeBSD's kern.maxpipekva Has anyone successfully run dovecot under daemontools? I got it to fire up, but it didn't seem to work right.. I'm guessing it's a rights issue, but I haven't delved into it at all. Thanks! Rick

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