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[Dovecot] dovecot.rawlog
by Obantec Support 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi Dovecot stable 1.0 on FC3 i enabled rawlog via the conf file and for 1 user all i see is in out files but 0B's 2 others i have added work as expected. Mark

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[Dovecot] more LDA woes
by Alan Premselaar 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OK. So, I got over some of the segfault problems I was having with dovecot 1.0beta7 and have even downloaded and installed the latest CVS version which is properly providing quota information to thunderbird (although Mail.app doesn't show the quota details) now i've also downloaded the CVS version of dovecot-LDA and have run autogen.sh and during the configure it gets stuck at: ... checking rxposix.h usability... no checking rxposix.h presence... no checking for rxposix.h... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile and it's been sitting like that for over an hour now (I had to take care of some other things and just let it sit) i ran configure with the following: ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot (this is the directory for the CVS version of dovecot) any ideas? Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEUC4kE2gsBSKjZHQRAnrUAJ4oUbHFqqcLl7qxv6WE4FN94J9l4QCfSAOt odz/cQtZEsIMJR+IJ6qAggs= =GVpH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] setuid(5000) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
by Jon Baker 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

I have combed google for days searching for an answer to this but cannot find anything anywhere, I'm hoping that posting to this list will get me the solution. I have FC4 running dovecot v1.0.beta7 to serve my POP3 (I had to install v1.0.beta7 because it's on a x86_64 and I need mysql support). It runs great for about two hours, after which I start getting the resource temporarily unavailable error. I can't get the error to go away by restarting dovecot, the only way I can figure out to do it is to restart the box. This is terribly annoying... please help! Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Dean Blackburn wrote: > Apple Mail is, from IMAP's perspective, broken. It's impossible to > unsubscribe, which in turn makes troubleshooting like this a PITA. > > We use Apple Mail successfully onsite with Dovecot, but we did ALL > our client testing in Thunderbird, which gives (mostly) good error > messages. Once you have namespaces happy in Tbird, you can start > cycling through the (few) options that are tweakable in Mail until > it works without complaining (as much). What you really need is for dovecot to be able to log all incoming imap commands. However, I have log and debug stuff, everything that I can find, turned on, and I cannot get dovecot to dump the requests it is getting. Note that Apple Mail has no problems with courier Chad > > :) > > -deano > > > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap >> maildir++ setup with exim as the MTA. Has been fine. I have my >> own custom ldap schema for user account definition and authorization. >> >> I installed dovecot 1.0 beta 7 as a test and have it listening on >> a different port. I would like, if possible, to set things up so >> that a user could use either dovecot or courier. Having to re- >> subscribe to folders is OK when moving to dovecot. (It would be >> nice to be able to make a symbolic link from courier's >> subscription file to the dovecot one though) >> >> (My client for testing is the Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail client >> Mail.app -- it seems to do an auto subscribe to folders) >> >> I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so: >> >> namespace private { >> # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator >> for all >> # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a >> good one. >> separator = . >> >> # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be >> different for >> # all namespaces. For example "Public/". >> prefix = INBOX. >> >> # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as >> # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. >> location = . >> >> # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which >> namespace >> # has it. >> inbox = yes >> >> # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via >> NAMESPACE >> # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful >> when converting >> # from another server with different namespaces which you want >> to depricate >> # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden >> namespaces with >> hidden=no >> } >> >> (location has to be . or something similar since my ldap schema is >> purely virtual users and returns the actual root of the maildir) >> >> I am able to get the root mailbox (INBOX) to work. I can see new >> mail and look at mail messages etc. >> >> I create a new account in Mail.app that logs in to an existing >> account (to make sure there is no client cached info involved). >> It logs in and is able to see the imap folders that exist for this >> account. >> >> However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at >> all. dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the >> maildir (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it >> subscribes to all existing folders for you) >> >> And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a >> "CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace >> >> How can I get the folders to work with dovecot using my existing >> maildir++ setup? >> >> Thanks >> Chad >> >> --- >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC >> Your Web App and Email hosting provider >> chad at shire.net >> >> >> > --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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[Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap maildir ++ setup with exim as the MTA. Has been fine. I have my own custom ldap schema for user account definition and authorization. I installed dovecot 1.0 beta 7 as a test and have it listening on a different port. I would like, if possible, to set things up so that a user could use either dovecot or courier. Having to re-subscribe to folders is OK when moving to dovecot. (It would be nice to be able to make a symbolic link from courier's subscription file to the dovecot one though) (My client for testing is the Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail client Mail.app -- it seems to do an auto subscribe to folders) I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so: namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. separator = . # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". prefix = INBOX. # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. location = . # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with hidden=no } (location has to be . or something similar since my ldap schema is purely virtual users and returns the actual root of the maildir) I am able to get the root mailbox (INBOX) to work. I can see new mail and look at mail messages etc. I create a new account in Mail.app that logs in to an existing account (to make sure there is no client cached info involved). It logs in and is able to see the imap folders that exist for this account. However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at all. dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the maildir (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it subscribes to all existing folders for you) And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a "CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace How can I get the folders to work with dovecot using my existing maildir++ setup? Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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[Dovecot] ldap and user_filter
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I have my own custom schema for email that I have been using for years with courier_imap and exim. I am experimenting with dovecot and trying to set up my conf so that it logs in using the ldap database. In the dovecot-ldap.conf there is a section # Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used (see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables for full list): # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain #user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) In order to match my scheme I changed it to user_filter = (&(objectClass=shireNetEmailaccount) (shireNetEmailAddress=%u)) This should match my courier setup of ##NAME: LDAP_MAIL:0 # # Here's the field on which we query #LDAP_MAIL mail LDAP_MAIL shireNetEmailAddress --- Anyway, it appears from the logs that my user_filter is being ignored as I get the following in the log dovecot: Apr 26 11:24:35 Info: auth(default): ldap(chad(a)rkba.com, 67.171.127.191): base=dc=shire, dc=net scope=subtree filter=(& (objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=chad(a)rkba.com)) fields=shireNetUserPassword which shows the original default user_filter What do I need to do to have it use the one I give in the dovecat- ldap.conf and not the default? The dovecot-ldap.conf is being used as it is going against my ldap server thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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RE: [Dovecot] Bug: maidirsize double counting moved messages
by Bill Boebel 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Sorry, I left in a comment from testing: < if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks && < mail->box->storage == mbox->ibox.box.storage) { --- > if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks) { On Wed, April 26, 2006 10:37, Bill Boebel <bill(a)webmail.us> said: > On Fri, April 21, 2006 15:01, Bill Boebel <bill(a)webmail.us> said: > > The maildirsize file is double counting messages when moving them from > > folder to folder when "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no": > > > > When I change "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks" to "yes", this problem only > > occurs when moving in and out of the INBOX, but not when moving from > > subfolder to subfolder: > > Well... I don't think this is the correct fix below, but it did the trick in our > environment when maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes. I think the real problem is that > quota_default_alloc() is getting called twice. Once from somewhere in > mail_storage_copy() -> maildir_copy() -> mailbox_save_init(), and a second time > somewhere after that. > > src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-copy.c > @136 > > < if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks/* && > < mail->box->storage == mbox->ibox.box.storage*/) { > --- > > if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks) { > > >

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[Dovecot] problems getting dovecot-LDA to work
by Alan Premselaar 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've setup a test machine and have been playing with dovecot-1.0beta7 and dovecot-lda in preparation for a migration from 0.99.x series. (hopefully with the ability to support imap-quotas) anyways, i've got it all compiled fine (as far as I can tell) and following the directions on the wiki for setting up dovecot LDA with sendmail. (I've had to alter the configuration a bit since using the mailertable didn't work with my actual hostname). when I try to use /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver via sendmail, i get a EX_TEMPFAIL. I logged into the machine as the user I'm trying to deliver mail for and do the following: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d alan and get the following error: deliver: Error: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/spool/mail/alan (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) deliver: Fatal: Failed to create storage for 'alan' with mail '/var/spool/mail/alan' in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf I have the following: protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)pluto.valueclick.ne.jp auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u } I tried setting the default_mail_env with the same settings but got the same results (i did a complete restart of the dovecot services) I've even specified the config file with: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf -d alan with the same results. Google is not my friend with this problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve this problem? Thanks, alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFETuHuE2gsBSKjZHQRArJlAJ0WDUgyH70sy00uX9FPIPJT+P8VagCg64qA bKDyLOaFibUU8RdaJjbOF7E= =ZY44 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Public Shares, Groups and Undeletable Sent E-mails?
by Gavin Henry 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Dear all, We would like to setup, if possible, for example: We have 4 example groups, we various users in those groups: Directors director1,director2 Support manager1,support1,support2,support3 Enquiries manager2,enquiry1,enquiry2,enquiry3 Accounts manager3, accounts1,account2 Shared Mailboxes: Support: Support, user1, user2, user3 Accounts: Directors, Support So basically, we want 2 public folder shares, with the names: Support Accounts Everyone in the Support group and user1-3 should be able to subscribe to the "Support" share. Everyone in the Directors and Support groups should be able to subscribe to the Accounts shares (only an example ;-) ). We also need to set it up that the Managers have visible in the available shares, all the employees that they look after. No private e-mail allowed. Symlinks for this? Is this possible? We already have the subscribtion file and index files saved in their own homedirs. Not sure how to even think about dovecot-shared file and symlinks etc? Lastly, can it be set so a user can't delete their sent e-mails? chattr -i on Sent folder, of ACL in Dovecot? Here's hoping this is all possible ;-) Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] login_process_per_user I cant find this???
by Max Stam 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi All Just trying to config dovecot and I'm guessing there's been a change in the app. In the dovecot.conf and on http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig I see "Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in." but as a config option I only see "login_process_per_connection = yes" Has "login_process_per_user" been changed to "login_process_per_connection = yes"? Thanks Max

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[Dovecot] Sanity checking on dovecot
by Jon Callas 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I'm setting up a new server. I have a couple of dozen users, and several domains. I've set up Postfix as my MTA, and it's dropping things into maildirs. Now I want to get Dovecot to work for POP/IMAP. (Getting SMTP AUTH to work is also on the agenda, but slightly tangential.) Postfix is putting things into /var/mail/vhosts, an example line in my vmailbox file is: test(a)callas.org callas.org/test/ Dovecot is installed via darwinports. (Oh, yeah, this server is an Intel dual-core Mac Mini running OS X 10.4 -- *not* OSX Server.) So I need to figure out how to get dovecot to authenticate in my users. From reading <http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers> and <http:// wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication> it will be easiest for me to set up a passwd-file authentication. So I would make some file somewhere in passwd-file format. As an example, I might set up "test(a)callas.org" as: test@callas.org:{plain}pass:1000:1000:Test User:<I think no home dir is needed>::mail=maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/callas.org/test/ Is this reasonable? Is there something easier that I'm missing? Jon

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[Dovecot] Plan/Status of MBX support?
by Jiaying Xu 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi, All, I've been happy user of dovocot as far. It is easy to configure, reliable and secure. Hat off to all developers who make this possible! I know dovecot is on the mailbox format front, it supports both mbox and maildir format well, and is developing and experimenting a new flexible format, dbox. But is there any plan to add mbx (i.e., indexed mbox format) support, to complete the set? There is some circumstance that mbox format is chosen over the mordern maildir format, For example in our situation, we receive many, many small messages and it would be expensive to create so many files with maildir. And we do a lot of searching - again a single mbox is faster in searching. Now the problem is, we have to use the tranditional mbox format with dovecot, as it does not support indexed mbox format, which makes deleting messages costly. Also the long-time file locking (due to the slow operation on the dovecot side) causes our MTA (exim, by the way) holds a huge queue. That drives up the system load to mad (load average above 500 is not unusual in our case). If dovecot support index mbox format, we be in the havean! But is there a plan to add this support in the near future? Thanks, JY

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[Dovecot] Test migration (IMAP copy) and INTERNALDATE?
by Apps Lists 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

We're trying some migration tests ... from CommuniGate to Dovecot. The migration program does an APPEND into the new mailbox: src>: a0 FETCH 2900 (FLAGS INTERNALDATE RFC822.PEEK) src<: * 2900 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "29-Aug-2005 18:36:54 +0000" RFC822 {1194157} src<: ) dst>: bAPP APPEND "INBOX" (\Seen) "29-Aug-2005 18:36:54 +0000" {1194157} dst<: + OK It appears to be trying to set the message date... in this example, to 29 Aug 2005. Dovecot seems to be ignoring it. Am I doing something wrong, or does Dovecot not allow this? Steve

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA with sendmail/Mailscanner
by Gerhard Wiesinger 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hello! I'm running dovecot in a sendmail/Mailscanner/procmail/mbox environment. I want to use dovecot lda because index files aren't updated when using sendmail as lda. Has someone this combination running and some configuration hints so that sendmail, Mailscanner and procmail ist working well. Does procmail work with lda, too? Thank you for the answer. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] LOCK FILE
by Alex 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

i'm working with exim 4.60, with mbox, and dovecot dovecot-1.0.beta7, and filesystem quotas default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail::INBOX=%h/mbox:INDEX=/tmp/%u lock_method = dotlock fcntl mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl The home of users is /home/usuaris/user Where place dovecot the lock file?

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[Dovecot] maildir memory usage
by lenny＠edpausa.com 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Dovecot beta 5 + dovecot lda, solaris 9 sparc. Dovecot seems to use a lot of memory with large Maildir folders, ( 300-500 mb folder - 100-200 mb process), something I never noticed with similarly large mboxes. Is that expected behavior or are my observations incorrect.

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[Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup. Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically: /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has the accounts stored in the following format: user@domain.tld:(encrypted password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing this in the log file: Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip= 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user(a)domain.tld, 127.0.0.1): unknown user Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser= user(a)domain.tld So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before. They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and users. Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist.

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[Dovecot] PINE + dovecot
by Richard Randriatoamanana 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hi list, I have installed dovecot on fedora4 and I migrated courier-imap to dovecot with instructions given on the site. everthing works fine for thunderbird, horde, evolution and mail/macosx.. but i have some pbs with pine because it doesnt read .subscriptions and directories aren't seen as it should be seen like in the .subscription. maybe i should reconfigure the .pinerc correctly, but what should I put in place then? does anyone have a .pinerc template that reads like other mail browsers with dovecot? Thanks in advance Cheers. Richard

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP/Plain Text issue with Dovecot
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/24/06, Peter Fern <dovecot(a)obfusc8.org> wrote: > > Tom Ray wrote: > > > I finally got Dovecot working pretty good I just have one small > > problem. I can't seem to log in via IMAP, now everything works great > > through POP but when I try to login via IMAP I get the following error: > > > > "PLAIN authentication failed. None of the authentication methods > > supported by your IMAP server are supported this computer" > > > > Anyone seen this before? > > > From the config file: > > # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless > # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and > # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if > # you connect from those addresses. > disable_plaintext_auth = yes When I do this both IMAP AND POP stop working. When I have it set to disable_plaintext_auth = no I can get POP working but IMAP throws back errors. Any other thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Solved problem with index corruption (new mail not seen)
by Tom Alsberg 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Having had many problems in the past with IDLE not working, new messages not being seen from Thunderbird, and sometimes garbage seen as part of mailboxes, I eventually added some workaround/sanity check patch to the imap_sync_deinit code to reread the offsets from the index and that solved the problem. Now with beta7 (I've previously used beta2), this seems not to be necessary anymore. I installed vanilla beta7 and couldn't reproduce the problem in any way! I'm not sure what has changed there, and haven't yet checked if I see anything relevant, so this is just to let you know, and ask - any idea which change could have caused this. Happily I will soon be going on with working around other issues I have here, and start bugging you in the list again. Cheers, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] IMAP/Plain Text issue with Dovecot
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I finally got Dovecot working pretty good I just have one small problem. I can't seem to log in via IMAP, now everything works great through POP but when I try to login via IMAP I get the following error: "PLAIN authentication failed. None of the authentication methods supported by your IMAP server are supported this computer" Anyone seen this before?

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[Dovecot] Saving Maildir with Samba
by Brad Bateman 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

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Re: [Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/23/06, Angel Pavlov <angel(a)coffeejob.com> wrote: > > Tom Ray wrote: > > I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with > it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up > to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup. > > Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically: > /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories > etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and > passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the > passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has > the accounts stored in the following format: > > user@domain.tld:(encrypted <user@domain.tld:%28encrypted>password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null > > The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the > problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to > login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost > 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing > this in the log file: > > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in: > AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip= > 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): > pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file > /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user(a)domain.tld, > 127.0.0.1): unknown user > Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser= > user(a)domain.tld > > So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user > doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on > auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file. > > Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch > with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to > fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the > vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's > been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before. > They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a > bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and > users. > > Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I > just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist. > > > try : > > 1. htpasswd file formated : user@domain.tld:(encrypted<user@domain.tld:%28encrypted>password) > 2. Without PAM > > good luck ! > > Angel > I'm still getting told that the user doesn't exist. It's loading the proper password file, but it just doesn't see the user...it should be parsing it right correct?

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot-lda with imap and Maildir
by Angel Pavlov 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hello all, I've installed dovecot-lda today and it's working fine. But with Maildir mailboxes and imap (connected) I have some strange log messeges : Apr 23 14:28:49 shark postfix/pipe[3211]: A244E3040A2: to=<angel(a)coffeejob.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=sent (coffeejob.com) Apr 23 14:28:49 shark postfix/qmgr[26922]: A244E3040A2: removed Apr 23 14:28:49 shark dovecot: imap(angel(a)coffeejob.com): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/mail/coffeejob.com/angel/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x8080, offset=420, size=0) Apr 23 14:28:49 shark dovecot: imap(angel(a)coffeejob.com): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /var/spool/mail/coffeejob.com/angel/Maildir/dovecot.index I'm using dovecot-lda from cvs (2006-04-23) and dovecot-1.0_beta3 ( from gentoo )* *Someone have an idea how to solve this problem ? Angel

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 36, Issue 72
by Jiaying Xu 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hi, I am not sure if I can post or not. I believe I subscribed and I sent a post to dovecot(a)dovecot.org yesterday but has not seen my post yet. Sorry if I am too dumb to understand how this mailing list works. JX

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