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[Dovecot] BUG: PASSL had invalid passdb num
by Jakob Hirsch 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

With current cvs: Feb 22 14:30:32 ymmv dovecot: auth-worker(default): BUG: PASSL had invalid passdb num never seen that before.

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[Dovecot] Problem getting new mail from Postfix to Dovecot
by Dave Engbers 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Dear reader, I am having problems getting new mail into my Inbox. I have this in my dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u The logs show nothing special, catting /var/mail/%u shows the new mails coming in, as does /var/log/mail.info Any clues? Regards, Dave.

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[Dovecot] Stale configure options...
by Curtis Maloney 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Does the GNUTLS support in Dovecot currently work? Last I saw it was quite stale, and broken. If it doesn't work, should it perhaps be removed as an option from the configure script? ... just a thought. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] building in AIXV5.3 using the IBM C for AIX compiler V6.0
by Stewart Dean 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

What fun. I don't often stoke up the boiler and actually compile open-source code, but here I am at the beginning of just such a joyous and wondrous adventure. I'm running the latest level of AIX (V5.3...V4.3 has been obsolete for at least, what, 5 years) and using the IBM compiler (xlc is similarly obsolete, from back when the compiler came with the O/S...oh, for the halcyon days of Unix's youth) as above The IBM compiler is now know as xlc rather than xlC, and configure doesn't find it: checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no and it isn't happy with the quota stuff: checking sys/quota.h usability... no checking sys/quota.h presence... no checking for sys/quota.h... no checking sys/fs/ufs_quota.h usability... no checking sys/fs/ufs_quota.h presence... no checking for sys/fs/ufs_quota.h... no checking ufs/ufs/quota.h usability... no checking ufs/ufs/quota.h presence... no checking for ufs/ufs/quota.h... no I guess this is because AIX has journalled filesystems and the quota.h stuff is under /usr/include/jfs/quota.h Configure completes with this summary. Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 32bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : 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 pam checkpassword (modules) Right now, I'm just shooting (sorry, Mr. Cheney) for a clean compile...I'll leave such niceties as finding the OpenSSL binaries (which IBM, in its wisdom, puts in special places), doing a multiproccesor-enabled compile, etc. for later. Onward! I have defined CC= /usr/vac/bin/cc. But alas, the party just doesn't happen. There's much like this: "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='hostpid.c' object='hostpid.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/ xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c hostpid.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='imem.c' object='imem.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/xlc -D HAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c imem.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='iostream.c' object='iostream.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bi n/xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c iostream.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='istream.c' object='istream.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/ xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c istream.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "ioloop.h", line 17.31: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text ',' encountered. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Yikes. Would someone be so kind as to lend me a hand? -- ==== 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

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[Dovecot] documentation on modifying the configure script
by Stewart Dean 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

On second thought (unless someone is fantastically charitable), I suppose I need to seriously concentrate on modifying the current configure script to work with the current AIX operating system and compiler. Can someone direct me to documentation on configure so I can begin my trek through the wilderness? -- ==== 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

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[Dovecot] Procmail sending to 'Folder ^'
by Anne Wilson 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Due to a fault in a procmail recipe, a number of files have been sent to 'Folder ^'. Would this mean anything at all to Dovecot? At this point I don't know whether the messages are physically on my drive or have been sent to /dev/null. I know there was one important message among them, so if they are recoverable I'd like to check them. Anne

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[Dovecot] dovecot memory consumption beta vs. old "stable" series
by Gunter Ohrner 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi! I just wanted to know if anyone can give a definitive answer if dovecot beta's memory requirements are much better than in the old pre-alpha "stable" series? I'm using a rather old stable.20050712 release on an also rather old Debian Sarge box to manage my personal mails. I'm pretty satisfied with this dovecot release but it's memory consumption when deleting messages causes major troubles on this box - more than 500 MB of virtual memory allocated to the "imap" process is quite a lot and often causes random processes to fall victim to the OOM killer. :-( Adding even more swap space also is no viable option. (The system has 64 MB RAM and currently about 650 MB swap space.) So, would it be worth a try to install dovecot beta2 or something when it's released, or won't it help in this regard? I won't want to sacrificy the otherwise well working installation, if dovecot beta2 isn't guaranteed to help I'll continue to monitor available memory and swap space while cleaning up my spams... Greetings, Gunter -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + http://aachen.uni-dsl.de/ - Der direkte Draht in's Hochschulnetz! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "What do people like to drink here, then?" The landlord looked sideways at his customers, a clever trick given that they were directly in front of him. -- Mort goes out for a drink (Terry Pratchett, Mort) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + PGP-verschlüsselte Mails bevorzugt! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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[Dovecot] '+' addesses and Foldered delivery
by Brad 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Before I start tearing my hair out .. I am using sendmail 8.13.5 with the exact setting for the dovecot lda specified in the dovecot wiki. Does the mailer definition for the lda ensure that it can understand +'ed addressing for foldered delivery ?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot lda woes
by Brad 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Having some painful problems with the dovecot lda and getting it to (a). Just work (b). Work with sendmail This is how I have dovecot setup (appropriate dovecot.conf snippets included) protocol lda { module_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda postmaster_address = postmaster(a)bradphinney.com auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master } auth default { .... # passwd-like file with specified location passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot-passdb } userdb static { args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u mail=mbox:/export/dovecot/%d/%u/ nice=10 } ... } Here is what deliver is set up as -rwsr-sr-x 1 dovecot dovecot 2070623 Feb 19 18:22 deliver* I drop sendmail into debugging mode so I can at least see if it is resolving the address correctly. Here is my mailertable entries : testdomain1.com dovecot:dovecot I fire up sendmail. telnet to port 25 and see if I cant get some mail delivered. Here is what sendmail spits out Feb 20 18:54:18 titan sendmail[6475]: k1KNqWti006459: to=<echo(a)testdomain1.com>, delay=00:01:16, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=120016, relay=dovecot, dsn=5.3.0, stat=unknown mailer error 89 Not good. On a hunch .. I change the permissions on the dovecot log to be 777. Now .. I get a different error .. Feb 20 18:12:14 titan sendmail[6014]: k1KNBQ1e006006: to=<echo(a)testdomain1.com>, delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=120012, relay=dovecot, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: dovecot mailer (/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL Any ideas ?

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[Dovecot] Problems with authentication
by Lapo Luchini 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi there. I've got a running qmail+vpopmail+mysql5 server on FreeBSD and I would like to give IMAP access to it (both for user's sake and to have a decent webmail), so I decided to install dovecot (it certainly does its work on my home box). Problem is: I haven't had success with authentication. At first I tried the most obvious: using the vpopmail backend. Unfortunately I received lots of "vmysql: MySQL server has gone away" just like in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/10321 So I decided to spice up a query to vpopmail's MySQL table, and there another problem was waiting for me: "Access denied" just like in this thread http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/9077 Only difference: in my case using OLD_PASSWORD() didn't solve the problem and -thinking about it better- couln't possibly have solved it: that FreeBSD is a recent fresh install and I installed MySQL 5.0.18 from sources using the "ports" system, so a library with no support for new PASSWORD() has never seen the light on that box. I kinda went around the problem using a shell script to dump the MySQL table to a SQLite file and authentication dovecot against that, but while this work-around can do for a little bit I'd really like to solve the problem itself, and avoid having to keep ni sync those two DBs (no, unfortunately vpopmail doesn't support SQLite, else I'd use that: it would also have the nice side-effect that a "down" on mysql side wouldn't hurt the mail subsystem). Any suggestions or idea how I could solve or, at least, better diagnose the problem(s)? Yours, Lapo

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[Dovecot] Plain password auth issues
by nospam 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Have the following entries in dovecot.conf auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_user = dovecot passwd-file is owned by user and group dovecot When I try to log in .. I get dovecot: Feb 19 16:41:30 Error: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user echo) imap-login: Feb 19 16:41:30 Info: Internal login failure: echo [127.0.0.1] dovecot-auth: Feb 19 16:41:30 Info: Login process 12 disconnected Any ideas ?

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[Dovecot] MySql Server Has gone
by Marc-André Joyal 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

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[Dovecot] rawlog for Dovecot proxies
by Bill Boebel 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Is there a way to use rawlog to log the full IMAP session when running Dovecot as a front-end proxy for other IMAP servers? If so, how?... I couldn't figure it out. Or is there another debug setting that can give me this information? If not, what is the best method to sniff the IMAP session for debugging a proxy?... ethereal? Thanks, Bill -- http://billboebel.typepad.com/

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[Dovecot] Updating the web?
by Peter Lindgren 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hello! I was looking for some information about which signals I can send to dovecot to do various things, but I couldn't find it. Since it's a wiki, is it ok to just edit the pages, or should I post here first? I thought I'd check with Timo and you guys first, maybe I missed that page that describes the signals... If it's ok, I can edit or add a new page. /Peter -- Peter Lindgren, dataingenjör E-post: peter "at" norrskenkonsult punkt com http://www.norrskenkonsult.com

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[Dovecot] IMAP stress testing tool
by Timo Sirainen 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I updated my IMAP stress testing tool to support also APPENDs and print some nice statistics. If you want to try for yourself, it's here: http://dovecot.org/tools/imaptest.c I thought about adding some more features in future to it, such as: - Add a header to each appended message containing MD5 sum of it. When fetching, verify that the MD5 sum is valid. - Do randomized fetch requests (headers, size, flags, etc.) - Do randomized search requests - sort, thread

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[Dovecot] Messages disappear and reappear when I check mailbox using KMail
by Lincoln Peters 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Not sure if this is a Dovecot bug or a KMail bug, but since it only seems to happen to people using KMail to access a Dovecot server or a Novell NetWare IMAP server, I thought I should mention it here. <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121866> From the bug report: When I check for mail on an IMAP account (not disconnected), all recently-received messages disappear prior to any mail check, any new messages appear, and then the messages that disappeared earlier reappear. This does not seem to cause any harm, but it is horrendously inefficient if there are a lot of messages in an IMAP folder so affected. Any ideas as to what could cause this behavior in a mail client when connecting to a Dovecot IMAP server but not when connecting to other kinds of IMAP servers? -- Lincoln Peters <sampln(a)sbcglobal.net> BOFH excuse #80: That's a great computer you have there; have you considered how it would work as a BSD machine? /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards

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[Dovecot] IMAP and Outlook XP Contacts
by DiskMan 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I was wondering, does Dovecot's IMAP server hand Outlook XP's contact lists? I tried to enter a contact on my IMAP server and received an error from Outlook stating that the Contacts formatting was too complex and thus couldn't be saved. I went ahead and swung my box over to MailDir and scrapped Sendmail for Postfix [for maildir support], I was wondering, would this issue continue? In other words, by swinging over to MailDir, would Dovecot be able to handle Outlook's Contacts information? Will L G

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[Dovecot] Another permissions problem?
by Anne Wilson 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

The rebuild server is now almost complete. Dovecot is running, and I can telnet and log in. In kmail on this workstation I have created an imap account, for which Inbox was created. I also created Trash and sent-mail as top-level folders, and they display correctly with the cur, new and tmp sub-folders on the server. I now want to create subfolders of Inbox, and there I'm coming unstuck. According to the info box URL: (unknown) Date and time: Saturday 18 February 2006 16:51 Additional information: imap://anne@192.168.0.30:143/INBOX/LAN//;INFO=ASKUSER Possible causes: Your access permissions may be inadequate to perform the requested operation on this resource The location where the folder was to be created may not exist A protocol error or incompatibility may have occurred This is what I have at the moment: ls -al -R ~/Maildir /home/anne/Maildir: total 44 drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 49 anne anne 4096 Feb 18 17:23 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:48 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 61 Feb 18 17:21 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 .INBOX drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 new drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .sent-mail -rw------- 1 anne users 16 Feb 18 16:48 .subscriptions drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 tmp drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .Trash /home/anne/Maildir/cur: total 28 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. -rw------- 1 anne users 18063 Feb 18 17:21 1140283312.P16651Q0M725303.wkstn.domain.lan:2,FS /home/anne/Maildir/.INBOX: total 32 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 17:21 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.tree /home/anne/Maildir/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail: total 48 drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:51 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 new drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 tmp /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash: total 48 drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:51 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 new drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 tmp /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. Any suggestions, please? Anne

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[Dovecot] Login processes don't die
by Jürgen Herz 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hello, I'm a fresh dovecot user (resp. admin), using dovecot 0.99.14 (a little old, but that's what Debian Sarge provides). In general everything works as it should, but there's something that makes me wonder. The wiki says "By default each login process will handle only a single connection and afterwards kill itself." But it does look different to me. On startup there are two imap-login processes running (login_processes_count is 2). When connecting with Sylpheed, one additional imap process is running. But when connecting with Mozilla (Seamonkey), I get three imap-login and one imap process at minimum (Maximum number of server connections to cache set to 1 in Mozilla). If the cached connections is set to 2, there are four imap-login and two imap processes. So it looks to me as the login processes don't get killed. Is this a client issue (but how could it keep the login alive?), is this a known bug in the older dovecot, or something unknown? BTW, login_process_per_connection is default. Regards, Jürgen

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[Dovecot] Second user problems
by Anne Wilson 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

I have dovecot (0.99.14 under FC4) set up and working beautifully for my mail, handing on to procmail, and handling many subfolders. Today I needed to set up a second user. I added his account in kmail and created a sub-folder, but no sent-mail, trash etc. were created. I have sent test messages and /var/log/maillog says they have been processed, but they are not arriving in his inbox. /var/log/mail.info shows that he has logged in to dovecot. He has a simple .procmailrc to handle the one subdirectory. I'm sure that it must be something I've missed in dovecot.conf, but I can't see anything there that shouldn't work just as well for him as it does for me. Any pointers? Anne

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Re: [Dovecot] Second user problems
by Anne Wilson 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:55, Stroller wrote: > On 16 Feb 2006, at 20:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > > ... Today I needed to set > > up a second user. I added his account in kmail and created a sub- > > folder, but > > no sent-mail, trash etc. were created. I have sent test messages > > and /var/log/maillog says they have been processed, but they are > > not arriving > > in his inbox. > > How did you create the user on the server, please? Using Fedora's User management tool > Can you show us the output of `grep -ie FirstUser -ie SecondUser /etc/ > passwd`? grep -ie anne -ie david /etc/passwd anne:x:500:100:Anne Wilson:/home/anne:/bin/bash david:x:502:100:David Wilson:/home/david:/bin/bash > Of `ls -la ~FirstUser ~SecondUser`? > Do you really want that - it's huge - or do you want me to look for specific lines? I'll post all of it if you need it. Anne

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[Dovecot] "undefined reference to `yes_storage'"
by DiskMan 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Well after the 'issues' with Compaq C, I decided to attempt compile using GCC-3.4.3... To put it short, that didn't fair well either. Will L G. Redhat 7.2 [Alpha] GCC 3.4.3 Binutils-2.16.x Kernel-2.6.13.4 ccache gcc-3.4.3 -std=gnu99 -g -O5 -finline -fstrict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -mieee -w -mtune=ev56 -mmax -pipe -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wl,-lots -Wl,-lcpml -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o imap cmd-append.o cmd-authenticate.o cmd-capability.o cmd-check.o cmd-close.o cmd-copy.o cmd-create.o cmd-delete.o cmd-examine.o cmd-expunge.o cmd-fetch.o cmd-idle.o cmd-list.o cmd-login.o cmd-logout.o cmd-lsub.o cmd-namespace.o cmd-noop.o cmd-rename.o cmd-search.o cmd-select.o cmd-sort.o cmd-status.o cmd-store.o cmd-subscribe.o cmd-thread.o cmd-uid.o cmd-unselect.o cmd-unsubscribe.o client.o commands.o commands-util.o imap-expunge.o imap-fetch.o imap-fetch-body.o imap-messageset.o imap-search.o imap-sort.o imap-sync.o imap-thread.o mail-storage-callbacks.o main.o namespace.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a ../../src/lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a ../../src/lib-index/libindex.a ../lib-storage/libstorage.a ../lib-storage/subscription-file/libstorage_subscription_file.a ../lib-imap/libimap.a ../lib-mail/libmail.a ../lib-dict/libdict.a ../lib-charset/libcharset.a ../lib/liblib.a -ldl ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a(mail-storage-register.o): In function `mail_storage_register_all': /usr2/www/linux-related/servers/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/lib-storage/register/m ail-storage-register.c:6: undefined reference to `yes_storage' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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[Dovecot] Segmentation fault
by DiskMan 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Receiving nothing but a 'segfault' when ever I attempt to run any of the binaries after building... Redhat 7.2 [Alpha] Compaq C 6.5.9 Binutils-2.16.x Kernel-2.6.13.4 CC="ccache ccc" CXX="ccache cxx" \ CFLAGS="-shared -O2 -fast -ansi_alias -arch ev56 -mieee -w -pipe" \ CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fast -ansi_alias -arch ev56 -w -pipe" \ ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --build=alpha-alpha-linux \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-passwd \ --with-mysql \ --with-storages \ --localstatedir=/var make -s This GDB was configured as "alphapca56-alpha-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr2/www/pub/alpha-RH7/servers/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3/pop3 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000002000100a4c0 in __do_global_dtors_aux () (gdb) (gdb) (gdb) bt #0 0x000002000100a4c0 in __do_global_dtors_aux () Cannot access memory at address 0x120019f24 TIA, Will L G

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[Dovecot] Growing pools and disconnects
by mmaurer＠betterbe.com 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Since a couple of hours I see *a lot* of the following messages in my maillog: Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 32768 Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 65536 Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 131072 This happens also when viewing small inboxes (but the number being ~1024). This is dovecot 1.0.beta2, which has been running for about 2 days. Any indication where this message is coming from? The first day we never saw this message appearing. Dovecot now also seems to randomly disconnect people from time to time. Any insights would be appreciated. Marc

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[Dovecot] Authentication failing - Ant Internet Suite (Risc-OS)
by Simon Waters 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Switched to using dovecot for POP3, PLAIN login. One client with "Ant Internet Suite" can't use the service with this client, he used the same setting with another email client and it worked. On inspection of the packets, it is sending one packet with; "user username\r\npass password\r\nstat\r\n" Dovecot sends an "-ERR Unknown command", then a "+OK Logged in". I'm wondering if things got out of sequence here, since a "STAT" to dovecot before authentication causes the "Unknown command" error. "STAT" isn't allowed in the authentication stage... but well it issued it last.... Anyway I'm unclear here on the precise details of the packet trace, possible it is responding to an earlier packet, but thought I'd ask before pursuing this further in case some one leaps up and says "oh that'll be...". The client software has an option to disabled "queued commands" buried deep within it (append /ucb to user details), I suggested trying this if possible, will report back if it works. Also mentioned in a Google search. I'm curious as to what is right here, but the "/ucb" is presumably the practical answer if it works. Simon

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