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Re: [Dovecot] Message read not sticking with Apple Mail / dovecot 1.0alpha5
by Andy Cravens 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Yes... I'm seeing this with the Apple mail client on Tiger. Our server is alpha 5/maildir/solaris 9/75 users. The apple user with the problem typically has more that one client open. He tends to leave his home PC connected when he comes in to work. He was able to resolve the last occurrence by closing all clients and resynching his mailboxes. We've also seen this problem on Solaris 9 running Mozilla 1.7.2 and Windows XP running outlook and evolution. These other clients have not seen a problem in over a month. The Apple user has problem every week. One interesting observation on this problem is that it will go away by itself given enough time. It seems that after a few hours to a full day it will go away. -- Andy Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm getting very weird behaviour with Apple Mail on Tiger and > 1.0alpha5 (with Timo's patch for the bug I saw). > > I can read a mail, see Apple Mail flag it as read, quit, come back > later, and find the mail is marked unread again. It seems to also > happen sometimes when I switch folders or get new mail. > > I've not worked out what's triggering it yet. Anyone seen anything > like this? > > Michael > >

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[Dovecot] reply-to address of the list
by Udo Rader 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi, is there a chance to alter the list behaviour to not use the sender address of a posting in the reply-to field but dovecot(a)dovecot.org instead? That way one has to either use "reply to all" in the MUA or manually enter dovecot(a)dovecot.org in any replies. And a "reply to all" duplicates postings because the posting once goes to the list and once to the original poster, that get's the reply twice then. Or maybe I am missing something ... :-) Udo BestSolution.at GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] removing folders doesn't always work
by William Astle 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

I've been running dovecot for a while now. I've got 1.0alpha5 running on a Slackware linux 10.2 system (i386). My system is using mbox format which means you can't have folders that contain both folders and messages. What I'm seeing is that removing folders doesn't always work. From what I can tell, it only affects folders that contain folders. Dovecot doesn't remove the directory from the server when the folder is removed which means it just keeps coming back. It's easy to duplicate this. Just create a folder that is allowed to contain folders only. You will see a directory created on the server. Then remove the folder. The directory will still be on the server, even if it is empty (i.e. no dovecot index files in it). Of course, most people create folders and never delete them, but occasionally it's useful to do so. For the record, removing folders that contain messages (mbox files) works. -- William Astle Lexicom Ltd. Phone: +1-403-262-6610 Long Distance: 1-877-426-6277 Email: astle(a)lexi.net

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Re: [Dovecot] Message read not sticking with Apple Mail / dovecot 1.0alpha5
by Hauke Fath 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Am 13.01.2006 um 11:17 Uhr +0000 schrieb Michael Stevens: >I can read a mail, see Apple Mail flag it as read, quit, come back >later, and find the mail is marked unread again. It seems to also >happen sometimes when I switch folders or get new mail. > >I've not worked out what's triggering it yet. Anyone seen anything >like this? Same here - Eudora on MacOS 10.4, and Mozilla on NetBSD 3. It is not strictly repeatable, but happens frequently. hauke -- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath \ / No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik X No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt / \ Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-3281

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[Dovecot] dovecot-ldap.conf for usernames/homes/UID/GID
by Paul Matthews 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

hi there, Im getting such a headache today, Ive added myself to three mailing lists trying to figure this out, okay here it goes. Ive got a Fedora Core 4 box running dovecot imap, squirrel mail, postfix, samba/winbind. Im running winbind to authenticate against Active Directory, Ive edited my /etc/pam.d/dovecot pam module so to let my users login with there Active directory password, but squirrel mail wont let them I think, let me stress the term, think is has something to do with there home directories, because I have some local users as well, they can login no issues & my users with the same usernames on unix and ADS can login with there ADS passwords Now Im looking at the dovecot webmin module and I see that Data source for users, homes and Ids is set to use Standard unix username database. There is now option of PAM like in Password authentication source. Although I do see LDAP, using config file. Can I set that to query Active directory ldap database and go there Data source for users, homes and Ids? If I can can someone tell me how to, if not can someone tell me what I need to do? Here is what I have so far with my /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = senior-server.school.cathedral.qld.edu.au:389 dn = cn=administrator,cn=users,dc=school,dc=cathedral,dc=qld,dc=edu,dc=au dnpass = wwvH@cs ldap_version = 3 base = dc=school,dc=cathedral,dc=qld,dc=edu,dc=au deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(cn=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) CRYPT default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 100 user_global_gid = 100

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[Dovecot] QUOTA Imap Extension
by Brady Wetherington 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi - long time lurker, very rare poster I understand Dovecot's support for mbox quotas is - well, not quite there yet. But I actually am not asking about that. I use vpopmail and qmail and Maildirs and was wondering about the QUOTA imap extension, which allows IMAP clients to query their quota settings. The reason I need to know about this is that I have a mailserver with a chunk of clients and their mail stores are getting large. And starting to exhaust my storage. I could just throw more storage at it - but they're not paying me for that level of storage, so I need to quota them. And my main source of business is one particular consulting company, so I pretty much have to do what they say, within reason, and they said, "Okay, you can quota everyone, so long as they can at least find out what their quota is in Webmail..." Which is pretty reasonable - quota'ing people and then not letting them know how close to their quota they are seems cruel, especially with the meager IQ's of my particular set of clients. Some research on my part has determined that there's an RFC for a QUOTA extension to IMAP, and there are plugins for my webmail program (Squirrelmail) which can display the user's quota usage there. Also, some mail clients are smart enough to also query the QUOTA extensions and let the user know how close they are to their max quota usage. I'm also planning a pretty decent-sized technology transition in the near future (switching to a shared-storage system with two servers, etc, etc), and I could be convinced to perhaps try and change my quotaing system at the same time - for instance, switching to filesystem quotas instead of vpopmail quotas, if that will help. The scary possibility that I guess I have to prepare myself for is that dovecot Just Doesn't Do It, and I need to figure out some other way of informing the clients of their quota usage - possibly a script that goes and recurses through maildirs and sends little emails if users are at a certain percentage of their actual usage, or something...I'm certainly not looking forward to writing that, but it's not a fate worse than death...

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[Dovecot] were are my e-mails?
by Paul Matthews 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

hi there, i seam to have pretty much everything under control at the moment other than the ability to recieve email's ... i can send them though and i know they get there because i can login into webmin and look in my user's mail boxes and see the e-mails, but for some reason i can retrive them using squirrel mail, can someone tell me why?

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[Dovecot] pop3 CAPA STLS and stupid clients
by Marten Lehmann 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hello, is it possible to disable the announcment of STLS in the CAPA-command for the pop3-daemon? I want to support pop3s, but only at port 995, not through the STLS on port 110. The reason for this is that some clients have problems with this and strange errors appear (e.g. older imap-libs) although they don't seem to have a problem with pop3s through port 995. Regards Marten

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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] IMAP subscriptions - how, for what and why?
by Tom Alsberg 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Again, not a Dovecot issua - but can someone clarify better what IMAP subscriptions (SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/LSUB) are and what they are used for? I've seen a few times in Microsoft mail clients, the options to subscribe to folders and to "show only subscribed folders". I haven't played much with them, though. But what's the actual point? Except for being returned in the list of LSUB, what else changes when doing a SUBSCRIBE to a mailbox? Are subscriptions supposed to be remembered by the server outside of the context of a session (so a client that connects to the server at some point and authenticates will already see in LSUB what a possibly other client has subscribed to in a previous session)? Clarifications appreciated, regards, -- 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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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] Outlook Express / Namespaces
by Matthias Rieber 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning to switch from courier-imap to dovecot. Everythings seems fine. I adjust the namespaces to avoid client side changes. This works with Thunderbird, but Outlook Express seems to have problmes with the path "INBOX.", that I've configured in the client settings. I can remove that path, but the folders will be sorted under the inbox. Is there something that I've done wrong? I'm using dovecot 1.0alpha5 matthias

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda: problems compiling
by nospam 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

I am trying to compile the dovecot lda and running into some problems. (compiling most recent version on Fedora core 4). I was able to compile the dovecot imap server just fine. However .. when I try to run configure in the lda package (after running autogen) it gets stuck on this line : + eval 'sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed' ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed Basically it is getting stuck on the sed portion in config.status. Anyone run into this problem before ?

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[Dovecot] Authentication failure - unknown user
by Anne Wilson 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I'm trying to set up a temporary mailserver using Debian Sarge and Dovecot 1.0 with maildir format. My only previous experience has been on a simple imap server with mbox format. I have read the wiki documentation and searched the archives, but can't tie down my problem. The log tells me Info: passwd-file(anne) : unknown user. I have set auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd and created the /etc/imap.passwd file as anne:{plain}mypassword:1000:1000::/home/anne What have I missed? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

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[Dovecot] special variables
by Andrés Pereira 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Are there any plans to extend the special variables you can use for ldap query strings (%u,%n,etc)? For instance, say you have an ldap schema like this with multiple domains in a single top-level-domain: dc=domain_1,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_2,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_3,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_4,dc=tld_2 dc=domain_5,dc=tld_2 dc=domain_6,dc=tld_2 Now dovecot (latest CVS snapshot) offers, among others, the following variable: %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there is no domain But, what if dovecot could offer something like this: %1-9 = domain tokens (%1 = tld, %2 = domain when %d = domain.tld) (actually, these variables are present in auth_ldap module for saslauthd) This way people could create a query like this (just an example): base = ou=some_ou,dc=%2,dc=%1 I know I could modify my ldap schema to: dc=domain_1.tld_1 dc=domain_2.tld_1 .... and it would be solved by using %d, however those "new" variables could be useful, what do you think? Cheers, - -- Andrés Pereira -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDxKDu7iUaNXa3Ta4RAitAAJ9oVoE51QjjSp6sQMe3qtkzwj9tygCcDfkj fnxUHKd/F6i9hjPoVDrHY18= =JdxG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) For everyone else too, attached patch fixes this.

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[Dovecot] Wild Idea for a feature
by Marc Perkel 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

OK - this is a wild idea and wondering what it would take to make it possible. I get a lot of email from a lot of different people about a lot of different issues. What I need is a way to do some server side presorting of email into specific folders. I can build a LOT of Mozilla rules but that is too cumbersome for what I have in mind. Here's what I'm thinking - one classification of email is "customers" and what I want to do is to drag an email into the customers server side folder and once I do that then any incoming email that comes from that person goes into the customers folder. I'm trying to envision how to code this and I think what I would need is if Dovecot were to create an external berkeley db file or mysql database of what is a list of email addresses contained in the folder that could be quickly searched for a match, that might do it. I think I could write a backent in Exim to handle it. This idea isn't yet well though out. I'm just throwing it out there to see if it's feasable. Thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird, IDLE, mailbox not always SELECTed
by Tom Alsberg 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi there. Although it does not seem to be a Dovecot issue, I'm sending this here as people in this list may know better where exactly the problem is. I am working on Dovecot 1.0 (.alpha5, right now), with the aim that when Dovecot becomes stable we can put that into production. Recently after being more clear with the behaviour (I'm most into namespaces and mbox/maildir mixing issues, as you can see from my past messages), I have adopted a few (two, right now, with the third one gone) "Guinea-Pigs" to use the experimental IMAP server - people who very much want an IMAP service here and thus may help me test bugs. One of them reported, that he does not always see new mail. That user is using Mozilla Thunderbird (1.0.7). Looking a bit with him at the workings, I can see the issue. He has the IDLE extension enabled. However when sniffing the network, I see that sometimes when switching to another mailbox, the SELECT command is not always sent to the server. At the beginning, INBOX is (always) selected. Then another mailbox is selected, and usually a SELECT command is sent and the mailbox is seen. But going back to INBOX again, often no "SELECT INBOX" is seen on the wire. Then of course he sees no "EXISTS" or anything like that. I wonder if anyone else has observed this, or in some other way, that Thunderbird does not always show new mail. Sometimes it appears that a mailbox is selected in Thunderbird, and Thunderbird immediately (remembering from its cache) does a FETCH to show the message in the mailbox/folder, but not SELECT to update the folder itself. Can caching in Thunderbird be completely disabled, so that every action will be done against the server? Regards, -- 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] new 1.0 config and vpopmail
by Henti Smith 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

does anybody have a working config they can send me .. I just cannot seem to get this working. alternativly how can I set the debug so I can see where my config is wrong ? thanks Henti

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[Dovecot] dovecot auth using passwd-file
by Brad 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Im a dovecot newbie and need a little help with the passwd-like file auth mechanism in dovecot I got dovecot to work fine with regular /etc/passwd file auth .. so I wanted to start using another authentication store for virtual users. So .. I created a /etc/dovecot-passdb file and plopped in an encrypted password using md5crypt. Here are the appropriate lines from the dovecot.conf file auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_passdb = pam and here is the /etc/pam.d/dovecot file #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth So far .. no dice. Dovecot reports constant authentication failures. I fear that the dovecot-passdb file is wonky. Can anyone give me any pointers ?

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[Dovecot] Maildir permissions, shared folders & postfix
by Stroller 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi there, It's my understanding that shared folders can be implemented in the Dovecot IMAP server by simply symlinking one maildir to another, eg: $ ls -lan /home/DOMAIN/ned/.maildir/ total 40 drwx------ 9 10012 10000 440 Jan 9 04:23 . drwxr-xr-x 3 10012 10000 160 Jan 6 06:32 .. drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:21 .Deleted Items drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:32 .Drafts drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:39 .Junk E-mail drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:33 .Sent lrwxrwxrwx 1 10012 0 24 Jan 6 07:36 .Stroller -> /home/ stroller/.maildir/ drwx------ 2 10012 10000 336 Jan 9 04:23 cur -rw------- 1 10012 10000 268 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 10012 10000 192 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 10012 10000 21504 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 10012 10000 1908 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.log drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 new -rw------- 1 10012 10000 47 Jan 6 07:45 subscriptions drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 tmp In the above configuration the user Ned has a mailbox "Stroller", in which he can read messages & stuff - I can log in as ned and drag & drop messages into this mailbox quite happily. I thought all was well with this type of shared configuration until I actually started to try setting it up for the info(a)ourdomain.com mailbox, and tried delivering messages to it. It seems that Postfix doesn't respect the permissions of the parent folder when delivering mail into it: # ls -ldn /home/info/.maildir/ drwxrwx--- 5 10021 10000 120 Jan 9 04:26 /home/info/.maildir/ # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/ total 0 drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:26 cur drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:33 new drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:31 tmp # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 0 # cat HungUp.txt | sendmail info # sudo ls -l /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 # sudo ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 -rw------- 1 10021 10000 1806 Jan 9 04:39 1136781544.V4804I3606cM633316.mail.domain.local How inconsiderate of Postfix to set secure permissions on the message it delivered!! I need the message to have 660 permissions so that others in the group can read it! At present this causes Squirrelmail to squeal & give nasty messages whenever a shared mailbox is accesses. Can anyone advise me how to resolve this, please? Stroller. PS: should you consider suggesting using Dovecot's "namespaces" type of shared mailbox, I'd be grateful if you could answer this first: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-December/010459.html

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[Dovecot] POP3 only - why is cur/ growing?
by Wally Winchester 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi, I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder? Thanks a lot, Wally -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running 1.0alpha5 on FreeBSD 5.3. I'm using mbox mailboxes. > > I keep getting: > > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) > Jan 8 18:53:13 saigo dovecot: child 88663 (imap) killed with signal 6 This happens all the time with one specific mbox? Could you send it and the index files to me? You could put the mbox though http://dovecot.org/tools/mboxcrypt.pl

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[Dovecot] Running dovecot-lda
by Linus Nordberg 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning on setting up dovecot with dovecot-lda, for sieve support. What does the list have to say about versions to use? I prefer stability over features but sieve has to be there. Does anybody use the combination dovecot 1.0 alpha5 and dovecot-lda 0.1 with success or would you recommend running -lda from CVS? If so, is there any point in time that's better than another? And, will dovecot 1.0 alpha5 do for -lda from CVS? Finally, are there any release plans for dovecot-lda that can be shared? Thanks, -- Linus

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