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[Dovecot] "Discarding bogus continuation" message in pine
by Jesse Chan-Norris 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Running 1.0alpha5 (though I've been having this problem for the past couple of versions), and using mbox for the mailboxes. After I've read my mail using Apple's Mail.app (or Thunderbird) and take it offline, when I try to open the INBOX (or any mailbox) with pine, I get the following message (in pine): [Discarding bogus continuation in msg 1: $Forwarded NonJunk] Quitting and re-running pine does not bring up this message again, and it looks like it's getting confused by the internal mbox message's X-IMAP line: X-IMAP: 1076598957 0000257269 NotJunk JunkRecorded $NotJunk $Junk Junk \ Forwarded $Forwarded NonJunk The "$Forwarded NonJunk" part is the only part of that line that is on a new line, and it gets written out like that after I've read mail using an IMAP client, leading me to believe that pine doesn't know how to handle the newline in the X-IMAP line. I don't know if this is a Dovecot, Mail.app, or pine problem, but I never saw this error in UW-IMAP. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! jcn

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[Dovecot] Upgrade question
by Anne Wilson 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

I have 0.99.14 installed. I've downloaded the latest version. Does it install over the old one, in parallel, or need an uninstall of the old one? Anne

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[Dovecot] compiling Dovecot CVS version, 1 problem, 1 wish, 3 questions
by Steffen Kaiser 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hello, today I checked out a new copy of Dovecot (and LDA) from CVS: File: ChangeLog Status: Up-to-date Working revision: 1.2765 Repository revision: 1.2765 /home/cvs/dovecot/ChangeLog,v I could compile them, but my findings follow: - the problem: I copied dovecot-lda below CVS_ROOT/dovecot, the first make attempt failed with this fatal error: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/autofs/fb02/prgdist/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve' /bin/sh ../../ylwrap `test -f 'addr.y' || echo './'`addr.y y.tab.c addr.c y.tab.h addr.h y.output addr.output -- bison -y -d -p addr ../../ylwrap: ../../ylwrap: No such file or directory the "ylwrap" is actually located in the Dovecot directory, hence, one directory up, so running ln -s ../ylwrap . in CVS_ROOT/dovecot/dovecot-lda fixed the problem. - the wish: It would be nice, if one could compile dovecot-lda right in the CVS locations without the need to give any option, e.g. the default "dovecot" path could be "../dovecot". - the questions: running ./autogen.sh results in: configure.in:1562: required file `./config.h.in' not found SUBDIRS: variable `DELIVER' is used but `DELIVER' is undefined ^^ Maybe the 2nd error results in that I passed "--without-deliver" to ./configure? running ./configure results in: checking for shared library run path origin... ./config.rpath: ./config.rpath: No such file or directory done running dovecot-lda/autogen.sh results in: configure.in:4: required file `./lda-config.h.in' not found Neither of these error messages prevent to built Dovecot, but they does not look "correct". Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] dovecot+ldap no auth...
by Joaquim Petiz 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Dear sirs, In the configuration of Dovecot I can´t get autentication of the users. My work environment is: OpenBSD 3.8 Postfix 2.2.5 (instaled thru ports with ldap and sasl support) Opendap 2.2.27 (instaled thru ports with sasl support) Dovecot 0.99.14 (instaled thru source with ldap support) I have two domains in ldap, the postfix is just autenticating in ldap (sending e-mails to users of 2 ldap domains), I have one vmail user and one vmail group with uid e gid 800 to e-mail delivery and one dovecot user for dovecot itself. The Dovecot is not autenticating: # telnet localhost 143 * OK dovecot ready 0 login user(a)domain.com password 0 NO Authentication failed. ldap´s LOGS: Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SRCH base="cn=dovecot,o=organization,c=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=user(a)domain.com))" Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=32 nentries=0 text= my slapd.conf: include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/qmail.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/openldap.schema pidfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid argsfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.args access to dn.base="" by * read access to attr=userPassword by dn="uid=vmail,o=organization,c=com" read by dn="cn=dovecot,o=organization,c=com" read by anonymous auth by self write by * none database ldbm checkpoint 1024 5 cachesize 10000 suffix "o=organization,c=com" rootdn "cn=administrator,o=organization,c=com" rootpw {CRYPT}xxxxxxxxxxx directory /var/openldap-data index objectClass eq my user.ldif dn: cn=user,ou=domain1.com,o=organization,c=com cn: user ou: domain1.com sn: user objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: qmailUser homeDirectory: /var/vmail/domains/domain1.com/user mail: user(a)domain1.com mailHost: mail.domains.com mailQuotaSize: 0 mailQuotaCount: 0 deliveryMode: normal uid: user uidNumber: 2000 gidNumber: 2000 accountStatus: active userPassword: {CRYPT}xxxxxxxxxxxx mailMessageStore: domain1.com/user mailAlternateAddress: user(a)domain1.com my dovecot.conf protocols = imap imap_listen = *:143 ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/dovecot/login login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot first_valid_uid = 800 last_valid_uid = 800 first_valid_gid = 800 last_valid_gid = 800 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/vmail/domains/ default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/domains/%d/%u/Maildir auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf My dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = localhost dn = uid=dovecot,o=organization,c=com dnpass = password ldap_version = 3 base = o=organization,c=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=%u)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 800 user_global_gid = 800 []'s

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[Dovecot] New Dovecot installation and OE not POPing problems
by techlist06 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Greetings: Recently I converted my mailserver to Postfix with some local accounts being accessed via Dovecot and POP3S. The clients are OE. The users are reporting that they aren't getting their messages. In the past with my old (IW?) POP server, I just used mail -f /var/spool/user and deleted the "DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE...." message #1 and this cleared any problems with messages being out of sync on what had and had not been downloaded, etc. With Dovecot, I don't know how to "bump" the mailbox to get it "reset" so that OE will download the messages again, and/or get them if it hasn't already. Is this possible? Thanks very much for the time to help, Scott

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[Dovecot] Auth protocol and Perl
by Allan Joergensen 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi, does anyone have at working Perl example of how to use the auth protocol with Perl (I'm planing on making a dovecot auth plugin for qpsmtpd but it would a lot easier to reuse somebody elses code :)) tia, -- Allan Joergensen - http://nowhere.dk/ "All right, so it's impossible. How long will it take?"

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[Dovecot] ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
by Paul Matthews 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

hi there, i'm trying to setup dovecot with squirrel mail at the moment and i'm getting this error message ERROR: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: CREATE "Sent" Reason Given: Permission denied ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SELECT "INBOX" can someone tell me what this means? and what folders i have to change the permissions on? this is out of my /etc/dovecot.conf file if it helps default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u:mbox:~/mail/

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[Dovecot] Patch: More of kqueue() support.
by Vaclav Haisman 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi, the attached patch contains these changes: 2005-12-15 22:18 Vaclav Haisman <v.haisman(a)sh.cvut.cz> * src/lib/ioloop-kqueue.c: Fix IO_ERROR behaviour. * src/lib/ioloop-notify-kqueue.c: New file. * configure.in: Improve kqueue detection and handling. Cleanup. The configure.in changes that are not related to kqueue are there to make autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.6 and libtool 1.5.20 are happy. The directory change notification is not really well tested because Dovecot doesn't seem to use it that much. As per Brad's request I have changed all occurrences of FreeBSD to just BSD. Vaclav Haisman

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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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