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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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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. How do I compile the CVS version? "configure" seems to be missing. I tried downloading the snapshot from 20060105 but that fails make: ~ main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory main.c: In function `main_init': main.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_register' main.c: In function `main_deinit': main.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_unregister' make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/imap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 The 20060107 snapshot won't ./configure : configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-sql/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-auth/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-charset/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-dict/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-imap/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-mail/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-ntlm/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-settings/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/maildir/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/mbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/dbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/subscription-file/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/register/Makefile config.status: creating src/auth/Makefile config.status: error: cannot find input file: src/dict/Makefile.in [root@www dovecot-1.0.alpha5]# make cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status config.h config.status: creating config.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' Making all in lib make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' Makefile:423: .deps/base64.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:424: .deps/bsearch-insert-pos.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:425: .deps/buffer.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:426: .deps/compat.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:427: .deps/data-stack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:428: .deps/env-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:429: .deps/failures.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:430: .deps/fd-close-on-exec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:431: .deps/fd-set-nonblock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:432: .deps/fdpass.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:433: .deps/file-cache.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:434: .deps/file-dotlock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:435: .deps/file-lock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:436: .deps/file-set-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:437: .deps/hash.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:438: .deps/hex-binary.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:439: .deps/hex-dec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:440: .deps/hmac-md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:441: .deps/home-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:442: .deps/hostpid.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:443: .deps/imem.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:444: .deps/ioloop-epoll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:445: .deps/ioloop-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:446: .deps/ioloop-notify-dn.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:447: .deps/ioloop-notify-inotify.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:448: .deps/ioloop-notify-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:449: .deps/ioloop-notify-none.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:450: .deps/ioloop-poll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:451: .deps/ioloop-select.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:452: .deps/ioloop.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:453: .deps/iostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:454: .deps/istream-data.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:455: .deps/istream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:456: .deps/istream-limit.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:457: .deps/istream-mmap.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:458: .deps/istream-seekable.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:459: .deps/istream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:460: .deps/lib-signals.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:461: .deps/lib.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:462: .deps/md4.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:463: .deps/md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:464: .deps/mempool-alloconly.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:465: .deps/mempool-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:466: .deps/mempool-system.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:467: .deps/mempool-unsafe-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:468: .deps/mempool.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:469: .deps/mkdir-parents.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:470: .deps/mmap-anon.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:471: .deps/mmap-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:472: .deps/module-dir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:473: .deps/network.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:474: .deps/ostream-crlf.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:475: .deps/ostream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:476: .deps/ostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:477: .deps/primes.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:478: .deps/printf-upper-bound.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:479: .deps/process-title.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:480: .deps/randgen.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:481: .deps/read-full.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:482: .deps/restrict-access.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:483: .deps/restrict-process-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:484: .deps/safe-memset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:485: .deps/safe-mkdir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:486: .deps/sendfile-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:487: .deps/seq-range-array.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:488: .deps/sha1.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:489: .deps/str-sanitize.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:490: .deps/str.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:491: .deps/strescape.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:492: .deps/strfuncs.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:493: .deps/unix-socket-create.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:494: .deps/unlink-directory.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:495: .deps/unlink-lockfiles.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:496: .deps/utc-mktime.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:497: .deps/utc-offset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:498: .deps/var-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:499: .deps/write-full.Po: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/write-full.Po'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 It seems like the code is horribly broken. All of the nightly snapshots except for 20060107 (which won't configure) fail with "main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory" it does this for src/imap/main.c AND src/pop3/main.c . I tried commenting out any lines that had to do with "dict-client.h" "dict_client_register();" and "dict_client_unregister();" inside the two files and it would compile those files but it would fail in src/deliver claiming that it is too old? make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' ~ deliver.c:4:2: #error This program is somewhat out of date, use dovecot-lda instead make[3]: *** [deliver.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Documentation updates in Wiki
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

I started writing a new front page for wiki.dovecot.org: http://wiki.dovecot.org/NewIndex This is partially based on the comments in Documentation thread starting from here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/008076.html "A simple Dovecot installation" section is pretty much finished from my point of view. I hope it's clear enough for anyone wanting to install a working Dovecot server. Suggestions are welcome of course. You're also welcome to just edit the pages directly. I'll get email notifications of all page changes, so if I see changes that I don't think belong in there, I'll just remove them and maybe move them elsewhere (so don't add too much text without asking :). I'm not sure about what exactly should be visible in the front page. Currently there's probably too much. But I think it's better to show more than too little, so that new people can just look at the page and quickly pick up the interesting keywords without having to click through multiple pages. Maybe most of the sub-sections in "full guide" section could be listed only under those root sections. So that it becomes something like: * Starting guidelines * Authentication configuration * Mail configuration * Namespaces * Shared folders * SSL * POP3 * Dovecot LDA * Full configuration file reference * Examples / Scenarios I'd leave namespaces and shared folders there so that they can be easily found. I'm not sure where to put "full configuration file reference" or what exactly to call it. The same goes for Examples/Scenarios. Tuning should maybe be only part of "full guide". "Generic information about mail servers" is meant for discussion of mail server components, protocols, etc. without being too much Dovecot-specific. It's partially for "mail server newbies", but also would contain some "hard core" information about how things really work (mailbox format and user authentication especially). Anyway, if you have time please start adding the missing pages and writing to them. Even if you only give a FIXME-list that others can then fill out :) My school starts again at monday, and I'll be too busy to do anything else than that and work for the rest of January (after that only finals, yay).

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[Dovecot] fastbind patch -> auth_bind_userdn patch (attached)
by Geff 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Let me know how you like this one. This assumes one config parameter. The non-null of auth_bind_userdn overrides auth_bind = yes. I'm using this patch now on cvs head. Comments are always welcome. Thanks much, Geff

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[Dovecot] Questions regarding quota
by Stian Jordet 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I have some trouble trying to test the quota plugin. First off all, it says in the wiki: "Dovecot 1.0 supports quota using a quota plugin. It's currently discussed in Dovecot LDA page and it supports only very simple quota calculation which is suitable only for mboxes. Maildir++ quota support will come later." Does that mean that it won't work at all with Maildir++, or just that it's slow? Second; there are two plugins? One in src/plugins/quota and one ine src/plugins/imap-quota. What's the difference? Is one for imap-quota and the other for fs-quota? (I would love that!) But third and most importantly; I can't get it too work. I'm using CVS from tonight (which fixed the missing symbol bug). But neither when I'm using static userdb nor LDAP as explained in the wiki I can't get it to work. I'm not really sure of the getquota syntax, but whatever I try, I get: a OK No quota. So please, enlighten me! :) Best regards, Stian

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

I am resending this because I have not gotten a response in a few days. Help is appreciated! Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:50 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever > folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked > fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the > folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using "default_mail_env > = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same > error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files > so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results. > > Invalid mbox file error comes only if the first line of the mbox file > isn't valid. What does it look like? It should be something like: > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > 0.99.x Dovecot didn't accept broken From-lines either, but it might have > had slightly different logic in checking what's valid and what's not. Here is a sample file generated by postfix. Note: it is NOT censored or edited. What you see is the real thing. >From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18^M Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Received: from mail.fuelcellstore.com ([207.174.23.2]) by rwcrgwc55.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406013417.LNRM3313.rwcrgwc55.attbi.com(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> for <haroutetoot(a)attbi.com>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:34:17 +0000 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au [203.59.141.98] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id A64E1BA01F8; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:50:22 -0700 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (10.0.0.13 [10.0.0.13]) by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1KDV523W; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:25 +0800 Received: by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (Microsoft Exchange Connector for POP3 Mailboxes 4.50.2113) with SMTP (Global POP3 Download) id MSG04062002-084518-2751.MMD@SAA01; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:18 +0800 Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Delivered-To: saa(a)iinet.net.au Received: (qmail 28777 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:40 -0000 Delivered-To: saa-saleebaadamscomau-n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au X-Envelope-To: <n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au> Received: (qmail 28767 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.fuelcellstore.com) (207.174.23.2) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id AD4D1690192; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:11:57 -0700 Received: from jason ([12.81.167.50]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406001120.RBFM8815.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@jason>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:11:20 +0000 Reply-To: fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com From: "fuelcell" <fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com> To: list(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Subject: FuelCellStore.com Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:11:08 -0700 Message-ID: <001d01c1dcff$8f6c5fa0$cacbfea9@jason> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal X-Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Precedence: bulk Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-IMAPbase: 1135543792 1 Status: O X-UID: 1 Content-Length: 150475 X-Keywords: Dear Fuel Cell Enthusiast,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com would like to tell you about several new fuel cell products and our redesigned website. ^M ^M * ^M One of which is the new 500W unit that is available for residential back up power, or remote low power primary needs. These units can be stacked up to 1500W and self-starts upon grid failure ~V provi ding critical power for nominal apparatus and remote applications. You will find a link to this product at www.fuelcellstore.com^M * ^M Bench Top Methanol Reformer capable of generating ultra-pure hydrogen from methanol and water for University and Research Labs. Please reply for more information. ^M * ^M A fuel cell powered remote control car with metal hydride storage. ^M ^M FuelCellStore.com has many new educational products and a new nav bar to help you find the products you are looking for. Please check out our Student and Teacher section at www.fuelcellstore.com/products.htm l^M Please let us know what you think of the new site structure and any feedback would be great. ^M ^M You have received this message because you have contacted fuelcellstore.com in the past and asked to receive FuelCellStore.com news. If you would like to unsubscribe from our mailing please reply to this mes sage with unsubscribe in the subject heading. ^M ^M Sincerely,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com^M PO Box 4038^M Boulder, CO 80306-4038^M Harout Hedeshian harout(a)hedeshian.net 720 - 261 - 3548

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. Okay. Thanks. I will try getting the CVS version. Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Passwd file location
by Tracy Phillips 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I am trying to access my passwd file like this: passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/vmail/%d/passwd } Is that not possible. I keep getting an error when trying to login. I do not get much in my log files to help me debug it. Thanks, Tracy

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[Dovecot] FETCH FLAGS in response to SORT and SEARCH commands
by Michael Doppler 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hi, I am getting IMAP FETCH FLAGS in response to SORT and SEARCH commands for my INBOX. See the following transcript between dovecot (marked with S:) and an imap client (marked with C:) for an example SEARCH command. C: A004 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL TEXT {4} C: test S: + OK S: * SEARCH 5 13 20 21 22 23 24 30 37 39 56 64 77 82 93 94 96 103 109 110 118 135 136 158 160 165 171 174 175 177 180 181 190 198 207 209 210 212 220 221 233 237 242 248 250 253 256 257 261 270 278 281 294 296 301 302 303 304 305 309 310 317 318 320 323 330 331 333 342 343 352 355 356 357 365 387 390 394 407 412 416 426 428 432 437 450 451 454 459 460 465 468 470 477 482 484 488 493 500 522 524 526 529 530 537 541 571 575 580 597 604 666 689 730 738 741 742 743 746 750 751 752 753 754 755 758 759 760 762 763 764 766 767 768 770 772 773 782 788 797 798 829 831 832 835 836 842 854 863 864 865 866 868 869 871 874 880 881 891 943 944 945 954 957 962 963 964 965 968 970 971 973 974 985 986 987 S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: A004 OK Search completed Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail seem to be able to cope with this, but squirrelmail chokes when it receives those flags. I get them only for my INBOX and not for other folders like sent mail, so the behaivour seems to depend on the content of the folder. It occurrs at least with dovecot 1.0alpha4 and 1.0alpha5 using maildir. I have not tested other versions / mbox format. Is this behaviour expected? regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha?
by Marc Perkel 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and come out with an official version 1.0. Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people should be using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and stable as all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0. The "Alpha" label scares people off and with the 0.9x version being obsolete I think it creates confusion for new users. It created confusion for me when I converted to dovecot, and distros are less ,ikely to include versions with the Alpha label. Once you go to 1.0 you can start a 1.1 alpha series and finish it up. I know Timo has high standards but as a marketing issue I think that the Alpha label needs to go to get people to accept and use 1.0 in production. Thoughts? -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] problems connecting to the Problems connecting to mysql
by Alfonso Fernández Vázquez 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi, I'm trying to setup a mailserver running postfix and dovecot with mysql as database backend. Postfix is already running and delivers mails just fine. Unfortunately, dovecot has great problems connecting to the database (using username + password). Found that two threads about the same issue but none of them solves the problem http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-April/006770.html http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-August/008394.html I am using: dovecot-1.0.alpha5 mysql 5.0.17-1 Please, can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Alfonso

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[Dovecot] Status of your Dovecot GSSAPI patch
by Fredrik Tolf 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi! I saw your discussion on the Dovecot list back in October about a SASL GSSAPI patch for Dovecot. I'd like to ask what the status is on it. Are you still working on it? Thanks for your attention! Fredrik Tolf

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[Dovecot] Intermittent "Password Mismatch" errors
by dan＠ipws.com 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello - I have had a problem the last few days with Dovecot reporting intermittent "Password Mismatch" errors for pretty much every client. Not all the time, maybe 1 out of every 10 connections. I cannot pinpoint where the process may be failing. I am using a MySQL backend to store user information in, and Dovecot queries that database directly. It works fine, but it seems as if Dovecot has a problem connecting to the SQL server for this information, instead of doing something smart, it just reports a password mismatch. I've turned on debugging and verbose logging, but I can't see exactly *why* the process fails on occasion. MySQL is tuned appropriately, and there's no reason why Dovecot cannot connect to the server. I'm wondering if anyone has seen this, and if so, what they've done about it. Because honestly, I'm lost. Thanks -dant

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[Dovecot] very slow imap opens in pine after moving maildirs to new drive
by Dave Lugo 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, I've been running dovecot-0.99.10 for the past several years, with virtually no problems. Lately, I noticed that the filesystem holding my users' imap maildirs was getting close to full. So... last night, I used tar to copy /var/spool/imap to a new drive (9G scsi, reiserfs) that I then mounted under /var/spool/imap (after moving the old dir aside). After the move, what would take pine a handful of seconds, with the load average barely breaking .40, now takes several minutes, with a load average spike to nearly 3. I must admit to being rather puzzled by this, as I would not have expected the move to result in worse performance. Do I need to figure out what the index file names are, and delete those? Any suggestions greatly appreciated - as even closing pine now takes nearly 5 minutes, whereas when dovecot talks to my old imap dir (I've tested this), closing the session takes no more than 10 seconds. server is Mandrake 9.1, 2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise, P4 2.6GHz, 1G RAM 9G U2W SCSI system disk, 9G U2W SCSI (and big*ss IDE drive for /users). Each of the scsi drives is on its own aha-2940UW controller. Filesystem on old imap location (/var filesystem) is reiserfs, same as that on new dedicated disk. Thanks much, Dave -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lugo dlugo(a)etherboy.com LC Unit #260 TINLC Have you hugged your firewall today? No spam, thanks. -------------------------------------------------------- Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins.

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[Dovecot] fast bind patch for ldap passwords
by Geff 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

All, I'm not sure if I sent this in yet or not. Basically it works like this: if you set "fast_bind = yes" it overrides auth_bind. And requires that you set userdn. Example config: fast_bind = yes userdn = cn=%u,ou=people,o=dovecot I'm using the patch right now on the cvs head branch. Comments are welcome. Geff

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[Dovecot] another migration problem from courier with Outlook 2003
by Andreas Mimz 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

So I'm still trying to figure out a way to migrate from courier-imap to dovecot but I got stuck again... basically all of the clients are working now (more or less) - but when using outlook 2003 I don't see any email! the folders are there - just no emails! I think there's still a namespace problem somehow... I've attached the rawlog .in and .out files... when I select the Spam folder outlook tries to access "Posteingang.Spam" which should be "INBOX.Spam", shouldn't it?? my namespace config: namespace private { separator = . location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix=INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no } maybe anyone can help me out?! thanks a lot! aexd IDLE DONE tgr8 LIST "" "" qqvt IDLE DONE nlvq LSUB "" "*" wjll STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) yhuw STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) epjg STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) r2bz STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) 16iu STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) 3vki STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) dstc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) 64bl STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) gwa0 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) 31sy STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) u9fg STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) dypb IDLE DONE 4u5q LIST "" "INBOX" x8nb LSUB "" "*" dja3 LIST "" "INBOX" x40b LSUB "" "*" eg5t IDLE DONE mj6l SELECT "Posteingang" uj7v IDLE DONE 7w1o SELECT "Posteingang.Spam" zuyg IDLE DONE xsoy SELECT "Posteingang" kiuz IDLE DONE dx73 LSUB "" "*" 4qnd STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) 61vj STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) jhaw STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) x7t3 STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) gipp STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) cx56 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) yw81 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) nx8w STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) 1nfc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) wf7r STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) 9y3i STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) al6r IDLE DONE fcd9 LSUB "" "*" dpxa STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) 6fsv STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) 8nyj STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) lsnf STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) gmym STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) u7nd STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) r8zi STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) hrja STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) 9keb STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) iwfc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) 1pd6 STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) bhfu IDLE * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2006-01-02 00:01:31 + idling aexd OK Idle completed. tgr8 OK List completed. + idling qqvt OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" nlvq OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) wjll OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) yhuw OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) epjg OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) r2bz OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) 16iu OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) 3vki OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) dstc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) 64bl OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) gwa0 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) 31sy OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) u9fg OK Status completed. + idling dypb OK Idle completed. 4u5q OK List completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" x8nb OK Lsub completed. dja3 OK List completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" x40b OK Lsub completed. + idling eg5t OK Idle completed. mj6l NO Unknown namespace. + idling uj7v OK Idle completed. 7w1o NO Unknown namespace. + idling zuyg OK Idle completed. xsoy NO Unknown namespace. + idling kiuz OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" dx73 OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) 4qnd OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) 61vj OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) jhaw OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) x7t3 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) gipp OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) cx56 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) yw81 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) nx8w OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) 1nfc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) wf7r OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) 9y3i OK Status completed. + idling al6r OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" fcd9 OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) dpxa OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) 6fsv OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) 8nyj OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) lsnf OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) gmym OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) u7nd OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) r8zi OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) hrja OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) 9keb OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) iwfc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) 1pd6 OK Status completed. + idling

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[Dovecot] Using dovecot auth with Postfix
by Kim Culhan 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Attempting to setup smtpd auth for Postfix using the Dovecot authorization unix socket. Some info is at: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html To enable operation when Postfix is chrooted, a method from the reference above is to locate the socket at: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth To do this, I have this configuration in dovecot.conf: # listener sockets will be created by Dovecot's master process using the # settings given inside the auth section auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd { } userdb pam { } socket listen { master { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth-master # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = group = } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0660 } } } With this configuration Dovecot writes this to the log at startup: dovecot: Dec 31 17:04:32 Error: child 3536 (auth) returned error 89 dovecot: Dec 31 17:25:34 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Dec 31 17:25:34 Error: auth(default_with_listener): Unknown userdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) Before modifying the setup for this auth function, pam authentication was working fine. Also, Dovecot will make /auth owned by root which Postfix considers a 'fatal' problem. Should it be setup to run as user Postfix ? Any help here is vy appreciated -kim -- w8hdkim(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] LDAP - authentication with bind vs. password attribute read
by Geff 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Any word on this patch? http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-June/003867.html If not, I'll take a stab at it. Geff

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[Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hello! I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using "default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results. Thanks for the help, Harout S. Hedeshian

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