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[Dovecot] openssl > 0.9.f-4 a must for dovecot 0.99.14 ??
by Adrian Mak 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

My linux is Redhat AS3 U3, openssl is 0.9.7a-33 I downloaded dovecot 0.99.14 src rpm and rebuild to binary rpm Everything went smooth but I tried to install the dovecot binary rpm, it reported that openssl need >= 0.9.7f-4 Since there are many other rpm packages have dependency on the current version of openssl 0.9.7a-33, so It's not possible to upgrade openssl to 0.9.7f-4 or greater Is it a must to use openssl 0.9.7f-4 or greater in order to use dovecot 0.99.14 ?

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[Dovecot] Order of emails
by Marcus Don 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Hi We have an issue regarding the order in which emails are displayed in an imap folder, which our customers regularly complain about. By default, emails are returned from a folder in the order in which they were placed into the folder, which makes perfect sense. However, if an email is moved into another folder, it will always appear at the top, no matter how old it is. We could order the emails ourselves before displaying them in our webmail program. However, this would mean parsing the headers of every single email, which could be many thousands, so would slow things down considerably and greatly increase load. At the moment, we only read 30 at a time as the user pages through the folder. >From what I can see, the order is determined by the timestamp in the email filename, which gets updated every time the email is moved. Is there any way we could disable this, so the filename (or at least the timestamp part of it) remains constant? If so, would this affect in any way the behaviour of other imap clients, such as Outlook? All suggestions welcome. Thanks Marcus -- Marcus Don Applications Development Manager Namesco Limited Main Line: +44 (0)870 120 8888 Main Fax: +44 (0)870 120 8008 Tech Support: +44 (0)870 162 4950 Email: mdon(a)names.co.uk Website: http://www.names.co.uk Address: Acton House, Perdiswell Park, Worcester, WR3 7GD This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- | Free Dial-up - no need to register! | --------------------------------------- Namesco Limited provides Free dialup access to anyone that wishes to use it. You do not even have to be a customer, there is no need to register and is especially handy if you are unable to connect with your current provider. Simply use the following details: Dialup Number: 0844 535 2100* Username: namesco Password: easydialup * Local call rate charges apply, 33% Cheaper than BT's 0845 local call rate. If you need any help in configuring the Free Dial-up service on your computer, please do not hesitate to call us on 0870 162 4950.

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[Dovecot] Squirrelmail/dovecot sort problem/bug
by A.P.Munnikes 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Hello, there is a little bug in Squirrelmail 1.4.5 or Dovecot 1.0.alpha4-1: the sort is not correct if I use squirrelmail with the option: 10. Allow server thread sort : true 11. Allow server-side sorting : true with the option on false and with Thunderbird 1.5rc1 there is no problem, but I think Thunderbird 1.5rc1 already does the sort by itself. I have a folder with 1054 messages, but if I sort (from old to new) them in squirrelmail the newest 3 messages (received after the migration from thunderbird/pop3 to dovecot) are on the first page, before the messages from 5 month ago. 14:08 3.4 k (that is today 8 dec, 2005 ) 08:26 5.2 k + 00:07 2.9 k 8 jul, 2005 4.1 k 6 jul, 2005 3.5 k 3 jul, 2005 3.1 k 8 jul, 2005 4.1 k 6 jul, 2005 3.3 k 8 jul, 2005 3.8 k 5 jul, 2005 4 k 8 jul, 2005 7.4 k 11 jul, 2005 6.8 k Also my 'sent' folder: sorted from new to old contains on the last page 2 messaged that I send today (after the migration to dovecot) 12 jan, 2005 2.8 k 12 jan, 2005 1.7 k 11 jan, 2005 1.5 k 10 jan, 2005 1.1 k 8 dec, 2005 1.1 k ( <= send from thunderbird) 8 dec, 2005 1.6 k ( <= send from squirrelmail) And also an other mail folder has sorting problems. However my INBOX looks normal, while I received 5 or 6 messages after the migration. What have I done: *restarted apache2 a couple of times *restarted dovecot a couple of times *In the first folder (with >1000 messages) I already have deleted the dovecot files and new files are generated -rw------- 1 alfred alfred 17184 2005-12-08 23:41 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 alfred alfred 60416 2005-12-08 23:42 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 alfred alfred 17908 2005-12-08 23:42 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 alfred alfred 10 2005-12-08 21:15 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 alfred alfred 40600 2005-12-08 23:41 dovecot-uidlist *closed webbrowser and restarted a new firefox 1.5 and surfed to squirrelmail. I don't know if this is a dovecot or squirrelmail problem. Alfred

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[Dovecot] Update on Using Dovecot with Webmin
by Lee MSN 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

First of all thanks for the replies. I have decided to try the updated version 1.0 alpha After uninstalling Dovecot .99 and cleaning up user,groups and files. (Dovecot .99 was authenticating as best I can tell using unix users = the default -- and PAM = the default - I only had to setup the PAM if I remember correctly. Loaded Dovecot 1.0, made sure user, folders and files all seem to be setup correctly. Now - Webmin is able to stop and start Dovecot and it loads fine on reboot. But, it is pretty obvious that the Webmin modual is not up with then new and much more powerful Dovecot config file. For me that is OK, as long it will show weather the service is up or down - stop and start it, which is seems to be doing just fine. The reason I say this is when I try and use the Webmin modual to set user authentication to Standard Unix user database and PAM - it does not work. So I am needing help editing the Dovecot.conf file. My new problem is this: Can not get users to authenticate. I am trying to first setup just unix authentication - with plain text for starters then will move up to more secure. I have left the config file default - just made changes until it would start. With the notable execption I set plain text to yes. I have setup the Dovecot PAM file per the documentation. So what I need help now with is this I am wanting to setup a very simple setup to start with: A setup so that a outlook express client can login, using plain text password, unix login and password POP3 = yes Users = linux/unix (/etc/passwd) Passwords = PAM or Shadow Can anyone send me and edited config file that is setup to for this type of authentication? Or cut from their config file those sections needed for the authentication? Actually, if anyone is willing to share a config file that is setup with a more secure type of authentication that would be great too. (Thinking of switching to Cyrus - have any of you jump off of Cyrus to use Dovecot -- why??) Lee D System: Fedora Core 4 with SE on SendMail 8.13.4 SpamAssassign 3.03 MailScanner 1.1-4 ClamAV .87 Webmin 1.250 Webmin Dovecot Module - not sure only one out there _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/

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[Dovecot] Dovecot out of memory errors on Debian sid
by Ric 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

hi I have dovecot (1.0.alpha4-1) installed on a Debian sid amd64 machine (dovecot-imapd and dovecot-common). I am using this so that I can use both Mutt and something like Thunderbird to access my local Maildir folders. Sometimes it works fine. Sometimes when I try to access my mailboxes locally using Mutt, it hangs for a very long time (the bottom of the screen says "Selecting in..." (.in is the mailbox), and eventually gives me a blank mailbox with "(no mailbox)" at the bottom of the screen. In /var/log/mail.err I find lines like the following: Dec 3 06:39:02 localhost dovecot: child 4600 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory) Dec 3 06:44:03 localhost dovecot: imap(ric): pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory For example, it was working fine earlier this morning, but now I am unable to access the mailboxes and I'm getting the error messages in /var/log/mail.err. I have the same problem with Thunderbird; it hangs and cannot access the mailboxes. At my office I have dovecot (0.99.14-1) installed on a Debian sarge machine and it works fine. I would appreciate any suggestions as to what to try or what to look for. My dovecot.conf file is very simple: ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file protocols = imap listen = localhost ssl_disable = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_extra_groups = mail protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } userdb prefetch { } user = root } Thanks, Ric

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[Dovecot] "Out of memory" error in 1.0alpha3
by Sergey A. Lipnevich 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Hi All, I have Dovecot 1.0 Alpha3 running on x86_64 Linux 2.6 multi-CPU box using Maildir folders. Moving messages from one folder to another in Thunderbird 1.0.7, regardless of their size (usually small), produced error 83, "Out of memory", when both of these parameters were unset (default): mail_read_mmaped, mmap_disable. The log line before the error was pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory. I initially changed mmap_disable to "yes", the error stopped, but it still wasn't moving messages reliably. I then set MM parameters more aggressively: mail_read_mmaped = yes, mmap_disable = no (and the third of the series, mmap_no_write, is left unset). The error stopped popping up, and the moving works speedily. Maybe the default for mail_read_mmaped should be "yes?" Thank you! Sergey.

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[Dovecot] yet another update of the Dovecot AUTH patch: 20051208
by /dev/rob0 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Wietse won't sit still ... removal of the lmtp(8) client broke the previous issue of the revised Dovecot AUTH patch. So I just redid it for the 20051208 snapshot: http://www.nodns4.us/postfix-2.3-20051208-dovecot-auth.patch.gz $ md5sum *gz ; ls -l $_ 32946afa424b3fbc04c8d9822e711e1f postfix-2.3-20051208-dovecot.patch.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 rob0 console 7287 2005-12-09 17:09 postfix-2.3-20051208-dovecot.patch.gz The original patch is here: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/postfix-2.2.1-dovecot-auth.patch Instructions are here (and don't forget the Postfix SASL_README too): http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/README NB: Although my own postfix-2.3-20051208 snapshot compiled with the patch and is running, it is not tested at all. I'll try with AUTH later and see if it's working. I will not be able to test with LMTP. IIUC how this patch affects LMTP, it's only in that the USE_SASL_AUTH flag was changed to USE_SASL_CLIENT_AUTH. So the only people affected would be ones who are using Cyrus-SASL for client AUTH. Please let me know via either list (or offlist, see .sig) if you use this and have any problems. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header

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[Dovecot] prefetch userdb on 1.0.alpha4
by Feraudet Cyril 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi all, I've a problem with prefetch userdb function on 1.0.alpha4 ? I get this : Error: auth(default): ldap(mylogin,10.3.245.xxx): Multiple password replies Info: auth(default): ldap(mylogin,10.3.245.xxx): base=dc=boursorama,dc=fr scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass= boursoramaMailAccount)(mailInternalAllowedProtocol=imap)) fields=uid,userPassword An ldapsearch with the same filter give to me only one reply ... Have you an idea ? Thanks, Cyril Feraudet parts of my dovecot.conf : ---------------------------------- protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u } auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb prefetch { } user = root } parts of my dovecot-ldap.conf : ----------------------------------------- user_attrs = uid,,,,, user_filter = (&(objectClass=boursoramaMailAccount)(uid=%u) (mailInternalAllowedProtocol=imap)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=boursoramaMailAccount) (mailInternalAllowedProtocol=imap)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT

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[Dovecot] rpmbuild error on dovecot 0.99.11
by Adrian Mak 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

my linux server is redhat AS 3 update 5. I download dovecot 0.99.11 source rpm to rebuild a binary rpm package I issued command rpmbuild -ba dovecot.spec after a few mins of works, rpmbuild process stopped with errors .............. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -c unlink-lockfiles.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -c utc-offset.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -c utc-mktime.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -c var-expand.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -c write-full.c rm -f liblib.a make[3]: AR@: Command not found make[3]: *** [liblib.a] Error 127 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-0.99.11/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-0.99.11/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-0.99.11' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.11388 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.11388 (%build) What's the meaning of these errors ?

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[Dovecot] dotlock & NFS
by Marten Lehmann 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hello, is dotlock supposed to work with NFS? I noticed that the default-locking method causes problems even with nfslockd started. Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth patch updated for Postfix 2.3-20051121
by /dev/rob0 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Once again I have updated Timo's auth patch for Postfix 2.2.1 to work with a 2.3 snapshot. It applied cleanly and compiled and is running for me, but is not really tested. This is Timo's code, not mine. All I did was manually edit in the rejects from the old patch. Find it here if you're interested: http://www.nodns4.us/postfix-2.3-20051121-dovecot-auth.patch.gz md5sum: 6f01782a118f5407f1ed40f4714504cd postfix-2.3-20051121-dovecot-auth.patch.gz The original patch is here: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/postfix-2.2.1-dovecot-auth.patch -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header

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[Dovecot] Controlling Dovecot with Webmin
by Lee MSN 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Dear Sir I have just setup a Fedora 4SE server, with Webmin - latest production release and Dovecot .99.14. The only way to start dovecot is to be logged into the server as root - locally or ssh, and type the dovecot command. >From Webmin - logged in as ROOT, when I attempt to start Dovecot it tells me that it can't because it can not open the config file - permission denied. This indicates to me that Webmin is not really logged in a "root" but that doesn't seem right since I use root/password when I access the server per the Webmin instructions. Also, in the Webmin configuration for that server - it references a master.pid file. Which did not exist. I tried to create a pid file using the PID (19638) of the Dovecot service. That did not help the start up problem, but I am sure needs to be fixed before I can have the service start on boot up?? I got the PID number after starting Dovecot and then going and seeing the services that where then running. The user/group Dovecot where created during the install. Sendmail is running along with SpamAssassign. When I start Dovecot, logged in as root at shell, everything runs well, email is processed all the way through. Do you know how to resolve this problem of controlling Dovecot through Webmin and making sure the Dovecot will start on reboot of the server. Thank you very much. Lee D. I am new to setting up linux servers like this. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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[Dovecot] Dovecot login hangs often
by P P Anwar 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi - We have dovecot version : 0.99.11 release : 2.EL4.1 on Centos 4.2, with an LDAP backend (Samba PDC) and pam set to authenticate against LDAP. Dovecot is set to use pam for authentication. It uses mbox, and the machine has very little load (95% idle, no memory pressure). Every 36 hours or so, no users are able to login to imap (we have only imap enabled). Other services that use the same backend are working fine (like squid and ssh logins) even while this is happening. So we are not sure if we can blame this on pam/ldap problems. When this happens, we tried a "service dovecot restart", and that results in saying the "address is in use". About 10 "imap-login" processes seem to lurk around holding on to the imap port. We can get dovecot service to start again, only after a "killall -9 imap-login". What kind of debug should we enable so that you all can diagnose this further ? Any other configuration things that we should try ? We prefer to stay with Redhat/Centos releases, but if this is already reportedly fixed in one of the later builds, we are open to trying one. Regards, Anwar.

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[Dovecot] mysql auth 4.1.x with dovecot alpha 4 fails ...
by wiki kaha 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

I've dovecote on openbsd running. after using mysql 4.1.15 the authentication with dovecote fails. When I use no password, it works. There seem to be a problem? Is this a known topic? regards Karl-Heinz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Re: corrupt attachments
by Brian Thompson 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hello all, any suggestions on this? It seems like a pretty serious issue and it hasn't reoccurred since we switched back to UW imapd. As I mentioned, it seems to be related to dovecot compiled on Solaris 10/x86... The same code compiled on Solaris 8/sparc seemed to work well. -Brian Brian Thompson wrote: > > Not sure if this has already been covered, but any pointers > or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > We just realized last night that dovecot-stable seems to be > corrupting the attachments within users' inboxes. > > In an attempt to resolve the problem, we upgraded the > mail server here to Dovecot 1.0alpha4 but it didn't help. > > To the best of our knowledge we didn't start experiencing > this phenomena until we migrated from Solaris 8/Sparc > to Solaris 10/x86 about 3 weeks ago. > > To be more specific: > A non-corrupt attachment can be sitting within a user's > mail spool (mbox format) and live there without a problem > until an imap client goes to download the attachment via > dovecot. > > At that time, dovecot seems to be stripping the last four > characters from each base64 encoded ascii line within the > attachment and rewriting the message within the mail spool > without those characters. From then on, the attachment is > permanently corrupt, even via local unix direct file access > clients such as pine or elm. > > We've temporarily switched back to UW imapd, but users > have noticed the decrease in speed - not having the indexing > available. > > Again, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Brian > > >

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[Dovecot] "pop before smtp" dovecot.conf
by Jean-Marc Pigeon 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Bonjour a Tous, I would like to generate (on the fly) a list "popbeforesmtp" when dovecot POP/IMAP authentication succeed. Intended Format will/should be such as: 'timestamp_in_second' user_id remote_ip one user per line. My guess we have all the needed information within dovecot to make such list. But I have seen no way to 'trick' dovecot (dovecot-1.0.alpha3) to do it... Could someone on the list able to give me some advices? I know there is Perl script to scan maillog file and extract information from collected data, but this seem to me 'a kind of the very last option'.... May be the trick can be achieved using 'executable' function? Ideally I'll like to have an entry in dovecot.conf, like... popbeforesmtp=/somewhere/in/the/tree A bientot -- ========================================================================== Jean-Marc Pigeon Internet: Jean-Marc.Pigeon(a)safe.ca SAFE Inc. Phone: (514) 493-4280 Fax: (514) 493-1946 REGULUS, a real time accounting/billing package for ISP REGULUS' Home base <"http://www.regulus.safe.ca"> ==========================================================================

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[Dovecot] Pop-before-smtp and MySQL?
by Matteo Garofano 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi, I found that dovecot have many nice features. Now I write because I'm tring to setup the dovecot server, I would substitute a qpopper daemon (patched for mysql authentication) The problem I find is to set up the pop-before-smtp using sql (mysq) as written in http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/PopBSMTPAndDovecot (Waiting for post_login ;-) I would use the script popbsmtp.sh and not a perl pig. (I'm using qpopper patched to store the relay IP in mysql and it works) I set .my.cnf in /root What happen is that the $3 don't contain the IP that should be written to the DB. Is there something I miss ? I tried to modify the dovecot.conf file like this mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/popbsmtp.sh /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 %r "%r" and it write to the db the litteral value %r and not the ip, otherwise it write nothing. the connection with mysql works and any other operation on it works. this should be the last step for my setting. Have you any hint? Thanks in advance and best regards Matteo Garofano

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[Dovecot] Dovecot.conf
by Clovis Tristão 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi, I am mounting a server of email with the Dovecot as MUA, i would like to restrict the access to imap and ipop to one determined range of IP. As I configure this in dovecot.conf, I did not understand the functioning of listen = * or [: ] Thanks a lot, Clovis -- Clóvis Tristão -------------------:-oo)---- Seja Legal, use GNU/Linux ----------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Tools to analyze status/stats?
by wolff 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hello, I recently installed dovecot on a server running Debian. I only have 10 users, but we probably have 6Gig of email between us. Things were working flawlessly for a couple of weeks, and I'm still getting email, but the last few days we are getting fewer emails that we typically do. So although things seem to be working well, everyone is suspicious something is wrong due to the lack of email volume. Is there a size limit that dovecot can manage? Are there any admin tools to get status messages for dovecot? Are there any reporting tools to show how many messages are processed/managed by dovecot? Thanks!!

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha4: pop3_reuse_xuidl patch
by grant beattie 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

hi all, this is needed to make the pop3_reuse_xuidl option work in 1.0alpha4. I am using maildir and I noticed that for each message which doesn't have an indexed X-UIDL header, the entire message is read from disk. as this is reading only headers, it is probably reasonable to stop reading at the end of the headers. it would also be neat if dovecot could be configured to only try reading X-UIDL headers from messages if the mailbox indexes don't exist, since I guess it would be common to want to preserve existing X-UIDLs but not bother for new messages (perhaps some mtime comparison, or something). opinions? I haven't looked at the source enough yet to be able to do this, but these two optimizations would vastly reduce the amount of disk IO as a result of using this option. grant. [apologies if this shows up twice, I originally sent it from an address which isn't subscribed, and it got held] --- src/pop3/commands.c.orig 2005-10-17 02:21:39.000000000 +1000 +++ src/pop3/commands.c 2005-11-09 15:26:15.000000000 +1100 @@ -567,6 +567,8 @@ mail_get_first_header(ctx->mail, "X-UIDL"); if (uidl == NULL) var_expand(str, uidl_format, tab); + else + str_append(str, uidl); ret = client_send_line(client, "%s", str_c(str)); t_pop();

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[Dovecot] Unknown message data
by Paul 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Running 1.0-alpha4 on Sarge, when I move a message with a blank subject from one mailbox into another, and then open that destination mailbox in Pine, Pine gives me the error "Unknown message data: 1001 FETCH", where 1001 is the UID of the message. Paul

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[Dovecot] Struggling with namespaces...
by Kev Latimer 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi all, I've been using dovecot 0.99x as a basic POP3/IMAP server at a couple of sites for a few months now and am very happy with it's simplicity, stability and performance, especially over the rather 'clunky' courier and the mammoth cyrus. I'm building up a top level mail server for our organisation and am desperate to use dovecot in there but I'm really struggling with using namespaces to create some shared maildirs - note that in this case I'm using the 1.0alpha4 debian packages that recently made it into 'etch'. I have very simple requirements here - I just want to be able to have some common folders subscribable by certain users, for my testing an announcements folder accessible by all and an archive folder I want to place some restrictions on. Whenever someone needs access to someone elses folder (ie. holiday watch), symlinking should be sufficient. I can start up dovecot, log in as a user (I authenticate against LDAP btw), see the directories specified in my namespace directives be created but I can't subscribe to anything. Squirrelmail gives an error stating "[TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: archives" while Thunderbird shows the folder names in grey and refuses to subscribe. Am I missing the point of namespaces or have I failed to create something in the folders to get them to play? I read something about a dovecot-shared file but I think this is a 0.99 thing, although I tried creating the file with the permissions I wanted applied to the folder and it didn't do anything... I did notice that when the folders are created, they are created owned by the first user logged in. I have tried chmod'ing them to 777 to see if it makes a difference, but alas, no. The relevant bit of dovecot.conf is: namespace private { separator = / #prefix = #location = inbox = yes #hidden = yes } namespace public { separator = / prefix = announcements/ location = maildir:/var/mail/announcements/Maildir } namespace shared { separator = / prefix = archives/ location = maildir:/var/mail/archives/Maildir } I'm sure I'm just being picky, but a better explanation of namespaces in the docs might be in order, maybe with some examples. If I get this sussed out, I'll put one in the wiki ;) Any help much appreciated! Kev

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[Dovecot] 1.0.alpha4 process creation wierdness
by Mark Rosenstand 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi list! I'm a little confused. I have set "login_process_per_connection = yes" and "login_processes_count = 1", and this is how my pstree looks when nobody is connected: dovecot -,- dovecot-auth `- imap-login However, when I connect with a client it looks like this: dovecot -,- dovecot-auth |- imap `- 2*[imap-login] I would expect it to only have one imap-login running. Anyway, when I disconnect the client, the imap process exits but imap-login keeps running: dovecot -,- dovecot-auth `- 2*[imap-login] This is when it gets really wierd. When I connect a client again, my pstree looks like I would have expected it to on my first connect: dovecot -,- dovecot-auth |- imap `- imap-login If I re-connect, we start over again (i.e. dovecot-auth, imap, 2 * imap-login). Anybody got a clue what's going on? :-) -- .-. Mark Rosenstand (-.) oo| cc ) /`'\ (+45) 255 31337 3-n-( (\_;/) mark(a)borkware.net _(|/`->

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[Dovecot] Feature/bug starting from xinetd
by Geoffrey S. Mendelson 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi, I hate to have my first post be a bug, but this drove me crazy for a while. I compiled the latest version from source and followed the instalation instructions. I then copied the xinetd.d entries from the Wiki and proceded to test. No matter what I did I could not log on. I found that while I was editing /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf, nothing was hapening. I then started it manualy and found several errors in my editing. :-) After fixing the errors and getting it to work properly, I went back to running it from xinetd. It would not allow me to log on, nor would it use any of the loging options I set. After making a symlink from /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf to /etc/dovecot.conf, it worked perfectly. My suggestions: 1. Change the Wiki to point out the difference in the config file location. 2. Change the inetd version to default to /usr/local/etc. 3. Add (and/or document) an option to the inetd version to specify config file location. Thanks, Geoff. ( A very happy Dovecot user, thanks for a good product). -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 You should have boycotted Google while you could, now Google supported BPL is in action. Time is running out on worldwide radio communication.

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[Dovecot] New Install Assistance
by Cliff Hayes 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello, I built a Fedora 4 sendmail server to replace our old one. I wanted to try the stock Dovecot popper (we currently use pop3d). I tried implementing Dovecot this morning and failed. All I want to use is the POP portion (no IMAP). From what I could find on the Internet, all I had to do is change dovecot.conf protocols line to read like this: protocols = pop3 Apparently, that wasn't enough. Here are the errors I saw in maillog: Oct 31 07:54:23 sendmail dovecot: child 25511 (pop3) returned error 89 Oct 31 07:54:24 sendmail pop3(cliffhayes): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/cliffhayes/mail: Permission denied Oct 31 07:54:24 sendmail pop3(cliffhayes): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /home/cliffhayes) Now, I did find out that I had a permissions problem with /var/spool/mail (I had done an SCP of all our users to var/spool/mail on new box). All user mailboxes had root/root as user/group. I know how to fix that for next time, but why is it trying to use a home directory (we don't use those)? And what MAIL environment is missing? Do I need to mess with the following settings: # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n Thanks, Cliff

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