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[Dovecot] dovecot crash after upgrade on FreeBSD
by Marko Lerota 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Updated from ports collection from ver. dovecot-1.0.a3 to 1.0.a4_1. And it wan't work. Here's the log Nov 8 10:51:07 ot-group dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver 'passdb' Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: child 17872 (auth) returned error 89 -- One cannot sell the earth upon which the people walk Tacunka Witco

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[Dovecot] error 89 Failed to create storage with data
by Nicolas 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hello, I have this error message in logs : dovecot: Nov 07 21:49:34 Error: POP3(manager(a)mydomain.com): Failed to create storage with data: manager(a)mydomain.com dovecot: Nov 07 21:49:34 Error: child 27834 (pop3) returned error 89 When I try to retrieve email of manager(a)mydomain.com kmail says there is no new message although this email box is not empty. I don't understand why. In my dovecot.conf I have default_mail_env = maildir:/home/Courrier/%d/%n with mutt on the server I can read all emails in /home/Courriel and for example : /home/Courrier/mydomain/manager/ Does anyone have an idea where I have to look for ? Thank you for your help and your response Nicolas

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha4 uploaded to Debian unstable
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

I finally got some free time and uploaded 1.0alpha4. It will arrive in the archive by tomorrow afternoon. Together with the most recent libssl0.9.8 upgrade I think this will fix the SSL problems users have been facing. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] major pop3+ldap problem with alpha3 and alpha4
by Udo Rader 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

hi, For some of our customers we provide a pop3 access, and after an upgrade to alpha3, it is not working anymore. All of our data is ldap based and everything is working as before for our IMAP customers, but our POP3 users fail. Obviously the pop3 login process does not read the data correctly that comes from ldap. after enabling mail_debug, I saw the following error in our log: --------CUT-------- dovecot: Nov 02 18:01:32 Info: pop3(some.one.at.work): mbox: data=/virtual/at.work/home/some.one/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/some.one.at.work --------CUT-------- The INBOX should be /virtual/at.work/var/mail/some.one.at.work, yet the POP3 process obviously uses the default_mail_env settings. the relevant line in our dovecot-ldap configuration looks like this: -------CUT-------- user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,MailMessageStore,,uidNumber,gidNumber -------CUT-------- As I said, the IMAP process uses the ldap data correctly. any ideas? Udo -- bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] deleteing e-Mail, quota and dovecot
by Götz Reinicke 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hi, we run a RHEL4 E-Mail-Server with dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1. we use mbox and most users use imap. So I have set quota for the devices where the user mailfiles are saved. No I'm getting the situation, that users exide there quota but yet not the grace limit and the user isn't able to delete messages. e.g. the the soft limit is 100 MB, the hard limit is 110 MB. So there should be some space to delete unneeded emails. Am i thinking the wrong way? Or how should the quota-system work in this situation? Thanks for any ideas! Regard Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] Setup help
by Patrick Ernst 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

I'd previously had dovecot running on a Debian server but recently migrated to Suse. The nice, simple setup for dovecot on debian is not as easy using the dovecot sources. My lack of experience I'm afraid! I'd like to continue to use dovecot, especially as my current maildir directories are all set up ready to be use again. On suse (sles9) I have users authenticating by LDAP. In /var/log/dovecot I am getting errors like dovecot: Oct 27 22:17:41 Warning: Killed with signal 2 dovecot: Oct 27 22:28:03 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed (dn uid=dovecot,ou=people,dc=aro,dc=home): Protocol error The errors also include the same LDAP error but with signal 11 or 15 I cannot get dovecot working. I've tried the 1.0 alpah and also found an earlier version on the suse 10 DVD. Basically I'm looking to use the IMAP server to centrally store emails on our home/business server. Previously we've been downloading mails (POP) from various mail accounts and moving them to dovecot (debian). In the future, I'd like to use fetchmail to do this part and locally deliver mail. My LDAP domain base is dc=aro,dc=home. I generally use this as the local mail/DNS domain as well. I have edited both /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf and dovecot-ldap.conf. When I run dovecot it fails to start. I wonder if someone, in fairly broad ters could give me the steps for getting dovecot running with LDAP authenticated users? Regards Patrick

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[Dovecot] cache
by Lucas 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hi, I just update from 0.99 to 1.alpha4. I combined with squirrel since several years ago and all was like a charm. Now dovecot is like catching mails. I explain: - I sent an email to my account. I login to webmail and I could see the mail. - Then, I check my mail with an email client through pop3 (vpopmail). - After that the mail isnŽt in the server, but in the webmail appears one msg in Inbox folder and the header. When click to see the msg an error ocurred: Query: FETCH 1 (FLAGS BODYSTRUCTURE) I try this in my config file: mail_never_cache_fields = flags date.sent date.received size.virtual size.physical mime.parts imap.body imap.bodystructure But no success :( Thank you in advance, Lucas

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[Dovecot] forcing a default namespace
by Glenn Leavell 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

According to the Dovecot documentation, a "default namespace" is defined by simply configuring the namespace with an empty prefix, as in: namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes hidden = no } But my experience has been that this doesn't provide a true default, and that this namespace will only be selected when the client actually provides an empty ("") prefix. Is there a way to configure a default namespace that will always be chosen no matter what prefix the client provides, as long as there isn't an explicit match? I'd like to be able to have clients find mailboxes in a particular location no matter what they provide as their folder prefix. Thanks very much, -- Glenn Leavell <glenn(a)usg.edu> Office of Information and Instructional Technology Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0a4 + pam + winbind ?
by Stephen Lee 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hi, I would like dovecot/pop3 to authenticate against a Windows ADS server. I've got authentication working for Samba and ssh using pam_winbind.so. Here's what my /etc/pam.d/dovecot file looks like: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_winbind.so #auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account sufficient pam_winbind.so session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session sufficient pam_winbind.so and this is what a portion of the dovecot.conf file looks like: auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root } To get SSH to authenticate against ADS, the user name has to be prefaced with the domain name like "domain\user1". This is what I get when I attempt to login to Dovecot via Outlook/pop3 with the same naming scheme: Nov 3 20:09:45 server2 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.0.3 rip=192.168.0.227 resp=AHZjXGpvYW5uZQBqb2FubmU= Nov 3 20:09:45 server2 dovecot: auth(default): plain(domain\user1,192.168.0.227): Username contains disallowed characters Nov 3 20:09:46 server2 dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=domain\user1 Nov 3 20:09:46 server2 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<domain\user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.227, lip=192.168.0.3 Dovecot does not like the "\" character and I'm note sure authentication gets past that step to get to the pam phase. Any experiences and suggestions with Dovecot authentication against Windows Active Directory? Thanks, Stephen

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[Dovecot] courier2dovecot migration script
by Arto Bendiken 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Howdy, I've just migrated a couple of servers to Dovecot, and am loving it so far. I thought I'd share the courier2dovecot shell script I whipped together (based on the instructions I found in the wiki.dovecot.org migration how-to), for converting Courier-IMAP maildirs to Dovecot format. It can be downloaded from my home page: http://bendiken.net/scripts/ While the script is rather simple, it can save a fair bit of typing when migrating some hundreds of mail accounts... especially since Courier stores some of its own state files recursively in each folder of the maildir hierarchy, making it a real pain to otherwise manually rename or remove all of them. Here's a plain-English summary of what the script currently does, when given a Courier maildir path as an argument: - check that the given path is indeed a valid Courier maildir, and exit if not - rename the file 'courierimapsubscribed' to 'subscriptions', and strip the 'INBOX.' prefix from its contents - recursively rename all of files of the name 'courierimapuiddb' to 'dovecot-uidlist' - recursively delete all of files of the name 'courierimaphieracl', 'courierimapacl' and 'courierimapkeywords' The script will also verbosely print out each action it does, handy for redirecting the output to a log file for a large migration. I hope people about to jump ship from Courier to Dovecot find this useful. If anyone comes up with improvements to the script, please send them my way :-) Arto

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[Dovecot] Ambiguous ..... problem using Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 on OpenBSD 3.8
by snoop＠email.it 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I verified that "default_mail_env" on my dovecot configuration file are "maildir:" correctly prefixed and ... permissions of /var/mail/mydomain and /var/mail/mydomain/myuser are 2755 and owner is root:mail. Dovecot user is member of mail group. I'm sure that isn't an authentication problem. I've tried some days to understand and to find over internet but I've not find a solution and now ... doesn't want to work. Someone can help me? _________________________________ Log output: dovecot: Nov 03 20:20:39 Error: imap(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Nov 03 20:20:39 Error: imap(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Registrazione dominio, 500 MB per la posta elettronica, spazio web a partire da 2,92 Euro al mese e in pi� assistenza gratis! clicca qui Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=4079&d=3-11

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[Dovecot] assertion problems w/ 1.0alpha4
by Jeremy Brown 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hey list, I have been using 0.99.14 for a while now but recently decided to try to upgrade to 1.0alpha4 to get the latest and greatest. I'm building from source myself on a Slackware 10.0 machine. Slackware ships with UW-IMAP configured to keep your inbox in /var/spool/mail and your other folders in ~/. I've been using the same setup for dovecot so that the migration is smooth...so my default_mail_env is set to: default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u I'm able to connect to both pop and imap servers and authenticate myself, but as soon as I attempt to get a listing of my emails my dovecot setting crashes with the following in the mail logs: Nov 3 10:52:40 shallowhal dovecot: imap(jeremy): file mail-index-sync-ext.c: line 155 (get_ext_header): assertion failed: (memcmp((char *)(ext_hdr + 1), ext->name, strlen(ext->name)) == 0) I can trigger this over POP3 just by logging in, then issuing "USER username", "PASS password", and then "LIST". Anyone experienced anything like this before? Any ideas on what might be going on? I can include more debug information (like my dovecot.conf file) if it would help. Jeremy

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FW: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events
by Cliff Hayes 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Ok, I think I have that figured out. I made the following mods: disable_plaintext_auth = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv and it seems to work. Now...about those enhanced logging capabilities. As promised, I see the enhanced logging. What does TOP and RETR mean? (I checked the manual first) Cliff -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Hayes [mailto:chayes@afo.net] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:05 PM To: Chris Wakelin Subject: RE: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events Logs say (with enhanced debugging turned on): Nov 3 12:58:38 sendmail dovecot: pop3-login: Login failed: Plaintext authentication disabled -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Chris Wakelin Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:56 PM To: Cliff Hayes Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events Hmm, so what appears in the logs when you fail to authenticate? Have you tried the "debug" POP client :) ? telnet server 110 +OK University of Reading POP3 Server USER chris +OK PASS chrispassword +OK Logged in LIST 1 +OK 1 1234 QUIT +OK Logging out. Chris Cliff Hayes wrote: > Yes, that's what I have. I also found this: > > userdb prefetch { > } > > I must have missed that, so I commented that out and still had the same > problem. > > There is also this > > user = root > > in the auth default section. > > Cliff > > -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On > Behalf Of Chris Wakelin > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:27 AM > To: Cliff Hayes > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events > > > So what do you have for passdb and userdb? > > They should look something like > > auth default { > mechanisms = plain > > passdb shadow { > } > > userdb passwd { > } > > ... > > > (Earlier versions of 1.0, e.g. 1.0-stable, have just > > passdb shadow > userdb passwd > > ) > > Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] How to log POP3 events
by Cliff Hayes 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hello all, Thanks for your help getting me started. I have Dovecot running now. When I troubleshoot customer email problems, I need to be able to see the number of emails they popped. In /var/log/maillog, Dovecot just tells me that they authenticated, but not what happened after they authenticated. With pop3d, I saw how many emails they popped. Can I set that in Dovecot? I checked the documentation and couldn't find anything. I also turned on the "auth_verbose = yes" and "auth_debug = yes" -- but as the name implies, I only got more authentication info. Nothing about files tranferred. Thanks, Cliff

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[Dovecot] Vpopmail authentication problem
by [Mailclub] Laurent Bauer 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hello, I have a problem setting dovecot-1.0 / vpopmail authentication with virtual users. Here is my dovecot.conf (the part related to vpopmail) : passdb = vpopmail userdb = vpopmail default_mail_env = maildir:/home/domains/%d/users/%n I recompiled dovecot with "verbose" option and keep getting this error : Nov 3 11:10:58 ***** dovecot: auth(default): vpopmail(lb(a)mm.fr): unknown user (lb(a)mm.fr) whatever user/domain/password I am testing (including the correct one, of course) This is in src/auth/userdb-vpopmail.c line 35 : vpw = vauth_getpw(vpop_user, vpop_domain); According to the makefile, the binary was built with -L/home/vpopmail/lib and -I/home/vpopmail/include options ("standard" qmail/vmailmgr/vpopmail installation) so it should be ok ? I checked the permissions by setting a shell for vpopmail user, then 'su vpopmail' and read/write the password.cdb file. What could be wrong ? Has anybody got a sample config file / dovecot version working with vpopmail and virtual users, or an idea of what could be wrong in my config ? Thanks a lot. Laurent

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[Dovecot] double posts
by Chris L. Franklin 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Is any one else getting double posts from this list ? -- -- Chris L. Franklin -- ________________________________________________________________________ This email was scanned by the server at NomadCF.com, And has been deemed clean of invaild and or dangerous email attachment type and virus'. Although this is by no means a guarantee. ________________________________________________________________________

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RE: [Dovecot] New Fedora/Sendmail Install Assistance
by Jakob Hirsch 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Please keep list traffic on the list! Cliff Hayes wrote: > We are using Dovecot 0.99.14 Ok. Haven't used this for quite a while, so I don't know if I can really help you. > auth_userdb = passwd > auth_passdb = shadow Dovecot uses the homedir that's in your passwd then. But I wonder how you want to use IMAP. AFAIK, it needs a separate directory for every user anyway. At least the indexes etc. have to be stored somewhere. You should really read doc/mail-storages.txt: "mbox storage requires an IMAP root directory where to store IMAP folders and some other information..." I you can't provide a directory for every user, dovecot is probably not the software for you.

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[Dovecot] Still corrupt indexes in 1A4
by Alen Salamun 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello All! Well I still have users which almost daily get corrupt dovecot files in their IMAP folders (Maildir style) and are unable to read their mail in this particular folders. When I delete dovecot files in this folder (rm -rf dove*) user can again read all messages. This is regular Linux CentOS 4.2 with SAN storage (boot from SAN) as disks. So this is EXT3 on LVM. BUT it is VERY interesting that than happens only to two users which are connected to the server via slow links (reading via Thunderbird or Squirrelmail). It never happened (now for weeks) to other 10 users which use it localy or at home (on speedy links). It's very hard for me to exactly pinpoint the problem, since it never happens to me. But when it happened to one user again I asked him to send me screenshoot of it. I could see there that SquirrelMail said: "Warning: fgets() [function fgets]: SSL: fatal protocol error in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 93." Examining this file this line is in function: --------SQUIRRELMAIL PHP SOURCE------------ /** * Custom fgets function: gets a line from the IMAP server, * no matter how big it may be. * @param stream imap_stream the stream to read from * @return string a line */ function sqimap_fgets($imap_stream) { $read = ''; $buffer = 4096; $results = ''; $offset = 0; while (strpos($results, "\r\n", $offset) === false) { if (!($read = fgets($imap_stream, $buffer))) {<- THIS IS LINE 93 /* this happens in case of an error */ /* reset $results because it's useless */ $results = false; break; } if ( $results != '' ) { $offset = strlen($results) - 1; } $results .= $read; } return $results; } } ------------------------------------------- Looks like dovecot drops connection or something. Well must be related to corrupt dovecot files in particular folder, since deleting them solves the problem. BR, Alen Salamun

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[Dovecot] New Fedora/Sendmail Install Assistance
by Cliff Hayes 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello everyone, I've narrowed down my problem, so this should be an easy one for some smart person out there. I am moving from an old sendmail/Fedora 2 box to a new sendmail/Fedora 4 box and want to try Dovecot for pop3. The problem is, I can't get it to work. I have 9000 email accounts I will be moving to the new box. I've already tried and failed once. The problem is, Dovecot wants a home directory for each one. We don't use home directories. So, when I try to pop one of the accounts that was moved over, /var/log/maillog shows: Nov 1 14:33:47 sendmail pop3(chayes): mkdir_parents(/home/chayes/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied Nov 1 14:33:47 sendmail pop3(chayes): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-11-01 14:33:47] -or- Nov 1 14:29:18 sendmail pop3(chayes): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/chayes/mail: Permission denied Nov 1 14:29:18 sendmail pop3(chayes): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/mail/chayes ******** But if I create folders /home/chayes/ and /home/chayes/mail with user and group set to chayes, then it works. By the way, I've tried about 20 different iterations of the default_mail_env parameter. This is the one I'm using at the moment: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u Bottom line is, if Dovecot has to have a home directory, then I guess I'll have to go back to pop3d, which doesn't. Thanks, Cliff

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[Dovecot] 1.0.alpha4 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

The actual alpha4 release this time. With a few changes since the pre-release. The important changes again: - Default lock_method changed to flock instead of the old fcntl. Solaris users will need to set it back to fcntl. This makes sure that Dovecot's indexes aren't accidentally used with NFS. - IMAP: We might have sent extra EXPUNGE messages when output buffer got full. This could have caused various sorts of very bad behavior. This is the main reason why everyone should upgrade as soon as possible. - POP3: We sent duplicate replies for LIST command when output buffer got full. Probably caused Thunderbird's duplicate deletion bugs? (Although I thought someone checked that Dovecot's reply was correct when the bug occurred?) - pop3_uidl_format setting is now required to be explicitly set in configuration file for pop3 to work at all. I want to get rid of the old default setting which breaks Outlooks, and simply changing the default would break existing setups. - Multiple passdbs and userdbs of same type can now be added with different parameters. Some people asked about this earlier. - Authentication cache works now with other than SQL and LDAP passdbs. Some passdbs such as PAM require some additional settings to work. See example config file. - Some other fixes to authentication cache related to failure handling and non-plaintext authentication. - deny passdb wasn't working for non-plaintext authentication. New changes since alpha4 pre-release: - imap/pop3 proxy feature was broken - fixed an assert-crash in ostream-file.c that was only in the pre-release And some more changes since alpha3 that I didn't mention before: - zlib plugin updated in http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/zlib-plugin.tar.gz to be much faster than before - Added ssl_username_from_cert setting. Not actually tested yet, does it work? - epoll was broken with 64bit systems - Added deny password databases. - Dovecot can be run from inetd again - Index breakage/crashfix related to adding new keywords

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[Dovecot] Cannot build rpm with mysql support from dovecot.spec
by Erick Perez 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I've been playing for hours with the dovecot.spec file to build --with-mysql. The resulting RPM builds fine but when dovecot runs it does not recognize the passdb mysql statement. I also noted that the spec file has a version of 1.0-stable and rpmbuild complains about an invalid '-' in the version. Being a newbie in rpmbuild, can someone assist me in building for CentOS 4 on i386? standard build options but --with-mysql added. I also tried to install it from sources and it does not work (at least for me). Being a RPM user now I have to clean what the source installation did and i have no clue where the 'make install' placed files. BTW I am trying to build a manual (pdf, html) with the following config and im only stuck with dovecot, the other daemons are ready. Target Server: CentOS 4 with apache, postfix, mysql, dovecot, openwebmail,clamav, clamd, php,zlib,openssh, webmin and samba. All virtual running from mysql where possible, no local users no local storage (all to the mysql db/tables). Not wanted: postgresql, courier,vpopmail,kerberos,sasl,ssl (that might be in manual v2.0 if 1.0 ever sees the light) The system does not have X (no need for fancy graphs) file used: http://www.dovecot.org/nightly/stable/dovecot-stable-20051102.tar.gz RPMs Used: All RPMs that can be located in the CentOS 4 CDs so new users (like me) can do as much as needed without downloading. Devel RPMs: All devel (mysql, pam, openssl) are installed and they are recognized at building time. Your help will be appreciated in this task. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

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[Dovecot] failed to start
by Export TheGeek 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

greetings, I'm having a bit of trouble running dovecot, I receive the error; "Fatal: Can't create directory /usr/local/var/run/dovecot: No such file or directory" with an unmodified install save for disabling imap and allowing secure imap and pop3, I uncommented the base_dir in the .conf, although that did nothing. Does anybody have any suggestions? Many thanks, -Ex

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[Dovecot] Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb type 'mysql'
by Erick Perez 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi there, I have configured dovecot with mysql but when I restart (Redhat enterprise 4) the following error appears: dovecot: Nov 01 18:47:08 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: Nov 01 18:47:09 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Nov 01 18:47:09 Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Nov 01 18:47:09 Error: child 30738 (auth) returned error 89 I have all RPMs for mysql installed, as well as mysql-devel. how can I verify that mysql support was correctly compiled in? sugestions? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Problems with dual ldap auth
by Stian Jordet 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi, I can't seem to figure this out. Is it impossible to use two different ldap auth? It works if I use one ldap and one pam, but I do need to use ldap for both. This is from my config: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/ldap-virtual.conf } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/ldap-virtual.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = root #chroot = #count = 1 #ssl_require_client_cert = no } It works well if I only use one of them (so they seem to be correct), but together, only the last (dovecot-ldap) is used. Anyone see a reason for that? Best regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda - sieve notify support
by Sebastjan Trepca 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi, does current implementation of dovecot-lda supports sieve script like this: require ["notify"]; if header :contains "from" "boss(a)example.org" { notify :high "This is probably very important"; } And if it does, what happens in this case ? Is there any configuration for other notification methods? I didn't notice anything in configuration file. Thanks, Sebastjan

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