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[Dovecot] Dovecot IMAP and Mac OS X Mail.app
by Ronny Adsetts 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi All, I recently switched our Courier IMAP server over to Dovecot primarily for performance reasons. Server OS is Debian Sarge with Dovecot packages from backports.org (v 1.0.rc2-1bpo1). Access from Thunderbird and Horde worked fine with some shared folders defined and the Courier compatibility private folder stanza. Initial testing with Mail.app showed that, although the folder listing was fetched correctly including all shared folders, no mail could be viewed with Mail.app timing out with an error about invalid namespace. (I'll post the exact error message as a follow up when I can test again later). After searching the mailing list for a while, I came upon a message suggesting adding a second private namespace like so: namespace private { separator = . prefix = "INBOX." inbox = yes hidden = no } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } Now, this does work in a fashion and allows Mail.app to access the folders and mail. Problem with this config: * Mail.app displays all INBOX. folders at the top level *and* below Inbox * Thunderbird displays a spurious INBOX folder in the folder listing under Inbox. * Horde displays folders at the top level and below Inbox. Whilst not being a huge problem for our internal mail server, this is not optimal. Has anyone else had these or similar problems and managed to work them out? If so, how did you configure Dovecot or the clients to all play nicely together? I'd quite like to roll Dovecot out on our client mail server but I need to work this out first so any help is appreciated. Thanks. Ronny -- Ronny Adsetts Technical Director Amazing Internet Ltd, London t: +44 20 8607 9535 f: +44 20 8607 9536 w: www.amazinginternet.com

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[Dovecot] IMAP(aweaver): quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /dev/sda1) failed: Invalid argument
by Drew Weaver 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Anyone have a solution for this, it appears in the log every time a user accesses their E-Mail via IMAP it obviously relates to filesystem quotas. I'm running: Linux version 2.6.9-34.ELsmp dovecot-1.0.rc2 Disk quotas for user aweaver (uid 1880): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/sda1 72172 512000 640000 7167 0 0 Relevant config(/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf): mail_plugins = quota imap_quota quota = fs any advice would be lovely. Thanks, -Drew

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[Dovecot] Deleted email does not appear in the Trash folder
by Brent Clark 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi all I seem to have this problem whereby if I delete an email, then the deleted email does not appear in the Trash folder. I tried setting dovecot mail_debug = yes, but I find in syslog, mail.log etc that there is very limited information. If anyone could assit, I would be most greatful. Kind Regards Brent Clark P.s. I use Thunderbird as the mail client

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[Dovecot] Can't change permissions for /var/spool/postfix/dovecot.index.log
by James Brown 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

For some reason i can't change the permissions on /var/spool/postfix/ dovecot.index.log from postfix to dovecot, or anything else. I changed all the files in /var/spool/postfix to be owner postfix so that postfix wouldn't complain about insufficient priviledges. I'm running MacOS X 10.4.7. I can change it all I want, but the owner and group changes do not 'stick' - they simply stay at postfix. Does anyone have any ideas? Can I have the index and index.log files elsewhere? Thanks, James.

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env %d problem
by Den Zinevitch 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi all. I`ve got such problem: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/domain.net.ua/%n - it works. But when I say: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%d/%n - it not. Log: Aug 3 22:51:19 serv dovecot: POP3(user): mbox: data=/home/user/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail//user Aug 3 22:51:19 serv dovecot: POP3(user): mbox: root=/home/user/mail, index=/home/user/mail, inbox=/var/mail//user Aug 3 22:51:19 serv dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=xx.xx.xx.x, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Aug 3 22:51:19 serv dovecot: POP3(user): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0

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[Dovecot] alternate rawlog directory
by Thomas Hummel 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hello, In rc2 sources, the rawlog directory seem to be hard-coded to be looked for in $HOME. I'd like to have a way to centralized the place where rawlog files are, in order to be able : . to rotate them more easily . not to leave them at the user's reach . not to have to enter the user's directory to read them I'd like to have a layout similar to this : /var/log/dovecot.rawlog/ /user1/20060708-093811-45581.in /user1/20060708-093811-45581.ou /user1/... /user2/20060708-093811-45590.in /user2/20060708-093811-45590.out What do you think about that idea ? Is there already a patch to do that, should I change rawlog.c or is ther already a regular way do do that ? Thanks -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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Re: [Dovecot] (no subject)
by Scott Zahn 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

On Thu, August 3, 2006 15:28, David Jonas wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:07 -0400, Scott Zahn wrote: >> Hey everyone, I'm trying version 1.0rc2, via the rpm at ATrpms. I'm running on CentOS >> 4.3 on an Opteron system. I have this running stably on a 32 bit system, but I'm >> crashing constantly on a 64 bit system. >> >> Here's what I'm getting in my mail logs when I try to log in via IMAP: >> >> Aug 3 15:01:21 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == >> data_size) >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3208 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == >> data_size) >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3210 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == >> data_size) >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3212 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 >> (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == >> data_size) >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 >> (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == >> data_size) >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3214 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3218 (imap) killed with signal 6 > > I believe this has to do with how the index files are written, with a 32bit or 64 > bit offset. If you remove all the index files, etc from the mailbox when you switch > between the two, or compile with the specific offset, it should work > fine. You're right. I should have looked closer at the log entries. I went to my maildir and ran a find . -name "dovecot.index*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f, which got rid of all the index files, but left the uidlists alone. That worked. The 64 bit dovecot is now running fine. So I guess we know that a 32 bit and a 64 bit dovecot can't both use the same mail store. Doesn't the dovecot front page talk about sanity checks being done to prevent this kind of stuff? This makes dovecot seem brittle. Anyway, thanks for the help. cheers, Scott

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Re: [Dovecot] (no subject)
by Scott Zahn 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Ah, so *that's* why I didn't see my reply appearing on the list! I'll repost so it gets archived. On Thu, August 3, 2006 16:07, David Jonas wrote: > Just a note, try to reply to the message list when you post replies. I > don't mind getting the email, but other users may need the information! > > Regards, > > David > > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:59 -0400, Scott Zahn wrote: >> On Thu, August 3, 2006 15:28, David Jonas wrote: >> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:07 -0400, Scott Zahn wrote: >> >> Hey everyone, I'm trying version 1.0rc2, via the rpm at ATrpms. I'm running on >> CentOS >> >> 4.3 on an Opteron system. I have this running stably on a 32 bit system, but I'm >> >> crashing constantly on a 64 bit system. >> >> >> >> Here's what I'm getting in my mail logs when I try to log in via IMAP: >> >> >> >> Aug 3 15:01:21 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 >> >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == >> >> data_size) >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3208 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 >> >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == >> >> data_size) >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3210 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 >> >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == >> >> data_size) >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3212 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 >> >> (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size >> == >> >> data_size) >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 >> >> (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size >> == >> >> data_size) >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, >> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3214 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3218 (imap) killed with signal 6 >> > >> > I believe this has to do with how the index files are written, with a 32bit or 64 >> > bit offset. If you remove all the index files, etc from the mailbox when you switch >> > between the two, or compile with the specific offset, it should work >> > fine. >> >> You're right. I should have looked closer at the log entries. I went to my maildir >> did >> a find . -name "dovecot.*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f, which got rid of all the index >> files, but left the uidlists alone. That worked. The 64 bit dovecot is now running >> fine. So I guess we know that a 32 bit and a 64 bit dovecot can't both use the same >> mail store. >> >> Doesn't the dovecot front page talk about sanity checks being done to prevent this >> kind >> of stuff? This makes dovecot seem brittle. Anyway, thanks for the help. >> >> cheers, >> Scott >> > >

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Re: [Dovecot] (no subject)
by David Jonas 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:39 -0400, Scott Zahn wrote: > On Thu, August 3, 2006 15:28, David Jonas wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:07 -0400, Scott Zahn wrote: > >> Hey everyone, I'm trying version 1.0rc2, via the rpm at ATrpms. I'm running on CentOS > >> 4.3 on an Opteron system. I have this running stably on a 32 bit system, but I'm > >> crashing constantly on a 64 bit system. > >> > >> Here's what I'm getting in my mail logs when I try to log in via IMAP: > >> > >> Aug 3 15:01:21 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, > >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 > >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == > >> data_size) > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, > >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3208 (imap) killed with signal 6 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 > >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == > >> data_size) > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, > >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3210 (imap) killed with signal 6 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 > >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == > >> data_size) > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, > >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3212 (imap) killed with signal 6 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 > >> (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == > >> data_size) > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, > >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 > >> (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == > >> data_size) > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, > >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3214 (imap) killed with signal 6 > >> Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3218 (imap) killed with signal 6 > > > > I believe this has to do with how the index files are written, with a 32bit or 64 > > bit offset. If you remove all the index files, etc from the mailbox when you switch > > between the two, or compile with the specific offset, it should work > > fine. > > > > Well, shoot. If I remove the index files and let dovecot rebuild them, won't that lead > to my users re-downloading their entire inboxes if they're using POP3? Depends on how you have the UIDL format configured. Personally I use maildirs and have the format be the filenames so I can continue to use qmail-pop3d (for now). If you're using the default, yeah, I think that's a generated id. Another option would be to recompile dovecot on the 64bit system with the --with-file-offset-size=32 instead of the RPMs. It is really an easy build. Personally, first I'd try removing the index files for my own account and see if my mail gets re-downloaded. Please note that I've done very little on 64bit systems, so these are mostly guesses. But I have compiled with --with-file-offset-size=64 and had to remove my index files to avoid that crash. > -Scott >

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Scott Zahn 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hey everyone, I'm trying version 1.0rc2, via the rpm at ATrpms. I'm running on CentOS 4.3 on an Opteron system. I have this running stably on a 32 bit system, but I'm crashing constantly on a 64 bit system. Here's what I'm getting in my mail logs when I try to log in via IMAP: Aug 3 15:01:21 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == data_size) Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3208 (imap) killed with signal 6 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == data_size) Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3210 (imap) killed with signal 6 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105 (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == data_size) Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3212 (imap) killed with signal 6 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3214 (imap) killed with signal 6 Aug 3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3218 (imap) killed with signal 6 Can someone confirm whether this is a bug or not? thanks, Scott

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[Dovecot] 1.0 RC3 released
by Timo Sirainen 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc3.tar.gz.sig Does this fix the hangs people have been reporting? - SSL connections hanged sometimes, especially when saving messages. - mbox: Mail bodies were saved with CR+LF linefeeds - Mail forwarding was broken with deliver/Sieve - dbox fixes. Might actually be usable now. - Index file handling fixes with keywords - Cache file was incorrectly used in some situations, which probably caused problems sometimes. - Maildir++ quota: Don't count "." and ".." directory sizes to quota. After rewriting maildirsize file keep its fd open so that we can later update it. Patch by Alexander Zagrebin

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[Dovecot] configure.in bug?
by Luca Corti 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hello, I have no autotools knowledge but I had to remove square brackets in configure.in shipped with dovecot AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h]) and dovecot-sieve AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([dsieve-config.h]) to be able to build them. thanks

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[Dovecot] 1.0 RC5 released
by Timo Sirainen 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc5.tar.gz.sig Hopefully this is the final mbox bugfix.. Nothing else changed since rc4.

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[Dovecot] 1.0 RC4 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc4.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc4.tar.gz.sig Just one fix since RC3: - Saving to mboxes caused assert-crashes

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[Dovecot] Cyrus + ldap
by Gert Horne 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hi, I need some help I am currently setting up my FC5 box with ldap + samba + postfix + dovecot support as prescribed in howto http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html My problem is in starting the dovecot server. I get the following error Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 16: Unknown setting: passdb My dovcot.conf file: protocols = imap pop3 login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no login_user = dovecot first_valid_uid = 101 last_valid_uid = 101 first_valid_gid = 101 last_valid_gid = 101 valid_chroot_dirs =/home/vmail/domains default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vmail/domains/%d/%n auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_pass = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_user = dovecot-auth It is complaining about the auth_userdb parameter as var as I can see. Can anyone help please.

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[Dovecot] 1.0rc3 problem w/ Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 on Mac OS X
by Herr Nagengast 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Howdy, I'm very excited about the new dovecot release because I've been having problems with a hang on saving messages to my sent-mail box over imap+ssl. I installed 1.0rc3 over my 1.0rc2 install on FreeBSD 5.3 in the same manner as all the other upgrades I've done. After checking my email, tbird became nonresponsive and I saw this repeating in my logs ad infinitum: Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<todd>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.125, lip=64.142.74.74, TLS Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: IMAP(todd): Effective uid=1001, gid=1001 Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: IMAP(todd): mbox: data=/home/todd/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/todd Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: IMAP(todd): mbox: root=/home/todd/mail, index=/home/todd/mail, inbox=/var/mail/todd Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: IMAP(todd): file index-mail.c: line 785: unreached Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: child 87476 (imap) killed with signal 6 Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: IMAP(todd): Effective uid=1001, gid=1001 Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: IMAP(todd): mbox: data=/home/todd/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/todd Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: IMAP(todd): mbox: root=/home/todd/mail, index=/home/todd/mail, inbox=/var/mail/todd Aug 2 10:17:10 grin dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<todd>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.125, lip=64.142.74.74, TLS Aug 2 10:17:11 grin dovecot: IMAP(todd): file index-mail.c: line 785: unreached Aug 2 10:17:11 grin dovecot: child 87478 (imap) killed with signal 6 Restarting my mail client had no effect on the problem, nor did restarting the server. For now, I've downgraded to 1.0rc2 and I'm not having any problems. Thanks for any help! Todd

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird and mbox
by Thomas Hummel 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hello all, Does anyone has a workaround for the fact that thunderbird, when used in IMAP with the mbox format, doesn't let the user delete mailboxes : As a matter of fact, only messages can be deleted, since TB tries to move what it wants to delete into the "Trash" box, which would of course mean a sub-box of an mbox mailbox ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + Ldap problem
by Gert Horne 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hi, I am currently setting up my FC5 box with ldap + samba + postfix + dovecot support as prescribed in howto http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html My problem is in starting the dovecot server. I get the following error Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 16: Unknown setting: passdb My dovcot.conf file: protocols = imap pop3 login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no login_user = dovecot first_valid_uid = 101 last_valid_uid = 101 first_valid_gid = 101 last_valid_gid = 101 valid_chroot_dirs =/home/vmail/domains default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vmail/domains/%d/%n auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_pass = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_user = dovecot-auth It is complaining about the auth_userdb parameter as var as I can see. Can any-one advise me on a solution please

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[Dovecot] Question re: .mailboxlist to .subscriptions migration
by S JList 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hello. I'm in the final stages of installing Dovecot on a new server, and then will be migrating user mailboxes from an older server that was using UW-IMAP. I realize that I will have to rename the ".mailboxlist" file to ".subscriptions". But, I have a question about the "mail/" directory part that appears for most mailboxes in each users .mailboxlist file: since I'm configuring my Dovecot to use multiple hidden namespaces (one of which will include "mail/"), do I still have to remove the "mail/" directory portion of each entry in the subscription file by hand, or will the namespace settings take care of "ignoring" that part of each listed mailbox? I hope this question makes sense. TIA for any help. SJ sjlist(a)heidelberg.edu

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[Dovecot] What's the latest on RC2 and Thunderbird
by Ian Thurlbeck 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hi Just been reading a few threads on the sent-mail hang problem on Thunderbird (TB) and dovecot 1.0RC2 I'm getting reports from WinXP SP2 users running TB 1.0.7, server CentOS 4.2 and dovecot 1.0RC2 There were some suggestions: * Set max cached connections to 1 in TB - but this can result in access problems with blocking processes * Upgrading to TB 1.5.0.5 - not guaranteed to work * Downgrading to 1.0beta8 - works? Does anyone have a definitive answer to this problem ? Many thanks Ian -- Ian Thurlbeck http://www.stams.strath.ac.uk/ Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow, UK, G1 1XH Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3667 Fax: +44 (0)141 552 2079

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[Dovecot] Inconsistent handling of CRLF in APPEND
by Richard Birkett 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

One of the recent 1.0 commits relating to CRLF handling (maybe 2006-06-24) has changed the behaviour of APPEND when using mbox files with ordinary plain text emails. When a client stores a new message using an APPEND command (eg. saving a draft or copy of a sent message), it uses CRLF consistently as a line-ending throughout the literal data block over the wire - both for the header and the body. At least, this is what both Pine and Thunderbird do, so I suspect it's correct according to the IMAP specs, though perhaps there are grey areas around 8bit messages with no transfer-encoding. When Dovecot stores the message in the mbox file, it *used* to convert all the CRLFs to LF. Since the change, it is still converting the CRLFs in the header, but is leaving them intact in the body. The result is a weird hybrid format within the file. FETCH seems to undo the damage - at least, it sends back data with CRLF in both the header and the body - so provided the only access to the mail-store is through Dovecot, the clients are none the wiser. Dovecot also seems to handle existing messages (stored with LF only) OK too, and doesn't seem to be re-encoding them on update (eg. status changes). However, direct local access to the hybrid new messages will only work if the client is lenient about line endings: Pine seems OK, but others might not be, expecting an mbox file to be consistently "Unix" format. Is this a regression introduced while trying to fix the attachment corruption problem, or just a brand new bug?! Hopefully there is a way of reverting this change without reintroducing the attachment problem. Richard

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[Dovecot] Quota with dict backend - sql does not get registered
by David Jonas 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hello everyone, I've been working with the quota plugin, attempting to use the dict backend. It seems the sql dict class is not getting loaded. I dropped a couple lines in dict_class_lookup(dict.c) and it seems the only class that gets loaded is "proxy". Any idea how to get the sql driver to load in the quota/dict module? My authentication goes through the sql module and is working perfectly, so I know that the module and db are talking in general. I've scoured the documentation and dug through the code but I can't seem to discover the solution. There is "Dynamic SQL drivers" in the compiling from source section: http://wiki.dovecot.org/CompilingSource#line-158 I compiled the driver_mysql.so, copied it to lib/dovecot/, symlinked it into auth/, imap/, pop3/ and lda/, then tried-- but it still only showed "proxy" as being loaded. After that I added it to the mail_plugins list, mail_plugins = driver_mysql quota but it didn't like that and spat out some linking errors: Edlopen(/usr/local/dovecot-1.0.rc2/lib/dovecot/imap/driver_mysql.so) failed: /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.rc2/lib/dovecot/imap/driver_mysql.so: undefined symbol: sql_not_connected_result So, where do I go from here? Any insights would be appreciated and I'll keep digging. Regards, David

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Re: [Dovecot] Improving interaction/performance with Mail.app
by Sean Kamath 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

On July 1, Alan Schmitt wrote: >>>> What OS are you using in server side? And what filesystem? >>> >>> Mac OS X.4.7, with HFS+ as files system. >> >> I think I've heard before that Dovecot doesn't behave too great with >> OSX.. > >This might be the cause. I've had the plan to move my IMAP server to >a linux box, this might be the good time. > >> Hmm. I guess it's time to put this in wiki: >> >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing > >Good to know. I just need to find a way to reproduce the problem. > >Thanks a lot for your help, > >Alan I just moved to Dovecot. I'm looking forward to figuring out how to allow users to have access to (old) email in mbox format, an have all new mailboxes go to maildirs. . . But I digress. When we switched, no one complained of performance issues -- except myself. mail.app would seem to stall on caching a message, then report that it was reconnecting, and move a bit further, then stall. . . What apparently was happening was the dovecot was polling for /dev/urandom, over and over again, waiting for some random bits, and Mail.app would timeout and reconnect. Turning off SSL made it MUCH faster. Of course, that's not a solution. So, I hunted the mailing lists, and ran across some notes about dovecot using /dev/urandom a little too enthusiastically. I haven't had a chance to grub through the code (hard to do with a 2-year old that won't sleep until midnight on many a nights!), and this post is somewhat premature, but I'm curious if turning off SSL removes the problem. Of course, switching to a Linux server will (sort of) negate the problem, in that apparently Linux is a little faster at finding random bits (I guess, I've never looked into it). My server is Solaris 9. My client is Mail.app from 10.3.9. As I grub through the code, I'll try and identify cryptographically significant randomness from non-cryptographically significant randomness. Sean

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[Dovecot] server provisioning
by Steve Roemen 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

All, I was curious as to what size of systems (cpu, memory) that you are using. I'm going to build a new server for imap, imap-ssl, pop3, pop3-ssl, maildir storage (NOT smtp or spam --that's on another server) for ~500 users. What do you believe is the minimum for this? Thanks, Steve

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Re: [Dovecot] permissions warning on OpenBSD 3.9
by Geert Hendrickx 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:36:01AM +0200, Thomas Zajic wrote: > BTW my (command line) chmod doesn't know a "-h" option, what's it supposed > to do? Something with (not) following symlinks, I guess? from NetBSD's chmod(1) manpage: -h If file is symbolic link, the mode of the link is changed. But apparantly only NetBSD and FreeBSD have this flag, sorry. Geert

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0.rc2 hangs while copying to Sent
by Jack Bailey 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello, Since running dovecot-1.0.rc2, tbird occasionally hangs when it's copying outbound mail to the Sent folder. Running beta8 and earlier I never saw this problem. Anyone know what's up and how to fix it? Thanks, Jack -- http://banners.wunderground.com/banner/gizmotimetemp/US/CA/San_Diego.gif

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[Dovecot] Public Namespace & ACL & Virtual Users
by Fintec 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Background: I am wanting to create shared folders (public namespace) with access control lists on the sub directories. Our implementation of dovecot (v1.0b7) uses many virtual users and domains and 1 actual user (vmail), all using maildir. So far I have successfully created the public namespace (Public_Folders) which every user can access but I'm having difficulty restricting access using ACls. When trying to implement the dovecot ACL plug-in I followed the wiki instructions and created a "dovecot-acl" file within Public_Folders containing: owner lrwstiekxa user=user1(a)domain.com lrwstiek However this doesn't appear to do anything. All users can still access Public_Folders so I have a couple of questions that hopefully someone can help me with... 1) Is it possible to use the dovecot's ACL plug-in on a Public name space? 2) Is it possible to create dovecot-acl files with virtual usernames, i.e. user1(a)domain.com or does it have to be actual users, i.e. vmail? 3) Is it possible to restrict access within the namespace definition, i.e. set up another public namespace restricted to manager(a)domain.com? 4) Is ACL accepts & denies logged somewhere other than /var/log/maillog (my default)? 4) Is anyone successfully set-up an environment with a public namespace and ACLs? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Gavin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Sun's Directory Server
by Brian Hechinger 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

I've got Sun's Directory Server 5.2 installed here, and I would like to have dovecot use it for virtual users. I have the following questions: a) How do I get dovecot to link to DS's libraries? Am I better off just building OpenLDAP client libraries and linking dovecot with them instead? b) how about password-hash {CRYPT} in the OpenLDAP config file? Do I need to do anything to make DS5.2 do that for me the right way? c) Schema. Can I use the OpenLDAP schema? Does DS5.2 have the correct schema for my needs? Which exact schema does dovecot use? Maybe I can check and see what's in there and what needs to be added/extended. I think that's it for now. ;) -brian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot copy with imapsync
by Stephan Holl 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi List, I am trying to migrate my dovecot 0.9 (mbox-Storage) to 1.0rc2 with maildir-storage using imapsync. I cannot manage to copy the emails from one server to the other, however the dry-run from imapsync works nicely. Is it possible to make dovecot more verbose to see what is happening (or not happening)? Thank you very much. Best Stephan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and SSL certificates
by M.-A. Lemburg 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hello, we're running RC2 and seeing a problem with the way SSL certs are handled by Dovecot. We've set ssl_verify_client_cert=yes and ssl_require_valid_client_cert=no. Using this setup we get (rather interesting) log entries like these: Jul 31 11:21:23 dev dovecot: imap-login: Invalid certificate: <user cert> Jul 31 11:21:23 dev dovecot: imap-login: Invalid certificate: <CA cert> Jul 31 11:21:23 dev dovecot: imap-login: Valid certificate: <CA cert> Jul 31 11:21:23 dev dovecot: imap-login: Valid certificate: <user cert> Jul 31 11:21:23 dev dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=... When setting ssl_require_valid_client_cert=yes, logins always fail with: Jul 31 11:57:54 dev dovecot: auth(default): PLAIN(?,...): Client didn't present valid SSL certificate Are we doing something wrong, or is dovecot mixing up something while checking the certificates. Note that the certificates are all valid and have not expired. The <user cert> is signed by the <CA cert> and we set ssl_ca_file to the CA certificate PEM file. Ideally, we'd like to only accept login requests from users which have a valid certificate signed by our CA. Even better would be an approach such as the one taken by Postfix where you have to provide a list of valid MD5 hash sums for the users you'd like to accept. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jul 31 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! ::::

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[Dovecot] Folder not visible - after migration ( Squirrel Mail )
by Sumit Gulati 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hello, We did migration from old version postfix to new version postfix (2.3). >From old dovcot 0.99 to dovcot 1.0 rc2 and we rsynched /Home of old box to new /Home 1:1 After migration we are not able to see customise the folders in squirrel mail interface. What could be the reason. Regards, Sumit

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[Dovecot] Folder not visible - after migration ( Squirrel Mail )
by Sumit Gulati 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hello, Please give me any solution for this problem i am facing lot of problem because of these folders. These folder is not showing in /home/username also, Please tell me the location of these folders. Regards, Sumit ----- Original Message ----- From: Sumit Gulati To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 7:45 PM Subject: Folder not visible - after migration ( Squirrel Mail ) Hello, We did migration from old version postfix to new version postfix (2.3). From old dovcot 0.99 to dovcot 1.0 rc2 and we rsynched /Home of old box to new /Home 1:1 After migration we are not able to see customise the folders in squirrel mail interface. What could be the reason. Regards, Sumit

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache file
by Wink Saville 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hello, I'm running: root@ubuntu-mail:/var/log# dovecot --version 1.0.beta3 root@ubuntu-mail:/var/log# uname -a Linux ubuntu-mail 2.6.15-25-386 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 11:25:49 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux I'm seeing the following in the mail.err file when I access a IMAP folder: Jul 30 10:19:16 localhost dovecot: imap(wink): Corrupted index cache file /home/wink/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: Duplicated field in header: hdr.LIST-ID What can I do to fix this? Regards, Wink

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[Dovecot] sieve copy extension
by Scott Murman 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

I want (need) to get the sieve copy extension working for the deliver LDA. the latest cyrus imap distro (v2.3 or greater) contains a libsieve which supports it. the dovecot-LDA cvs branch uses an older cyrus distro (looks like v2.1). has anyone meshed deliver with the new libsieve? if not, any estimates of how much of my time it would chew up? thanks. -SM-

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[Dovecot] different SSL certificates for different connectoins
by Waldemar Augustyn 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

Is it possible to setup dovecot to have it presented different SSL certificates to connections coming at different ports. I don't see it in the docs. It seems, dovecot would present the same certificate to all connecting ports. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] dovecot sasl error with postfix
by Arya, Manish Kumar 29 Jul '06

29 Jul '06

Hi, I have compiled dovecot 1.0 and postfix 2.3 with dovecot support. here are my config sections dovecot in auth default section ---------- client { user = postfix group = postfix /path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0660 } postfix main.cf --------------------- smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access smtpd_recipient_restrictions =permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, # reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_sender_domain, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination, smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client in postfix logs i get Jul 29 16:36:22 localhost postfix/smtpd[1437]: warning: SASL: Connect to /var/run/dovecot/auth-client failed: Permission denied Jul 29 16:36:22 localhost postfix/smtpd[1437]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Jul 29 16:36:23 localhost postfix/master[1426]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 1437 exit status 1 Jul 29 16:36:23 localhost postfix/master[1426]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling basically socket file is not created by dovecot -sh-2.05b# ls /var/run/dovecot/auth-client ls: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client: No such file or directory not sure why Regards, -Manish --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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[Dovecot] Problems reading mbox
by James Brown 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

I'm having problems getting dovecot to read my mbox file. I have turned on mail_debug. Log says: Jul 28 11:03:20 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jlbrown>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.10, lip=192.168.1.9 Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): Effective uid=501, gid=501 Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): mbox: data=/ Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/ jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/:INDEX=/Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/ Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/mbox.index Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/ Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/inbox Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): mbox: root=/ Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/ jlbrown/INBOX.mbox, index=/Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/ Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/mbox.index, inbox=/ Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/ jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/inbox Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): mkdir_parents(/Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/ Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/mbox.index/.imap/INBOX) failed: Not a directory Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2006-07-28 11:03:36] Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): No INBOX for user top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 In dovecot.conf my mailbox location is: default_mail_env = mbox:/Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/ Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/%u/INBOX.mbox/:INDEX=/Applications/ 4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/%u/INBOX.mbox/ mbox.index Contents of Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/ Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/ are: inbox (created by dovecot) mbox mbox.index mbox.info Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, James.

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[Dovecot] updated ubuntu packages
by Jeff Kowalczyk 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

I'd like to deploy an ubuntu-6.06 server running dovecot-1.0rc2 and postfix-2.3.0. Unfortunately, their dovecot packaging has not been recently updated: dovecot-common-1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.2 dovecot-imapd-1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.2 dovecot-pop3d-1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.2 postfix-2.2.10-1ubuntu0.1 I have 'universe' enabled. Does anyone know of an alternate repository for bleeding-edge dovecot and postfix packages? As a debian/ubuntu newbie, I don't expect that rolling my own properly secure package is practical or advisable at this early stage. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] dovecot vs gnu-mailtools?
by Mike 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

I'm about to implement dovecot and got to thinking about gnu/mailtools. What are the advantages of dovecot over gnu/mailtools? Does gnu/mailtools support maildir? Mike

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[Dovecot] Problem copying Dovecot 0.99 - Dovecot 1.0rc2 IMAP messages
by Stephan Holl 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Dear List, I have a problem copying lots of IMAP-messages from one server running Dovecot 0.99 over to my new server running dovecot 1.0rc2. It is damn slow and after a minute only 1 or 2 messages are copied. I tried with thunderbird and sylpheed-claws as email client. I guess it has something to do with the connections which terminates after each copy?! Perhaps someone has a clue? My new config: mbox-storage grep -v "#" /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf |tr -s "\n" protocols = imaps log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_greeting = Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_extra_groups = mail protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { args = session=yes dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { } Thanks for any tips. Cheers Stephan -- Stephan Holl stephan(a)holl-land.de http://www.holl-land.de/blog

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[Dovecot] LDA sieve logging
by Luca Corti 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hello, using the cmusieve plugin with the postfix + dovecot-lda. Filtering works, and dovecot logs, but for sieve filtering I see no message in the syslog about performed actions. How do I set this? thanks

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[Dovecot] dovecot-smtp connection?
by J Moore 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

This may be a dumb question, but I'll ask because... :) I've got dovecot installed and running successfully on OpenBSD 3.9 (this *really* was an easy setup, my hat's off to the developer(s)). And the other employees can now use MS Access to read their mail (they didn't like mutt and pine via SSH - go figger'). So my final challenge is to get things configured so that they can also *send* mail through the same host that dovecot is installed on. I *think* this has to be configured in sendmail, but I'm hoping that someone can confirm that before I start reading. Thanks, Jay

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[Dovecot] Corrupted Indexes - again...
by Joseph W. Breu 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

I am still getting these in my maillog: Jul 13 07:39:38 pop5.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Jul 13 09:35:03 pop5.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Jul 13 11:48:40 pop6.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 12:05:36 pop1.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Jul 13 12:07:45 pop1.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.log: end_offset (30280) > current sync_offset (30244) Jul 13 12:08:46 pop6.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 12:29:44 pop5.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Jul 13 14:06:18 pop6.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 14:16:42 pop4.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/.lists.dovecot/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 14:23:52 pop4.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/.work.cron/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 14:51:20 pop6.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/.lists.bugtraq/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted -- Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] Problem starting the daemon...
by Hostmaster 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I have successfully run dovecot on three out of four of the servers I use. They all run Fedora Core 2 or 4. But when I installed dovecot on a Mandrake server I have using urpmi, I can't start dovecot there. I get: imap-login: Jul 25 07:36:22 Fatal: setuid(77) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable dovecot: Jul 25 07:36:22 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 25 07:36:22 Error: child 1829 (login) returned error 89 imap-login: Jul 25 07:36:22 Fatal: setuid(77) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Any help is appreciated... /s/ Harley Puthuff, Hostmaster "Master and Commander--the Far Side of the Internet" mailto:hostmaster@yourshowcase.com http://www.yourshowcase.com

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[Dovecot] IMAP issues?
by J Moore 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I've probably done something dumb, but a quick search on Google, etc has turned up nothing I recognized as useful. I just installed dovecot on an OpenBSD 3.9 box. It is working fine with secure POP3 (after changing the config file to "mbox_write_locks = fcntl"). I also selected secure IMAP as a protocol, but it is proving to be more resistant to working. I am trying to connect to dovecot using Outlook as a client (sigh). Outlook's error messages are to the effect that it is unable to connect to the server. Looking in /var/log/maillog indicates that a connection was not even attempted! I've configured the client to use SSL (port 993), and tried diddling with some of the other parameters to no avail. I also tried to connect using the Thunderbird IMAP client with similar results. I've obviously missed something in my dovecot setup, but just don't see it... can anyone offer a clue? Thnx, Jay

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[Dovecot] Permissions issue in OpenBSD
by J Moore 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I jumped right in and followed the "Quick Configuration" guide after installing dovecot (dovecot-1.0.beta3.tgz) on my OpenBSD 3.9 box. I had previously been using akpop3d (which worked, but was flaky). I am getting the following errors in /var/log/maillog: Jul 23 22:40:29 kingcull dovecot: pop3(jm): open(/var/mail/.temp.myserver.mymail.com.19038.10090e2f3cc51a4b) failed: Permission denied Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3(jm): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/jm: Permission denied Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3(jm): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jm>, method=PLAIN, rip=67.33.58.194, lip=67.33.58.195, TLS Could someone offer a clue as to what is needed to fix this? Thanx, Jay

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[Dovecot] Multiple attempts to get mail delivered
by Gerard Seibert 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE I am using a basic MBOX mail setup. I have noticed that when the MBOX size starts to grow, say 35-30M or more, Dovecot will not always deliver the mail via POP on the first attempt. In fact, in some cases it takes four or five attempts before it will actually deliver the mail. Is there some setting that I should be changing? There does not appear to be any error written to the log file. Ciao! -- Gerard Seibert gerard(a)seibercom.net Take diplomacy out of a war and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Substitution of dots to ", dc=" in variable expansions
by Antonio Kanouras 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hi list, my ldap directory uses DNs like this: uid=solist,ou=People,dc=solistland,dc=net,ou=Virtuals but I only could use something like uid=solist,ou=People,dc=solistland.net,ou=Virtuals with dovecot, which obviously isn't what the dcObject object class was meant to present. I've written a small function for var-expand.c which introduces a new modifier for string variable expansions, %D (arbitrarily chosen), which substitutes dots to ",dc=". You might want to include that in dovecot's code base, after bringing it up to dovecot standards of course. :-) Example of use: base = ou=People,dc=%Dd,ou=Virtuals Warning: I'm a beginner in C and could only understand so much of dovecot's code, so this patch is a hack at best. That said, I tested it with more than 10k logins and can say it works for me. :-D Cheers, Antonio

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[Dovecot] Maildir++ quota - how to handle a full mailbox
by Joseph W. Breu 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hello all, We are using Horde/IMP and we are having problems deleting messages from accounts where the user is very close to going over quota. My test environment includes: Horde 3 IMP 4.1.2 dovecot 1.0rc2 postfix maildrop I created a user and set the quota at 13MB. I then sent a 10MB file to the user - which was received. However, when I attempt to move the message from the INBOX to Trash, I get a Quota Exceeded error. Is this more of an IMP error than a dovecot quirk? Is the message size credited back to the quota after the message has been removed from the INBOX? Is there any way to change the order that the qouta usage is applied? -- Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] MySQL table for use with dict et quota
by mikael 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

In your "http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict" documentation, the table to create is : create table quota ( path varchar(255) not null primary key, username varchar(255) not null, current integer ); "path" field is the primary key. But when i see the SELECT queries, "path" is always used ('quota/storage') and username too. I don't understand... If "path" is the primary key, it must be unique in quota table ? Perhaps the table would be like this : create table quota ( path varchar(255) not null, username varchar(255) not null, current integer, primary key (path, username) ); No ? I start to have a headache... :D 2 days with dovecot quota, and no fully working results :'( Please, help me :) -- Mikaël

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