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[Dovecot] imaptest, with options!
by Jens Laas 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

I hacked some command line options into imaptest. I dont think I broke it.. Place into dovecot-source root as usual and compile with: gcc imaptest.c -o imaptest -Wall -W -I. -Isrc/lib -DHAVE_CONFIG_H src/lib/liblib.a As per Timo's instructions. # imaptest -h imaptest [USER@IP:PORTNO] [pass=PASSWORD] [mbox=MBOX] [clients=CC] [msgs=NMSG] [use_authenticate] [PORTNO] USER = template for username. "u%04d" will generate users "u0001" to "u0100" MBOX = path to mbox from which we read mails to append. CC = number of concurrent clients. [20] NMSG = target number of messages in INBOX. [100] If use_authenticate is given AUTHENTICATE will be used instead of LOGIN. Have fun! Jens ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Old C programmers don't die ... they're just cast into void*' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Låås Email: jens.laas(a)data.slu.se Department of Computer Services, SLU Phone: +46 18 67 35 15 Vindbrovägen 1 P.O. Box 7079 S-750 07 Uppsala SWEDEN -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] IMAP & pop3 under /var/spool/mail
by Obantec Support 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hi is it possible to run both under /var/spool/mail and if so how do i tell my LDA to deliver to the correct format mbox or maildir Mark

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RE: [Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible
by Bill Boebel 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

On Wed, April 26, 2006 16:12, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad(a)shire.net> said: > OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap maildir++ > setup with exim as the MTA. > I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so: > > namespace private { > separator = . > prefix = INBOX. > location = . > inbox = yes > hidden=no > } > > However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at all. > dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the maildir > (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it subscribes > to all existing folders for you) > > And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a > "CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace This is what we're using and our Courier maildirs are able to work with Dovecot... default_mail_env = maildir:~/ namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = no } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } Also, here are patches to make Dovecot use Courier's subscription file properly... --- src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.h: -#define SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME "subscriptions" +#define SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME "courierimapsubscribed" --- src/lib-storage/subscription-file/subscription-file.c @49 unsigned int i; // BB - added variable @55 /* BB - changed loop to skip over lines with just INBOX and remove INBOX. from the beginning of the line, for courier-imap compatibility */ for (i = 0;; i++) { while ((line = i_stream_next_line(input)) == NULL) { switch (i_stream_read(input)) { case -1: if (input->stream_errno != 0 && (input->stream_errno != ESTALE || !ignore_estale)) { subsfile_set_syscall_error(storage, "read()", path); *failed_r = TRUE; } return NULL; case -2: /* mailbox name too large */ mail_storage_set_critical(storage, "Subscription file %s contains lines longer " "than %u characters", path, MAX_MAILBOX_LENGTH); *failed_r = TRUE; return NULL; } } /* BB - remove INBOX. from the beginning of the line, for courier-imap compatibility */ if (strcmp(line, "INBOX") == 0) continue; if (strncmp(line, "INBOX.", 6) == 0) line += 6; break; } /* BB - end changes */ @147 /* BB - prepend INBOX. for courier-imap compatibility */ -if (o_stream_send_str(output, line) < 0 || +if (o_stream_send_str(output, "INBOX.") < 0 || + o_stream_send_str(output, line) < 0 || @150 -line = t_strconcat(name, "\n", NULL); +/* BB - prepend INBOX. for courier-imap compatibility */ +line = t_strconcat("INBOX.", name, "\n", NULL);

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Re: [Dovecot] auth-request.c: assertion failed: (*name != '\0')
by Tom Sommer 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

On Thu, April 27, 2006 12:13, Simon Waters wrote: > On Thursday 27 Apr 2006 10:44, Tom Sommer wrote: > >> >> password_query = SELECT username as user, NULL as password FROM users >> WHERE username = '%u' AND password = PASSWORD('%w') >> >> >> as advised in a previous discussion in this list > > I'm confused here, in my Postgres config "password_query" returns; > > > select password from from users where userid='%u' > > Which seems more logical naming convention and still matches the PGSQL > documentation. I don't understand your question, obviously I edited my password_query, ref: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-October/009695.html Regards -- Tom Sommer http://tomsommer.dk Regards -- Tom Sommer http://tomsommer.dk

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[Dovecot] dovecot.rawlog
by Obantec Support 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi Dovecot stable 1.0 on FC3 i enabled rawlog via the conf file and for 1 user all i see is in out files but 0B's 2 others i have added work as expected. Mark

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[Dovecot] more LDA woes
by Alan Premselaar 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OK. So, I got over some of the segfault problems I was having with dovecot 1.0beta7 and have even downloaded and installed the latest CVS version which is properly providing quota information to thunderbird (although Mail.app doesn't show the quota details) now i've also downloaded the CVS version of dovecot-LDA and have run autogen.sh and during the configure it gets stuck at: ... checking rxposix.h usability... no checking rxposix.h presence... no checking for rxposix.h... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile and it's been sitting like that for over an hour now (I had to take care of some other things and just let it sit) i ran configure with the following: ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot (this is the directory for the CVS version of dovecot) any ideas? Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEUC4kE2gsBSKjZHQRAnrUAJ4oUbHFqqcLl7qxv6WE4FN94J9l4QCfSAOt odz/cQtZEsIMJR+IJ6qAggs= =GVpH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] setuid(5000) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
by Jon Baker 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

I have combed google for days searching for an answer to this but cannot find anything anywhere, I'm hoping that posting to this list will get me the solution. I have FC4 running dovecot v1.0.beta7 to serve my POP3 (I had to install v1.0.beta7 because it's on a x86_64 and I need mysql support). It runs great for about two hours, after which I start getting the resource temporarily unavailable error. I can't get the error to go away by restarting dovecot, the only way I can figure out to do it is to restart the box. This is terribly annoying... please help! Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Dean Blackburn wrote: > Apple Mail is, from IMAP's perspective, broken. It's impossible to > unsubscribe, which in turn makes troubleshooting like this a PITA. > > We use Apple Mail successfully onsite with Dovecot, but we did ALL > our client testing in Thunderbird, which gives (mostly) good error > messages. Once you have namespaces happy in Tbird, you can start > cycling through the (few) options that are tweakable in Mail until > it works without complaining (as much). What you really need is for dovecot to be able to log all incoming imap commands. However, I have log and debug stuff, everything that I can find, turned on, and I cannot get dovecot to dump the requests it is getting. Note that Apple Mail has no problems with courier Chad > > :) > > -deano > > > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap >> maildir++ setup with exim as the MTA. Has been fine. I have my >> own custom ldap schema for user account definition and authorization. >> >> I installed dovecot 1.0 beta 7 as a test and have it listening on >> a different port. I would like, if possible, to set things up so >> that a user could use either dovecot or courier. Having to re- >> subscribe to folders is OK when moving to dovecot. (It would be >> nice to be able to make a symbolic link from courier's >> subscription file to the dovecot one though) >> >> (My client for testing is the Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail client >> Mail.app -- it seems to do an auto subscribe to folders) >> >> I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so: >> >> namespace private { >> # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator >> for all >> # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a >> good one. >> separator = . >> >> # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be >> different for >> # all namespaces. For example "Public/". >> prefix = INBOX. >> >> # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as >> # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. >> location = . >> >> # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which >> namespace >> # has it. >> inbox = yes >> >> # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via >> NAMESPACE >> # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful >> when converting >> # from another server with different namespaces which you want >> to depricate >> # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden >> namespaces with >> hidden=no >> } >> >> (location has to be . or something similar since my ldap schema is >> purely virtual users and returns the actual root of the maildir) >> >> I am able to get the root mailbox (INBOX) to work. I can see new >> mail and look at mail messages etc. >> >> I create a new account in Mail.app that logs in to an existing >> account (to make sure there is no client cached info involved). >> It logs in and is able to see the imap folders that exist for this >> account. >> >> However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at >> all. dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the >> maildir (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it >> subscribes to all existing folders for you) >> >> And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a >> "CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace >> >> How can I get the folders to work with dovecot using my existing >> maildir++ setup? >> >> Thanks >> Chad >> >> --- >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC >> Your Web App and Email hosting provider >> chad at shire.net >> >> >> > --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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[Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap maildir ++ setup with exim as the MTA. Has been fine. I have my own custom ldap schema for user account definition and authorization. I installed dovecot 1.0 beta 7 as a test and have it listening on a different port. I would like, if possible, to set things up so that a user could use either dovecot or courier. Having to re-subscribe to folders is OK when moving to dovecot. (It would be nice to be able to make a symbolic link from courier's subscription file to the dovecot one though) (My client for testing is the Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail client Mail.app -- it seems to do an auto subscribe to folders) I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so: namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. separator = . # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". prefix = INBOX. # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. location = . # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with hidden=no } (location has to be . or something similar since my ldap schema is purely virtual users and returns the actual root of the maildir) I am able to get the root mailbox (INBOX) to work. I can see new mail and look at mail messages etc. I create a new account in Mail.app that logs in to an existing account (to make sure there is no client cached info involved). It logs in and is able to see the imap folders that exist for this account. However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at all. dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the maildir (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it subscribes to all existing folders for you) And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a "CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace How can I get the folders to work with dovecot using my existing maildir++ setup? Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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[Dovecot] ldap and user_filter
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I have my own custom schema for email that I have been using for years with courier_imap and exim. I am experimenting with dovecot and trying to set up my conf so that it logs in using the ldap database. In the dovecot-ldap.conf there is a section # Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used (see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables for full list): # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain #user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) In order to match my scheme I changed it to user_filter = (&(objectClass=shireNetEmailaccount) (shireNetEmailAddress=%u)) This should match my courier setup of ##NAME: LDAP_MAIL:0 # # Here's the field on which we query #LDAP_MAIL mail LDAP_MAIL shireNetEmailAddress --- Anyway, it appears from the logs that my user_filter is being ignored as I get the following in the log dovecot: Apr 26 11:24:35 Info: auth(default): ldap(chad(a)rkba.com, 67.171.127.191): base=dc=shire, dc=net scope=subtree filter=(& (objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=chad(a)rkba.com)) fields=shireNetUserPassword which shows the original default user_filter What do I need to do to have it use the one I give in the dovecat- ldap.conf and not the default? The dovecot-ldap.conf is being used as it is going against my ldap server thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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RE: [Dovecot] Bug: maidirsize double counting moved messages
by Bill Boebel 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Sorry, I left in a comment from testing: < if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks && < mail->box->storage == mbox->ibox.box.storage) { --- > if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks) { On Wed, April 26, 2006 10:37, Bill Boebel <bill(a)webmail.us> said: > On Fri, April 21, 2006 15:01, Bill Boebel <bill(a)webmail.us> said: > > The maildirsize file is double counting messages when moving them from > > folder to folder when "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no": > > > > When I change "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks" to "yes", this problem only > > occurs when moving in and out of the INBOX, but not when moving from > > subfolder to subfolder: > > Well... I don't think this is the correct fix below, but it did the trick in our > environment when maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes. I think the real problem is that > quota_default_alloc() is getting called twice. Once from somewhere in > mail_storage_copy() -> maildir_copy() -> mailbox_save_init(), and a second time > somewhere after that. > > src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-copy.c > @136 > > < if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks/* && > < mail->box->storage == mbox->ibox.box.storage*/) { > --- > > if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks) { > > >

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[Dovecot] problems getting dovecot-LDA to work
by Alan Premselaar 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've setup a test machine and have been playing with dovecot-1.0beta7 and dovecot-lda in preparation for a migration from 0.99.x series. (hopefully with the ability to support imap-quotas) anyways, i've got it all compiled fine (as far as I can tell) and following the directions on the wiki for setting up dovecot LDA with sendmail. (I've had to alter the configuration a bit since using the mailertable didn't work with my actual hostname). when I try to use /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver via sendmail, i get a EX_TEMPFAIL. I logged into the machine as the user I'm trying to deliver mail for and do the following: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d alan and get the following error: deliver: Error: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/spool/mail/alan (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) deliver: Fatal: Failed to create storage for 'alan' with mail '/var/spool/mail/alan' in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf I have the following: protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)pluto.valueclick.ne.jp auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u } I tried setting the default_mail_env with the same settings but got the same results (i did a complete restart of the dovecot services) I've even specified the config file with: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf -d alan with the same results. Google is not my friend with this problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve this problem? Thanks, alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFETuHuE2gsBSKjZHQRArJlAJ0WDUgyH70sy00uX9FPIPJT+P8VagCg64qA bKDyLOaFibUU8RdaJjbOF7E= =ZY44 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Public Shares, Groups and Undeletable Sent E-mails?
by Gavin Henry 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Dear all, We would like to setup, if possible, for example: We have 4 example groups, we various users in those groups: Directors director1,director2 Support manager1,support1,support2,support3 Enquiries manager2,enquiry1,enquiry2,enquiry3 Accounts manager3, accounts1,account2 Shared Mailboxes: Support: Support, user1, user2, user3 Accounts: Directors, Support So basically, we want 2 public folder shares, with the names: Support Accounts Everyone in the Support group and user1-3 should be able to subscribe to the "Support" share. Everyone in the Directors and Support groups should be able to subscribe to the Accounts shares (only an example ;-) ). We also need to set it up that the Managers have visible in the available shares, all the employees that they look after. No private e-mail allowed. Symlinks for this? Is this possible? We already have the subscribtion file and index files saved in their own homedirs. Not sure how to even think about dovecot-shared file and symlinks etc? Lastly, can it be set so a user can't delete their sent e-mails? chattr -i on Sent folder, of ACL in Dovecot? Here's hoping this is all possible ;-) Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] login_process_per_user I cant find this???
by Max Stam 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi All Just trying to config dovecot and I'm guessing there's been a change in the app. In the dovecot.conf and on http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig I see "Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in." but as a config option I only see "login_process_per_connection = yes" Has "login_process_per_user" been changed to "login_process_per_connection = yes"? Thanks Max

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[Dovecot] Sanity checking on dovecot
by Jon Callas 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

I'm setting up a new server. I have a couple of dozen users, and several domains. I've set up Postfix as my MTA, and it's dropping things into maildirs. Now I want to get Dovecot to work for POP/IMAP. (Getting SMTP AUTH to work is also on the agenda, but slightly tangential.) Postfix is putting things into /var/mail/vhosts, an example line in my vmailbox file is: test(a)callas.org callas.org/test/ Dovecot is installed via darwinports. (Oh, yeah, this server is an Intel dual-core Mac Mini running OS X 10.4 -- *not* OSX Server.) So I need to figure out how to get dovecot to authenticate in my users. From reading <http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers> and <http:// wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication> it will be easiest for me to set up a passwd-file authentication. So I would make some file somewhere in passwd-file format. As an example, I might set up "test(a)callas.org" as: test@callas.org:{plain}pass:1000:1000:Test User:<I think no home dir is needed>::mail=maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/callas.org/test/ Is this reasonable? Is there something easier that I'm missing? Jon

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[Dovecot] Plan/Status of MBX support?
by Jiaying Xu 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi, All, I've been happy user of dovocot as far. It is easy to configure, reliable and secure. Hat off to all developers who make this possible! I know dovecot is on the mailbox format front, it supports both mbox and maildir format well, and is developing and experimenting a new flexible format, dbox. But is there any plan to add mbx (i.e., indexed mbox format) support, to complete the set? There is some circumstance that mbox format is chosen over the mordern maildir format, For example in our situation, we receive many, many small messages and it would be expensive to create so many files with maildir. And we do a lot of searching - again a single mbox is faster in searching. Now the problem is, we have to use the tranditional mbox format with dovecot, as it does not support indexed mbox format, which makes deleting messages costly. Also the long-time file locking (due to the slow operation on the dovecot side) causes our MTA (exim, by the way) holds a huge queue. That drives up the system load to mad (load average above 500 is not unusual in our case). If dovecot support index mbox format, we be in the havean! But is there a plan to add this support in the near future? Thanks, JY

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[Dovecot] Test migration (IMAP copy) and INTERNALDATE?
by Apps Lists 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

We're trying some migration tests ... from CommuniGate to Dovecot. The migration program does an APPEND into the new mailbox: src>: a0 FETCH 2900 (FLAGS INTERNALDATE RFC822.PEEK) src<: * 2900 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "29-Aug-2005 18:36:54 +0000" RFC822 {1194157} src<: ) dst>: bAPP APPEND "INBOX" (\Seen) "29-Aug-2005 18:36:54 +0000" {1194157} dst<: + OK It appears to be trying to set the message date... in this example, to 29 Aug 2005. Dovecot seems to be ignoring it. Am I doing something wrong, or does Dovecot not allow this? Steve

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA with sendmail/Mailscanner
by Gerhard Wiesinger 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hello! I'm running dovecot in a sendmail/Mailscanner/procmail/mbox environment. I want to use dovecot lda because index files aren't updated when using sendmail as lda. Has someone this combination running and some configuration hints so that sendmail, Mailscanner and procmail ist working well. Does procmail work with lda, too? Thank you for the answer. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] LOCK FILE
by Alex 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

i'm working with exim 4.60, with mbox, and dovecot dovecot-1.0.beta7, and filesystem quotas default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail::INBOX=%h/mbox:INDEX=/tmp/%u lock_method = dotlock fcntl mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl The home of users is /home/usuaris/user Where place dovecot the lock file?

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[Dovecot] maildir memory usage
by lenny＠edpausa.com 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Dovecot beta 5 + dovecot lda, solaris 9 sparc. Dovecot seems to use a lot of memory with large Maildir folders, ( 300-500 mb folder - 100-200 mb process), something I never noticed with similarly large mboxes. Is that expected behavior or are my observations incorrect.

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[Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup. Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically: /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has the accounts stored in the following format: user@domain.tld:(encrypted password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing this in the log file: Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip= 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user(a)domain.tld, 127.0.0.1): unknown user Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser= user(a)domain.tld So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before. They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and users. Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist.

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[Dovecot] PINE + dovecot
by Richard Randriatoamanana 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hi list, I have installed dovecot on fedora4 and I migrated courier-imap to dovecot with instructions given on the site. everthing works fine for thunderbird, horde, evolution and mail/macosx.. but i have some pbs with pine because it doesnt read .subscriptions and directories aren't seen as it should be seen like in the .subscription. maybe i should reconfigure the .pinerc correctly, but what should I put in place then? does anyone have a .pinerc template that reads like other mail browsers with dovecot? Thanks in advance Cheers. Richard

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP/Plain Text issue with Dovecot
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/24/06, Peter Fern <dovecot(a)obfusc8.org> wrote: > > Tom Ray wrote: > > > I finally got Dovecot working pretty good I just have one small > > problem. I can't seem to log in via IMAP, now everything works great > > through POP but when I try to login via IMAP I get the following error: > > > > "PLAIN authentication failed. None of the authentication methods > > supported by your IMAP server are supported this computer" > > > > Anyone seen this before? > > > From the config file: > > # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless > # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and > # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if > # you connect from those addresses. > disable_plaintext_auth = yes When I do this both IMAP AND POP stop working. When I have it set to disable_plaintext_auth = no I can get POP working but IMAP throws back errors. Any other thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Solved problem with index corruption (new mail not seen)
by Tom Alsberg 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Having had many problems in the past with IDLE not working, new messages not being seen from Thunderbird, and sometimes garbage seen as part of mailboxes, I eventually added some workaround/sanity check patch to the imap_sync_deinit code to reread the offsets from the index and that solved the problem. Now with beta7 (I've previously used beta2), this seems not to be necessary anymore. I installed vanilla beta7 and couldn't reproduce the problem in any way! I'm not sure what has changed there, and haven't yet checked if I see anything relevant, so this is just to let you know, and ask - any idea which change could have caused this. Happily I will soon be going on with working around other issues I have here, and start bugging you in the list again. Cheers, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] IMAP/Plain Text issue with Dovecot
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I finally got Dovecot working pretty good I just have one small problem. I can't seem to log in via IMAP, now everything works great through POP but when I try to login via IMAP I get the following error: "PLAIN authentication failed. None of the authentication methods supported by your IMAP server are supported this computer" Anyone seen this before?

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[Dovecot] Saving Maildir with Samba
by Brad Bateman 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

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Re: [Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/23/06, Angel Pavlov <angel(a)coffeejob.com> wrote: > > Tom Ray wrote: > > I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with > it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up > to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup. > > Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically: > /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories > etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and > passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the > passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has > the accounts stored in the following format: > > user@domain.tld:(encrypted <user@domain.tld:%28encrypted>password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null > > The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the > problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to > login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost > 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing > this in the log file: > > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in: > AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip= > 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): > pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file > /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user(a)domain.tld, > 127.0.0.1): unknown user > Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser= > user(a)domain.tld > > So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user > doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on > auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file. > > Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch > with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to > fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the > vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's > been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before. > They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a > bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and > users. > > Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I > just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist. > > > try : > > 1. htpasswd file formated : user@domain.tld:(encrypted<user@domain.tld:%28encrypted>password) > 2. Without PAM > > good luck ! > > Angel > I'm still getting told that the user doesn't exist. It's loading the proper password file, but it just doesn't see the user...it should be parsing it right correct?

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot-lda with imap and Maildir
by Angel Pavlov 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hello all, I've installed dovecot-lda today and it's working fine. But with Maildir mailboxes and imap (connected) I have some strange log messeges : Apr 23 14:28:49 shark postfix/pipe[3211]: A244E3040A2: to=<angel(a)coffeejob.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=sent (coffeejob.com) Apr 23 14:28:49 shark postfix/qmgr[26922]: A244E3040A2: removed Apr 23 14:28:49 shark dovecot: imap(angel(a)coffeejob.com): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/mail/coffeejob.com/angel/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x8080, offset=420, size=0) Apr 23 14:28:49 shark dovecot: imap(angel(a)coffeejob.com): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /var/spool/mail/coffeejob.com/angel/Maildir/dovecot.index I'm using dovecot-lda from cvs (2006-04-23) and dovecot-1.0_beta3 ( from gentoo )* *Someone have an idea how to solve this problem ? Angel

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 36, Issue 72
by Jiaying Xu 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hi, I am not sure if I can post or not. I believe I subscribed and I sent a post to dovecot(a)dovecot.org yesterday but has not seen my post yet. Sorry if I am too dumb to understand how this mailing list works. JX

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[Dovecot] Bug: quota-maildir.c, array accessed out of bounds
by Bill Boebel 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Timo, In src/plugins/quota/quota-maildir.c, in the maildirsize_read() function, if the maildirsize file is greater that 5120 bytes, this code breaks because the while loop executes multiple times, incrementing size to a value larger than 5120, and then size is later used to referece the buf array out of bounds. To fix it you could add a break statement after "size+= ret;" so that the while loop is always only executed once: char buf[5120+1]; ... size = 0; while ((ret = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-1)) != 0) { if (ret < 0) { if (errno == ESTALE) break; mail_storage_set_critical(storage, "read(%s) failed: %m", path); } size += ret; } if (ret < 0 || size == sizeof(buf)-1) { /* error / recalculation needed. */ (void)close(fd); t_pop(); return ret < 0 ? -1 : 0; } /* file is smaller than 5120 bytes, which means we can use it */ root->total_bytes = root->total_count = 0; /* skip the last line if there's no LF at the end */ while (size > 0 && buf[size-1] != '\n') size--; buf[size] = '\0';

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[Dovecot] PAM authentication woes with MacOSX
by Jim Reid 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Hi. I've just compiled and installed 1.0beta7 on MacOSX 10.4.6. I have lost the battle with PAM authentication. When I connect to the IMAP server and provide the correct user name and password, the mail client is told authentication failed. Here's what's in the log: Apr 21 22:47:43 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=195.54.233.68 rip=195.54.233.69 resp=AGppbQB1bmxpbmsoLik= Apr 21 22:47:43 shaun dovecot: auth(default): pam(jim,195.54.233.69): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 21 22:47:45 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=jim Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 3 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=195.54.233.68 rip=195.54.233.69 resp=AGppbQB1bmxpbmsoLik= Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): pam(jim,195.54.233.69): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 3 user=jim Apr 21 22:47:55 shaun dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<jim>, method=PLAIN, rip=195.54.233.69, lip=195.54.233.68, TLS After some googling, I found a posting from this list that claimed the following PAM setup would work for MacOSX: # dovecote: auth account password session auth required pam_nologin.so auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so auth required pam_deny.so account required pam_permit.so password required pam_deny.so session required pam_uwtmp.so It didn't. :-( If it had, I wouldn't be posting this. :-) BTW, that posting said the wiki entry for PAM didn't work on MacOSX. Which is true. I tried that unsuccessfully too. Can anyone shed any light on what's been misconfigured or how to turn on enough debugging to show where I'm going wrong? Thanks. BTW, here's what I think is the relevant bit of dovecote.conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root }

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[Dovecot] Bug: maidirsize double counting moved messages
by Bill Boebel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

The maildirsize file is double counting messages when moving them from folder to folder when "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no": 1024000000000S 99337571 19370 14010590 2 <--- moved from subfolder to subfolder -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from subfolder to INBOX -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from INBOX to subfolder -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from subfolder to subfolder -7005295 -1 When I change "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks" to "yes", this problem only occurs when moving in and out of the INBOX, but not when moving from subfolder to subfolder: 7005295 1 <--- moved from subfolder to subfolder -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from subfolder to INBOX -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from INBOX to subfolder -7005295 -1 7005295 1 <--- moved from subfolder to subfolder -7005295 -1

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[Dovecot] Question about mail storage
by Stewart Dean 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

I am in the throes of trying to understand all the issues of transforming an old UW Imap server with mbox (I think) INBOX format running sendmail and procmail serving 3500 users to dovecot and maildir format. Currently, the folders are under ~/mail and the INBOXes are under /var/spool/mail. If I understand correctly, the typical default Dovecot/maildir format installation will have both the INBOX and folders (prefixed with a period), so they take the format: .<foldername>) under ~/Maildir. Right? I am planning to do a gradual phaseover of one chunk of ids at a time........ "I am in a maze of twisty tunnels, all alike. A dwarf runs by........" Some questions: 1) In the UW IMap docs, formats.txt discusses a bunch of different mailbox formats. I am unclear as to whether I currently have what Crispin describes at .unix format or .mbx format. > . unix This is the traditional UNIX mailbox format, in use for nearly > 30 years. It uses a line starting with "From " to indicate > start of message, and stores the message status inside the > RFC822 message header. > > unix is not particularly efficient; the entire mailbox file > must be read when the mailbox is open, and when reading message > texts it is necessary to convert the newline convention to > Internet standard CR LF form. unix preserves UIDs, and allows > the creation of keywords. > > Only one process may have a unix-format mailbox open > read/write at a time. > and ... > . mbx This is the current preferred mailbox format. It can be > handled quite efficiently by c-client, without the problems > that exist with unix and mmdf formats. Messages are stored > in Internet standard CR LF format. > > mbx permits shared access, including shared expunge. It > preserves UIDs, and allows the creation of keywords. How do I tell them apart? Alternately, how do I tell if what I now have (some sort of one big single-file INBOX) is mbox? Or is what he's referring to as unix just mbox 2) How to change Where Things End Up a) The users' ~/.procmailrc pretty much consists of: MAILDIR=$HOME/mail Am I correct in assuming that this should be changed to: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ ? b) Mail appears to end up in /var/spool/mail/<username> because that's the procmail default (ORGMAIL). To redirect individual users (because this will be a gradual changeover), am I correct in assuming that putting: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ in ~/.procmailrc will redirect incoming mail? 3) I see that, in the default configuration, /everything/ will now be under ~/Maildir and thus in the home directories. Is there a reason to get away from a separate INBOX directory (we use /var/spool/mail)? I'd have to rebuild the homedir filesystems to accommodate the INBOX demands. This isn't all that big a deal, I'd like to understand the rationale..or should I just bow to the inevitable? 4) Pardon my stupidity, but how is the Dovecot INBOX under maildir++ organized? a) Is it a separate directory under ~/Maildir (say ~/Maildir/INBOX or some such) that has a separate file for each message or b) are the INBOX messages just mixed in with the folders under ~/Maildir. If so, how are they differentated? Enlighten my ignorance,.please! I've been reading docs today until my brain feels like custard, but I couldn't seem to get clear definitive answers to these questions........ Thanks in advance. -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] How to configure virtual use suport.
by Slawomir Orlowski (Cympak) 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hello, I have RHEL v4 Linux. I have always been using exim with teapop (po3 client) for my emails. I would like to try dovecot (imap) because I would like to implement squirrelmail. I'm hosting several domains with email each on different IP. I have the some user names in different domains with my pop3 teapop. Can I have it with dovecot. I managed to configure exim to deliver messages for localuser to Maildir directory. directory = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}/Maildir and for virtual_users to Maildir directory. directory = /var/spool/mail/${domain}/${local_part}/Maildir This is working. Email are delivered. But I cannot to connect with my Outlook Express to imap server and download them. I cannot see how dovecot would differentiate between users with the some named in different domains. I believe that me configurations is not right. I would like for starters to have real user to be checked (like in teapop) against /etc/password /etc/shadow file, and virtual user against /etc/mail/passwd.domain file which would contain login:passwd pairs. Do I need like with teapop different IP for every domain ? How do I do that? Any advice would be appreciated. I'm going for a few days vacation I hope that somebody will be able to give me some hints. I have attached my dovecot.conf file. regards Slawomir Orlowski

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[Dovecot] INBOX as mbox, other mailboxes as maildir
by Paul de Weerd 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

All, I'm trying to teach dovecot to use the mbox format for /var/mail/%u and maildir for /home/%u/Mail/ but I'm having quite a hard time. This is Dovecot v1.0.beta3 under OpenBSD 3.9 on sparc64. I've been fiddling with default_mail_env and also tried separate namespaces, but all to no avail. Here's some of the things I tried : default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u ... default_mail_env = INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u:MAIL=maildir:/home/%u/Maildir/ ... namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes location = mbox:/var/mail/%u } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "Folders/" location = maildir:/home/%u/Mail } ... But all it does is complain that my mbox files dont have a cur/ directory in them or create mbox-type files in /home/%u/mail/, in stead of saving my mail in a maildir under /home/%u/Mail/. So using namespaces doesn't seem to be such a good idea after all, I can have extra maildirs under Folders/ in ~/Mail, but that's not where my IMAP client saves its sent mail. I'm quite obviously doing something wrong, is this possible at all ? What is the correct incantation for the default_mail_env setting for such a setup ? Any clues would be greatly appreciated, Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/

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Re: [Dovecot] mountpoint_get broke the quota plugin
by Bill Boebel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

On Fri, April 21, 2006 9:35, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 08:17 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: > > Looks like the new mountpoint_get code broke the quota plugin. > > That's because linker is being smart and not linking the mountpoint code > in because it's not used by the binary itself. Fixed now in CVS by > linking mountpoint.o file manually to imap and deliver binaries. Cool. Thanks for fixing this. Bill

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[Dovecot] multiple domains for the same user
by pyroneus 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

I have postfix and dovecot set up to use virtual domains. I am now experiencing a problem that when I log in as user1(a)domain1.tld and then log in as user1(a)domain2.tld all the emails are downloaded for user1(a)domain2.tld as it thinks all the messages are new. is there anyway to stop dovecot from saying that all the messages are new?

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[Dovecot] dovecot.rawlog for imap-login
by Jared 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

I'm trying to see what users are sending for login. I added the rawlog binary in front of the imap-login in the config file. I'm not seeing any rawlogs. I added the dovecot.rawlog in the dovecot user directory (since that's what the imap-login process seems to run as) and it's permission are wide open. Still nothing. Help?

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[Dovecot] Very Complex Master Password Challenge
by Marc Perkel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

This might require adding some new code to Dovecot to pull this off. But it would be extremely powerful if I could get this to work. Here's the situation. Having a master password is great for helping users and doing tech support. But - suppose I'm hosting many domains and I want to create master passwords for each domain separately so that the owners of the domain can log in as any user within that domain? Here's the way I have things set up. I have a directory of passwd/shadow pairs for each domain as follows: /etc/vmail/passwd.domain1.com /etc/vmail/shadow.domain1.com /etc/vmail/passwd.domain2.com /etc/vmail/shadow.domain2.com Additionally I have a master domain used for management of the other domains. The master domain is an email account for each domain under the domain junkemailfilter.net. domain1.com(a)junkemailfilter.net domain2.com(a)junkemailfilter.net The password and shadow files are like the others: /etc/vmail/passwd.junkemailfilter.net /etc/vmail/shadow.junkemailfilter.net So - the idea is that the owners of the domain have access to the email accounts on junkemailfilter.net and what I'm hoping to do is that they can use this as the master password for their domain only. Example: domain1.com(a)junkemailfilter.net domain2.com(a)junkemailfilter.net I suppose that the master password feature needs another new feature to limit the scope of what it is allowed to be a master password for. Something perhaps like: passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/vmail/shadow.junkemailfilter.net master = yes scope = *@%u } In the above example "%u" is the user part of the master password. So that that master user would be for example "domain1.com(a)junkemailfilter.net" and it would be the master password only for users of domain1.com and not domain2.com. So - if you can follow this - then you will see that this would be a really cool feature to have. And - I'm guessing that it might be easy to implement.

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[Dovecot] okay, working, but not quite pretty...
by Chris Lea 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi all. I got my previous problem fixed. Effective uid and gid fix in dovecot.conf file made it work. However, I'm still seeing this in my /var/log/dovecot.conf dovecot: 2006-04-13 21:09:00 Info: imap(chl(a)iaminla.com): Effective uid=1000, gid=1000 The uid and gid *should* both be 1009, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to configure that. I looked around the list and couldn't find the answer. Help a noob out please? I promise I'll write up a detailed howto for my debian + postfix + dovecot using static userdb's when I have it all working. :) -- --------------------------------------------------------------- "When moderate to highly intelligent people get bored, bad things happen." -- Ann Moreno (310) 709-4021 http://www.chrislea.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Master Password not working
by Marc Perkel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Trying to get the master password to work. What am I doing wrong? Trying this test: /etc/dovecot.masterusers master:{plain}test auth_master_user_separator=* auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { # Master users that can log in as anyone args = /etc/dovecot.masterusers master = yes #pass =yes } passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/vmail/shadow.%d } userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0666 } } } telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.ctyme.com (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 login master*marc(a)perkel.com test 1 NO Authentication failed. Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] dovecot died
by Obantec Support 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi Still running 1.0 stable (an old release i know but until i see more stable reports on beta7 i will hold out). last night is the first time in months the dovecot has died. maillog has repeated lines of this. Apr 16 02:31:37 proteus2 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot.log just shows last login Apr 16 02:31:36 Info: pop3-login: Login: username [IP] i restarted it Apr 16 08:38:04 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up and now it seems ok. anyone got a monitor script for watching the dovecot daemon and send a start if it dies? Mark

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[Dovecot] hard link between courierimapuiddb and dovecot-uidlist?
by Jeff Tucker 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, guys. I'm attempting to transition between Courier IMAP and Dovecot. I may not be able to transition all the courierimapuiddb files instantly or even transition all my servers at the same time. Ideally, it wouldn't matter. Users can login and get to a Courier IMAP machine or a Dovecot machine and read their email (all mounted via NFS). My question is: is there any reason I can't just do a hard link between courierimapuiddb and dovecot-uidlist? That way, I can transition users over to Dovecot at my leisure. And, if I need to, I can move back to Courier. The hard link is essentially free and lets me make sure these files stay synced. Thanks Jeff

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[Dovecot] Beta 7 maildir++ "unlimited quota"
by Apps Lists 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi. It looks like Beta 7 is treating a zero quota in maildirsize as a literal quota value. The maildir++ specification says a zero quota means unlimited. Steve

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[Dovecot] Error by POP3 login
by Marc-André Appel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hello! After the success to get Dovecot finally running i have now another problem, but don't know what is wrong there, this is the message i got: pop3(contact(a)maddy.cc): Failed to create storage with data: /var/vmail/maddy.cc/contact/ What does it mean? Thanks for help! -- Marc-André Appel 1, Caball d'en Boux F-66740 Villelongue dels Monts France +33.(0)6.86.82.41.31

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[Dovecot] UIDL documentation
by Mark E. Mallett 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, I see this in the 1.0-beta7 dovecot-example.conf file: # If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use: # UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu # Courier version 0 : %f # Courier version 1 : %u # Courier version 2 : %v-%u # Cyrus (<= 2.1.3) : %u # Cyrus (>= 2.1.4) : %v.%u # Older Dovecots : %v.%u # # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which was # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. # # NOTE: Nowadays this is required to be set explicitly, since the old # default was bad but it couldn't be changed without breaking existing # installations. %08Xu%08Xv will be the new default, so use it for new # installations. and on the wiki at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration there is this: By default Dovecot generates POP3 UIDs differently than UW-IMAP. If you want to preserve them, with 0.99.x you'll have to patch Dovecot. With 1.0-tests you can use: pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu In the dovecot-example.conf file, it appears that the mentions of "%08Xu%08Xv" as being fail-safe and being the new default may be typos, since that format doesn't seem to come from anywhere. Should they not say "%08Xv%08Xu" ? (It'll still provide the same sort of unique value, only with the ends reversed; i.e. it should still work ok. But consistency and compatibility is nice.) mm

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[Dovecot] unlink a directory
by Alfred Tuinman 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, Occasionally I get an error message in my dovecot log when, in evolution, I click on the inbox: dovecot: Apr 21 00:07:06 Error: imap(admin): unlink(/home/admin/.maildir/cur/1145393825.P23027Q0M159929.terminator.odyssey.nl:2,ST) failed: Is a directory Instead of the message being delivered as a file it appears to be written as a directory. Deleting those directories solves the error message from reappearing. Any ideas? I use FC5, dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7, postfix-2.2.8-1.2, procmail-3.22-16.2.1 Regards, Alfred

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[Dovecot] Permissions for Public Namespace?
by Gavin Henry 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Dear List, We've been following: http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders But all we can do is subscribe. Our users can't create folders, move e-mails into the top level folder etc. Am I not grasping the shared folders idea correctly? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] beta7: assert, Solaris 9
by Jeff A. Earickson 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Hi, An assertion that I haven't seen before: Apr 20 11:15:32 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(user): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion failed: (start_pos < data_size) gdb output from the core file of imap is attached. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format, INBOX is NFS mounted from a Solaris 10 system, imap and imaps only. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Maildir++ Unlimited Quota.
by Apps Lists 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Does this Maildir++ implementation have an "unlimited" quota? It looks like all of the other Maildir++ software uses "0" for this ... it doesn't seem to work on Dovecot. Steve

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