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[Dovecot] DOVECOT+SQLITE
by Alexandre Busquets 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Has somebody experience with DOVECOT+SQLITE? Which will be the config variables? auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf ------------------------------------------------------ db_host = localhost db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock db = test db_user = test db_passwd = test db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT clear FROM users WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%u' ------------------------------------------------------ Is possible use sqlrelay

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[Dovecot] DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE?
by Knute Johnson 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

I have a new install of FC5 running dovecot 1.0.0 beta 2.7. I get my mail with POP3 but I have a user using IMAP. They both work great but I keep getting a message from dovecot in my mail saying DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA. I think it is there to help keep track of IMAP messages. Since I use POP3 is there any way not to have it show up all the time? I've deleted it, I've deleted my account and re-added it but it keeps coming back. Dovecot is also making a 'mail' directory in my ~ that I don't think I need. What can I do about this? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] IMAPS - timeout while moving mails
by Petar Bogdanovic 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hi, I'm using Dovecot v1.0.beta5 (NetBSD 3.0, i386) and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 (XP, i386). My dovecot.conf is pretty simple, because I just use dovecot for me as the only user. However, when I try to move a 'larger' amount of mails (>200) from my local TB-mbox to the remote IMAPS-storage, the process hangs after about 150 - 160 transferred mails (the 'blocking' mail is _never_ the same). I don't have the slightest clue why - there is nothing in the logs - even if I turn 'verbose_ssl' on. After a while, TB tells me, that the server timed out and dovecot says: "imap(petar): Disconnected" Usually - if I close my MUA correctly - dovecot says: "imap(petar): Disconnected: Logged out" Is somebody maybe experiencing something similar? Thank you very much & with kind regards, Petar Bogdanovic

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[Dovecot] 1.0beta5 released
by Cesar Mesias 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Dear friends, I am trying to upgrade dovecot 1.0-alpha3 to dovecot 1.0-beta 5, but I have some problems to do that. When I install its rpm I get a message which indicates I have to install some dependences such as openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386, sqlite-3.2.8-1.9.el4 and libk5crypto.so.3. I haven't had any problems with openssl and sqlite but I always get a message that I need to have the libraries of libk5crypto. I realised that I have these libraries, but I get the same message, which is the following: [root@server]rpm -ivh openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386.rpm warning: openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 error: Failed dependencies: libk5crypto.so.3(k5crypto_3_MIT) is needed by openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386 libkrb5.so.3(krb5_3_MIT) is needed by openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386 I appreciate so much if you could send me the steps that I have to do to make the upgrade without problems. I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 I am looking forward from hearing you soon. Thanks for your time. Regards, Cesar

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[Dovecot] sqlrelay
by Alexandre Busquets 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Is possible works with sqlrelay

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[Dovecot] beta5 no ssl (imaps) connection
by Elimar Riesebieter 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Hi all, running beta 5 doesn't allow ssl connections: SASL authentication failed Same config runs well with beta3. I tried as well latest CVS, but this gives me the same error. Verbose debug output: dovecot: 2006-04-09 17:17:51 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=192.168.200.1 rip=192.168.200.202 dovecot: 2006-04-09 17:17:51 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: 2006-04-09 17:17:51 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: 2006-04-09 17:18:51 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.200.202, lip=192.168.200.1, TLS If I logged in on the dovecot server itself, the connection is estabilished. I guess it's only a change in the config, but which? Elimar -- Do you smell something burning or ist it me?

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[Dovecot] phantom new mail (mailboxes keep on being reported as having new mail)
by Grobian 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Hi, I'm using dovecot 1.0_beta3 on Gentoo Linux, and am experiencing a problem of what I call 'phantom mail'. This problem I have for a long time (pre 1.0), but at the moment I'm using 1.0_beta3 and the problem still is in there. My setup is as follows: - regular x86 box - running Exim and Dovecot - Exim saves new mail in maildir format in a local filesystem /mail/user/blabla - Dovecot reads and serves IMAP from local filesystem /mail/user/blabla - client is Mutt and/or Thunderbird from any OS (Mac, Linux, Windows) via IMAP Situation that happens: I get new mail in a folder, say =news (in Mutt style, it's .news dir in the maildir directory). I read the item, Mutt (or Thunderbird) marks the item as read (moving it over to cur aswell I think), save the folder, then move on to another folder. At this point dovecot IMAP server indicates to the client that there is new mail in the folder =news. If I visit the folder with the client, I see no new mail, and sometimes I have two or three of those folders, and I can keep on cycling with Mutt till I get bored :). Before upgrading Dovecot, I knew of no way to resolve this problem; eventually, it seemed that at some point the folder seemed to figure out itself that there was indeed no new mail. Sometimes I could trick it by letting Mutt mark the mail as new again, and then save the folder. Didn't always work. Now, I think a week or two ago I upgraded Dovecot and had to manually move all the .subscription files, and I also in one go decided to remove the dovecot* and .imap* files. That cleaned up, and at first that looked like it solved my problem. Not. So I figured out throwing away dovecot's index stuff (rm dovecot* in the directory that shows phantom mail) resolves the problem. However, this method starts to get annoying so to say. So, I did some investigation and found out that the dovecot-uidlist file seems to be not up-to-date on a folder that shows phantom mails: # awk '{ print $2 }' dovecot-uidlist | sort > tmp.uids # ls cur | sort | diff -u - tmp.uids --- - 2006-03-08 17:45:26.428168000 +0100 +++ tmp.uids 2006-03-08 17:45:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -47,4 +47,5 @@ 1141340181.H111425P8973.hermes.orakel.ods.org:2,S 1141387968.P13010Q0M35974.hermes:2,S 1141528391.H769531P12886.hermes.orakel.ods.org:2,S -1141830301.H349821P23427.hermes.orakel.ods.org:2,S +1141544380 +1141830301.H349821P23427.hermes.orakel.ods.org It seems the dovecot uidlist doesn't have the right name for the file on disk, probably therefore "seeing" a new file all the time and reporting the folder as having new mail. The 1141544380 entry comes from the first row of the dovecot-uidlist file: 1 1141544380 51 I guess it's just some sort of line to keep track of the last timestamp and the number of messages or something. If my theory is right here then it looks as if the 'bad entry' is actually more recent than this most recent timestamp reports. But this is only speculation of course. Enough for this lenghty mail I guess. Is this a known issue, or can it be caused by the way I set up my system? I must note that this only happens for some folders, not all of them. I have folders which get a lot of mail, but don't have this happening on. Any clues go resolve this are welcome. Regards, -- Fabian Groffen

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot's as ip/user based login filter?
by Sysadmin 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Tere. > Actually I do not know wheter Dovecot can do it by itself. > On my server I use a customized PAM-Module to authenticate and authorize > my users. The module also performs a check on the host where the users > comes from and checks wheter there is a rule to allow/deny access from > this host. > > I know this setup sounds an bit exotic, but it works quite nice for me > with the advantage to use this feature within other services than dovecot. > > It's sounds wonderful. Can You kindly share this customized pam module for me? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] SSHA Password Hashing
by Gavin Young 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

We are currently running a production mail server using version 0.990.99.11-2 (latest RPM from RHEL/CentOS). We would like to migrate more virtual domains off our courier imap server to dovecot but the courier imap user passswords are stored in LDAP and are SSHA hashed which is not supported by our current version of dovecot (CRYPT only). >From reading the mailing lists this feature is now available but I am hesitant to move a production server to a beta software release. Apart from waiting for a 1.0-final RPM, what is the simplest/best way for us to allow dovecot to read existing SSHA hashed passwords within LDAP? Any help would be much appreciated. Gavin

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[Dovecot] anyone running with Horde mail?
by interfaSys sàrl - Rich Internet Applications 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

We have the exact same problem. Everything is fine with beta3, but the latest betas have problems with Horde. We are using FreeBSD and Horde 3.1. The logs show connections from 127.0.0.1. Login is successful, but the user is immediately disconnected. Best regards, Olivier Paroz interfaSys sàrl > Yes, our horde/imp webmail servers use dovecot beta3 with no > problems. > > We are running horde 2.2.5 on on Solaris 10 boxes. Dovecot uses pam > on the imap server (a Solaris 9 box). I've had no luck with beta4 > or beta5 so far. > > Jeff Earickson > Colby College

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[Dovecot] Re: LDAP authentication via PAM
by Oscar A. Valdez 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Luis Meléndez escribió: > Oscar A. Valdez wrote: > > I've configured dovecot to authenticate against a Fedora Directory > > Server. The mail server on which dovecot is installed has the > > nss_ldap and pam_ldap packages installed, and /etc/dovecot.conf has the > > following two lines: > > > > auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf > > auth_passdb = pam > > ... > > Is it possible to access the user database through PAM (auth_userdb = > > pam)? Since I'm running the nss_ldap and pam_ldap modules, it'd really > > be an LDAP query for users, and a query in /etc/passwd and /etc/group > > for dovecot (since it's a local user and group on the mail server). > > If you are using nss_ldap and have edited /etc/nsswitch.conf > accordingly, you should get it done with: > > auth_userdb = passwd > > It doesn't mean to use /etc/passwd, but the O.S. nss mechanism. Before trying to Luis' suggestion, I had the following in /var/log/messages: dovecot(pam_unix)[4691]: check pass; user unknown dovecot(pam_unix)[4691]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= dovecot-auth[4691]: pam_ldap: could not open secret file /etc/ldap.secret (No such file or directory) I suppose the first two entries are the lookup for the dovecot user in the DS, where it doesn't exist. And since I want anonymous binds to the DS, I haven't created file /etc/ldap.secret. Users were able to authenticate and get their mail. After changing to auth_userdb = passwd, all the messages went away, but the users weren't able to get their mail: Evolution gave me the following error: "Unable to get a valid greeting" from the mailserver. I went back to auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf, and then back to auth_userdb = passwd. Users can get their mail, but the messages are back in the log file. I'd appreciate help in understanding this behavior. -- Oscar A. Valdez

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Re: [Dovecot] anyone running with Horde mail?
by interfaSys sàrl - Rich Internet Applications 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

I have: Imp, turba, ingo, kronolith, nag and mnemo. Auth is done through IMP. servers.php contains this: $servers['dovecot'] = array( 'name' => 'IMAP Server', 'server' => 'localhost', 'hordeauth' => 'full', 'protocol' => 'imap/notls', 'port' => 143, 'folders' => '', 'namespace' => '', 'maildomain' => '', 'smtphost' => '', 'smtpport' => 25, 'realm' => '', 'preferred' => '', 'acl' => array( 'driver' => 'rfc2086', ), 'dotfiles' => true, 'hierarchies' => array() ); PEAR Auth_SASL is installed Best regards, Olivier Paroz interfaSys sàrl > I have it working now with FreeBSD, the latest HOrde, and the > latest dovecot. > > What other Horde components do you have installed, and how do you > have > the authentication set up.

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[Dovecot] Test version for production servers for shared folders
by Gavin Henry 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Dear List, Is the latest test version suitable for production systems? Our current servers use 0.99 on FC4 and we would like to add shared folders via the test version. Has anyone migrated this way before? 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] Log format top=0/0 elements meaning?
by Sysadmin 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hello. Typical log text - top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 I can figure out what means retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0, but what about top=0/0? It's static data, haven't seen any others numbers, than zeros there? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Added Howto for installing RPMs of beta versions for Fedora Core
by Gavin Henry 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Might as well update the wiki ;-) http://wiki.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries -- 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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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot's as ip/user based login filter?
by Sysadmin 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Tere. > > If you're using PAM authentication then just use pam_group to restrict > it to a specific group. > > I'm using pam, but how to use this pam_group to allow connect all users from my networks a'la 192.168.0.0/24 and only some users from other network a'la 0.0.0.0 to connect to the port 993? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot's as server based and mail filters and addressbooks holder?
by Sysadmin 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hello. I'm just wondering, that maybe is the time to change the imap -s format or add some more features, are in these day's most people, me also are so called mobile users. And imap is good solution for us but however still some basic things are missing, fore example: 1) Server side mail filters. I read mails from home, from office and from webmail. Now when I need to make mail filter, for example to collect all dovecot mails into one subfolder, I can do it in one computer, and they works, if the computer is online, but if I need to change them, reading email from the another computer, I can't do it. 2) Server side address book. Yes, I know, ldap is solution, but installing and configuring the ldap server for some simple global address book, is kind of overkill. And these rules/address book can be from client to see as subfolder, so every imap capable client can deal with them? Is this real on not? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] anyone running with Horde mail?
by Alan McKay 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hey again folks ;-) Seems my auth is working afterall when I telnet to the IMAP port. But darned if I can get it working with Horde web mail. Is anyone out there doing this just first of all to confirm to me that the combination works OK. I don't care so much about shadow auth since apparantly my pam auth is working just fine. thanks, -Alan -- "True Budo is done for the sake of building peace. Train every day so as to make peace between this spirit and all things manifested on the face of the Earth" - Ueshiba Morihei

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[Dovecot] Missing X-IMAPbase header causing mbox corruption
by Con Tassios 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

If the first message in an mbox is deleted by an external program, therefore removing the X-IMAPbase header, an error such as the following occurs. Apr 9 20:10:51 sm1 dovecot: imap(306812): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 460 (mbox_sync_update_header_from): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.uid == 0 || ctx->mail.uid_broken || ctx->mail.uid == mail->uid) This prevents the user from logging in, but also appears to cause mbox corruption. If the X-IMAPbase and the X-UID headers are missing, Dovecot will insert them successfully, but fails to do so when only the X-IMAPbase header is missing. Using dovecot-1.0.beta3.

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[Dovecot] quota reporting
by Mick T 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi all, I'm wondering if theres a way to report the quota, but not enforce it? The problem is that i'm using dirsize as the quota method to calculate the size of the mail directory, and for very large mailboxes this can take time... what i thought would be good, would be if dovecot could report the quota when the user requests it, but doesn't calculate it for every operation it performs? Does any one have any suggestions? I'm using Dovecot 1.0 beta5 My config: mail_plugins = imap_quota quota The quota for a mailbox is stored in sql, and so the sql query returns a "quota" which is picked up by the quota plugin Michael

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.beta4 released
by Todd Piket 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Okay so I am eager because I need the NFS features. Suggestions on this build error: /usr/bin/gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -I/services/linux/imap_pop/email.mtu.edu/openssl-0.9.8a/include -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/services/linux/imap_pop/email.mtu.edu/openssl-0.9.8a/lib -o ssl-build-param ssl-init-main.o ssl-init-openssl.o ssl-init-gnutls.o -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/services/linux/imap_pop/email.mtu.edu/openssl-0.9.8a/lib -L/services/linux/imap_pop/email.mtu.edu/openssl-0.9.8a/lib ../lib/liblib.a ssl-init-openssl.o(.text+0x1d): In function `_ssl_generate_parameters': /services/linux/support/src/imap/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta4/src/master/ssl-init-openssl.c:21: undefined reference to `DH_generate_parameters' ssl-init-openssl.o(.text+0x29):/services/linux/support/src/imap/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta4/src/master/ssl-init-openssl.c:25: undefined reference to `i2d_DHparams' ssl-init-openssl.o(.text+0x51):/services/linux/support/src/imap/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta4/src/master/ssl-init-openssl.c:30: undefined reference to `i2d_DHparams' -- Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------ | Todd Piket | Email: todd(a)mtu.edu | | Programmer/Analyst | Phone: (906) 487-1720 | | Distributed Computing Services | | | Michigan Technological University | | ------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot won't compile for GnuTLS
by Kristoffer Bylund 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Gunther Ohrner wrote: > Am Sonntag, 9. April 2006 20:20, schrieb Kristoffer Bylund: > > I've installed the gnutls-library and configure runs fine, but make > > stops. > > As far as I know Dovecot does not work with GnuTLS at all, only really > ancient versions once did. > > I may be wrong, though. That might explain why it won't compile, however - gnutls is mentioned in the config help and also in the readme; "Dovecot supports both GNUTLS and OpenSSL. Dovecot prefers GNUTLS if it's found, but fallbacks to OpenSSL. If you wish to force using OpenSSL, give --with-ssl=openssl to configure." Kind regards Kristoffer

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[Dovecot] dovecot won't compile for GnuTLS
by Kristoffer Bylund 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi! I'm currently investigating a switch from courier-imap to dovecot since a number of our users experience problems with Outlook in combination with SSL. I can compile dovecot with openssl support and it runs "fine" except that the Outlook issues are still there. I read that dovecot works best with GnuTLS and thought that I'd try to compile for that instead. The system is running SuSE 9.3. I've installed the gnutls-library and configure runs fine, but make stops. My configure arguments is ./configure --with-vpopmail --with-ssl=gnutls Make stops with the following info: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/qmail/dovecot-beta-test/dovecot-1.0.beta5/src/master' /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o ssl-build-param ssl-init-main.o ssl-init-openssl.o ssl-init-gnutls.o ../lib/liblib.a -lgnutls -lgcrypt gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o ssl-build-param ssl-init-main.o ssl-init-openssl.o ssl-init-gnutls.o ../lib/liblib.a -lgnutls -lgcrypt ssl-init-gnutls.o(.text+0x93): In function `_ssl_generate_parameters': /usr/src/qmail/dovecot-beta-test/dovecot-1.0.beta5/src/master/ssl-init-gnutl s.c:34: undefined reference to `gnutls_dh_params_generate' ssl-init-gnutls.o(.text+0x11d):/usr/src/qmail/dovecot-beta-test/dovecot-1.0. beta5/src/master/ssl-init-gnutls.c:57: undefined reference to `gnutls_rsa_params_generate' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [ssl-build-param] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/qmail/dovecot-beta-test/dovecot-1.0.beta5/src/master' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/qmail/dovecot-beta-test/dovecot-1.0.beta5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/qmail/dovecot-beta-test/dovecot-1.0.beta5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any clues? Kind regards Kristoffer

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[Dovecot] consistency issue
by Catalin Constantin 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi there, We have our mail boxes stored on a NFS server and we use maildir for mailbox storage. Some days ago we had a crush and SOME of the mailboxes get an error on QUERY: "EXPUNGE". eg: telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Cabanova Mail ready. A01 LOGIN "hoeschen(a)***.com" "***" A01 OK Logged in. A01 STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT) * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 6 RECENT 5 UNSEEN 5) A01 OK Status completed. a01 SELECT "INBOX" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 6 EXISTS * 5 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1143550926] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 40] Predicted next UID a01 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. a01 EXPUNGE * BYE Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. Connection closed by foreign host. The issue i think it is related to the dovecot dovecot.* files located in the user home. After i delete thoes it works again ! Any clue how this can be solved by not manually deleting the dovecot.* files (index files) ? Thank you for your time ! -- Catalin Constantin Bounce Software http://www.bounce-software.com http://www.cabanova.ro

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[Dovecot] Filesystem quota
by Stian Jordet 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi, I've seen you commited a lot of quota work tonight. I'm still unable to get the filesystem quota working, and I wonder if it's just me that is stupid, or if theres a bug somewhere. I enable quota and imap_quota plugins, I set fs in my ldap-base for quota, and logons. I then get this: dovecot: imap(ingvild): fs quota add storage dir = /home/ingvild/Maildir dovecot: imap(ingvild): fs quota: mount path for /home/ingvild/Maildir not found from /etc/mtab In my logs... Anyone knows the problem? Best regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] ssl-parameters.dat ownership problems on MacOS X
by Lars Skovgaard 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi all, I've been having some issues with the ssl-parameters.dat file from dovecot 1.0 beta 2 on MacOS X 10.4.6 client. As I understand it, the user/group on the file should be root:wheel, and I have changed ownership accordingly. However, on occation this gets set to root:dovecot by some process I haven't yet identified, which causes the ssl-parameters.dat file to be regenerated once every 10 minutes instead of the default. Does anyone have an idea what is going on, or how I can avoid this? Best, Lars

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[Dovecot] Feature Request: Config Dump
by Charles Marcus 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hello, One of the less friendly lists I am on is the Postfix list, but one of the features that Postfix has, and the use of which is required when asking for help on their list, is a command called 'postconf', which simply dumps the current configuration parameters into a neat, orderly output that you can then cut-n-paste into an email request for help. The postfix guys won't even try to address a problem without this output (as opposed to snippets from config files), combined with log snippets of the failing behavior (as opposed to bounced message text, or 'it don't work' comments). So, what I'd like to see is something similar - a command that I can issue that will cause Dovecot to dump all of the configuration parameters it is currently using in a neat, orderly arrangement. This would dramatically help individual users in troubleshooting their own problems, as well as help people on this list help others. It would totally eliminate all of the 'what is xys set to' questions back and forth. But I'm more interested in how it will simply help me to see how I have it configured, and allow me to easily spot conflicting or misconfigured parameters. -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] dovecot NTLM authentication
by Lior Okman 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi, I'm trying to configure DoveCot to allow NTLM authentication. I've successfully authenticated with Outlook 2003 against Dovecot when the passdb backend used to store the password is a passwd-file. It doesn't matter if the passwd-file contains plain or NTLM encrypted passwords. When I compare the NTLM hash provided by the dovecotpw utility to the one I have in my SAMBA ldap, it appears to be exactly the same. When I use the LDAP passdb backend, I can see in the log file that dovecot has received the correct NTLM hash value, but outlook fails to authenticate successfully. I'm using the debianized dovecot version v1.0.beta2. I can post my dovecot-ldap.conf file, if it will help. Can anybody help me configure my dovecot to allow Outlook to perform NTLM authentication when the password database is in LDAP? Thanks, Lior Okman

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[Dovecot] fcntl error
by Doug Dalton 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Error: imap(user): fcntl() failed with mbox file /var/mail/user: Resource temporarily unavailable The user is using Outlook, I am not sure what the issue is, I am running Freebsd 6.0 and Dovecot 1.0.3 The user report that the gets about 60 of his inbox then I see this error in my error log. He is only running one instance of outlook Doug

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[Dovecot] Digest-MD5 authentication problems
by Trev Peterson 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hello, I have dovecot setup to pull passwords stored in plain from a database. My allowed authentication mechanisms are cram-md5 and digest-md5. Cram works but digest fails on my evolution client with and authentication failed. The server is running dovecot 0.99.14-1 on debian sarge. The user logging in is test(a)advanced-reality.com. Some potentially relevant portions of dovecot.conf are: auth_mechanisms = digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_default_realm = auth_user = dovecot-auth >From the logs with auth_verbose = yes and auth_debug = yes in dovecot.conf: Mar 16 08:12:51 localhost dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'test' AND domain = 'advanced-reality.com' AND active IS TRUE Mar 16 08:12:51 localhost dovecot-auth: digest-md5(test(a)advanced-reality.com): password mismatch Mar 16 08:12:51 localhost pop3-login: Aborted login [64.81.224.97] Some preliminary searching led me to this: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2003-November/002598.html Is there a problem with digest-md5 in this version of dovecot? Any pointers on how to troubleshoot this further? Any additional help is appreciated. Let me know if additional information is needed. Thanks -- Trev Peterson <trev(a)advanced-reality.com> Advanced Reality

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[Dovecot] TCP wrappers patch
by Timo Sirainen 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I finally started looking into how to use libwrap, and even got the code working: http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/tcp-wrappers.patch However once everything was done, I realized it can't work that way because login processes are normally chrooted. So if you want TCP wrappers and don't care that much about the security given by chrooting, you could disable it and use the above patch. Alternatively you could just make sure that the hosts.allow/deny files are always copied inside the chroot. I think I'll just forget about TCP wrappers for now, and implement it in Dovecot 2.0 as some separate non-chrooted process.

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[Dovecot] How to achieve: Automove of mails
by Daniel Watts 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Dear All, I was wondering if this is possible: I am using namespaces to support my environment which has legacy mboxes and new maildirs. In it looks like: namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = location = maildir:/home/virtual/%d/home/%n/Maildir/ } namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail2/ inbox = yes hidden = yes location = mbox:/home/virtual/%d/home/var/spool/mail/%n:INBOX=/home/virtual/%d/var/spool/mail/%n } This basically means that there is a hidden inbox "mail2/INBOX" that the user cannot see but which can referenced and accessed. What I would like is for Dovecot to automatically move all mail (actually only as much as possible within quota limits) in "mail2/INBOX" into "/INBOX" whenever INBOX is checked/expunged. An alternative acceptable solution is to have something that moves mail once it has read. I would then symlink mail2/INBOX as a "New mail" folder. Once user's read their mail it is moved to the standard /INBOX folder. Are either of the above possible natively or do I need to look at something like plugins? Incidently where is the documentation guiding plugin development? I've looked at the website but can't find anything either by browsing or searching. Many thanks, Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.
by Charlie Davis 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

1.0 Beta 3. Plain authentication works. But not TLS. I don't see anything in the configuration file that seems obvious to deny TLS authentication. -Charlie ----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 javert42(a)cs.byu.edu wrote: > Charlie Davis wrote: >> Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be > thunderbird/outlook friendly? >> >> Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I > Get the error: >> >> "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account settings > for your mail server." >> >> I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if available > as well, still no love. >> >> Dovecot logfile contains: >> >> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, > lip=10.0.0.208, TLS >> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, > lip=10.0.0.208, TLS >> >> Nothing else. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> -Charlie >> >> >> > I've got beta2 running on an RHEL4 box, and I've had no problems with > Thunderbird (with people running anywhere from 0.7 to 1.5). Which > version of dovecot are you running? > > -- > Topher Fischer > GnuPG Fingerprint: 3597 1B8D C7A5 C5AF 2E19 EFF5 2FC3 BE99 D123 6674 > javert42(a)cs.byu.edu

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[Dovecot] LDAP and prefetch
by Jorgen Lundman 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

SunOS pop01.unix 5.10 Generic_118844-26 i86pc i386 i86pc dovecot-1.0.beta3 It is most likely something I am doing wrong, but could someone take a look at why I can not get LDAP prefetch to work? If I define things like this: dovecot.conf: ---------------------------------------------- passdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } ---------------------------------------------- dovecot-ldap.conf: ---------------------------------------------- base = uid=%n, o=%d, ou=mail, dc=example, dc=com user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,uidNumber =userdb_uid,gidNumber=userdb_gid pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(mail=%u)) ---------------------------------------------- This works correctly. Queries LDAP twice, but retrieves home, uid, gid and mail correctly. Authenticates well. If I replace the userdb line in dovecot.conf with: ---------------------------------------------- userdb prefetch { } ---------------------------------------------- It does no longer work. The passdb query is still correct, and it is followed by a second "empty" ldap query (as seen from snoop) with the following errors: Mar 20 15:58:06 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 474965 mail.info] Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up Mar 20 15:58:14 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): prefetch(fred(a)uranus.com,172.20.12.12): userdb_uid not returned Mar 20 15:58:14 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): prefetch(fred(a)uranus.com,172.20.12.12): userdb_gid not returned Mar 20 15:58:14 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): userdb(fred(a)uranus.com,172.20.12.12): user not found from userdb Mar 20 15:58:14 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] pop3-login: Internal login failure: user=<fred(a)uranus.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=172.20.12.12, lip=172.20.12.8 Snoop of failing lookup: LDAP: Operation *[APPL 3: Search Request] LDAP: [Base Object] LDAP: uid=fred, o=uranus.com, ou=mail, LDAP: dc=example, dc=com [snip] LDAP: And *[0] LDAP: Equality Match *[3] LDAP: [Attr Descr] LDAP: objectClass LDAP: [Value] LDAP: posixAccount LDAP: *[3] LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: mail LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: fred(a)uranus.com LDAP: *[Sequence] LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: mail LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: userPassword LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: homeDirectory LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: uidNumber LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: gidNumber [snip] LDAP: Operation *[APPL 4: Search ResEntry] LDAP: [Object Name] LDAP: uid=fred,o=uranus.com,ou=mail,dc LDAP: =example,dc=com LDAP: *[Partial Attributes] LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: uidNumber LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: 105 LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: gidNumber LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: 200 LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: homeDirectory LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: /export/nfs/mail/com/s/u/ur LDAP: anus/fred/ LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: userPassword LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: {crypt}QAa3SPeYrDARs (its "test", no leak fun here) LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: mail LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: fred(a)uranus.com [snip] TCP: Destination port = 389 (LDAP) LDAP: ----- LDAP: ----- LDAP: LDAP: "" LDAP: TCP: Destination port = 389 (LDAP) LDAP: ----- LDAP: ----- LDAP: LDAP: "" LDAP: Please advice! Lund -- Jorgen Lundman | <lundman(a)lundman.net> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home)

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[Dovecot] POP (dot) locks
by Christian Balzer 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hello, just to soothe my paranoia from many years of qpopper usage, which enforces solitary access to a POP mailbox. Only one login per user is possible at the same time and if a session terminates w/o qpopper being properly notified it will remain locked for some time, 30 minutes by default. With dovecot (0.99.10.4) one can login multiple times (using POP, with IMAP of course this comes as no surprise :) and thus I presume this bit from the configuration: --- # Should we create dotlock file even when we want only a read-lock? Setting # this to yes hurts the performance when the mailbox is accessed simultaneously # by multiple processes, but it's needed for reliable reading if no other # locking methods are available. #mbox_read_dotlock = no --- means that if the only other reading accesses to a (mbox style in this case here) mailbox are via other dovecot processes everything will be fine? Regards, Christian Balzer -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/

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[Dovecot] .'s in folder names
by Craig Whitmore 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi there We are trying to move over from 1 IMAP server to another, but the problem is dovecot does not allow .'s in folder names (and we have quite a number of people who do have .'s in their folder names (ie "www.domain stuff") Is there anyway of allowing dovecot to allow .'s in folder names? Thanks Craig Whitmore

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[Dovecot] problem with userdb_ on pgsql
by chester c young 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

# 1 password_query = SELECT login as user, passwd as password FROM mail.dovecot_passwd_v WHERE login = '%n' # 2 user_query = SELECT home, 5020 as uid, 5020 as gid FROM mail.dovecot_passwd_v WHERE login = '%n' # 3 # password_query = SELECT login as user, passwd as password, home as userdb_home, 5020 as userdb_uid, 5020 as userdb_gid FROM mail.dovecot_passwd_v WHERE login = '%n' when #3, instead of #1 and #2 is used, it still calls a default user_query. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] How to use Master Users.
by Adam M. Dunn 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi. I'm testing out the new 'master users' feature, and I'm not having any luck getting it to work. Anyone out there using it yet? Here's what I have so far: dovecot.conf: ------------ auth_master_user_separator = * auth default { passdb passwd-file { # Master users that can login as anyone else args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot.masterusers master = yes pass = yes } # LDAP database passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } ... ... } dovecot.masterusers: ------------------- testuser:{plain}testpass # telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK IMAP server ready. 1 login realuser*testuser "testpass" 1 NO Authentication failed. As you can see I get authentication failed. The log shows it fails for the 'realuser' that exists in ldap. Any ideas out there? I have the 'testuser' also setup in /etc/passwd. Thanks Adam

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[Dovecot] Questions about differences to other mail servers
by Kai Schaetzl 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I just transferred over my first server from Suse Linux with uw-imap(ipop3/imap2003) to CentOS with Dovecot (0.99). I didn't find any problems in the testing phase, but when the actual transfer into production happened I found a few problems crop up: 1. Dovecot wants to chdir in the user's home directory even when logging in via POP3. However, the mailboxes for POP3 are all in /var/spool/mail. What's the reason for this and can I stop this? 2. In addition I found that the home directories need additional permissions I did not need when using ipop3/imap2003, although this imap server needs to write/read in the same directories as dovecot. Specifically, I had to change the permissions on the directory right above the pop user directories from 750 to 755. Those directories are owned by the user and the primary group he belongs to. It seems that dovecot somehow doesn't "use" the primary group of the user and so can't traverse thru and the chdir fails. 3. Furthermore, Dovecot created an IMAP directory structure within the home directory of most users like "mail/.imap/INBOX" (on some it reused the existing Mail -uppercase- directory). Just on a simple first POP3 login. What's the reason for doing this? Maybe that user is never going to use IMAP? Does it test for both mail and Mail before it creates it's own structure or what does it do? I assume this is related to default_mail_env? 4. Dovecot supports "auth plain", does it also support "auth login"? If so, how do I enable it? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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[Dovecot] plugin problems.
by lenny＠edpausa.com 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

dovecot 1 beta 5. solaris 9, gcc, gnu make. trying to test imap quota plugin. Apr 4 09:44:59 frodo dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(lenny): dlopen(/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: ld.so.1: imap: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: symbol quota: referenced symbol not found default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=~/mbox mail_plugins = imap_quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap quota = dirsize:%h:1024000 ------------------ trying to test convert plugin. ~/Maildir gets created with 3 subdirectories, but no mail is converted and this error comes up. Apr 4 10:48:03 frodo dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(lenny): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox directory Maildir/cur default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=~/ mail_plugins = convert mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap convert_mail = mbox:%h/:INBOX=%h/mbox

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[Dovecot] LDA and Shared Mailboxes
by Timothy White 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I'm hoping LDA has what I'm looking for, basically, I want to be able to deliver mail, to a shared mailbox. Ideally, I'd like a method of determining what address can send to the shared mailbox, and I don't like the idea of having to copy emails into the mailbox, to 'send' to it. I'd prefer to just send to an address, and if your permissions are correct, then the email is delivered to the shared mailbox. Any ideas? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] preserving pop3 mail uids
by adcx＠server101.com 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Is there some way that message uids can be preserved when converting uw-pop3 mbox mail to dovecot maildir format? We've tried perfect_maildir, mb2md and the convert-tool that comes with dovecot but so far have been unable to preserve the message uids, which for example go from 44333a8500000003 before the conversion to 4434621500000003 afterwards. The quantity of mailboxes involved means forcing users to re-pop old emails left on the server isn't an option. Any help appreciated.

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[Dovecot] LDAP authentication via PAM
by Oscar A. Valdez 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I've configured dovecot to authenticate against a Fedora Directory Server. The mail server on which dovecot is installed has the nss_ldap and pam_ldap packages installed, and /etc/dovecot.conf has the following two lines: auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = pam In other words, I want dovecot to use LDAP to access the user database, but PAM for authentication. This part is working, since users authenticate and get their mails correctly through dovecot. /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf contains the following: hosts = 192.168.0.2 ldap_version = 3 base = ou=People, dc=duraflex, dc=com, dc=sv deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) I haven't specified a dn or dnpass, since all I need is that dovecot perform an anonymous query for the uid, homeDirectory, uidNumber and gidNumber fields of its users, which are publically viewable. However, my FDS server's access log has entries like these: conn=3266227 fd=138 slot=138 connection from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.2 conn=3266227 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 version=3 conn=3266227 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 etime=0 dn="" conn=3266227 op=1 SRCH base="ou=People,dc=duraflex,dc=com,dc=sv" scope=1 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovecot))" attrs=ALL conn=3266227 op=1 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0 conn=3266227 op=2 SRCH base="ou=Groups,dc=duraflex,dc=com,dc=sv" scope=1 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=dovecot))" attrs="gidNumber" conn=3266227 op=2 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0 conn=3266227 op=-1 fd=138 closed - B1 Dovecot binds anonimously with an empty dn, then queries FDS for a user and a group called dovecot (which don't exist on the DS), and finds 0 entries. Is it possible to access the user database through PAM (auth_userdb = pam)? Since I'm running the nss_ldap and pam_ldap modules, it'd really be an LDAP query for users, and a query in /etc/passwd and /etc/group for dovecot (since it's a local user and group on the mail server). -- Oscar A. Valdez

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[Dovecot] auth problem with dovecot-1.0.beta5
by Alan McKay 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hey folks, Let me start by saying I really love what I see so far! Dovecot seems to be extremely feature-rich, and unlike a lot of free software the documentation is extremely good! I gave up on courier IMAP because of the poor documentation, and I have to say Dovecot sure differentiates itself in that area! Unfortunately I still can't get it going :-/ First thing I noticed is that --with-shadow does not appear to be working on my FreeBSD 6.0 system. Here is what I built with : ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-ipv6 --with-ioloop =poll --with-passwd --with-shadow --with-pam --with-passwd-file --without-checkpassword --wit hout-bsdauth --without-gssapi --without-ldap --with-static-userdb --without-prefetch-userdb --without-sql --without-mysql --without-ssl --with-rundir=/var/run/dovecot --with-storages=mb ox --without-sql-drivers However : root@heimat# dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file vpopmail Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static vpopmail And when I try to include the shadow options in the config file I get this in the log file : Apr 8 17:07:38 heimat dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'shadow' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) No big deal. I've never used PAM, but I'll have a go at it. My config file looks like this : base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap listen = 127.0.0.1 ssl_disable = yes first_valid_uid = 1000 last_valid_uid = 2000 first_valid_gid = 1000 last_valid_gid = 2000 default_mail_env = mbox:~/IMAP/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_extra_groups = mail protocol imap { } auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890 auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd { } passdb pam { # args = session=yes * args = * } #passdb passwd { #} # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. #passdb shadow { #} user = root } And I cannot get my webmail to auth. So I decided to "telnet localhost 143" and try typing the login command like the docs suggest. But here's what I get : telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.dmz.alanmckay.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. LOGIN amckay XXXXXX LOGIN BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. Something tells me there is a big problem here :-/ Which brings me to my next question : is there a "latest stable" release? I didn't see anything obvious on the website. thanks! -Alan -- "True Budo is done for the sake of building peace. Train every day so as to make peace between this spirit and all things manifested on the face of the Earth" - Ueshiba Morihei

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[Dovecot] looking for headway on Timeout leak
by David Powers 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

mail1 dovecot: imap(smith(a)willcapmanagement.com): Timeout leak: 0x807fad0 Can anyone give me a heads up on what might cause the above message? I am working on polishing a plugin and it continues to throw this error with no seeming consequences. -David

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[Dovecot] beta5: Solaris, IMAP, DOA
by Jeff A. Earickson 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Help... Both beta4 and now beta5 die immediately at startup for me: Apr 7 14:29:32 emerald dovecot: [ID 474997 mail.info] Dovecot v1.0.beta5 starting up Apr 7 14:29:33 emerald dovecot: [ID 128275 mail.error] Auth process died too early - shutting down My setup: Solaris 9, built with gcc 4.1.0, IMAP only, mbox format, INBOXes NFS mounted, index and other mail folders local disk. Beta3 continues to work great for me; imap-login for it notes "method=PLAIN, TLS" in the syslogs. There were no real changes in my dovecot.conf between beta3 and beta5. What broke? What to look for to fix this problem? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] One dovecot, multiple addresses
by Nick Plante 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

There was a thread in February called "One dovecot, multiple domains" that I'd like to follow up on... I have a similar need; a hosted system with a couple IP aliases currently running dovecot for users at imap.domain1.com on one of those addresses. Now I need to also make it accessible via the name imap.domain2.com on a different address. Both "hosts" require SSL certs. They'll be using the same user auth source and have access to the same mailspools (although certain users will access theirs through domain1 and others through domain2). It sounds like dovecot doesn't support this sort of ip-based virtual hosting scheme right now. Is it possible to just configure two separate instances of the server, one bound to each virtual interface with their separate certs? Or are there issues with this poor man approach (contention, etc)? TIA; nap.

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[Dovecot] problem authenticating passwd
by richard＠richard-brouwer.nl 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Maybe you guys seen this question a thousand times but really I can't find a solution. So is there anybody who can give me a direction or a clue to solve my problem. I configured my dovecot as follows: protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd { args = /etc/passwd } userdb passwd { args = /etc/passwd } user = root } The maillog gives me that there is password mismatch, but I'm 100 % sure that the password is correct. I allso looked in my /etc/passwd file and the user is there. The user is all so able to login the Linux system. My system is Fedora redhat RC 5. Dovecot is v1.0.beta2. I attached the last rules of my maillog. Is there anybody who can please help me. Thx in advance richard This is the tail of the maillog: Apr 8 10:58:12 host dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Apr 8 10:58:34 host dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta2 starting up Apr 8 10:59:09 host dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.0.200 rip=192.168.0.104 resp=AHJpY2hhcmRAcmljaGFyZC1icm91d2VyLmNvbQBoYWxsbzUzOA== Apr 8 10:59:09 host dovecot: auth(default): passwd(richard(a)richard-brouwer.com,192.168.0.104): unknown user Apr 8 10:59:11 host dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=richard(a)richard-brouwer.com Apr 8 11:00:00 host dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.0.200 rip=192.168.0.104 resp=AHJpY2hhcmRAcmljaGFyZC1icm91d2VyLm5sAGhhbGxvNTM4 Apr 8 11:00:00 host dovecot: auth(default): passwd(richard(a)richard-brouwer.nl,192.168.0.104): password mismatch Apr 8 11:00:01 host dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=richard(a)richard-brouwer.nl

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[Dovecot] pop-before-smtp Dovecot pattern
by Bjorn Patterson 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi, Having some problems with the default pattern in the pop-before-smtp.pl.conf file for dovecot. Also the one off the dovecot wiki doesn't seem to work and since I can't seem to figure out how these patterns work I hoping someone could help me out with a custom pattern. This is what my mail log looks like: Apr 8 23:30:40 nemesis dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<bjorn>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:203.109.208.111, lip=::ffff:192.168.0.253 Any help would be much appreciated _________________________________________________ Regards: Bjorn Patterson Digitalsouth Networks ICC Technician HYPERLINK "http://www.digitalsouth.net.nz/"http://www.digitalsouth.net.nz [ When replying to this, please include a copy of the original message. ] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 7/04/2006

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[Dovecot] where do i get updates from? (one for Timo?)
by Obantec Support 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi i am on FC3 and ran yum update dovecot and it offers dovecot.i386 0:0.99.13-3.FC3 i thought there was a 1.X beta4 which i should be using? (i have 1.0 stable running from a while back) Mark

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