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[Dovecot] Patch to src/auth/mech-gssapi.c
by James F. Hranicky 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

This bug causes a segfault when compiled against heimdal, but not MIT krb5. Either way, I think this code is correct. HTH. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jim Hranicky, Senior SysAdmin UF/CISE Department | | E314D CSE Building Phone (352) 392-1499 | | jfh(a)cise.ufl.edu http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jfh | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- src/auth/mech-gssapi.c.orig 2006-03-01 14:21:40.000000000 -0500 +++ src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2006-03-01 14:18:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ return major_status; } - gss_release_name(&minor_status, gss_principal); + gss_release_name(&minor_status, &gss_principal); return major_status; }

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

I have a problem Trying to connect with pop3 to my server with ipv4 it works great. But when I use ipv6 it doesn't want to work. I added the following lines: imap_listen = [2001:7b8:210::4] pop3_listen = [2001:7b8:210::4] but this doesn't work also Wat am doing wrong Met vriendelijk groet, Bas van Dikkenberg GISkit bv BFVD1-RIPE Tel: +3130-6340430 Fax: +3130-6342433 Prive Tel: +3130-6372769 Mob: +316-52384841

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[Dovecot] Postfix: Command died with status 89: "/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver"
by Jacob Elder 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

One of our servers running Dovecot 1.0.beta3 and dovecot-lda has failed to deliver a few messages and I can't figure out why. Very few messages bounce and I don't see any common thread between them other than time. The 15:19:11 message was a company wide announcement and the other 4 servers (identical configuration) were able to deliver it. Feb 26 20:24:46 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141003486.9152.94b403f750d9ce0b) failed: Permission denied Feb 26 20:24:46 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 26 20:24:46 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 27 09:57:13 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141052233.12958.20786c4677df8930) failed: Permission denied Feb 27 09:57:13 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 27 09:57:13 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 09:00:25 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141135225.20088.aedaad0b0720edda) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 09:00:25 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 09:00:25 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141157951.21988.6a7426202e533221) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141157951.21990.6a7426202e533221) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141157951.21992.6a7426202e533221) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141157951.21993.6a7426202e533221) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail -- Jacob Elder

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[Dovecot] Maildir Quotas
by wink＠gettcomm.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hey guys, Does anyone have any ideas as to when this may be implemented? I'd love to be able to use dovecot, but without quota support, it just won't fit the bill. Is there any developer documentation as to what would be required to fully support maildir quotas as I'd be willing to help implement it assuming it's not going to take me weeks to become familiar enough with the codebase. Thanks

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[Dovecot] using dovecot for postfix sasl
by h＠hpjt.net 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

I have followed the Dovecot/Postfix/SASL howto, and modified the main.cf and dovecot.conf files, yet when trying to authenticate during a postfix SMTP session the log reports: "postfix/smtpd....warning: SASL authentication failure: Could not open db" Dovecot itself is authenticating IMAP logins correctly, and it is creating the auth file in the location specified under /var/spool/postfix/private. Why is postfix not able to get to the Dovecot auth mechanism? Thanks. Hugh

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[Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3
by David A. Lee 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

I just downloaded dovecot 1.0b3 and running "make install" gives me an error This seems like a fairly simple bug in the Makefile ... but I'm not sure if maybe its a symptom of something more complex. I've tried "make uninstall" , "make install" and removing the entire /usr/local/lib/dovecot tree and same thing. dovecot does run ... but for other reasons I'm having problems getting it to work so thinking maybe this error could explain things System: Linux [root@lee dovecot-1.0.beta3]# uname -a Linux lee.calldei.com 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux CPU: x86 Filesystem: standard linux fs. FYI: the "other problem" is I had to modify main.c to listen on alternate ports because I cant shut down my current UofW IMAP server to test this one ... ------- mkdir -p -- /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda for d in imap pop3 lda; do \ rm -f /usr/local/lib/dovecot/$d/lib02_trash_plugin.so; \ ln -s ../lib01_convert_plugin.so /usr/local/lib/dovecot/$d; \ done ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 [root@lee dovecot-1.0.beta3]# ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists

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[Dovecot] Virtual-Auth-Problem "user unknown"
by strace＠letras.net 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

After setting up dovecot 1.0beta-2 on a debian(etch) system I can well login as local user but not vor virtual domains. When I try to login via POP3 as via IMAP connects (here with telnet from localhost), I get a strange output "user unknown": ------------------------- /var/log/dovecot ------------------------- 2006-02-28 01:07:38 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHh5ekBub3JhLmxpAGRrc2RrU20= 2006-02-28 01:07:38 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(xyz(a)nora.li,127.0.0.1): unknown user 2006-02-28 01:07:39 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=xyz(a)nora.li 2006-02-28 01:07:40 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<xyz(a)nora.li>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The abobe test user xyz(a)nora.li exists an receives valid email via postfix (see below in ls -laR). My configuration (user dovecot exists with uid 119): ------------------------- /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ------------------------- base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 login_greeting = Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s max_mail_processes = 1024 verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 200 mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes protocol imap { mail_use_modules = yes mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_use_modules = no mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d } userdb static { args = uid=200 gid=200 home=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n } user = root } ------------------------- /etc/passwd ------------------------- vmail:x:200:200::/home/vmail:/bin/sh - that's the user postfix brings mail in ------------------------- /etc/group ------------------------- vmail:x:200: ---------------------------------------- `ls -laR /var/spool/mail/nora.li/xyz ---------------------------------------- /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz: total 20 drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 . drwxr-sr-x 4 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 cur drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 new drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 tmp /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/new: total 16 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 813 2006-02-27 18:14 1141060448.V303I33f01M21995.tapas.letras.de -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 813 2006-02-27 18:30 1141061439.V303I33f4dM13454.tapas.letras.de /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. ============================================================== Any hint will be highly appreciated. Thanx in advance, Werner

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[Dovecot] Sorting order after mail move
by Václav Haisman 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, when I move some recent mail from some mbox folder into Maildir folder the moved email sorts as the first (on top) in the folder while it should be on the bottom with the rest of the recent emails in the folder. This happens only when moving from mbox folder to Maildir folder. I am not sure if it is really Dovecot bug or not but I suspect it could be so because it only happens in this one specific scenario. Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] two possible inboxes, possible to check both?
by adcx＠server101.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

We're currently in the process of organising a migration from mbox to maildir mail storage on our server, and are hoping to phase this in gradually using dovecot's capabilities. Procmail has already been configured to deliver mail to either the existing mbox or to a new maildir for the user based on the (non)existence of a .converted file in their home directory. Where we are having problems is the pop3 retrieval side of things. Basically, we're chasing a setup where dovecot will first check to see if /mail/<first letter of username>/username exists (indicating that the account has had the .converted file created and new mail has since been delivered to that user in the new maildir format). If this directory does not exist, it should fallback to retrieving mail from the as-yet unconverted mbox, /var/mail/username. We've tried different combinations of namespaces and default_mail_env values to achieve this without success. One attempt which has come particularly close was: 1. Leaving /etc/dovecot.conf almost entirely default. The auto-detection ability of dovecot performs the following (output to /var/log/maillog): Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): maildir: access(/home/joe/Maildir, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): maildir: couldn't find root dir Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: root exists (/home/joe/mail) Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: INBOX exists (/var/mail/joe) Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: root=/home/joe/mail, index=/home/joe/mail, inbox=/var/mail/joe Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<joe>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.6.20, lip=192.168.6.2 Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): Logout. top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 This is almost exactly what we're chasing, except the new Maildir is not going to be created in the user's home dir, it will be in /mail/<first letter of username>/username. All attempts to make this last adjustment have ultimately modified the behaviour of dovecot so that it only checks the one source explicity given, and then simply fails if it does not exist, unlike the unconfigured behaviour illustrated above where it is able to fallback to a secondary source. A '2nd_default_mail_env' is the type of variable I'm looking to define, if that makes it any clearer. Any advice much appreciated, I've already searched most of the archives for this list without finding anything similar.

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[Dovecot] Change Default IMAP folder
by Marco 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi all, I use dovecot 0.99.14-1 Can I change the default Dovecot IMAP Trash folder from .Draft to .Drafts? Dovecot make a .Draft folder and my e-mail clients (Thunderbird - Outlook Express) makes .Drafts folder. Thanks Marco

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0-beta3 in production
by Branko F. Gračnar 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hello there! I've migrated our courier-imap production imap/pop server to dovecot 1.0-beta few days ago. In general dovecot performs excellent, but i've encountered several "bugs" in dovecot log: --- snip --- dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:05:21 elfstone dovecot: imap(user3(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user3 sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (47681 > 47680, file = 1138960753.P9796Q0M642679.elfstone:2,T) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:20:48 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:21:16 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:21:49 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:46:27 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user1 sync: UID < next_uid (1 < 199, file = 1122973973.V809Id001aafc.elfstone,S=8889:2,RS) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:47:31 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user1 sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (183 > 181, file = 1140780283.P10326Q0M678892.elfstone:2,RS) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:54:47 elfstone dovecot: imap(user5(a)domain.tld): Corrupted index file /export/data/dovecot/domain.tld/user5/.Sent/dovecot.index: keywords_count larger than header size dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 17:01:00 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Corrupted transaction log file /export/data/dovecot/domain.tld/user1/.Sent/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1, but next_uid = 4850 dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 20:25:40 elfstone dovecot: imap(userX(a)domain2.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.10.gz:Feb 15 19:20:05 elfstone dovecot: imap(user2(a)domain.tld): stat(/export/mail/domain.tld/user2/.Trash.Cron/new) failed: No such file or directory --- snip --- I have multi-domain setup with several hundred users, emails are delivered using dovecot-deliver LDA, dovecot indexes are outside mailboxes, indexes and mailboxes are on local filesystem (xfs). I'm using linux 2.6 on slackware platform. If you need any more info, just let me know. Best regards, Brane

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[Dovecot] Impact of log files on performance
by vmstech 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi - im trawling through my config trying to reduce chances of timeouts etc - I use postgres for all the dovecot and exim4 authentication and location of mail directories etc - and found that by eliminating logging (or reducing to almost none) the queries invovled have gone from >500ms to <3ms - Just wondering if I'll get similar performance gains with dovecot (which is set to be verbose as I could) - esp during connection thx Glenn

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[Dovecot] Config Error Puzzle
by Dick Middleton 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Can somebody help me get this right please. I'm trying to upgrade to version 1 and I get this error which I can't workaround: expecting "=" on line 33 Line 33 is the passdb file name ?? I'm trying this with 1.0 beta3 on a Devil linux system (v 1.2.9). Thanks Dick ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/mydomain1.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/myhost-private.pem log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:/home/vhome/%d/%n:INBOX=/home/vmail/%d/%n protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_realms = mydomain1.net mydomain2.net mydomain3.co.uk auth_default_realm = mydomain1.net auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { /etc/imap.passwd } userdb passwd-file { /etc/imap.passwd } user = dovecot }

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[Dovecot] Errors
by vmstech 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi All I intermittently get these kind of errors when connecting to my beta2 imap dovecot: reported error 0x8004df0b:'Outlook is unable to download folder (null) from the imap email server for account mymailhost.com'. Error the server is unavailable. Receiveing Reported error (0x800CC0F):'The connection to the server was interrupted' While these are from outlook - I often get one simiar to the first one in my evolution clients. Are these things that can be best managed with some sort of configuration change? What might be other possible causes of these (apart from a power cut to the server? thx Glenn

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[Dovecot] RHEL4 configuration
by f00bar 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

I just installed a new email server using RHEL4. I only want pop3d services, no imap is desired so I modified the dovecot.conf file by changing to "protocols = pop3". All is working fine. However, dovecot requires access to /home/user/mail or the Thunderbird client hangs when attempting to download email. We have a single /home that is mounted by all servers for all users. We do not want the mail server to mount this /home. So I created directories with the usernames in the mail server's /home. This is not desired from a system management perspective. The files dovecot creates in the /home/user/mail directory appear to be for the use of IMAP which we do not use. How do I configure dovecot to not access /home and to not create any IMAP files? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Quota plugin problem
by Max "CtRiX" 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi, I'm using dovecot beta3 on a debian sarge (unstable debs backported). I have successfully managed to make dovecot-lda to work but enabling modules it seems not to work and gives me strange error messages. Postfix logs follows: Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha postfix/qmgr[23520]: 7AADF70: from=<test(a)test.it>, size=719440, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha postfix/smtpd[24174]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha deliver: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib02_trash_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib02_trash_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha deliver: Unknown quota module: /var/mail/virtual/test.it/test/ Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha postfix/pipe[24126]: 7AADF70: to=<test(a)test.it>, relay=dovecot, delay=1, status=sent (test.it) Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha postfix/qmgr[23520]: 7AADF70: removed Feb 26 16:35:39 aretha dovecot: imap(test(a)test.it): dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota Feb 26 16:35:39 aretha dovecot: imap(test(a)test.it): Unknown quota module: /var/mail/virtual/test.it/test/ Both Imap and LDA give the same errors. What did I do wrong? Max

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[Dovecot] dovecot is crashing
by Sergey Bolberov 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

My dovecot have crashed twice in last month: System is FC4 AMD64 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 /var/log/messages pop3-login[9545]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000003bb6d009e0 rsp 00007fffff813720 error 6 /var/log/dovecot dovecot: Feb 24 23:17:47 Error: child 9545 (login) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Feb 24 23:17:47 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down File system type is XFS, dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.beta3

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[Dovecot] how to make the server consistent for replication?
by atul chaudhari 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

hi every one, i want to make the dovecot mail server consistent and flush its caches for backup purpose. can anybody tell mehow to make that? (i've written a signal handler to call the functoins from my code. The server caches should be flushed before the function call.) any reply ? --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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[Dovecot] minor compilation bug in Dovecot 1.0 beta3
by jdd＠cs.toronto.edu 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

There's a minor compilation bug in dovecot 1.0 beta3 -- if there are no sql_drivers, then the generated Makefile in src/lib-sql exits improperly. A simple patch is appended below. Regards, John -- John DiMarco <jdd(a)cs.toronto.edu> Office: SF3302B IT Director Phone: 416-978-5300 Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Fax: 416-946-5464 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jdd *** src/lib-sql/Makefile.in 2006/02/26 00:39:09 1.1 --- src/lib-sql/Makefile.in 2006/02/26 00:38:43 *************** *** 470,480 **** echo '/* this file automatically generated by Makefile */' >$@ echo '#include "lib.h"' >>$@ echo '#include "sql-api.h"' >>$@ ! for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_$${i}_db;" >>$@ ; \ done echo 'void sql_drivers_register_all(void) {' >>$@ ! for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "sql_driver_register(&driver_$${i}_db);" >>$@ ; \ done echo '}' >>$@ --- 470,480 ---- echo '/* this file automatically generated by Makefile */' >$@ echo '#include "lib.h"' >>$@ echo '#include "sql-api.h"' >>$@ ! -for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_$${i}_db;" >>$@ ; \ done echo 'void sql_drivers_register_all(void) {' >>$@ ! -for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "sql_driver_register(&driver_$${i}_db);" >>$@ ; \ done echo '}' >>$@ *** src/lib-sql/Makefile.am 2006/02/26 00:44:34 1.1 --- src/lib-sql/Makefile.am 2006/02/26 00:44:44 *************** *** 25,35 **** echo '/* this file automatically generated by Makefile */' >$@ echo '#include "lib.h"' >>$@ echo '#include "sql-api.h"' >>$@ ! for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_$${i}_db;" >>$@ ; \ done echo 'void sql_drivers_register_all(void) {' >>$@ ! for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "sql_driver_register(&driver_$${i}_db);" >>$@ ; \ done echo '}' >>$@ --- 25,35 ---- echo '/* this file automatically generated by Makefile */' >$@ echo '#include "lib.h"' >>$@ echo '#include "sql-api.h"' >>$@ ! -for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_$${i}_db;" >>$@ ; \ done echo 'void sql_drivers_register_all(void) {' >>$@ ! -for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "sql_driver_register(&driver_$${i}_db);" >>$@ ; \ done echo '}' >>$@

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[Dovecot] Re : dovecot --Err Plaintext authentication disabled
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Thanks I succeed with disable_plaintext_auth = no I think that it's not good for security. I'm looking for security with pop3s. I made a certificate with cacert.org

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[Dovecot] dovecot --Err Plaintext authentication disabled
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi Following my last posts, i succeed to connect pop3 in localhost but not in mydomain.org (with dovecot 0.99 it worked) I have this error : -ERR Plaintext authentication disabled. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Dovecot can't connect to mysql
by fa 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi. I've just compiled dovecot-1.0.alpha5 with mysql support.from freebsd ports (FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE). It looks like dovecot has problems connecting to mysql. In the log I'm getting: dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:41 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (exim): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 5 seconds before retry dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:41 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(facha(a)facha.org.ua,127.0.0.1): Password query failed: Not connected to database dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:44 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<facha(a)facha.org.ua>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured This is my dovecot-mysql.conf: connect = host=localhost dbname=exim user=root password=qwer default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM auth WHERE username = '%u' AND domain = '%d' Exim is working with the same settings on the same machine. I also checked if I can use these settings with mysql console client. I don't know where to look for errors. Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks in advance for your answers.

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[Dovecot] index file vs. memory
by Marten Lehmann 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hello, we have a large base of mailbox users and while pop3-connections are usually closed after the download of all mails, I noticed hundrets of imap-connections kept idle by the users. This is surely according to the idea behind imap, but I'm a bit afraid of overwhelming memory consumption if there are too many imap-connections opened at the same time. Is the index file kept in memory as long as an imap-connection exists, or is it closed as soon as a certain read or write command has finished? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Re : dovecot 0.99 to 1 (solved)
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Thanks it's the solution. I added to dovecot.conf protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu }

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[Dovecot] Re : dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Thanks for your precision. So, i do : telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user toto +OK pass mypasswd +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. And with evolution : Unable to connect to POP server pop.toto.org. Error sending username: -ERR No username given.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi, I change this auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "dovecot" } passdb passwd { } userdb passwd { } But i have the same error : telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. 1 login toto mypasswd -ERR Unknown command. telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 login toto mypasswd 1 OK Logged in In pam.d/dovecot, i have auth required pam_unix.so nullok account required pam_unix.so In pam.d/imap, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth In pam.d/pop3, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth include pam_stack.so service=system-auth account include pam_stack.so service=system-auth session include pam_stack.so service=system-auth and in pam.d/pop, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth account include system-auth session include system-auth I don't know of pam

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[Dovecot] ssl_parameters_file
by Sergey Redin 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hello Timo, What was the reason to remove ssl_parameters_file setting? Is it possible to restore it? We really need it, and I can see no reason to remove this useful setting. -- Sergey Redin

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi, Gentoo updated dovecot to 1.0 beta3 and don't succeed in authentification with pop3. Here is my dovecot.conf 0.99 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * imaps_listen = * pop3s_listen = * login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir mbox_locks = fcntl dotlock auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam dovecot auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes and here is my translation for dovecot.conf 1.0 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "*" } passdb passwd { } userdb passwd { } user = root } I succeed in connection with telnet localhost 143 but not with pop3 I compiled dovecot with -debug +ipv6 -kerberos +ldap -mbox +mysql +pam +pop3d -postgres +ssl -vpopmail Thank you for your help

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[Dovecot] rpm build problem with beta 3
by Daniel 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi I have a small problem with building a rpm of dovecot. I normally build rpms from the tar balls to install on our servers. With beta 3 I'm getting the error below. It builds fine if it is left stock with no ldap support. This the snip from the .spec file I put the --with-ldap as I require ldap support however this is stoping it from building. %configure \ --with-ldap \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_sysconfdir}/ssl" I have tested this on Fedora Core 3 and Core 4 both get the same. Output of the end of the 'rpmbuild -tb dovecot-1.0.beta3.tar.gz'. /usr/bin/install -c pop3-login /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3-login' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3-login' Making install in pop3 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'pop3' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3' /usr/bin/install -c pop3 /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' Making install in util make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'rawlog' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog' /usr/bin/install -c rawlog /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'gdbhelper' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper' /usr/bin/install -c gdbhelper /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'dovecotpw' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin/dovecotpw' /usr/bin/install -c dovecotpw /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin/dovecotpw make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' Making install in plugins make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' Making install in convert make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' mkdir -p -- /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 /usr/lib/dovecot/lda for d in imap pop3 lda; do \ rm -f /usr/lib/dovecot/$d/lib02_trash_plugin.so; \ ln -s ../lib01_convert_plugin.so /usr/lib/dovecot/$d; \ done ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30428 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30428 (%install)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot username mapping
by Adam "Fuzzy" Kennedy 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Ok, here's my situation. I currently run IMail 7.x with about 80 domains and nearly 4000 users. I want to switch this to a Linux server. I'm using Virtualmin to manage the users/postfix. I have dovecot working just peachy with the setup, except for one problem. We are an ISP. The easiest thing for us (and our users) is to have them use their full email address as their username. What I need is some way to have Dovecot take a username and map it to the real unix user. Our unix users are created as "username-domain.com" When our users login to our current email system, they enter their username as "username(a)domain.com". I for the life of me cannot figure out how to make Dovecot take "username(a)domain.com" and know that the unix username is really "username-domain.com" Ideas? -Adam "Fuzzy" Kennedy

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RE: [Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion
by Zoong Pham 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 9:39 PM > To: Zoong Pham > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion > > What passdb and userdb do you use? Unless you're authenticating from > SQL you probably have to modify the source. Let me explain: My server runs OpenBSD-3.5 and Sendmail. We host few virtual domains. Local accounts have login names in this format: login-domain_abc_xyz For example: joedirt-joedomain_com_au, info-adomain_com, info-otherdomain_com That way login accounts are unique across all the virtual domains. I use the OpenBSD pre-compiled dovecot-0.99.10p2. It is set to use "auth_passdb = passwd" and "auth_userdb = passwd" I can use mutt to access my mailbox via IMAPS with login name format joedirt-joedomain_com_au. Other users use different MUA like Outlook and prefer to login with their email addresses (joedirt(a)joedomain.com.au, info(a)adomain.com, info(a)otherdomain.com) We use squirrelmail for webmail. I modified squirrelmail to automatically convert login name from format of joedirt(a)joedomain.com.au to joedirt-joedomain_com_au. So if users use squirrelmail, they can just login with their email addresses. My question is how to achieve the same thing with other MUAs like Outlook? Do I have to modify dovecot source? Can I use LDAP or SQL instead? Note that we are using Sendmail and prefer it than othe MTA. I have looked at the Wiki, specially the "DovecotOpenLdap" but am still confused. Thanks Zoong

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[Dovecot] Old Maildir UW-imap
by Torbjörn Gripp 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi all, I'm new in using dovecot and I'm running in a problem, which I cannot solve without hours and hours of work. Maybe there is a solution, which I didn't find with old friend google :_) Here is the problem: We are using an old mailserver (it's running fine for 5 years) with qmail and the old uw-imap server. All users have their grown directories under a home/Maildir folder. All subdirectories are lying under Maildir/sub/sub/sub. Now I want to migrate to dovecot and I have a lot of trouble, cause I cannot find a solution to migrate to the folder structure /Maildir/.sub.sub.sub. It's really difficult cause all the windows users have subdirs like one folder (1945)/a new ö/ and something like that! Any hints?? greetings and sorry for the bad english -- [ t o r b j o e r n g r i p p ] senior systemadministrator opus 5 interaktive medien gmbh grossneumarkt 50 20459 hamburg fon: +49(0)40 350174-439 fax: +49(0)40 350174-404 mobil: 0175 9326096 mailto:gripp@opus5.de http://www.opus5.de

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[Dovecot] Server & move to Dovecot
by K Gilpin 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, I a currently running a server which is using uw-imap server which currently has 190 users. I am looking to move the server OS and the imap server to Dovecot Imap Server. We are currently using mbox as the default mail file. I have a couple of questions to ask. 1) Would it be better if we moved to maildirs during the server move? 2) All current mail files are in a directly called /export/home/mail/%username. How would one configure dovecot to use the above path? How points to any good FAQs would be great. Thanks Kevin

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[Dovecot] Digest-MD5 and GSSAPI not working in beta3
by Casey Allen Shobe 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I have built dovecot with kerberos support, however am not able to log in using GSSAPI support in my mail client. I receive the following error: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found Additionally, Digest-MD5 does not work - I receive an authentication failed (as though I have an incorrect password) if I try to use it. I am using PostgreSQL for authentication, and returning a plaintext password with my SQL query. LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM, and CRAM-MD5 are all working as expected. I tried making the change shown in Mark Davies' src/auth/mech-gssapi.c patch (posted to the list on 10 February), but it had no effect. Any advice welcome! Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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[Dovecot] INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox
by Chris Wakelin 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox. I've tried something like default_mail_env = mbox:/folders/user/mail:INBOX=maildir:/inboxes/maildir/user:INDEX=/indexes/user but it doesn't seem to work (treats INBOX as mbox). I'm hoping to move some INBOXes from mbox on local disk to Maildir on nicely-mirrored NetApp NFS (or possibly iSCSI) servers for redundancy and better incremental backups. I'm probably doing something silly, or have misunderstood something! Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] dspam plugin updated
by Johannes Berg 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, Since debian just updated to beta 2, I updated the dspam plugin for that. Also, I added ignoring a Trash folder, Taivo please test if it works for you (but you will need to patch again for dspam daemon mode!) As always: http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-dspam-integration johannes

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[Dovecot] Restore of a message
by Luigi Rosa 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Hello, if I want to restore from a previous backup a single message or a single folder, what is the correct procedure? Do I have to do it with Dovecot shut down? Does Dovecot recognize automagically the new message/folder? Thank you in advance. Ciao, luigi -- +--[Luigi Rosa]--

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[Dovecot] Beta3 bug - non-first make install's fail
by Casey Allen Shobe 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' mkdir -p -- /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 /usr/lib/dovecot/lda for d in imap pop3 lda; do \ rm -f /usr/lib/dovecot/$d/lib02_trash_plugin.so; \ ln -s ../lib01_convert_plugin.so /usr/lib/dovecot/$d; \ done ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 Workaround: make uninstall before make install. Fix: Use ln -snf instead of ln -s. -- Casey Allen Shobe | cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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[Dovecot] Changing listen ports
by Václav Haisman 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Hi, I want to change ports that Dovecot uses to listen for connections. I have listen = [::] in global section and listen = 0.0.0.0:10143 and listen = 0.0.0.0:10110 in protocol imap and protocol pop3 sections. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work for SSL ports of the two protocols and I get following error when I try to start the service: Fatal: listen(993) failed: Address already in use This is because I still have IMAP-UW installed and running. So, how can I change the SSL ports for both IMAPs and POP3s? Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] Clients cannot empty trash
by james edwards 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

I am having a problem with Dovecot and imap; users are not being able to empty their trash from time to time. Here is what I am running: [root@xxxx root]# rpm -q dovecot dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 [root@xxxx root]# uname -a Linux xxxx 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 21 04:03:26 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@xxxx root]# Several times a week different users get the following pop up message when they empty trash (manually by selecting "delete trash" on their mail client): "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. {2006-02-22 08:46:24]." The quick and dirty fix is to go into their home dir and empty the trash folder (ie "> Trash"). I have checked the log and do not see anything useful at the time noted in the pop up error message on the users client. I have now set up logging to separate files to make debugging a bit easier: log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log Most of my users are using Netscape for mail. I have searched the web and archives of this list with little luck. Some people mention issues with quota but I am not running quota. Has anyone seen this or can point me in the right direction to debug this problem further ? James H. Edwards Network Systems Administrator Judicial Information Division jedwards(a)nmcourts.com (505)476-6960

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Squirrelmail problem
by Scott Mayo 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I get the following error when I check my mail a lot. I can keep refreshing until all errors are gone, then I am alright. This started happening when I turned on the serverside sorting in squirrelmail. How do I check to see which mails are causing this problem? ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: COPY 10223:10223 "INBOX.Trash" Reason Given: Internal error [2006-02-22 10:08:53] All that I am doing is filtering a lot of listserves that I am on to go to the trash. Thanks. -- Scott Mayo Technology Coordinator Bloomfield Schools PH: 573-568-5669 FA: 573-568-4565 Pager: 800-264-2535 X2549 Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.

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[Dovecot] fcntl and F_NOTIFY
by Michael Blinn 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I've set up dovecot on a testbed server. Each time a user ('myusername') connects via imap, I get the following info in mail.log: dovecot: imap(myusername): fcntl(F_NOTIFY) failed: Invalid argument I'm using these config settings in dovecot.conf in an attempt to avoid fcntl lock_method = dotlock mbox_read_locks = dotlock mbox_write_locks = dotlock I've looked through the archives but haven't seen this particular message, so I am a bit lost. I've tried fiddling with the NOTIFY defines in config.h but these don't seem to make a difference, if they compile at all. I'm on lib6 on this Debian Woody (kernel 2.2.25) box. I don't know how realistic it would be to get up to a latest glibc, if this is where the problem exists. Can anyone point me in the right direction or provide some insight? Cheers, -Michael Blinn -- If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unremembered seasons? - Kahlil Gibran CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message, and any attachments that may accompany it, contain information that is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the recipient of this message is not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or other use of this communication or any of the information, which it contains is unauthorized and prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender by return mail and delete this message, along with any attachments, from your computer. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] Disconnect IMAP session after certain time?
by Jan-Piet Mens 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Is it possible to have Dovecot cleanly terminate an IMAP session after a certain time? I have a number of users who leave their MUA (Mozilla Thunderbird) on all night, and I'd like to have them (cleanly) disconnect in order to free up resources after a certain "inactivity" time (e.g. 2 hours). Can that be done? -JP

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[Dovecot] BUG: PASSL had invalid passdb num
by Jakob Hirsch 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

With current cvs: Feb 22 14:30:32 ymmv dovecot: auth-worker(default): BUG: PASSL had invalid passdb num never seen that before.

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[Dovecot] Problem getting new mail from Postfix to Dovecot
by Dave Engbers 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Dear reader, I am having problems getting new mail into my Inbox. I have this in my dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u The logs show nothing special, catting /var/mail/%u shows the new mails coming in, as does /var/log/mail.info Any clues? Regards, Dave.

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[Dovecot] Stale configure options...
by Curtis Maloney 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Does the GNUTLS support in Dovecot currently work? Last I saw it was quite stale, and broken. If it doesn't work, should it perhaps be removed as an option from the configure script? ... just a thought. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] building in AIXV5.3 using the IBM C for AIX compiler V6.0
by Stewart Dean 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

What fun. I don't often stoke up the boiler and actually compile open-source code, but here I am at the beginning of just such a joyous and wondrous adventure. I'm running the latest level of AIX (V5.3...V4.3 has been obsolete for at least, what, 5 years) and using the IBM compiler (xlc is similarly obsolete, from back when the compiler came with the O/S...oh, for the halcyon days of Unix's youth) as above The IBM compiler is now know as xlc rather than xlC, and configure doesn't find it: checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no and it isn't happy with the quota stuff: checking sys/quota.h usability... no checking sys/quota.h presence... no checking for sys/quota.h... no checking sys/fs/ufs_quota.h usability... no checking sys/fs/ufs_quota.h presence... no checking for sys/fs/ufs_quota.h... no checking ufs/ufs/quota.h usability... no checking ufs/ufs/quota.h presence... no checking for ufs/ufs/quota.h... no I guess this is because AIX has journalled filesystems and the quota.h stuff is under /usr/include/jfs/quota.h Configure completes with this summary. Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 32bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file pam checkpassword (modules) Right now, I'm just shooting (sorry, Mr. Cheney) for a clean compile...I'll leave such niceties as finding the OpenSSL binaries (which IBM, in its wisdom, puts in special places), doing a multiproccesor-enabled compile, etc. for later. Onward! I have defined CC= /usr/vac/bin/cc. But alas, the party just doesn't happen. There's much like this: "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='hostpid.c' object='hostpid.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/ xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c hostpid.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='imem.c' object='imem.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/xlc -D HAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c imem.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='iostream.c' object='iostream.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bi n/xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c iostream.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='istream.c' object='istream.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/ xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c istream.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "ioloop.h", line 17.31: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text ',' encountered. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Yikes. Would someone be so kind as to lend me a hand? -- ==== 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] documentation on modifying the configure script
by Stewart Dean 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

On second thought (unless someone is fantastically charitable), I suppose I need to seriously concentrate on modifying the current configure script to work with the current AIX operating system and compiler. Can someone direct me to documentation on configure so I can begin my trek through the wilderness? -- ==== 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] Procmail sending to 'Folder ^'
by Anne Wilson 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Due to a fault in a procmail recipe, a number of files have been sent to 'Folder ^'. Would this mean anything at all to Dovecot? At this point I don't know whether the messages are physically on my drive or have been sent to /dev/null. I know there was one important message among them, so if they are recoverable I'd like to check them. Anne

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[Dovecot] dovecot memory consumption beta vs. old "stable" series
by Gunter Ohrner 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi! I just wanted to know if anyone can give a definitive answer if dovecot beta's memory requirements are much better than in the old pre-alpha "stable" series? I'm using a rather old stable.20050712 release on an also rather old Debian Sarge box to manage my personal mails. I'm pretty satisfied with this dovecot release but it's memory consumption when deleting messages causes major troubles on this box - more than 500 MB of virtual memory allocated to the "imap" process is quite a lot and often causes random processes to fall victim to the OOM killer. :-( Adding even more swap space also is no viable option. (The system has 64 MB RAM and currently about 650 MB swap space.) So, would it be worth a try to install dovecot beta2 or something when it's released, or won't it help in this regard? I won't want to sacrificy the otherwise well working installation, if dovecot beta2 isn't guaranteed to help I'll continue to monitor available memory and swap space while cleaning up my spams... Greetings, Gunter -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + http://aachen.uni-dsl.de/ - Der direkte Draht in's Hochschulnetz! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "What do people like to drink here, then?" The landlord looked sideways at his customers, a clever trick given that they were directly in front of him. -- Mort goes out for a drink (Terry Pratchett, Mort) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + PGP-verschlüsselte Mails bevorzugt! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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