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[Dovecot] How to create .dovecot.sieve through IMAP?
by Sergey A. Lipnevich 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hi All, I suspect that the answer is "no way," but there's hope. I'm trying to set up a PHP application Ingo (part of Horde suite) to create the file <home>/.dovecot.sieve for the "advanced" LDA to do mail sorting. Because PHP is running under a Web server user, Ingo can't really write this file directly. My question is, is there any way for Ingo (or any other tool, for that matter) to create that file via IMAP protocol interaction? Horde authenticates users and "knows" login/password combination (that's how it accesses mail folders). Thank you! Sergey.

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[Dovecot] using uid in ldap to send email with postfix to dovecot-users!!
by hotten 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hallo @All I want to use the uid entry in an ldap-database to send email to virtuell dovecot users. What have I to to in postfix?? Allways get an error message user does not exist!! Can abybody help with an example?? Thanks a lot

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[Dovecot] Does it work with ispman
by Dennis K 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hello guys, I have just installed ispman. According to the manual it supports cyrus & courier. I was wondering if it will support dovecot. Dennis Kaplan

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RE: [Dovecot] Really dumb question
by Al Blake 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Thanks Reuben......I got there just as your reply came in......for some reason I didn’t find them before. Found them all as hidden directories under Maildir. Now I can switch off my windows mail server :) Al. -----Original Message----- From: Reuben Farrelly [mailto:reuben-dovecot@reub.net] Sent: Sunday, 5 March 2006 9:31 PM To: Al Blake Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Really dumb question On 5/03/2006 11:25 p.m., Al Blake wrote: > Just got dovecot running inside MEPIS 3.3.2 SOHO (debian). I am > impressed. It works really well and I am planning to move my mail away > from my Win server and access the mail from dovecot using imap. I have > copied some folders from my existing Outlook mail system into the imap > mail server without any problems....so here is the dumb question: > where are the mail files/folders stored on the MEPIS server? I have > been all over the file system and cant find any files that look right. > The dovecot doco talks about mail location for the index files - but I > have looked in all of those and cant find anything. > The MEPIS system has a Maildir for the user......but that looks just > as it did at install: contains three folders, cur, new and tmp all of > which are empty :( Do you see anything if you run: ls -la Maildir/ in the users directories? That's where the indexes are often stored.. reuben -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/03/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/03/2006

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[Dovecot] Really dumb question
by Al Blake 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Just got dovecot running inside MEPIS 3.3.2 SOHO (debian). I am impressed. It works really well and I am planning to move my mail away from my Win server and access the mail from dovecot using imap. I have copied some folders from my existing Outlook mail system into the imap mail server without any problems....so here is the dumb question: where are the mail files/folders stored on the MEPIS server? I have been all over the file system and cant find any files that look right. The dovecot doco talks about mail location for the index files - but I have looked in all of those and cant find anything. The MEPIS system has a Maildir for the user......but that looks just as it did at install: contains three folders, cur, new and tmp all of which are empty :( Please dont flame - I have looked and I did try to find the answer but I although I can see the folders and messages through the imap client I cant actually find anything on the server.......and I would like to see something before I turn my Win mail server off. Thanks Al Blake (australia) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/03/2006

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[Dovecot] Apple Mail cannot connect (1.0 beta3)
by Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

I'm testing 1.0 beta3 on our mail server, and finding that Apple Mail seems unable to connect to it. I'm running the 1.0b3 on port 997 so we can test it in parallel to 0.91 to compare performance (so far, it's hella faster). I've ensured that the users testing are _not_ connecting in any way to the 0.91 version running on port 993. From the OS X client side (10.4.5 + latest patches), Apple Mail simply sits there and spins, and eventually times out. The error it gives is: ----- Alert There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Check the settings for account "UCSD" or try again. The server error encountered was: The connection to the server "csefast.ucsd.edu" on port 0 timed out. ----- I'm thinking, "port 0, WTF?" ... On the server, I get this out of the logs: ----- Mar 2 11:54:48 csefast dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=<client_ip_address>, lip=<server_ip_address>, TLS Mar 2 11:54:48 csefast dovecot: imap-login: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [<client_ip_address>] ----- Apple Mail is configured to connect to port 997 and has "Use SSL" checked. I'm not getting anything else useful out of the Mac in terms of debugging info. Thunderbird seems to be working fine (all platforms). The configuration file in use is: ----- protocols = imaps ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/<servername>_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/<servername>_key.pem login_greeting = Dovecot ready. max_mail_processes = 2048 verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 100 mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no protocol imap { ssl_listen = *:997 login_greeting_capability = yes } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = session=yes dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root } ----- Any ideas? Thanks, Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade Sr. Systems Administrator Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3b 1216 Phone: (858) 822-2625 E-mail: gkra(a)ucsd.edu

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird 1.5 and dovecot 1.0 beta 3 problem
by Peterg 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

My mailhosting provider has been testing dovecot 1.0 beta 3 as a proxy server and they asked the customers if they would like to test it out and report any issues. I am using Thunderbird 1.5 (IMAP) and have been with this mailhosting company for two months and have no issues at all with their current setup which uses Perdition as their proxy servers. The problem(s) I am encountered have been reported here a few times previously over the last couple of years but in searching I have not found any concrete solutions. When I first tested it out there was a continuous problem of a failure in saving a copy of an email to the sent folder although the message was sent. One of the staff of the mailhosting company noted this exact problem as well and believed the issue was Dovecot announcing different IMAP capabilities than the real backend IMAP servers (via the CAPABILITY command). This was supposedly fixed and initially there were no issues with the first set of test emails. However, in short order, this problem re-emerged and there would be sporadic failures to copy a message to the sent folder. Another issue would be that every now and then, when clicking on a folder in the left-hand pane (and no other activity going on with Thunderbird like downloading a new mail) Thunderbird would hourglass for 10-15 seconds as if it were trying to open a connection and was having difficulty. The maximum number of connections setup in Thunderbird is the default 5 and I am advised that this is the correct setting with their servers. Reducing the maximum number of connections does not appear to change matters in terms of avoiding these problems. Changing back to the current system (ie not using the test proxy server) both these issues disappeared. I have been in communication with the mailhosting provider as to my findings but it would be most appreciated if others here would perhaps have some insight into this matter. Peter

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[Dovecot] lock files on mbox using 1.0 stable
by Obantec Support 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi i am using dovecot 1.0 stable no SSL on FC3 and mbox format i have a user who seem prone to file locks. he had a pop3 process running for 8 hours. i killed it and deleted the lock but it returned a few hour later. the user is using Outlook express only. as a test i have setup a new account for him but would like to know if there is a way to stop this happening. i have gone thru the conf and default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u #lock_method = fcntl #mbox_read_locks = fcntl #mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl #mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 Mark -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/273 - Release Date: 02/03/2006

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Re: [Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3 - Working !
by David A. Lee 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Lee" <dlee(a)calldei.com> To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi>; <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:20 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3 - Working ! > 4) -- that was prety obvious, the log file told me what was going on. Its > also somehwat documented. > However 3) was a total mystery to me. All the debug log said even with > full debugging was "Authentication Failed" > > I had never used pam before (even after 25 years of unix programming ... ) > and had absolutely no clue what to do. > After looking through the source code for about an hour I found the > function call it was using (pam_authenticate) and then about another hour > looking through the worthless pam man pages and trying about a dozen > things I finally guessed right and it worked. > > I think a comment in the config or install notes would really really help > out a beginner. > > > > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:08 -0500, David A. Lee wrote: >> 3) I had to create a "dovecot" service in my /etc/pam.d/ directory >> >> 4) had to add "mail" as an extra group to get write access to /var/mail > .. >> Who would I send these notes to hopefully get these issues either fixed >> or >> documented ? > > I don't know how I could anything about these. They're both > site-specific settings, not everyone wants them. I could add a reminder > about /etc/pam.d/dovecot to config file I suppose.. > >

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[Dovecot] maildir locking and 'racing'
by William Ross 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

hello Timo, list, quick error-message question. A few of the accounts on my main mailserver are failing to log in with errors like this: dovecot: Mar 02 19:33:35 Error: imap(user(a)example.com): maildir_file_do(/var/lib/vpopmail/domains/example.com/user/Maildir) racing if I log in by telnet everything is fine, and from the source it looks like the error happens when dovecot fails to get a lock on some important file or other. Could it be to do with concurrent connections? No idea. Has anyone seen this, and can you suggest a quick fix? I can't see any obvious difference between the accounts that work and those that don't :( nb. this is with vpopmail, and the Maildirs have just been moved over from another server that was also running the same version of dovecot. Some of the accounts do work. Perhaps it's just an obscure file permissions problem, or something? I'd be very glad of any suggestions. thank you, will

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RE: [Dovecot] ipv6 not working
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Thanxs Works great now Met vriendelijk groet, Bas van Dikkenberg GISkit bv BFVD1-RIPE Tel: +3130-6340430 Fax: +3130-6342433 Prive Tel: +3130-6372769 Mob: +316-52384841 -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Johannes Berg [mailto:johannes@sipsolutions.net] Verzonden: donderdag 2 maart 2006 14:04 Aan: Bas van den Dikkenberg CC: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] ipv6 not working On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 13:31 +0100, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: > > imap_listen = * > > pop3_listen = * Leave those out. works for me (on linux, if you're on BSD that might result in it not listening on ipv4 or something) johannes

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[Dovecot] ipv6 not working
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I added an listner to dovecot bye adding the following lines to config but no result no connectivity with ipv6: imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * 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] 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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