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[Dovecot] installing dovecot on Mac OS X
by Alan Schmitt 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm trying to install dovecot on Mac OS X, and I'm having trouble to make it run. If someone could point me to what I'm doing wrong or suggest some documentation to read, I'd be very glad (I've search the wiki for Mac OS X specific documentation, but could not find any). I installed dovecot using darwinports. The version installed is 0.99.10.5. (It's running well enough to tell me that when I do a: sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot --version ;-) Before trying to tweak the configuration file, I wanted first to get dovecot to run. When I first launched it, it told me that there was no dovecot user. After searching for a while, I finally found how to create one (and a dovecot group as well), doing the following: sudo niutil -create / /groups/dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /groups/dovecot gid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /groups/dovecot passwd '*' sudo niutil -create / /users/dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot uid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot gid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot name dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot passwd '*' sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot _writers_passwd root sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot change 0 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot shell /dev/null sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot home /var/empty sudo niutil -deleteprop / /users/dovecot realname sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot realname 'Dovecot user' sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot expire 0 This seems to create the correct thing, and looking in NetInfo it looks like the other users and groups used for daemons. I then launched dovecot and I got (trying to run it as a normal user, then as root): top% /opt/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: fchown() failed for /opt/local/var/run/dovecot: Operation not permitted top% sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for base directory /opt/local/var/run/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login zsh: bus error sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot and it seems that this happens every time I try to launch dovecot. Could someone point me at what I'm doing wrong? The setting I'm aiming for is the following: - being able to read local mail in maildir format using mutt - being able to read local mail using Mail.app and IMAP access - being able to use ssh to connect to the machine and locally run the IMAP server (in order to synchronize mail maybe using isync.sf.net) Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] Subscription problem with various clients
by Lucky U 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm a newbie with dovecot but i managed to install it and it's running great except i have this weird problem when trying to subscribe folders. I can subscribe to one folder at the time (for example inbox + sent), but if i try to subscribe an other directory client (tried with outlook express 6, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8, Iloha Webmail) automaticly unsubscribes other directories. I've tried to search a solution for this problem without success. Please help. I'm using Dovecot 0.99.10.2 on FreeBSD 5.0

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test50
by Timo Sirainen 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Support for LOGIN-REFERRALS (see wiki) - IMAP and POP3 proxies (see wiki) - disable_plaintext_auth = yes works correctly again - Don't leak fds in IDLE with non-Linuxes - Fixes connection hanging in certain situations - Added tb-negative-fetch workaround

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[Dovecot] test49 "killed with signal 6" errors...
by jross＠wykids.org 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

I upgraded yesterday from 1.0test46 to 1.0test49 in an attempt to eliminate an error that a couple of my users were getting. Both users were using Thunderbird 0.6 over imaps, and were getting errors that said: "The current command didn't succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid Body [..] Parameter: Missing '>'in'<14336-13057>'. When the user would click the Okay button on the e-mail client error message, the message would be delivered as normal. There wasn't any entry in the system logs about this that I could find. Googling didn't turn up anything concrete. I decided to upgrade to the latest test49 version. Now the same users are getting occasional e-mails that will not display, and I'm getting the follwing in the logs: 2004-10-20 09:48:51.854386500 mail.info: Oct 20 09:48:51 dovecot: imap-login: Login: jgarcia [69.146.158.154] 2004-10-20 09:49:13.195974500 mail.err: Oct 20 09:49:13 dovecot: IMAP(jgarcia): Trying to allocate 0 bytes 2004-10-20 09:49:13.197151500 mail.err: Oct 20 09:49:13 dovecot: child 14738 (imap) killed with signal 6 I upgraded one of the users to the latest Thunderbird with no change. But, if I have them go through our web interface (horde/imp) the same message displays just fine. The mail server is OpenBSD 3.6 -current. Dovecot is built with the following configuration: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-pam=NO \ --with-ldap=no \ --with-vpopmail=no \ --with-rawlog I added the --with-rawlog switch yesterday and created a dovecot.rawlog folder in the Maildirs but nothing seems to be logged. Any other information I can provide please let me know. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- http://wykids.org/

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[Dovecot] dovecot failing to chdir in home
by Stefano Maffulli 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi all, I have been fiddling with dovecot and things seem to be stuck on this problem: Oct 20 11:21:35 mail dovecot: chdir(studiosala.net/federico/) failed with uid 1001: Permission denied Oct 20 11:21:35 mail dovecot: child 22150 (pop3) returned error 89 This is the telnet session that generates it: mail:~# telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user federico(a)studiosala.net +OK pass XXXXXX +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. I am stuck: the UID/GID that postfix uses for dropping the mail in /varm/mail/domains/ is 1001/1001. The query string to mysql (the backend where I have stored the users) is (from mysql log, so it is executed): 682 Query SELECT 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid, '/var/mail/domains/' AS mail, maildir AS home FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'ale(a)studiosala.net' mail:/etc# ls -lad /var/mail drwxrwsr-t 3 root mail 4096 2004-10-19 23:49 /var/mail mail:/etc# ls -lad /var/mail/domains/ drwxr-sr-t 4 vmail vmail 4096 2004-10-20 07:03 /var/mail/domains/ I am not sure of how to proceed from here, any hint appreciated. thanks stef

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env problems
by Neil Marjoram 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

sorry if this mail is a duplicate - I am testing the new mail system! I am having problems setting the default mail environment.# I am using Fedora Core 2 with version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 My users all have an NFS mounted home directory, and all mail is delivered to ~Mail/.mailbox it is all mbox format. I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}. So I set these parameters for default_mail_env : mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/Mail/.mailbox Which produced the error : imap(test): stat() failed with mbox file ~/Mail/.mailbox: No such file or directory I set the mail environment back to default, linked inbox to .mailbox in the ~/Mail directory and all worked fine. Is there a better way to do this ? I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}, so I decided to set: default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n and got this error: imap(test): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/indexes//test dovecot: child 9142 (imap) returned error 89 I also tried : default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%u And got the same error. I guessed at permissions, so I tried changing the ownership to dovecot and then test and then root and then 777, but I still get this error. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL 01473 663711

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[Dovecot] Occasional error msgs from 1.0-test49
by Gregory Bond 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

I'm running 1.0-test49 on Solaris 2.8. MUA is Thunderbird (or mutt) running on FreeBSD. I'm using Maildir boxes. Occasionally, when browsing new mail in INBOX, I get an error back from the imapd, displayed in Thunderbird as the following popup msg: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in '<36864,-34800>'. >From this point, nothing much works reliably until I quit the MUA and start again. Sometimes, if I keep working, the email that was being fetched is shown but is corrupted and the msg body contains another copy of the whole email (header & body), sometimes 2 extra copies. Nothing is in the maillog. This _didn't_ happen with 0.99.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test49 FD leak
by Gregory Bond 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

I'm running 1.0-test49 on Solaris 2.8. The good news is that this version fixes my problem with corrupted index files (so far). The bad news is it seems to be leaking FDs to do with inbox: imap 10198 gnb 156r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 157r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 158r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 159r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 160r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 161r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 162r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 163r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 164r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 165r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur (seems to be a new pair of FDs leaked each time my MUA checks for new mail).

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[Dovecot] 49-latest compile problem and CVS method
by Kim Culhan 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

--- Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On 17.10.2004, at 21:02, Kim Culhan wrote: > > > The connection is being made with ssl so it looks like > > the plaintext auth preventer is broken. > > Fixed in CVS now (and in next nightly snapshot). Very good, this compile problem though on test49-latest from nightly: ar cru libpassword.a mycrypt.o password-scheme.o password-scheme-md5crypt.o password-scheme-cram-md5.o password-scheme-ntlm.o password-scheme-rpa.o ranlib libpassword.a make: don't know how to make auth-master-interface.h. Stop Also, tried getting the cvs tree with: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dovecot.org:/home/cvs co dovecot It doesn't populate the directory with all the files; does not include the build files such as Makefile.in, configure etc Any way to get cvs to do that ? -kim _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Index corruption
by Gregory Bond 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

I'm getting pretty constant index corruption on (admittedly large) Maildir folders. I'm running Thunderbird 0.7.3 and Mutt as my IMAP clients (on FreeBSD). Server is Dovecot 0.99.10.9 configured thusly: ./configure --disable-ipv6 CC=gcc-3.3 CXX=g++-3.3 --prefix=/opt/dovecot --without-pop3d on a Solaris 2.8 box. Maildirs are NFS-mounted, but the index files are on local UFS filesystem: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/export/01/imapd/%u MTA is Postfix, LDA is procmail delivering to several Maildir folders. There will be 2 (or more) dovecot instances running for this user (me) - several from Thunderbird and one from the BIFF client (icewm). Turning off the BIFF client doesn't seem to help. Symptoms: when using Thunderbird, and deleting a msg or moving it to another folder, Thunderbird will sometimes not display the next unread message, but just sit there. Changing folders works, but changing back to the previous folder (or quitting/restarting Thunderbird) only shows the first N messages (N is about 500, in a Maildir of about 6000, and it is the SAME email that is "last" every time.) This happens with multiple folders, but (usually) only folders that are delivered to by procmail (this may be related to the problem or a coincidence in that only those folders have unread email!) Accessing the mailboxes using MUTT via IMAP shows the same truncated message list. (I'm the only user using dovecot as I want Maildir, the other users have uw-imap, so dovecot is listening on port 4343) Closing all imap clients, then removing the .index.* files from the appropriate /export/01/imapd/ directory, then restarting the imap client causes the missing messages to reappear (after a suitable wait for the index files to be recreated). It really looks like locking or truncation issues in the index files.... Any clues? Debugging hints? This is happening several times per day so I can get lots o' debug data! Greg.

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[Dovecot] test49 Authenticate PLAIN disabled stops pop3s
by Kim Culhan 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Unlike test47, test49 refuses to authenticate pop3s if disable_plaintext_auth = yes Checked the crypto with: snort -vde tcp port 995 The connection is being made with ssl so it looks like the plaintext auth preventer is broken. -kim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] UIDL bug
by dovecot＠spam.turbolink.net 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

I noticed a problem with handling UIDL msgnumber in test46. If you do "UIDL 1" on a POP3 connection it returns the UID of the message followed by a dot and an error message. I made 2 changes: I added the following line to line 527 of src/pop3/commands.c ctx->message = message; I changed line 559 from: if (list_uids_iter(client, ctx)) to: if (!list_uids_iter(client, ctx)) Next time I'll submit an actual diff, I've made lots of other changes and comments in my source though so it's harder. - Mike

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test49
by Timo Sirainen 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixes the extra data appearing in POP3 mails (and possibly some other random problems). Created lib-sql API with asynchronous PostgreSQL and synchronous MySQL implementations. Also means I dropped mysql and pgsql userdb and passdb and replaced them with one generic sql userdb and passdb. If you were using the old ones, you'll have to fix your configuration. See included doc/dovecot-sql.conf for more information. Note that the password_query must now return "password" named column, before it was assumed that the first returned column was password.

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[Dovecot] errors in logfile
by Dan Sully 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

I just upgraded to -test47 from 0.99.11-test4, and am getting a bunch of these messages in the logfile: dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:21 Info: imap-login: Login: andrew [64.36.1.74] dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): sigaction(SIGRTMIN) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): fcntl(F_SETSIG) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): read(event_pipe) failed: Is a directory dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: child 7047 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: child 6631 (auth) killed with signal 11 Any ideas? How can I get more information about what's happening there? Thanks. -D -- <Nigel> Please refrain from fearing the reaper.

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[Dovecot] LDAP with Unix Sockets
by Paolo Basenghi 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Is it possible tu specify a LDAP URL like ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi/ in the dovecot-ldap.conf file instead host:port? Best regards -- ___________________________________________________________________ Ing. PAOLO BASENGHI :::: Systems & Networking Engineer p.basenghi (at) netribe.it ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ NETRIBE srl :: Collaborative E-Business 42100 :: Reggio Emilia :: Italy :: Via della Costituzione, 27/4 ph. +39 0522 232378 :: fax +39 0522 232386 :: http://www.netribe.it ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

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[Dovecot] source rpm compile
by kakula 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hi, I was compiling the source rpm but had a problem. rpm -bb dovecot-xxx.spec The process stoped and showed: File must begin with "/": %{_initrddir}/dovecot

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test48
by Timo Sirainen 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - dovecot-auth talks now ASCII based protocol. this makes it easy to write complete replacement auth server if someone wants to do something weird. I also thought maybe Postfix could be made to talk that (or similiar) protocol as well, but no-one has answered my mail about it so far. Perhaps I should just write binary compatible libsasl2 which actually talks to dovecot-auth. - other authentication code cleanups - don't insert extra spaces at the beginning of FETCH replies (I guess most clients ignored them) - mbox fixes - some index fixes - Hopefully fixes _send_istream() assert crash with FreeBSD (sendfile() was used wrong) The authentication code changes haven't been tested too much. I only tried that PLAIN authentication works. Others might not.

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[Dovecot] mbox and maildir
by Shane Kerschtien 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this? Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail? Cheers, Shane

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[Dovecot] my future with dovecot (?any recipe?)
by NORA CENTRAL 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Hallo I am very impressed from this howto's: 1) Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO (mysql) http://www.delouw.ch/linux/postfix.phtml 2) Pop-Toaster using Qmail-Vmailmgr-Courier-SquirrelMail http://qvcs-guide.sourceforge.net/ (this work for me) I hope to build anything like above, but with Dovecot: [Postfix-tls-smtpauth-Dovecot-Mailadmin*-MySQL-SquirrelMail-https] Postgresql is ok for me with email-admin must be exist. I dos not like qmail & Co, ldap... and cyrus is to big for me. I found tousand mosaiks in internet to build any email server... mostly bound to debian, suse, redhat what i not use and i prefer all piece self compile and package for Archlinux or Slackware. My problem is the choice of ingredients and later to assemble it. Community need howto's like above two and some working full complete recipe to self build. I hope to find a recipe for dovecot+postfix+tls+ssl+smtpauth and [postgresql|mysql|firebird|metakit|any.other.db] nora

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[Dovecot] not enough information in the syslog
by Mikhail Teterin 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Although I set `auth_debug = yes' in the dovecot.conf, the line about my uid being too low was never logged by the server. Neither KMail nor Mozilla showed me the rejection message, that dovecot was giving them. I had to ktrace the process to see it and adjust first_valid_uid down. Yours, -mi

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[Dovecot] painfully slow uploads
by Mikhail Teterin 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

I have several mail accounts, but collect all spam e-mail in the spam mailbox on one of them. After switching to dovecot (from imap-uw) I notice a very slow speed of bulk transfers and a very high CPU utilization by the dovecot's imap process during it -- sustained 62% of my server's Pentium2 @266MHz. Never saw such effects under imap-uw... My client is KMail (despite the awfull quality of its latest release). Hope, this helps. Yours, -mi

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[Dovecot] assertion failed and debugging dovecot
by Doug Luce 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

I'm getting this error on a particular message in my Maildir: Oct 11 21:59:48 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): file ostream-file.c: line 646 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) To me, more import than the question "why is this happening" is "how can I debug this?" Attaching gdb to the running imap process doesn't give me access to the proper function names to set up breakpoints and get a stack trace. Can someone with the experience give a quick how-to on debugging functions deep in dovecot? Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] what exactly does outlook-idle workaround?
by Jonathan Salomon 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Hi, Can anyone tell me what the 'client_workarounds = outlook-idle' directive exactly does? I have enabled it in my /etc/dovecot.conf, but the problem that I think it should solve still exsits. That is that after being IDLE for more than half an hour Dovecot will disconnect Outlook but Outlook never connects back. Therefore users receive new mail, but they don't get notified unless they press send/receive. So what does the workaround do? And how can I solve the problem? Thanks! Jonathan

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[Dovecot] SASL
by alan premselaar 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I've been browsing the wiki and thru my mail-list archives but haven't found an answer. does/can dovecot 0.99.x support authenticating with a SASL database? I'll be setting up a new mail server for my offices using Sendmail/MIMEDefang/ClamAV/etc with dovecot as the IMAP server. I'm not familiar at all with LDAP. I know that sendmail will authenticate to a SASL database and it's fairly easy to setup. My goal is that I can support "real" users (actual user accounts) but allow their mail passwords to be different than their login passwords, and changeable via some sort of CGI interface. (I also have 2 weeks to accomplish this) any assistance is appreciated alan

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[Dovecot] Does dovecot support subfolders in Outlook (and in general)
by AWC Maillists 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Ok, I am playing around with dovecot and things are running relatively smoothly. I am using Outlook as that is what the client uses for Email. I can copy messages to and from the IMAP folder. I can create folders from the root directory fine. My question is this. I have folders like this: IMAPServer --Inbox --Trash --WorkToDo Now when I try and create a subfolder in "WordToDo" I get an error message "Unable to create the folder. The server responded: 'Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes' When I try to create a subfolder in "Inbox" I get an error message "Unable to create the folder. The folder 'Inbox' cannot contains subfolders..." So is this a limitation of Dovecot? Another problem with Outlook? Or do I have some configuration problem on my end? Thanks. --- Charles PS: My first impressions of dovecot are very positive. It is a much cleaner and, so far, easier to handle IMAP server than the heavyweight UW & Cyrus IMAP servers. Congrats on a impressive program.

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RE: [Dovecot] Power user
by Debreu, Alexis 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Thanks for answer, The config I have is very small (for now) All of my user have an account on the machine. Very soon I plan to switch to LDAP. For my needs, a PowerUser for all domains is enough. Alexis -----Message d'origine----- De : Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Envoyé : lundi 11 octobre 2004 19:33 À : Debreu, Alexis Cc : 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' Objet : Re: [Dovecot] Power user On 11.10.2004, at 16:24, Debreu, Alexis wrote: > I am very new to dovecot and I would like to know if there is a way to > configure a user with all the read/write right on all mailbox. > > I would like to have a power user (PowerUser) able to reach USER1 > mailbox > using the following login > PowerUser@domain/USER1@domain and the password will be the PowerUser > password. Not yet. But I guess I should one day add support for it. Most SASL mechanisms support it directly without a kludgy username. I'm not sure about the configuration though. For passwd-file I guess there could be just one global flag which means that the user has access to everyone's mails. For LDAP and SQL I guess the pass_filter/password_query could have a few new %vars to describe the other user. Or maybe there needs to be a separate filter/query for that case. Hmm. Do you want the poweruser to have access to all mailboxes, or just for the one domain? What passdb are you using?

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[Dovecot] Detecting unused accounts
by Ben Beuchler 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

I'm looking for a way to figure out which accounts have not been logged in to in over n days. It occurs to me that, perhaps, the way to do this would be to look at the mtime on one of the dovecot-maintained files, like 'dovecot-uidlist'. Is there a particular file that would be modified on (almost) every login, whether it be via POP or IMAP? -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte(a)emt-p.org -- The Matrix

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[Dovecot] Power user
by Debreu, Alexis 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hi all, I am very new to dovecot and I would like to know if there is a way to configure a user with all the read/write right on all mailbox. I would like to have a power user (PowerUser) able to reach USER1 mailbox using the following login PowerUser@domain/USER1@domain and the password will be the PowerUser password. Thanks for help, Alexis

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[Dovecot] Enable outlook-idle workaround.
by AWC Maillists 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

I just recently discovered dovecot. I am evaluating the program and several clients uses Outlook/Outlook Express. In the clients issues section of dovecot.org is says "You should enable outlook-idle workaround" Ok, maybe I am missing something very obvious here but I can not find any documentation on how to implement the outlook-idle workaround. Can anyone point me to an article or something with more details on this issue? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test47
by Timo Sirainen 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Been a while since last release. Still seems there are some mbox problems, but I haven't been able to break anything for last few days. I guess it's stable enough. At least more stable than test46 which crashed quite often when expunging. - pretty much rewrote "index extension" support. it's now possible to add extensions to headers and to message records. it's possible to resize them. I'll probably use it soon to change mbox code to use 32bit offsets and automatically grow to 64bit offsets once mbox grows over 4GB (well, yes, rare, but.. :) - login_greeting and login_greeting_capability settings - auth_verbose is even more verbose - mbox fixes/optimizations - other fixes/additions

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[Dovecot] Error in IMAP command UID
by Jan Kuipers 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

I get this error with some messages in my inbox: The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in <102400.-100124> The <102400.-100124> at the end depends on the message. Client is Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 using imaps. Server is Dovecot 1.0-test47. Is this a bug or did I configure something wrong? Jan Kuipers Systemadministrator Lauwers College

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[Dovecot] cvs build broken in auth/db-mysql.c?
by Tom Brown 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

After running ./configure --with-ldap --with-ssl=openssl --with-pgsql --with-mysql --without-cyrus-sasl2 --sysconfdir=/etc (Settings taken from the debian/rules of debian package version 0.99.11-3) of the cvs HEAD or test46 I get the following error during make: db-mysql.o(.text+0x116): In function `db_mysql_query': /tmp/dovecot-1.0-test46/src/auth/db-mysql.c:82: undefined reference to `mysql_conn_open' The following trivial change seems to let the build finish: RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/db-mysql.c,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -r1.11 db-mysql.c 82c82 < if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) --- > if (!db_mysql_connect(conn)) This little error snuck in between -r1.10 and -r1.11 of src/auth/db-mysql.c . Tom -- 28 70 20 71 2C 65 29 61 9C B1 36 3D D4 69 CE 62 4A 22 8B 0E DC 3E mailto:mail@thecap.org http://thecap.org/

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[Dovecot] dovecot and (no) new incomming mail - migration from wu-imapd
by Götz Reinicke 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Hi, I recently installed dovecot 0.99 on a fedora core 1 Server which used the wu-imap-server. dovecot starts and I can subscribe to my old imapfolders, but if I send mails to my account, this new mail arent downloaded. If I quit Mozilla and restart Mozilla, the recently send mails are in my inbox. We use also a webmailsystem, so I could verify that the mails are in the inbox without relogging in. This phenome is not showing up by all my imap accounts. I'm testing with mozilla 1.7.3 and 1.8a4 on a mac os x 10.3.5 Client. The Inbox-folder for the "defect" account is showing in italic and grey ghosted (in the folder list), the folder in the working account is normal. A user using Netscape 7.1 on a Windows XP Client has also no Problems.... Any Ideas? regards Götz Reinicke -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] ldap SMD5 vs. CRYPT
by Adam Pordzik 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Hello, am I right, that dovecot can't cope with ldap so authentification is handled by ldap itself? And, for that I have to use {CRYPT} and cannot use other mechanisms as {SMD5} Are there any other possibilities? A --

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] change old style SASL discovery code
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hello, this patch reworks old-style SASL discovery code. With this patch applied it advertises all configured SASL mechanisms. It makes possible for MS Outlook to use all installed security service providers (SSP), so if someone crazy enough will write CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 SSP we'll support it readily :) Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] add missing error check in epoll code
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hello, this patch adds missing epoll_create() error check. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] fix NTLM2 endianness buglet
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hi, this patch fixes endianness problem in NTLM2 code. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] how to backup inboxes in dovecot ?
by Faisal 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

I upgraded my server from Mandrake 9.2 (Imapd , postfix & SQ mail) to Fedora core 2 (dovecot, postfix & SQ mail) i backed up /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow files & all home directories of users account on my server .. after resotration & configuration of the servers everything seems to work , except users email they had on the server saved :( man this is embaracing .. can u tell me wat i did wrong ? where were the mails stored .. & wat is the right way to do it ? thanks

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[Dovecot] Spaces removed from subjects in FETCH response
by Kenneth Porter 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

I'm using SpamAssassin to tag spam and prefix the spam score to the subject line. To make the scores sort properly in the client's message list, I pad the score with spaces to right-align it. It looks like dovecot-0.99.10.9-1.FC3.2 is frustrating this by stripping the excess spaces from the subject before reporting it in FETCH responses. Here's an actual subject line: Subject: (SPAM? 6.9) Urgent Response !! Note the multiple spaces before the "6.9". Here's the matching FETCH command and reply, as reported in Mulberry's IMAP.log (just the relevant message is shown here): A00035 FETCH 1507:1524 (FLAGS RFC822.SIZE UID INTERNALDATE ENVELOPE BODYSTRUCTURE) * 1517 FETCH (UID 1557 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "02-Oct-2004 12:24:40 -0700" RFC822.SIZE 6263 BODYSTRUCTURE (("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "8bit" 1168 24 NIL ("inline" NIL) NIL)("message" "rfc822" ("x-spam-type" "original") NIL "original message before SpamAssassin" "8bit" 3855 ("Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:52:28 -0400" "Urgent Response !!" (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) NIL NIL NIL NIL "<E1CDo3Y-0002FZ-9f(a)host.cell04.com>") ("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 2731 35 NIL NIL NIL) 63 NIL ("inline" NIL) NIL) "mixed" ("boundary" "----------=_415F007A.0DECCC93") NIL NIL) ENVELOPE ("Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:52:28 -0400" "(SPAM? 6.9) Urgent Response !!" (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) NIL NIL NIL NIL "<E1CDo3Y-0002FZ-9f(a)host.cell04.com>"))

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth
by Piviul 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

Thank you very much for your prompt reply and I hope you can forgive me to have erroneusly send the previous message directly to your address instead of the ML address. Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 5.10.2004, at 18:46, Piviul wrote: > It probably means that the dn you gave in dovecot-ldap.conf doesn't have > read access to everyone's userPassword field. This is required by > Dovecot's current implementation. As far as I know the *dn* I've inserted in the dovecot-ldap.conf have read access to the userPassword field. In effect I've setted it in slapd.conf and if I run > ldapsearch -x -D *dn inserted in dovecot-ldap.conf* -w password I can read the userPassword field of every user in the tree. But if the problem is in the password field can be connected to the crypted password stored in userPassword? I wrong to set *pass_attrs = uid,{SSHA}userPassword* in dovecot-ldap.conf? Piviul

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[Dovecot] 'Connection dropped by imap-server' when doing searches in
by Mike Jakubik 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, It seems that on larger folders (32k emails) searching fails with the following error under squirrelmail 1.4.3a. (The server continues to work, as the hard drive stays on for a bit after the error is displayed) --- Search Results ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL SUBJECT {9} 5.3-BETA7 SUBJECT {9} available --- Oddly enough, when searching for just '5.3-BETA7' instead of '5.3-BETA7 available' the search completes OK. I can search with multiple strings on smaller (3k) folders however. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] >From escaping
by Dean Earley 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi all Is there an option in dovecot to remove the >From escaping in the body of mbox mails? Thanks -- Dean Earley AKA Dee (dean(a)earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk phone: +44 (0)780 8369596

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth
by Piviul 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, I'm a new list member, I’m a not an English native speaking (so, please forgive any error you can find in this mail) and I'm trying to install Dovecot in Debian Woody. I've installed the Dovecot package from backports and I’m trying to configure it to get the credential authentication from an LDAP backend. This is the configuration process summary I’ve done; if you need some configuration file I can post it with great pleasure. In LDAP I’ve created the user cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org, I’ve configured this user to have read access to the userPassword field in slapd.conf (the other parameter such as uid, directoryHome… can be read as anonymous), I’ve configured the dovecot-ldap.conf to bind using the “cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org” and I set the *auth_userdb* and *auth_passdb* of dovecot.conf to *ldap /path/to/dovecot-ldap.conf*. When I’m trying to start dovecot in the mail.err log file I can find > Oct 5 11:13:29 PDC-SMB dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed (dn cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org): Invalid credentials Is the problem that the ldap-password is stored in SSHA crypted mode and in *dnpass* I've inserted it in plaintext? Or more in general, someone can help me to find where I wrong and how can I try to solve it? Piviul

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[Dovecot] timeout when retrieving folder list w/ Evolution 2.0?
by leon breedt 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

hi, i have a problem with some maildir folders, where Evolution times out when retrieving the header list. It only happens with one particular folder, but i can't seem to find a pattern behind it. The amount of headers it does manage to retrieve varies, from between 3% to 50%. Its not a particularly large folder either (only 520 messages). The error message I get from Evolution is "Server response ended too soon". I did an Ethereal trace, and the closest IMAP command before the failure is: FLAGS (\Answered \Seen) RFC822.SIZE xxx INTERNALDATE "xxx" UID nnn)\r\n its a different UID value that fails each time though. after this response from the server, it seems to get through the message header (not sure if the entire message header was sent back). i'll keep this folder around as a test case. any ideas on where to start debugging? i'm fairly familiar with C and gdb. leon

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and fcntl errors
by Eric Joe 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hello, I am new to the list and after searching the net for a solution to this problem, I have yet to find it. Maybe someone here can help. I had been using Dovecot that came with FC2 for about 1200 POP3 and IMAP mail accounts. At random times (1-5 days) an imap process would run the cpu usage up to 99% on one of my cpus (Running SMP P3-866) and hang. That process was unkillable and only a reboot would fix the problem. If I let it go, eventually it would lock up the server completely. I am seeing this error in my /var/log/maillog <snip> Oct 4 08:23:21 ns2 imap(editorial): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/editorial/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:00:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:02:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:04:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index </snip> I have since upgrade (built from source) Dovecot 0.99.11 and have been running for 2 days without a hung process or lockup, but I still see these errors in the maillog. Can anyone suggest a fix? Regards Eric

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL setup ?
by Marius Stan 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 1.10.2004, at 18:25, Marius Stan wrote: > >>> --ssl, not -ssl >> >> >> damn. I'm tired... anyway, I swear I've RTFM but I didn'n find this >> switch. > > > Well, preferred way to start Dovecot is to run it via dovecot master > binary, not via inetd. I should write some page about it to wiki I > guess.. >> What's tho switch for debug ? now I've got this: >> pop3-login: Oct 01 16:49:56 Fatal: SSL initialization failed >> and some more verbosity would prevent me from bothering you again > > > The error messages are usually quite good I think. This is one > exception, I'll fix it. Anyway, two possibilities: > > a) Dovecot wasn't compiled with SSL support at all. Install prefix ...................... : /usr File offsets ........................ : 64bit Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with user database modules . : static passwd passwd-file ldap pgsql mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam ldap pgsql mysql (modules) > > b) ssl_disable = yes it's not disabled... Marius

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[Dovecot] Dovecot/IMP Bug with RFC822.SIZE and BODYSTRUCTURE
by Ryan Hulsker 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Ok, I have narrowed my IMP/Dovecot attachment problem down to what I think is a bug in Dovecot. The test that follow are performed on 0.99.11. When you download an attachment in IMP it uses the php function imap_fetchbody() which contacts the IMAP server and retrieves just the mime chunk you are looking for. It does this by first fetching some information about the email, and then grabs the specific chunk you are looking for in a second request. The first request looks like this. "FETCH 258 (ENVELOPE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Path Message-ID Newsgroups Followup-To References)] BODYSTRUCTURE INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE FLAGS)" Dovecot responds properly on all parts of this request except for the BODYSTRUCTURE portion which gets returned as this. "BODYSTRUCTURE ("text" "plain" NIL NIL NIL "7bit" 0 0 NIL NIL NIL)" This causes the imap_fetchbody() funtion to freak out and not do the 2nd request, and it returns 0 bytes. If I manually try "FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE)" Dovecot returns the expected data properly. I figured there must be an interaction between the BODYSTRUCTURE fetch and one of the other items that are requested, so I tried them all and narrowed it down to this. FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE) <- works OK FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE RFC822.SIZE) <- BODYSTRUCTURE reply is wrong. I have been surfing through the dovecot source looking for a way to fix or work around this, but I am only a mediocre C coder. Can anyone enlighten me? Ryan Hulsker

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test46: Assertion failed
by dovecot 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, I'm experiencing there assertions in the mail log (about 8 times during the last 2 days): Oct 5 11:20:51 web dovecot: POP3(xxxxx): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) What is it? I'm running 1.0-test46 and sendmail on FC2. This is in dovecot.conf: #fcntl_locks_disable = no #mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl Thanks. Martin

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[Dovecot] trouble accessing mbox folders with simultaneous logins
by 2 m＠le / Jonathan Salomon 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Hi all! I have setup dovecot (RPM) on a Fedora Core 2 machine using LDAP for authentication. It all seems to work pretty well, except for simultaneous logins. I am using mbox files to store the mail as follows (from /etc/dovecot.conf): default_mail_env = mbox:~/.mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY So the INBOX file is stored in /var/mail, other mailfolders are stored in the users home directory in the .mail folder. Because the /home directory of this machine is mounted from fileserver through NFS, I have set the INDEX=MEMORY options (see http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt) As said before I am getting some problems when using simultaneous logins for the same mail account (for instance when multiple users that work on a specific project want to share a mail account containing all the mail about the project in addition to their private account). The client used is Microsoft Outlook and besides some outlook specific problems, it also gives these errors (translated from Dutch) when many users are simultaneously logged in to the same account: 'Your server reported that a UID does not comply with the IMAP standard, which signifies an error on the server.' 'The UID of a message is unexpectedly deleted. This signifies an error on the server.' I am not sure where to look... I assume a problem with the index files? Does NFS cause the problem? Will this be fixed if I switch to maildirs? I would be grateful for any tips on the subject! Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------- Dit E-mail bericht met eventuele attachments is gescanned op virussen ----------------------------------------------------- Dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Indien de e-mail bij vergissing bij u terecht is gekomen, wilt u ons dan direct bellen? Wij verzoeken u in dit geval de e-mail te vernietigen, de inhoud ervan niet te gebruiken en niet onder derden te verspreiden, omdat het bericht vertrouwelijke informatie kan bevatten. Telefoon: + 31 20 494 24 24 This is an e-mail from 2 m@le Computer Services. This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or privileged legal or sensitive business data . This e-mail is intended for the addresse(s) stated above only. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please delete this e-mail. Thank you.

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Re: [Dovecot] trouble accessing mbox folders with simultaneous logins
by Michael Cosby 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

I can help you narrow the problem down a bit. I'm assuming you're using 1.0-test45 or 46, in which case I see the same problem using mbox, index files stored on disk and no NFS. I access my mail via pine and chatter email (an imap client for the palm). While I've not seen any errors that specifically say UID, the client for the palm will occasionally reload messages from a few days back thinking they're new, which eventually crashes the client when the count of mail it should be loading doesn't match what it actually got (the palm client's in beta, too :) ). I solved the problem by moving back to the 0.99 series, which other than performance issues works just fine for me. - Michael ------------------- In response to: Hi all! I have setup dovecot (RPM) on a Fedora Core 2 machine using LDAP for authentication. It all seems to work pretty well, except for simultaneous logins. I am using mbox files to store the mail as follows (from /etc/dovecot.conf): default_mail_env = mbox:~/.mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY So the INBOX file is stored in /var/mail, other mailfolders are stored in the users home directory in the .mail folder. Because the /home directory of this machine is mounted from fileserver through NFS, I have set the INDEX=MEMORY options (see http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt) As said before I am getting some problems when using simultaneous logins for the same mail account (for instance when multiple users that work on a specific project want to share a mail account containing all the mail about the project in addition to their private account). The client used is Microsoft Outlook and besides some outlook specific problems, it also gives these errors (translated from Dutch) when many users are simultaneously logged in to the same account: 'Your server reported that a UID does not comply with the IMAP standard, which signifies an error on the server.' 'The UID of a message is unexpectedly deleted. This signifies an error on the server.' I am not sure where to look... I assume a problem with the index files? Does NFS cause the problem? Will this be fixed if I switch to maildirs? I would be grateful for any tips on the subject! Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------- Dit E-mail bericht met eventuele attachments is gescanned op virussen ----------------------------------------------------- Dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Indien de e-mail bij vergissing bij u terecht is gekomen, wilt u ons dan direct bellen? Wij verzoeken u in dit geval de e-mail te vernietigen, de inhoud ervan niet te gebruiken en niet onder derden te verspreiden, omdat het bericht vertrouwelijke informatie kan bevatten. Telefoon: + 31 20 494 24 24 This is an e-mail from 2 m@le Computer Services. This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or privileged legal or sensitive business data . This e-mail is intended for the addresse(s) stated above only. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please delete this e-mail. Thank you. )

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