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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Redhat GFS
by Tomi Hakala 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Now that Redhat released GFS to GLP has anyone gotten around to test Dovecot on top of that? -- Tomi Hakala

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.6 -imap flag update problem still present
by Hauke Fath 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi, the email status problem that I reported for Dovecot 0.99.10.5 on June 3rd does still show up in 0.99.10.6. Quoting myself: (1) When new mail is delivered to the inbox, the last read mail(s) change(s) to "unread". Clients: Eudora 6 (Mac), Mozilla 1.6 (NetBSD, Linux, Win XP), MS Outlook. (2) When you attempt to move mails from the inbox to another folder with Mozilla (1.6 on win32, Linux, NetBSD), they are not removed from the inbox, effectively performing a copy instead of a move. … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Mailbox archiving
by Leslie Viljoen 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi all! I have a strange problem with Dovecot - deleted messages never seem to get deleted on the server! Deleted messages just seem to get a 'T' at the end of them on the server and remain there, so user mail boxes continue to grow to incredible sizes. Is this a setting I must change somewhere? Must I delete these files manually? Leslie

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[Dovecot] Is Dovecot able to use PostgreSQL to store mailboxes?
by Bill Moran 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Subject says it all. (I'm almost positive this is a FAQ, or that the information is online _somewhere_, but I just spent 20 minutes without finding it ... sorry if I didn't search hard enough) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

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[Dovecot] passwd + shadow auth problem
by T'aZ 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi! here is the problem , i have local users some have shadow password, some not, so i must create two auth one to login via shadow , and one via passwd so here is my config file (stripped comments): protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = 192.168.0.2 pop3_listen = 192.168.0.2 imaps_listen = 192.168.0.2 pop3s_listen = 192.168.0.2 login = imap login = pop3 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow auth_user = root auth_count = 1 auth_verbose = … [View More]

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[Dovecot] invalid mask
by Adrian Roye 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi ! I still get the message: "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: invalid mask" I am using the Netscapes mail client. Adrian

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[Dovecot] phpGroupWare
by Avery 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

Anyone here using phpGroupWare with dovecot? Does anyone know if it is possible? Thanks -- Avery

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[Dovecot] Locked index file
by Kevin Cramer 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I have docevot 0.99.10.6 installed on OpenBSD 3.5 and I'm using it with Squirrelmail. I tried to empty my Trash folder and it timed out. It looks like the process or thread died but the lock wasn't removed: Jun 25 09:16:30 plato imap(kevin): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /home/kevin/Maildir/.Trash/.imap.index How can I free this lock? I have tried stopping and re-starting dovecot already but that didn't help. Also, is there something I should do to … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Locked index file
by Kevin Cramer 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I have docevot 0.99.10.6 installed on OpenBSD 3.5 and I'm using it with Squirrelmail. I tried to empty my Trash folder and it timed out. It looks like the process or thread died but the lock wasn't removed: Jun 25 09:16:30 plato imap(kevin): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /home/kevin/Maildir/.Trash/.imap.index How can I free this lock? I have tried stopping and re-starting dovecot already but that didn't help. Also, is there something I should do to … [View More]

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[Dovecot] IMAP mailing archives back online
by Timo Sirainen 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Read-only mboxes seem to be working nicely now, so I installed latest CVS Dovecot to dovecot.org again to serve them. Allows either ANONYMOUS SASL logins, or plaintext logins with "anonymous" user and empty password.

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[Dovecot] Sym links to subfolders?
by Kevin Cramer 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

I just installed dovecot 0.99.10.6 and I'm trying to use symlinks for subfolders. I have my mail in ~/Maildir and I want to make symlinks such as from .Sent to ~/Mail/Sent. All of these folders are maildir and the permissions are correct. I've searched the list and I cannot find anything stating that it should not work. In fact I've seen posts that claim it should work. However, it does not work for me and looking at maildir-list.c around line 101, it appears that it is only checking for … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Re: [ismail] Re: using Dovecot
by Steven Stern 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:26:01 +0000, "Kelley Reynolds" <kelley(a)insidesystems.net> wrote: > >I've never used dovecot, but I know that those directories aren't what IMAP servers generally expect when looking for a rootfolderpath. > >For example, courier is always 'INBOX', uw-imap is usually but not always 'mail', and sometimes it's just a blank string. My guess is that for you, it's one of those three. If your mail is in a 'mail' directory, I suggest just putting 'mail' and … [View More]

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[Dovecot] customflags considered a folder?
by Peter Schuller 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello, i just switched from courier-imap to dovecot on a machine. The transition was painless except for one issue - when using the "Check mail" feature of kmail, one gets the message: "Unable to get information about folder customflags. The server replied: internal error..." So it looks like the server isn't properly hiding the .customflags file for some reason. I googled and only found one person who had seen something similar, but no solution. This is with dovecot 0.99.10.5. … [View More]

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test20
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ One more for today :) Again mostly mbox fixes and optimizations. Don't try it with maildir because it crashes with COPY and APPEND commands. This release supports now UIDPLUS extension. It was mostly a side effect of making saving mails store the X-UID header immediately to mbox and adding the mail to index. So, a Dovecot LDA would finally make sense now. Besides keeping indexes updated, it could also ask user's home dir, uid and gid from dovecot-auth. Now, that … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Compile error
by Greg T. Harber 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

On dovecot-1.0-test21: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-auth -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/local/sbin"\" -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:11:2: #error broken currently ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:310: error: conflicting types for `ssl_proxy_new' ssl-proxy.h:12: error: … [View More]previous declaration of `ssl_proxy_new' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_new': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:319: warning: passing arg 2 of `gnutls_transport_set_ptr' makes pointer from integer without a cast ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_dh_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:417: warning: `gnutls_dh_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:82) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_rsa_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:443: warning: `gnutls_rsa_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:77) make[3]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1 On dovecot-0.99.10.6: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/local/sbin"\" -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_handshake': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:280: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_handshake_get_direction' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `initialize_state': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:302: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_cert_type_set_priority' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_new': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:318: warning: passing arg 2 of `gnutls_transport_set_ptr' makes pointer from integer without a cast ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_dh_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:416: warning: `gnutls_dh_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:82) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_rsa_parameters': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:442: warning: `gnutls_rsa_params_set' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/gnutls/compat8.h:77) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_init': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:508: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_certificate_allocate_cred' ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:520: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:523: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_deinit': ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:545: warning: implicit declaration of function `gnutls_certificate_free_cred' make[3]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1 Environment: Solaris 8 (2.8) gnutls 1.0.13 gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --disable-nls --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3 Process: # ./configure # make [View Less]

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[Dovecot] Update: Compile error
by Greg T. Harber 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Offending lines in src/login-common/ssl-proxy-gnutls.c 519 ret = gnutls_certificate_set_dh_params(x509_cred, dh_params); 520 if (ret < 0) 521 i_fatal("Can't set DH parameters: %s", gnutls_strerror(ret)); 522 ret = gnutls_certificate_set_rsa_params(x509_cred, rsa_params); 523 if (ret < 0) 524 i_fatal("Can't set RSA parameters: %s", gnutls_strerror(ret)); Problem: gnutls.h lists these two functions as returning void Solution: remove the ret and the check code Compilation … [View More]

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test21
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Should work again with maildir. - Some bugfixes to indexes (possibly fixing the still persisting maildir sync errrors?) - Enabled cache file again. If client asks about something that can be cached for future, it's done. There's currently no smart logic about when not to do it or when to cache more than was asked for future use. Currently nothing is ever deleted from cache. Currently it's disabled if mmap_disable = yes. - Removed UIDPLUS extension after … [View More]

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[Dovecot] LDAP Bind
by Hervé Commowick - NewSports 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

hi all 2 Questions : - how not using the authentication bind feature of ldap server ? i rewrite checkpassword-ldap recently to use in bincimap server, and it take 3 lines to do this, so i don't understand how you don't use it. it is more powerful and more secure than retrieve pasword from the base and use crypto api to compare it. - is the dovecot server support the IMAPdir feature like bincimap or not ? thx for this great software, who replace my imap and pop3 server when it support that :) Vr.

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[Dovecot] Delete message
by Marius Stan 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hello, I'm seeing that our favourite pop3 server only deletes the messages upon logoff: dele 1 +OK Marked to be deleted. quit +OK Logging out, messages deleted. Connection closed by foreign host. This is causing me some trouble with a certain webmail app. Is there a way I can instruct Dovecot to immediatelly delete a message ? 10x, Marius

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[Dovecot] proxy plugin
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

I've updated the proxy plugin at http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/quota.c. It doesn't exactly work, even against latest CVS Dovecot as it crashes in save/copy, but it shows how it's basically going to work. Pretty ugly to do objects with C, but works.. If you're interested about writing support for some specific quota backend (maildir++, sql, ..), now would be a good time to begin :) Well, the reason it crashes is because it needs to find out the message's size, but Dovecot doesn't yet … [View More]

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[Dovecot] I/O Leak?
by Paul McMurphy 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Is the I/O leak message normal? (from syslog) Jun 22 02:12:39 xbox pop3(paul): lstat(/var/mail/Maildir/paul/INBOX/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 22 02:12:39 xbox pop3(paul): lstat(/var/mail/Maildir/paul/INBOX/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 22 02:12:39 xbox pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050ce0 (0) Jun 22 02:12:39 xbox pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084b10 (1) Jun 22 02:13:22 xbox pop3-login: Login: paul [192.168.1.10] Jun 22 02:13:23 xbox pop3(paul): lstat(/var/mail/Maildir/paul/INBOX/cur) failed: Permission … [View More]

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[Dovecot] The Status: header is forced
by Olivier Tharan 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Hi, I started testing dovecot for our next POP/IMAP server (nearing production state), and noticed that the Status: header is always added, with a value of 'O' or 'RO'. This happens in `lib-index/mbox/mbox-rewrite.c'. This does not seem to happen in the Maildir case. Is the Status: header really needed in every case? This breaks mutt which displays mails with a 'O' flag instead of 'N'. My dovecot is 0.99.10.4 (FreeBSD port), but the behavior is still the same in the CVS version. -- olive

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test19
by Timo Sirainen 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I'm finally using this release myself with mboxes. So far no crashes or corruption. :) - several mbox fixes and optimizations - maildir syncing fix - solaris fixes - create mbox root dir if it doesn't exist

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.6 released
by Timo Sirainen 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Since no-one have complained about previous RCs, I guess it's release time. Since -rc2 I added the ioloop.c assert fix, and 64bit Solaris fix. Here's the full change summary again: v0.99.10.6 2004-06-20 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + SHA1 password support using OpenSSL crypto library + mail_extra_groups setting + maildir_stat_dirs setting + Added NAMESPACE capability and command - Autocreate missing maildirs (instead of crashing) - Fixed occational crash in maildir … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Re: [dovecot-cvs] dovecot/src/lib fdpass.c,1.28,1.29
by Charlie Allom 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Will this perhaps fix these? imap-login: Jun 15 12:28:16 Panic: file ioloop.c: line 90: assertion failed: (i o->fd <= current_ioloop->highest_fd) dovecot: Jun 15 12:28:16 Error: child 17987 (login) killed with signal 6 imap-login: Jun 15 13:14:58 Panic: file ioloop.c: line 90: assertion failed: (i o->fd <= current_ioloop->highest_fd) dovecot: Jun 15 13:14:58 Error: child 13002 (login) killed with signal 6 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:42:25AM +0300, cras(a)procontrol.fi wrote: … [View More]

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.5 released
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

One more bugfix since rc2: - Maildir: synchronization might have sometimes set wrong flags to messages, or crash completely Quite rare because we were lucky before :) And list of all the changes one more time: v0.99.10.5 2003-12-27 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + MySQL authentication, patch by Matthew Reimer + --with-moduledir configure option - mbox: APPEND reversed given \Draft and \Deleted flags - mbox: "LF not found" errors happened sometimes when X-IMAPbase header was … [View More]

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test17
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Just mbox fixes since 1.0-test16. The logic is simpler and more correct now. Can anyone break it anymore? I actually tested it a while with Evolution and several mailboxes and it didn't break at least immediately. :) Now maybe a few more days and I dare trying this thing myself with my real mboxes (yes, I'm still using them). Dovecot mailing list archives could soon be served with 1.0-tests too, as soon as I get support for read-only mboxes working again (storing and … [View More]

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test18
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Again mostly just mbox fixes. The good thing is that the code is only getting cleaner and more understandable with every release. But I think it's clean enough now that this release should work :) It also has checkpassword passdb support. Supporting it as userdb isn't yet implemented. I think I'll make some generic caching thingy, so that if passdb is same as userdb, they both could be queried from database in one query. Probably by allowing pass_query/pass_filter to return them.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.6-rc1 released
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Fixes the crashes people had been getting more often with 0.99.10.5. Also included all the patches in dovecot.org/patches/old: - SHA1 passwords - mail_extra_groups setting (Debian people can finally fix #185335 :) - autocreate missing maildirs (and don't crash) - maildir_stat_dirs setting If no problems are found within few days this will simply be renamed to 0.99.10.6.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.6-rc2
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Since rc1: - Changed a few comments in dovecot-example.conf - Changed a few error messages. Most importantly: "Internal error occured. Error report written to server log." .. maybe that would get more people to look for the real error in the log file :) - Added NAMESPACE command - Fixed SHA1 compiling issue - Fixed FreeBSD compiling issue

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[Dovecot] dovecot startup failure - dovecot-auth unable to open passwd-file
by Stephen Hillier 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hi all, I'm stuck on getting dovecot to work for 2 days. Here's the logfile entries from the startup process(es) dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:43 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: Jun 18 14:48:44 Fatal: Can't open passwd-file /var/run/dclogin/mail-passwd: No such file or directory dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:44 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:44 Error: child 7313 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Jun 18 14:48:44 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe pop3-… [View More]

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[Dovecot] Info: Internal login failure:
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

I get the following error on auth with mysql on pop3 what am i missing or doing wrong mysql config file db_host = localhost #db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db = ADMIN db_user = mailmaster db_passwd = ******** db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT MAILBOX_PASSWORD AS password FROM MAIL WHERE MAILBOX_USERNAME = '%n' AND MAILBOX_DOMAIN = '%d' #user_query = SELECT MAILBOX_ROOT AS home,uid,gid FROM MAIL WHERE MAILBOX_USERNAME = '%n' and … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Maildir + Evolution
by mkortela＠cc.hut.fi 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

I don't know if this is an Evolution bug or not, but when I use the maildir format with Dovecot 0.99.10p2 (from OpenBSD packages collection) and connect to it from Evolution 1.4 using IMAP, Evolution displays subfolders incorrectly. It actually does not show any subfolders, only root folders with names like "Folder.Subfolder" and "Folder.Subfolder.Subsubfolder". There's no such problem when using traditional mailboxes. Is this an Evolution bug or one of Dovecot's? I had thought the IMAP … [View More]

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[Dovecot] Add SSL to Dovecot & SquirrelMail
by Eric Kahklen 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

I am relatively new to setting up mail servers and wondered how difficult it would be to add SSL to my current Dovecot & SquirrelMail setup. Would I just add SSL to the squirrelmail directory under appache with my certificate? Does Dovecot need any changes to the configuration? I have it working fine without SSL. Thanks, Eric

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[Dovecot] IMAP and webmail applications
by Tom Allison 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

I've been hunting around for a webmail application other than squirrelmail for reasons that really don't matter. But I'm seeing that a lot of these applications tend to sometimes access servers via IMAP, but they always seem to have a touch more information needed than might be for an IMAP session. An example is openwebmail. It authenticates very similar to how dovecot authenticates, with a userdb and passdb specifications. It reads directly off the disk for some of it's activities. … [View More]

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test16 - nearing usable state
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Here you go, maildir syncing problems finally fixed (I hope). Well, except there's this "new-dir-only syncing" optimization which I'm not really sure if it works as it should. The bug really was in index code as I was beginning to suspect. The good thing is that while trying to figure it out over the last several weeks I thought of many other potential problems (race conditions) which got fixed. Those would have been much harder to find than this one :) Finally I … [View More]

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP and webmail applications
by durango99 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

i thought squirrelmail would be way too much of an overkill for my needs also but i went for it. i'm using debian and i got the squirrelmail package installed and working within 15 minutes. what really makes life easy is that squirrelmail comes with a configuration utility (squirrelmail-configure). it was very easy to get things configured without worry about a lot of conf files :) i also like the many plugins that people have created for squirrelmail. it's also very simple to add these … [View More]

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[Dovecot] shared authentication
by Kevin 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

whats the recommended way to share a user auth info between dovecot and postfix? sasldb seems like it could work but nobody really seems to like using the giant mass that is sasl. i also cant find any information on actually getting dovecot to use sasl past the configure options. i looked at timo's patch for postfix to use dovecot-auth but it doesnt apply correctly on the 2.1 branch. so what are people using to share passwords between the two without using the system passwd?

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[Dovecot] POP3 LAST command?
by Christian Balzer 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Hello, any plans to support this in the future? Seems the inability to use LAST breaks that Yahoo remote mailbox slurper thing, not that I care too much about that, but some mail clients might miss it as well. ;) Regards, Christian Balzer -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/

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[Dovecot] Return (revenge?) of the "pop-lock".
by Christian Balzer 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Hello, The users here have been migrated to the new mail system with dovecot 0.99.10.5 (Debian package) on the backends. Storage is maildir, only pop3 access for now. I see very seldom occurrences (compared to the session wide pop lock of qpopper on the old system) like this: --- Jun 16 14:35:52 mb01 pop3(user(a)gol.com): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /mail/spool/mb01/9ef/f73/af.user/.INBOX/.imap.index --- These are people with slow connections … [View More]

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[Dovecot] /var/mail dotlocking workaround
by Timo Sirainen 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

I added "mail_extra_groups" setting which can be used to give imap/pop3 process access to additional groups. So what this means is if you set it to "mail" you can finally remove o-w access from /var/mail directory. Leaving the sticky bit could still be a good idea, so there's no way users to be able to delete each others inboxes. Here's a patch against 0.99.10.5: http://dovecot.org/patches/mail-extra-groups.diff

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[Dovecot] dovecot non-local users
by Tom Allison 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

From the docs: System without local users -------------------------- <snip> Having one uid per user would mean that in case of a security hole in Dovecot, the user still couldn't read other peoples mails. Use this if possible. ----- I don't quite understand this one. If you aren't a local user, what's the uid all about? Do I do something like: create a user for mydomain in /etc/passwd (eg: user:domain_dude, home:/var/dovecot) with a valid home/uid/gid. Plug in the uid/gid/home for … [View More]

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[Dovecot] review of my configuration
by Tom Allison 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Over the last week I've set up dovecot and imap and imaps support. I've even tried to break it but it's been doing very well. Now I'm trying to set up a webmail interface. Rather than use the common squirrelmail, I thought I would try openwebmail. Mainly because it's written in perl, of which I am a big fan. However, I ran into some errors in openwebmail that actually may tie back to dovecot. Here's how: dovecot configuration userdb = /etc/passwd passdb = pgsql.... ---this allows me … [View More]

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[Dovecot] cvs changelog
by Geo Carncross 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

FEI: the CVS changelog is no longer updating. cras's commits look like this: date: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS +TZDD; author cras; state Exp; lines +1 -0 but cvs2cl.pl (2.50) demands: date: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS; author cras; state: Exp; lines +1 -0 cvs2cl.pl version 2.55 still can't parse these lines. I patched my cvs2cl.pl so I could still follow dovecot, but I'm not certain these changes actually belong in cvs2cl.pl --- /s/2.55-orig/cvs2cl.pl 2004-06-15 18:58:54.000000000 +0000 +++ /s/2.55/… [View More]

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[Dovecot] SSL problems with imap-login
by Terje Rosten 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

I am using dovecot-0.99.10.5-1 on RHEL 3 for x86-64: $ uname -a Linux localhost 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:09:01 EDT 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The client is Horde-2.2.5/IMP-3.2 on Fedora Core 2 on i386. At random imap-login fails with the following error message: $ grep imap /var/log/maillog: Jun 15 18:01:08 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:01:17 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:15:25 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1]… [View More]

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[Dovecot] flat file mailbox formats
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

I've tried to write the new mbox code in a way that it could be moved into generic flat-file library with mbox-specific code being implemented on top of that. The code would be useful for all formats that require modifying message headers to store the metadata. How many such are there? I suppose all such formats could be implemented by separating mails into 3 logical parts: - header ("From ...\n") - mail data (headers and body) - footer ("\n") Except keeping a separate header and footer … [View More]

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[Dovecot] dovecot + Fedora core 1
by Pablo Endres 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Hi, I've installed dovecot-0.99.10.5 using the rpm from Dag Wieers, but when I start it all I get is nothing (but none of the processes are running). I checked the config file and set it up (I'm trying to use it with mysql support, but it doesn't work with traditional config) Any ideas -- Pablo Endres <epablo(a)comvoz.com> ComVoz Communications USA: +1 954 343-2085 Ext 199 Venezuela: +58 212 7713195 Ext 199 Colombia: +57 1 3256840 Ext 199

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[Dovecot] Shared folders?
by Villalovos, John L 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

I haven't seen any info on this so I thought I'd ask. Is there support for shared IMAP folders? Quite a few people at work subscribe to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I thought it would make more sense if there could be a shared LKML folder that they all could use. This would save disk space. Is this posssible? If so how? I am also looking into the idea of doing a local newsgroup of the mailing list but I don't have a news server software setup at the moment. John

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test15 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Maildir code is still having syncing trouble. I thought about fixing mbox code for a chance - if the same problems happen with it too then I at least know that the problems are in indexes instead of maildir syncing itself. So, the biggest change in 1.0-test15 is a new fully functional superfast mbox code. If you can make it corrupt your mboxes I'd like to know about that. I haven't tested it too much yet, but I haven't seen corruption for a while anymore. Superfast … [View More]

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[Dovecot] PAM_RHOST item
by Tom Alsberg 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

A little problem, which is bugging me: when using PAM authentication, Dovecot (0.99.5) does not set the PAM_RHOST item, so the PAM modules cannot know who the client is. We need this for some PAM module doing access control. Changing passdb-pam.c to pam_set_item it seems trivial, but I'm bugged as to how to get the client name from there. It seems not to be available in the auth_request strut or anything from there. I tried even adding an upwards reference from there to the struct client *,… [View More]

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