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[Dovecot] dovecot crash
by Simon Bell 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I woke up this morning and my dovecot server had died with the following in the dovecot.log file: pop3-login: Jan 23 10:23:08 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: child 16321 (login) returned error 89 How can I find out whats going wrong?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not creating dirs
by marko sarunac 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I have looked trough the archives and found similar scenarios but mine is a bit diff I got dovecot running (0.99.10.4-2) on debian testing and what is happening is that i created /home/marko/mail directory and configured my postfix to deliver mail to ~/mail/Inbox my default mail env is default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=%h/mail/Inbox:INDEX=%h/mail/.indexes Now when i first started my mozilla imap client what happened was! Jan 26 21:46:34 imap(marko): Can't create temp index /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.temp.limbic.7523: No such file or directory Jan 26 21:46:34 imap(marko): utime() failed with index file /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory after i manually :~/mail$ mkdir .indexes :~/mail$ cd .indexes/ :~/mail/.indexes$ mkdir .imap :~/mail/.indexes$ cd .imap/ :~/mail/.indexes/.imap$ mkdir INBOX :~/mail/.indexes/.imap$ cd INBOX/ :~/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX$ i only get Jan 26 22:06:34 limbic imap(marko): utime() failed with index file /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory On the other note...when i try to delete any mail from Inbox using IMAP client i get "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: trash" This obviously shows that dovecot can't create neither files nor directories I am using non system wide readable directories and just to try things i did chmod -R 777 mail from /home/marko didn't help any ideas and comments are greatelly appreciated!!!

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[Dovecot] State of MySQL authentication
by Ian Armstrong 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I am looking for a pop3 server that can authenticate via MySQL. It also needs to be able to do a POST_LOGIN_QUERY. I want to be able to update a "date" field in the database, so that I can see which accounts are active, and which are not. Please let me know more about Dovecot and MySQL. Thanks Ian. Ian Armstrong ---------------------------------- ika(a)expressmail.dk

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[Dovecot] Problem starting dovecot..
by Mitchell Baker 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Sorry if this is newbie question.. but I'm a newbie to dovecot.. Trying to crank it up on our RedHat 8.0 system... I get the following.. I am sure it is something simple in the config.. just don't know what... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Here is from the log.. If there is a way to get more log info that might help he as well.. Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: child 3517 (auth) returned error 127 Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Thanks... See-ya Mitch -- /####################################################################/ /# Mitchell "Buzz" Baker "To Infinity And Beyond..." #/ /# Sr. Systems/Security Admin Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology #/ /# Mitchell.D.Baker(a)rose-hulman.edu www.rose-hulman.edu #/ /# For PGP Public key, check out www.keyserver.net #/ /####################################################################/

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[Dovecot] pgsql-dovecot auth problem
by Ewald Geschwinde 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Jan 28 13:55:48 bachata dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Query "SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = 'foo(a)foo.bar'" failed: I have this error in /var/log/mail.log I have installed a debian machine with dovecot debian packages in my test environment it runs perfect I have used the tutorials on wiki.dovecot.org And there is nothing in the postgresql log about this query And I'm logging queries HAs anyone encountered this error? Postfix send the mail in the right maildir Only the IMAP login does not work. Regards Ewald Geschwinde

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[Dovecot] Customflags problem?
by Rick Johnson 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

I'm new here, but I'll just jump right in. I've been using Dovecot with Fedora for a bit with the default mbox format. I recently transitioned to the Maildir format since some users were getting mailboxes in excess of 1GB in size, which made expunging and flagging no easy task. Anyway, it appears now with Maildir, that customflags are "added" instead of "replaced". I.E. in Thunderbird or Mozilla, if I set a message label of 5 (Later), and then change it to 3 (Personal), all's fine. However, if I switch it back to Later, or attempt to remove it, the flags are not removed. When I examine the flags on the filename, I see something like :2,FSag. If I attempt to change to additional labels and/or flag the message, I'll end up with aefg on the same message. Unfortunately only the first flag is accepted, and Moz/Tbird keeps label 5 as "a" was "read" delivered first. If I mark label as none, the flags remain, meaning I have to manually rename the file to remove the flags. This wasn't a problem using the mbox format, since the flags were stored in the file itself. Is this something broken in how the reader is requesting or is it a fault in the dæmon itself not removing old customflags before adding new? I suspect something inside src/lib-index/maildir/maildir-index.c Also of note, Evolution can seem to remove them, but only does so upon exit. I've reproduced it in 0.99.10-6 (fedora core 1) and 0.99.10.4-1 (fedora devel) versions. I filed a Bugzilla report at bugzilla.redhat.com under 114230 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114230) -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson(a)medata.com Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc

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[Dovecot] Internal error during expunge
by Tim Jakobsen 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi, I'm using dovecot-0.99.10.4_1 on Freebsd. CPU architecture is i386. When ever I try to move messages og delete dem i get an internal error. Below I've tried to show what dovecot says. Mail gets stored using mbox format. After giving the internal error you kan try to expunge the mail again and it works without error. Any suggestions or ideas as to what could be wrong? is it a bug? A003 STORE 1 +FLAGS (\Deleted) * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) A003 OK Store completed. A004 expunge imap(foo): Error: Error indexing mbox file /home/foo/Mail/INBOX.Drafts: LF not found where expected A004 NO Internal error [2004-01-14 14:08:13] Tia. -- Regards, Tim

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[Dovecot] Certificate Authority-signed certs in dovecot?
by Benjamin J. Weiss 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi! Sorry if this has been covered. I've just started using dovecot and I've searched via google and I've downloaded the maillist archives, but I haven't found a solution. I'm using Fedora Core 1, with dovecot-0.99.10-6. When I'm at work, I access my home mail server using Outlook Express (I know, I know, but it's the only client I'm allowed to use at work). Now, I'm able to get to my email, but I get a warning popup box each time I connect to the server, that the authenticity of the certificate can't be verified. I'm assuming that that's because I am using a self-signed certificate. Now, I'm also using postfix, and it allows for me creating my own CA certificate, and using it to sign my own certificates. The /etc/postfix/main.cf entries are: smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/newreq.pem smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/newcert.pem smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem but while I see the following two lines in /etc/dovecot.conf: ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem I don't see how to specify my CA cert. I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to openssl, but I've been able to follow directions to get the TLS working in both postfix and dovecot. I just want to get rid of that annoying message. I figure that there's a way to sign my dovecot certs with the ca cert I've already created for postfix, and tell dovecot about it somehow. Has anybody done this? Thanks! Ben

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2002 sp-2 and initial connection after OS reboot
by David Crisp 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

I have a strange problem that I have been experienceing with dovecot: Dovecot version : 0.99.10.4-1 Using IMAP: When I restart the OS (windows XP) and open up Outlook 2002 SP2 I don't automatically get my IMAP folders on the DOVECOT imap server. (the one on the uw_imap server open up straight away) When I click on inbox I cam given a message saying : unable to connect to imap folders When highlight the inbox and go to "file" "connect to <imap server>" I get the error again.. "unable to connect to imap folders" If I just leave Outlook open for a while the folders mysteriously connect themselves. Has anybody seen this before and does anybody have any ideas on what to do to fix things. Is this an Outlook problem or a dovecot problem? I searched the archives and theres been nothing recently about this kind of problem. I need to get this system running in production very soon. --- David Crisp IT Systems Administrator WSL Consultants Pty Ltd dcrisp(a)wsl.com.au 2-8 Harvey Street Richmond Vic 3121 Australia Phone: +61 3 9429 4666 Fax: +61 3 9429 2294 Web: www.wsl.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WSL Consultants Pty Ltd www.wsl.com.au Head Office: 2-8 Harvey Street, Richmond VIC 3121 Ph: (03) 9429 4666 Fax: (03) 9429 2294 Bendigo Office: Gate 6, Sharon Street La Trobe University, Bendigo PO Box 106, Strathdale VIC 3550 Ph: (03) 5444 7890 Fax: (03) 5444 7895 This message is intended solely for the individual(s) and entity(s) addressed. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. The use, copying or distribution of this message or any information it contains, by anyone other than the addressee, is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify wsl(a)wsl.com.au. The mailbox address from which this message has been sent is for business mail only. Mail sent to it may be subject to security scanning and delivery of non-business messages sent to this address may not occur. Please note that the opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and are not necessarily those of WSL Consultants Pty Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ###################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal http://www.marshalsoftware.com ######################################################################

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[Dovecot] dovecot and evolution
by Farkas Levente 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

hi, in evo when I open my mailbox INBOX is in the middle of my foder list. it seems evo sort folders alphanumericaly and eg Drafts is before INBOX. is there any way to put the inbox as the first folder? it very annoying:-( ps. anyway what is the status of the new indexing code and the thread view bug? thanks. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] imap sync
by Arnold Cano 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Has anyone used any of those utilities that synchronize imap email from one server to another? I tried using imapsync-1.65 and it reports that dovecot has no namespace support and requires me to manually enter the separator? Would this be "."? or ".INBOX"? or "/"? Thanks, Arnold

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[Dovecot] some questions about log errors
by Charlie Allom 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Hello, I migrated from the release target to the CVS target a few nights back, as I only use Maildir, and wanted look for improvements.. I am getting these errors in the maillog, and they keep coming up. I can delete the indexes, but wonder if it should be updateable by the mail-index process first? Jan 10 16:37:48 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 16:42:56 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 17:08:18 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 19:54:09 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 20:02:12 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 21:15:35 lazy pop3(ki): Updating broken sync_id in cache file /home/ki/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.cache Jan 10 22:17:48 lazy imap(yeled): Corrupted index file /home/yeled/Maildir/.spam-caught/.imap.index: Duplicated message 1073729953.P4300Q320.lazy:2,S Jan 10 22:17:48 lazy imap(yeled): /home/yeled/Maildir/.spam-caught/dovecot-uidlist: Found duplicate filename 1073729953.P4300Q320.lazy, rebuilding Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Corrupted index cache file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index.cache: record points outside file Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Corrupted index cache file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index.cache: invalid record size Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Corrupted index file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index: Filename mismatch for UID 492: 1073739016.P11415Q5M850434.lazy vs 1073739017.P4404Q26M178284.lazy Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Couldn't lock created modify log file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index.log Jan 10 23:50:19 lazy imap(yeled): Warning: Inconsistency - Index /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index was rebuilt while we had it open Jan 10 23:50:20 lazy imap(yeled): IndexID mismatch for modify log file /home/yeled/Maildir/.mi.backups/.imap.index.log As you can see the error says that it is `Updating broken sync_id' multiple times. The other errors - I'm not sure if they can be fixed.. C. -- charlie(a)rubberduck.com - Melbourne, Australia http://rubberduck.com/~yeled/ PGP: 0x14AA7941 || finger yeled(a)lazy.spodder.com

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[Dovecot] no such file or directory
by Arnold Cano 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

I successfully installed dovecot 0.99.10 on a fedora box using postfix 2.0.11 and when I try to connect using my mozilla mail client I get the following error in the maillog... Jan 7 18:52:16 www1 imap(arnoldc): utime() failed with index file /home/arnoldc/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory As you can see I'm using maildirs located in the home directories. Here is a copy of my dovecot.conf and I've removed all the commented out lines to save space... protocols = imap imap_listen = * ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes Also, I created the maildir manually and placed a copy in my /etc/skel so that all new users receive a copy. Here is the structure and permissions from the home directory... >ll drwx------ 5 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 Maildir >ll Maildir/ drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 cur drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 new drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 tmp Any help would be appreciated! Arnold

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[Dovecot] POP Before SMTP for Sendmail
by SIMflex Support 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Does anyone have a patch or information resource on implementing POP before SMTP with sendmail and DoveCot? I implemented it using a qpopper patch before we swiched to DoveCot for Maildirs. We have been using DoveCot for almost a year now and love it better than any other IMAP or POP3 server. Thanks for the info, Doug Eubanks SIMflex Internet Support support(a)simflex.com SIMflex Telephone Support is available from 8am-8pm Mon thru Fri and 9am-12pm Sat 206-7934 Wilson Area 800-847-2979 All Other Areas

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[Dovecot] Maildir and Mail at the same time.
by Dan Slowik 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

I am trying to use Maildir format for My inbox and be able to save the messages in ~/Mail. Problem is dovecot only show the Maildir mailboxes not the ~/Mail formatted boxes. How can I get this to work? If I use namespace or something how would this be configured I cannot find much documentation that explains it well enough. example: what would I have to configure in dovecot.conf or otherwise? I would like to see this. INBOX -- sent | drafts |- (Maildir format from ~/Maildir) trash -- sent -- recieved | deamons |- (mbox format from ~/Mail) unixfolk -- Currently I can only see the ~/Maildir like so. INBOX -- sent | drafts |- (Maildir format from ~/Maildir) trash -- Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003

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[Dovecot] SSL and STARTTLS
by Mark E. Mallett 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

I wanted to enable SSL on some alternate ports so that a limited number of people could try SSL access. But doing so enabled STARTTLS in IMAP, so that all IMAP users got surprised (at least those whose clients attempted to use it automatically). e.g.: # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above non-SSL equilevants if not specified. imaps_listen = *:xxxx pop3s_listen = *:yyyy # Disable SSL/TLS support. ssl_disable = no Is there a way to enable imaps/pop3s without enabling STARTTLS? (If so it's probably blindingly obvious and I am missing it..) Yours, mm

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[Dovecot] folders not subscribed
by Jerry Chiu 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

when migrated from courier-imap, I found that all the sub-folders are not subscribed, I have to manually subscribe all of them. It is not very practical since many of my users have complicated folder structure... Is it possible that the dovecot server auto-subscribe all sub-folders if the ".subscriptions" is not present in the Maildir? Thanks, Jerry

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[Dovecot] no such file or directory
by Arnold Cano 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

I successfully installed dovecot 0.99.10 on a fedora box using postfix 2.0.11 and when I try to connect using my mozilla mail client I get the following error in the maillog... Jan 7 18:52:16 www1 imap(arnoldc): utime() failed with index file /home/arnoldc/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory As you can see I'm using maildirs located in the home directories. Here is a copy of my dovecot.conf and I've removed all the commented out lines to save space... protocols = imap imap_listen = * ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes Also, I created the maildir manually and placed a copy in my /etc/skel so that all new users receive a copy. Here is the structure and permissions from the home directory... >ll drwx------ 5 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 Maildir >ll Maildir/ drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 cur drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 new drwx------ 2 arnoldc arnoldc 4096 Jan 7 18:33 tmp Any help would be appreciated! Arnold

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[Dovecot] problems getting password
by Scott Klein 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

I've got a signed certificate now, and since I installed it Dovecot dies when trying to launch with this error in the log file: imap-login: Jan 07 15:15:27 Fatal: Can't load private key file <snip>: error:0906406D:PEM routines:DEF_CALLBACK:problems getting password I know the passphrase my cert needs. Where can I tell dovecot that? Cheers, Scott

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[Dovecot] Problem with Eudora
by Scott Klein 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

I'm trying to get Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10-6) to work with Eudora (6.0 mac/win) and am having a real problem when I try to enable SSL, either TLS or alternate-port SSL. Although my other mail clients, mail.app, imp, etc. work just fine, either version of Eudora craps out when trying to connect via TLS or SSL -- on the mac I get the error Could not get mailbox list. 20 [CLOSED] IMAP connection broken (command) On the PC I get something similar. Sometimes, on the mac, I don't get the [CLOSED] part I get Unable to get the required mailbox list from the server I've tried the "esoteric settings" trick (setting "user plain text password" in the IMAP panel) but that doesn't work. Everything works fine when I turn SSL off. I'm kind of at my wit's end. Has anybody experienced this? Have I not read TFM? Hope y'all can help. Best, Scott Klein

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[Dovecot] RE: Compile problem
by Alex S Moore 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

I am a package maintainer for the Solaris community site known as CSW or blastwave.org. A CSW user requested a dovecot package, so I am attempting to build the package. I downloaded 0.99.10.4 earlier this month and it compiles just fine on my test machine. I went to our CSW build machines to build a version that I can distribute. I got the latest CVS version and used the same environment variables and configure options as the build on my test machine. In src/lib-storage I get the following compile error. I do not have proxy-mail-storage.c on my test machine from the earlier download, so I hope this is a problem that you can easily fix. The environment is Sun SPARC on Solaris 8. I am using the Sun compiler which seems to work fine for this software. My configure options are ./configure --prefix=/opt/csw --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/csw --with-shadow --with-pam --with-ldap --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/opt/csw/ssl .. cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-mail -I../\../src/lib-imap -I/opt/csw/include -fast -xarch=v8 -I/opt/csw/include -c `te\st -f 'proxy-mail-storage.c' || echo './'`proxy-mail-storage.c "proxy-mail-storage.c", line 10: void function cannot return value cc: acomp failed for proxy-mail-storage.c *** Error code 2 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `proxy-mail-storage.o' Current working directory /export/home/asmoore/build/dovecot-0.99.10/src/lib-st\orage *** Error code 1 .. Thanks, Alex Moore

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[Dovecot] DIGEST-MD5 Authentication
by Dominic Marks 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hello, I am confused by a problem I am having getting Dovecot to authenticate users with DIGEST-MD5. I am receiving the error message, "Unexpected service type in digest-uri". (cvs: mech-digest-md5.c, line 407) From an examination of the code it is clear that a check is performed to see if the first component of a the digest-uri triplet is the string "imap". The service type surely is IMAP, and from what I can gather of the expected format of the digest-uri triplet from the comments in the code it should be the first component. Is this just a case of inverted logic or am I mistaken ? Thanks, -- Dominic <dom at wirespeed.org.uk>

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[Dovecot] logfile errors
by Simon Bell 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Ive recently installed dovecot as a replacement for my uw-imap server. Ive noticed a few error messages in the log file, although in operation ive seen no problems from my mail client. The errors are: pop3(admin): Dec 26 21:19:37 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/admin: LF not found where expected and pop3-login: Dec 29 14:54:03 Warning: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [192.168.7.2] There appears to be a large number of the SSL_read errors, though SSL appears to work fine from outlook. Is there any explanation to what they mean or are they insignificant enough to ignore? thanks Simon

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[Dovecot] USER environment
by Evert Mouw 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Browsing in the 2003-September archives, I found out how to start dovecot from inetd (using imap-login instead of imap). Still I've got a few problems. I prefer not using inetd, but that seams impossible (see my 1st email). And telnetting to port 143 results in an immediate connection close. Hmmm, I'll continue exploring the archives. Regards Evert

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[Dovecot] dovecot + ssl + outlook
by super.bonz＠tin.it 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

i have installed dovecot on my debian server..... i have configured with imap + ssl all ok but i have one problem when I lunch for example outlook or outlook express appears this error Title of error page: Internet Secuiruty Warning The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that could not be verified The certificate's CN name does not match the passed value. Do you want to continue using this server? If I click to yes ....it works. please help me thanks Chris

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Re: [Dovecot] USER environment
by Tim Miller 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Evert Mouw wrote: > Browsing in the 2003-September archives, I found out how to start dovecot > from inetd (using imap-login instead of imap). Still I've got a few > problems. I prefer not using inetd, but that seams impossible (see my 1st > email). And telnetting to port 143 results in an immediate connection close. > Hmmm, I'll continue exploring the archives. What does the logfile say? If you're using syslog, dovecot uses the LOG_MAIL facility I think, so you might want to check whatever log that prints to. I had a couple problems like this, and it was because I had set up authentication incorrectly, so you may want to double check that. Best, Tim M.

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[Dovecot] Fatal: USER environment missing
by Evert Mouw 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

I have some trouble installing dovecot, and maybe someone can help me. I have compiled dovecot on a Slackware Linux 9.0 running on a i586, and the imap program works OK (I tested it using the method described in the error reporting document). The make install procedure didn't create a correct /etc/rc.d/rc.dovecot file. I have created a dovecot user and group manually. Running just "dovecot" from the command line does not give any errors, but dovecot terminates and doesn't whow up with ps x. So I tried to start it from inetd, but starting dovecot from inetd results in something like "port 143 already in use", so I decided to start /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap directly from inetd, which results in Fatal: USER environment missing, even when using root for everyting (and the environment variable USER really exists). I fiddled with various options in the dovecot.conf file without any results. Now I'm stuck; the INSTALL document actually is a BUILD document and I can't find anything about post installation :-( Someone any ideas? Regards Evert Mouw

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[Dovecot] New installation questions
by Jason Parsons 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

Howdy. I'm trying to get dovecot working on Solaris 9/sparc. I'm using LDAP as an authentication backend. After running dovecot and attemping an imap login, I'm getting this message: imap-login: Dec 29 01:52:29 Fatal: fd_send(4) failed: Bad file number imap-login: Dec 29 01:52:29 Fatal: fd_send(4) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Dec 29 01:52:29 Error: child 22972 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Dec 29 01:52:29 Error: child 22973 (login) returned error 89 Any ideas what could cause this? Also, I would like to run dovecot using daemontools and qmail-ldap's auth_imap. Is this possible with dovecot? An example supervise/run file would be much appreciated. Thank you. - Jason Parsons

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[Dovecot] Bugfix for use with "Opera mail" and "AnalogX"
by Gerhard Muntingh 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Dear developers, [ Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list. ] In src/pop3-login/client.c: void client_send_line(struct pop3_client *client, const char *line) { o_stream_send_str(client->output, line); o_stream_send(client->output, "\r\n", 2); } Called as 'client_send_line(client "+OK dovecot");'. This function sends two packets to the client. It appears Opera mail and AnalogX proxy recognise the 1st packet as a complete welcome and send their "USER " command after receiving it. They then receive the newline in the next packet and get confused. This is very probably a bug in those two programs, but it would still be great if it could be fixed in the dovecot source. My personal fix involved a buffer on the stack (char tmp[LENGTH]) and some sanity checks wherein the newline is strcat'ed to the string. That's not very nice, but it works for me. Can someone please fix this? There may even be more pop clients having problems with this. kind regards, Gerhard Muntingh.

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[Dovecot] Maildir quotas support in Dovecot and 2 other newbie questions
by Theodore Knab 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I am not familiar with all the features that Dovecot has, but I am familiar with Courier IMAP using Maildir. Does Dovedot have a software based Maildir supporting quota program like Courier IMAP ? Can maildrop be used with Dovecot for quotas ? Courier IMAP has maildrop integrated. - If maildrop support is turned on in Courier IMAP, then a user will get a quota warning mail message each time they login to their account and are over the specified amount. Is there a recommended MTA to be used with the DoveCot IMAP server ? -- ------------------------------------------ Ted Knab Chester, MD 21619 ------------------------------------------ 35570707f6274702478656021626f6c6964796f6e602f66602478656 02e6164796f6e60237471647560216e6460276c6f62616c60257e696 4797e2a0

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[Dovecot] Re: Bug#224092: Dovecot IMAP: detection of folders
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeroen van Disseldorp wrote: > Package: dovecot-imapd > Version: 0.99.10.4-2 > Severity: normal > > When accessing a maildir with "all folders" instead of "only subscribed > folders", dovecot wrongfully reports its index-files (.imap.*) as mail > folders. When the client (KMail 1.5.2 in my case) checks for email, it > aborts halfway with the message: > > Unable to get information about folder imap.index. The server replied: > Internal error [2003-12-15 23:53:05] > > I noticed the same thing with the .subscription-file, but that seems to > have disappeared after a reinstall of dovecot*. Squirrelmail, which > only checks subscribed folders, has no problems. > > The problem started with the last upgrade from 0.99.10.4-1 to -2. -1 was > working fine. I am using Debian GNU/Linux unstable (fully updated) with > kernel 2.4.18-686. I don't think the problem was caused by the upgrade as I only changed one Debian dependency. I am Cc'ing the Dovecot mailing list to see if the developer or anyone else has some insight into this. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] multiple auth= statements
by Stephan van Beerschoten 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

I'm new to dovecot and it's configurations. Reading the config file, I have a question regarding having multiple auth= lines in there. Is this some sort of a pass-through or fail-through system of authentications like where if a user is not authenticated using 'pam', then the second method is tried (which might be sql or plain passwd-txt) ? Am I assuming the right thing here ? I have system-users, but am planning to migrate the majority of those users to a virtual_mailbox system (using postfix) where they have no more system-users . I just want to be sure this will work. If anybody has setup a system with postfix and virtual mailboxes in combination with dovecot, and wants to swap stories and setups, I'd be grateful :) /Stephan -- Stephan van Beerschoten [KeyID: 0x08F12864] "If you are adminstering UNIX systems and don't master tools such as make, shell, and perl, then you are working too hard." -- Wietse Venema. Fri, 12 Dec 2003

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[Dovecot] Always 'new mail' false notifications?
by Stephan van Beerschoten 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hi, I just yesterday played around and installed dovecot. I like it a lot (except for the lack of mysql support), but I have one issue I can't seem to fix. I am using mutt as my mailclient and mutt will alert me whenever new mail has arrived in any mailfolder I have configured. The thing is, that mutt continously signals me of new mail in all my folders, when in reality nothing has entered there. Does this sound familiar to anyone ? All I can think of, is that something is happening with modification timestamps of my mailboxes which signals the new mail flag, but I don't know what causes it. A small description of my setup: One server running dovecot. I access mail locally via IMAP, but can also access the spoolfiles and mailfolders directly. I'm the only one with shell access. Procmail filters mail and delivers it to my mailfolders in ~/Mail. Any ideas ? -- Stephan van Beerschoten [KeyID: 0x08F12864] "To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy"

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[Dovecot] Mailing list problems fixed
by Timo Sirainen 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 12:00, mailman(a)dovecot.org wrote: > ...: host ...[...] said: 504 > <talvi>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname (in reply to > RCPT TO command) Whops. 12 people's subscriptions got disabled because of that. It's fixed now and I've restored the subscriptions.

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[Dovecot] corrupted empty message with CVS
by dean gaudet 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

with CVS as of an hour ago i'm seeing corruption of messages (in an mbox) with an empty message body. for example, here's what i have in my test INBOX right after receiving the empty message: --- top of INBOX --- >From dean(a)arctic.org Tue Nov 25 19:02:23 2003 Return-Path: <dean(a)arctic.org> Delivered-To: dgtest(a)arctic.org Received: (qmail 3626 invoked by uid 500); 26 Nov 2003 03:02:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs(a)127.0.0.1) by 127.0.0.1 with SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 03:02:23 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:02:23 -0800 (PST) From: dean gaudet <dean(a)arctic.org> To: dgtest(a)arctic.org Subject: quibble Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311251902160.15721(a)twinlark.arctic.org> X-comment: visit http://arctic.org/~dean/legal for information regarding copyright and disclaimer. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on twinlark.arctic.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=2.60 --- end of INBOX --- and then i use pine 4.58 to access {localhost}INBOX and it shows a corrupted message (no subject/etc) then i quit pine, and here's what the INBOX looks like on disk afterwards: --- top of INBOX --- >From dean(a)arctic.org Tue Nov 25 19:02:23 2003 X-IMAPbase: 1069815483 6 Status: RO X-UID: 6 Content-Length: 0 X-Keywords: --- end of INBOX --- any ideas or other info which would be useful? thanks -dean

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[Dovecot] Authenting in Linuxconf format
by Marc Perkel 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

I have an existing email system and I'm trying to addapt dovecot into it. It uses the linuxconf virtual email format. The way it is set up is there there are multiple passwd/shadow files - one for eact domain. They are in standard format. The names of these files are: /etc/vmail/passwd.domain.com /etc/vmail/shadow.domain.com I tried this: auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/passwd.%d auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/shadow.%d but - it didn't expand the %d So - is this going to work? If not - how do you do virtual domains? The documentation is less than complete on this.

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[Dovecot] Folder names
by Keith Edmunds 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

I'm not sure offhand exactly which version of Dovecot I'm running - it doesn't seem to have a -V switch. Anyway, I created a folder which had periods in the name. There was no problem with that, but MUAs now report that folder as a hierarchy. For example: customers | +-customername.com | +-another.customer.com has become: customers | +-customername | | | +-com | +-another | +-customer | +-com Now the obvious answer is "don't do that". However, should Dovecot either a) refuse to create a folder with an embedded period in the name or 2) manage (somehow) the fact that not all periods represent hierarchical delimiters? Keith PS Damn fine software, Dovecot

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[Dovecot] server changes
by Timo Sirainen 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Moved Dovecot's web, dns, mails, cvs and all to different server. Plan is to get it moved elsewhere for hosting once everything looks to be working. dovecot(a)dovecot.org is the preferred posting address to this list now, although dovecot(a)procontrol.fi should still keep forwarding the mails.

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[Dovecot] subscriptions list destroyed
by kalle-e＠medelklassen.com 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

What could be the reason that the subscribed folders list becomes messed up? If i do this: $ rm ~/.maildir/.subscriptions $ evolution [subscribe to everything, exit program] $ cat ~/.maildir/.subscriptions debian sers va $ (or some other random text which seems to come from parts of the folder list) This makes Mozilla Mail go crazy. Evolution and Gnus work OK since they seem to have their own list, but switching back and forth between Evolution and Gnus makes Evolution forget the list. I don't think I had this problem before. I used mbox then.

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[Dovecot] Problems on startup
by Joona Kulmala 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hi. When I'm trying to start dovecot, I get following error: Fatal: net_set_nonblock() failed: Operation not supported by device What's that error about? System is FreeBSD 5.1. I think this problem is related to FreeBSD. Dovecot works fine on my Linux-servers. Thanks in advance, Joona -- Joona Kulmala <joona(a)fiveam.org>

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[Dovecot] Severe pop3 incompatibility report
by Kadlecsik Jozsi 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hello, According to our experiences, most recent dovecot incompatible with eudora pop3 client - eudora (5.1, 6), pop3, 'leave on server' enabled: the clients receive the full inbox *every time* they check the inbox on the server. [Users using other MUAs experienced the same once, at switching from uw-pop3d/imapd to dovecot.] That is absolutely devastating, especially for home users behind a modem line. We spent a full week with trying to find a workaround with eudora: no avail. The only solution remained was to revert back to uw-pop3d. :-( Best wishes, Jozsef Kadlecsik -- E-mail : kadlec(a)sunserv.kfki.hu, kadlec(a)blackhole.kfki.hu PGP key: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address: KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 0.99.10.4 for Debian
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

I've packaged 0.99.10.4. Owing to the continued downtime on the Debian servers, I've temporarily put the .debs up on my own site. The URL is http://www.braincells.com/debian/ A backport to woody is also available. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] Pid file?
by Robin Breathe 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

I'd certainly appreciate the addition of a configurable pid file (either ./configure --with-pid=... or config file). It makes rc.d scripts that much neater. - Robin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot for solaris 8 x86
by Ted S. Garaventa 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

Does someone out there have the ability to compile dovecot for solaris 8 x86. I have tried and failed to get it to work. Any format would be acceptable tar or pkgadd. Thanks in advance for any help. Ted

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[Dovecot] Maildir Sub folder was not fetch as start
by 陳銘偉 Chan Min Wai 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm new to dovecot and have been using sinces Fedora Core 1 release. My setup is as below. Server : dovecot Imap Maildir (was from courier-imap) (v 0.99.10 from fedora) Client : Mozilla mail 1.5 (rpm from www.mozilla.org with some additional patch to work with fedora) The Problem is like this. When the Maildir is in this format .INBOX.Foldername And Subfolder is .INBOX.Foldername.Subfolder (courier-imap don't use this file names, I rename it personally) So that the client can access without any changes. When using this Folder format I've no problem on fetching the subfolder. They all load nicely when mozilla mail start. So One day I've change My Maildir into this format .INBOX.Foldername ---> .Foldername .INBOX.Foldername.Subfolder ---> .Foldername.Subfolder Something weird happen... My foldername is System Log The subfolder just don't load it correctly *ON THE FIRST TIME of access* on mozilla I'll have to click on the mail root (as a refresh) to make sure it fetch all the folder. Well Maybe This is not dovecot Problem so I'm here to Just make sure this. BTW, I'm not using a subscribe folder in the mozilla. so that it will show all folder in my Maildir. Thank You Chan Min Wai - -- 馬來西亞淨宗學會 Amitabha Buddhist Society (M) 16A, 1st Floor, Jalan Pahang, 53000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel:+603-40414101, 40452630 Fax:+603-40412172 WebPage: http://www.amtb-m.org.my E-Mail: amtbmy(a)amtb-m.org.my -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/xtIPV0p9slMZLW4RAtQ0AKCuvyy2pkamzZh0CFhy1+0bbrEKzQCg0s7p oOPoooeQpMp/135MCyeJX1A= =Gqbu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] Compiling dovecot on SuSE 9]
by Ted S. Garaventa 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Thank you very much for the rpm.... it works great on SuSE 9. I still don't understand how you compiled it to work!!! Thanks again Ted hi, On 2003-11-26 17:44:43 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Doesn't the error message get written to log file as well? If not, I'll have to fix it. timo it wasnt in earlier versions. but for 0.99.10.4 it reports the missing ssl cert to the stderr of the current console. but no messages in the log. and why did you enabled pgsql auth as default in the dovecot-example.conf? it took me 10 min to find out why it was whining about the conf. ;) and would it possible to modify the paths in the example config according to the sysconfdir? for Ted: http://monsters.rsn.uni-rostock.de/~darix/suse/9.0/ i added dovecot-0.99.10.4-1.i586.rpm today. darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[Dovecot] pop3-login process leakage
by Clive Jones 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi, I've recently deployed dovecot on our servers, to replace courier-imapd. I'm delighted with its features and performance, but there's a major problem - it's leaking pop3-login processes. We have about 60 client machines, each collecting mail once every two minutes. In this configuration, the number of pop3-login processes increases by about ten an hour - apparently without bound. My workaround is to increase the open files rlimit, and the kernel overall limit on open files. This postpones disaster for long enough that killing and restarting dovecot nightly avoids problems. A possibly related problem is that about 1% of attempted POP3 logins fail. At the server, all I see is a syslog entry like this: Nov 3 22:17:21 greenwich pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [10.76.30.246] At the client, there is a long (about 60-second) timeout. Then the client automatically retries, and generally succeeds. There are *not* exactly as many such disconnects as there are stray pop3-login processes - I counted roughly 230 inactivity disconnects in the time it took for 190 stray processes to accumulate. We are running dovecot 0.99.10 on OpenBSD 3.2 . The configuration is fairly normal, except that we are using a custom userdb and passdb (compiled as shared objects): auth_userdb = passwd8 auth_passdb = smb passwd8 is just userdb-passwd.c with a trivial tweak to truncate presented user names to eight characters. smb is an shim that delegates authentication to smbclient, to check passwords against NT domain controllers. I've placed the source code for these two modules in: http://www.nsict.org/~clive/misc/dovecot-2003-11-04/ ...along with my dovecot.conf, and a file that illustrates the growth in the number of pop3-login processes over time. So far as I'm aware, those modules are loaded by the dovecot-auth process, not the pop3-login processes, and are therefore unlikely to be the problem? The client machines are LAN-connected, and running a mixture of Outlook (2000/XP) and Outlook Express (5.5 and 6). There are also a couple of people using Mozilla. Most are collecting e-mail via POP3, a few via IMAP. This issue didn't show up under beta-test loading before I deployed dovecot. Since it seems only to be exhibited (or, at least, noticeably exhibited) under live load, it's very hard for me to diagnose things further without disrupting service. I'd be very grateful if anyone could suggest what might be wrong. Regards, --Clive.

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[Dovecot] Pid file?
by Clive Jones 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Is there a way to make Dovecot maintain a pid file? Most daemons put their pid in /var/run/dovecot.pid (or similar) while they are running, then remove it on exit, but I can't find any option to do this in Dovecot. (Of course, if I could work out how on earth to stop Dovecot leaking processes, I wouldn't be looking for a simpler way to keep bringing the daemon down and restarting it. (-8 ) Regards, --Clive.

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[Dovecot] Compiling dovecot on SuSE 9
by Ted S. Garaventa 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Again I am asking for some help to compile and configure dovecot on SuSE 9. I have configured and compiled it as per the instructions and no errors or problems. When I try to run dovecot from the command line it does not complain or give me any errors. The daemon starts and dies almost immediately. Do I need to compile differently? What can I do to see what is the problem. I was asked to run strace but I don't know what it is telling me. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Incompatibility with eudora
by Kadlecsik Jozsi 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hello, We installed dovecot-0.99.10.2 on Monday and upgraded to dovecot-0.99.10.4 today, but our eudora users still are very unhappy: old undeleted mail messages are donwloaded every time they use our server. Looking into the source code, we found that dovecot knows about the following status flags: A: answered F: flagged (?) T: draft (?) R: seen (read) D: deleted However, it does not know and ignore the O flag. According to IETF (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-palme-mailext-headers-08.txt) the following flags are valid (I know, it's a draft and not RFC): U: message is not downloaded and not deleted R: message is read or downloaded O: message is old but not deleted D: to be deleted N: new "Combinations of these characters can occur, such as "Status: OR" to indicate that a message is downloaded but not deleted." The old mails of our eudora users contain exactly this flag combination: Status: RO Could the compatibility problem somehow be fixed? Currently our system is pretty unusable for the users :-( Thank you and best regards, Jozsef -- E-mail : kadlec(a)sunserv.kfki.hu, kadlec(a)blackhole.kfki.hu PGP key: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address: KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary

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