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[Dovecot] Cosmetic issue with dots in Maildir folder names
by Holger Weiss 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Just a minor cosmetic issue: We use the listescape plugin in order to support "." characters in Maildir++ folder names, and in at least the following case, the escaped representation of the dot character ("\2e") won't be translated back to a "." in messages for the IMAP client: | 1 SELECT non.existent | 1 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: non\2eexistent However, SELECTing an existing folder whose name includes a dot works fine, and it also works in other cases, e.g.: | 2 CREATE does.exist | 2 OK Create completed. | 3 LIST "" does.exist | * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" does.exist | 3 OK List completed. This is with Dovecot 1.1.3; we use "separator = /" and we've defined REAL_SEP to '.' and VIRTUAL_SEP to '/' in the plugin. Holger

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[Dovecot] ACL plugin: k permission and sub-subfolders
by Heiko Schlichting 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Hi, I'm trying to disallow the creating of subfolders for some special folder for all users. Using ACL plugin for this seems to work at first glance but is not a full solution or is buggy as it allows the creation of sub-subfolders. I'm using the following ACL and namespace separator is "/": $ cat folder owner lrwstie Note: no "k" permission ("k" = create = Mailboxes can be created under this mailbox) Seems to work: a001 create "folder/subfolder" a001 NO Permission denied But: a002 create "folder/subfolder/subsubfolder" a002 OK Create completed. This is unexpected. Creating a subfolder is not allowed but a sub-subfolder is permitted? If this is intentional, the description in the wiki should mention this. And: How to disallow the creation of any subfolders and any sub-subfolders? Using "folder/.DEFAULT" instead of "folder" to define the ACL does not make any difference for the behavior. My configuration of dovecot is below the signature. Thanks, Heiko. Heiko Schlichting Freie Universität Berlin heiko(a)FU-Berlin.DE Zentraleinrichtung für Datenverarbeitung (ZEDAT) Telefon +49 30 838-54327 Fabeckstraße 32 Telefax +49 30 838454327 14195 Berlin # 1.1.3: /server/dovecot/server/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /server/dovecot/server/var/run/ syslog_facility: local6 protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): 130.133.4.84:8143 listen(imap): 130.133.4.84:8143 listen(pop3): 130.133.4.84:8110 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no shutdown_clients: no nfs_check: no login_dir: /server/dovecot/server/var/logindir login_executable(default): /server/dovecot/server/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /server/dovecot/server/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /server/dovecot/server/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de ready. login_chroot: no login_processes_count: 16 login_max_processes_count: 512 max_mail_processes: 1500 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_uid: 865 mail_gid: 865 mail_location: maildir:/server/dovecot/spool/%2Ln/%Ln/maildir maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /server/dovecot/bin/wrapper imap mail_executable(imap): /server/dovecot/bin/wrapper imap mail_executable(pop3): /server/dovecot/bin/wrapper pop3 mail_plugins(default): acl quota imap_quota listescape mail_plugins(imap): acl quota imap_quota listescape mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /server/dovecot/server/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /server/dovecot/server/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /server/dovecot/server/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_prefix: %Ls[%p]: user=<%u>, mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 50 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %u pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: dovecot username_format: %Lu failure_delay: 1 passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /server/dovecot/bin/checkpassword-zedat userdb: driver: prefetch plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:bytes=2G acl: vfile:/server/dovecot/server/etc/acls

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Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
by Frank Elsner 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:23:54 -0200 Diego Ledesma wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Frank Elsner > <frank(a)moltke28.b.shuttle.de> wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:09:07 -0300 Diego Ledesma wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > >> I only installed dovecot-common package. > >> Also, i setted protocols to "none". > >> > >> Does anyone know why i get that error message? > > > > Protocols "none" also means no "imap". > > > > BTW ... imap is a protocol :-) > > > > > > --Frank Elsner > > > > Oh. According to the comments in my dovecot.conf setting protocols to > "none" means that only dovecot-auth is enabled... > What should i write under Protocols to just enable that? My dovecot.conf contains protocols = imap imaps BTW, Please keep the thread on the mailing list, "Cc"ed here. --Frank Elsner

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[Dovecot] v1.1.3 released
by Timo Sirainen 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.3.tar.gz.sig This fixes several mbox problems previous v1.1 releases have had. * mail_max_userip_connections limit no longer applies to master user logins. + login_log_format_elements: Added %k to show SSL protocol/cipher information. Not included by default. + imap/pop3-proxy: If auth_verbose=yes, log proxy login failures. + deliver: Added -s parameter to autosubscribe to autocreated mailboxes. - message parser fixes - hopefully fixes an infinite looping problem - SORT: One more assert-crashfix when renumbering index sort IDs. - mbox: Saving may have truncated the mail being saved - mbox: Several other bugfixes - mail_full_filesystem_access=yes was broken when listing mailboxes (it still is with maildir++ layout). - maildirlock utility was somewhat broken - zlib plugin: bzip2 support was somewhat broken - NFS: Make sure writing to files via output streams don't assert-crash when write() returns only partial success.

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[Dovecot] Time Moved Backwards Error Keeps Happening
by JackyC＠umac.mo 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hi all, I am running dovecot version 1.1.1 (dovecot --version) and keeps to have time moved backwards problem. I first found dovecot dead without obvious error message, but see the following when restart dovecot service by # service dovecot restart >Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED] >Starting Dovecot Imap: Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): Time just moved backwards by 4398 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards [ OK ] I followed the above official wiki link and apply the ntpd service for adjusting the server timestamp. After running the ntpd service, I found the server timestamp drift is only 14.333 microsecond, I think which would be reasonable. But I still get the captioned error. Does anyone have the same experience? BTW, I couldn't find the error log message even I confirmed the info, error and debug log file by visiting this wiki document http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging, does it really not log at the log file? I can just keep monitoring the log and use the following command to determine whether dovecot is running or not. # service dovecot status Thank you very much! Yours Sincerely, Jacky, Hoi Kei Chan,

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Re: [Dovecot] filename format question
by Giorgenes Gelatti 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

> There's no config option for it, but it's theoretically possible to do just about anything. Generally, though, the format of those filenames is defined by the Maildir standard. Changing the filename as you suggest would likely break other mail programs that might access those Maildir folders. > > I suppose the question is: why would you want to change that? My company's current system (unfortunally) uses that non-standard format. The MTA writes in that format. I guess it would require a patch then? tks. gpg

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[Dovecot] filename format question
by Giorgenes Gelatti 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hello, Is it possible to configure the filename format in dovecot? For example, to change from "unique,W=size:2,FLAGS" to "unique,size.hostname:2,FLAGS_unique2"? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Integrating Dovecot SASL into Postfix
by Diego Ledesma 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hello. I have a linux system (Ubuntu 7.04 server edition) running as a mail server with Postfix. SMTP authentication is not configured so users have to be connected to the lan to download/send mails. I´m considering on enabling SMTP authentication and i have heard that by installing Dovecot i can do this pretty straight forward. First of all, some details about how the mail server is configured: - Running Linux OS Ubuntu 7.04 - Currently running Postfix version 2.3.8 - No virtual users or domains . Every system user has a mail account (to create a new mail account i have to create a new system user. I belive this is called PAM, right?). According to postfix´s website the version of postfix i have supports Dovecot 1.0 SASL protocol. What would happen if i try to install Dovecot through apt-get?. I mean, i most definitely get a version of Dovecot above 1.0. Would my postfix still support it?. Before posting this i have posted on the postifx mailing list and they have to told me that after installing Dovecot i don´t need to configure it as a pop/iamp server. How would i accomplish this?. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Diego.

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[Dovecot] log analyzers
by maximatt 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

hi... ¿you have some log analyzer to recommend? (for dovecot obviously) thanks in advance!!!! -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] Sieve problem with 1.1.2
by justin＠ma3x.net 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hello, I am new here, so excuse me if i am asking something already asked. I am using dovecot 1.1.2 along with postfix 2.6 and a pgsql backend. So far everything is great, until i wanted to try out the sieve implementation. I am using dovecot for deliver and i have set global_script_path = /home/vmail/globalsieverc The script IS working until a given user defines his own sieve script ( for example ) : require ["fileinto"]; # Move mail from my gmail account to gmail folder if header :contains "From" ["xxxxx(a)gmail.com"] { fileinto "gmail"; } This ( or any other script for all i know ) breaks up the global one, and it stops working. The global script looks like this : require ["fileinto"]; # Move spam to spam folder if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" ["YES"] { fileinto "spam"; stop; } Am i missing something, or this is the desired behaviour ?

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