- dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Converting from maildir to dbox
by Kjartan Andreassen 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi, We are getting the users homedir from sql ( in dovecot-sql.conf) and using the convert script we have the following settings: mail_location = dbox:%h/dbox convert_mail = maildir:%h/Maildir This just gives an error on all the folders saying they already exists. Does anyone have a config file where they have a working dbox configuration? Regards, Kjartan

2 1

[Dovecot] Auto creating client folders on the IMAP server after installing client.
by Radio Tron 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hello, could someone help. I have installed Dovecot+SSL+TLS+Thunderbird and all is well except one thing. After installing TBird and adding the required data (smtp server and auth info, imap/pop server and auth info) I am able to view mail in my TBird Inbox BUT Trash and Sent don't work - it pops up saying folder doesn't exist on the server - can't the darn thing, auto create a folder on the server instead of cribbing to me??? Is there a painless (automatic way) to auto create client directories on the Dovecot server (in the users home dir on the server - i am using maildir/). I don't want to maintain a list of clients(TBird, outlook, eudora..) with their directory structure and then remember what user has what clients installed and Gahhh! How do i do this?? Is this explained/documented somewhere in simple language(for a newbie - I'm struggling through the RFC's but they are awfully obscure and don't seem to answer my question directly)? I've also googled but that's worse. Thank you for your patience and time. I'd like to add that I plan to sync GMail, Dovecot and a multitude-of-stupid-clients in some mysterious way so any advice in advance is more than welcome.

4 15

[Dovecot] Multiple SSL certificates with dovecot.
by Andre Rodier 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hello all, By advance, I hope you'll excuse my probably not perfect English, which is not my mother tongue. I have always appreciated dovecot for this simplicity to setup and lightweight, but today, after many installations, I cannot find how to setup dovecot for my configuration. - I use only IMAPS to retrieve the mails. - I manage two domain names - I use CA-Cert certificates So,the question is : how to setup dovecot to select the appropriate certificate, according to the domain name I use when I retrieve mails using the IMAPS protocol ? Thanks. Andre Rodier.

3 3

[Dovecot] inetd & corrupt environment
by Gelu G. Lupas 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hello. I'm having the following problem with dovecot 1.0.12 and above, on a FreeBSD 7.0 system - I'm trying to run pop3-login from inetd and I keep getting this error after authentication: May 25 09:46:19 charlie dovecot: POP3(gelu): /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: environment corrupt; missing value for no-nuls oe-ns-eoh The problem persists if I uncomment the lines with no-nuls oe-ns-eoh in dovecot.conf. I've also tried running pop3-login from tcpserver/ucspi-tcp and I still get the same error. Version 1.0.1 works fine on a similar setup. Please reply if you have any idea regarding a fix for this error. I need to run dovecot under a tcp wrapper of some kind (preferably inetd) as the standalone daemon doesn't allow any method to restrict access by IP. The allow_nets extra field doesn't help much as I'm using PAM and do not want to maintain yet another passdb. Restricting access via firewall rules is not an option. Until I find a way to restrict access by IP address, dovecot will only listen on the private IP address (192.168.100.1). My dovecot configuration follows: # 1.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: pop3 listen: 192.168.100.1 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: login_process_size: 32 login_max_processes_count: 32 login_max_connections: 128 max_mail_processes: 128 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login process_size: 64 passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally - A spam blocker that actually works. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/4

3 4

[Dovecot] EXPUNGE delay
by Eugene 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi people! I just switched one of my servers from Courier to Dovecot. Planned to do it anyway but had to do it faster after the discovery that courier [the version I had installed, at least] returns malformed headers for a few messages, causing Outlook Express to completely ignore them. Curiously, they were visible in Squirrelmail and Nokia Series60 e-mail client. Overal I am quite happy but have one little problem. More often than not, I have to press 'Purge' button two or more times in order to actually remove the deleted messages. The fragment of Outlook's IMAP log is below. Interestingly, Dovecot 1.0.7 (on another server) does not have such problem. Best wishes Eugene IMAP: 00:46:56 [tx] 0yc9 UID STORE 172903 +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted \Seen) IMAP: 00:46:56 [rx] 0yc9 OK Store completed. IMAP: 00:46:58 [tx] 623w EXPUNGE IMAP: 00:46:58 [rx] * 102 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) IMAP: 00:46:58 [rx] 623w OK Expunge completed. IMAP: 00:46:58 [tx] 62lg IDLE IMAP: 00:46:58 [rx] + idling IMAP: 00:47:02 [tx] DONE IMAP: 00:47:02 [rx] 62lg OK Idle completed. IMAP: 00:47:02 [tx] a4si EXPUNGE IMAP: 00:47:02 [rx] * 102 EXPUNGE IMAP: 00:47:02 [rx] a4si OK Expunge completed. dovecot version: 1.0.10 OS: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386 dovecot -n # 1.0.10: /usr/contrib/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/xxxx.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/xxxx.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/contrib/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/contrib/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/contrib/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/contrib/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/contrib/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/contrib/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/contrib/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/contrib/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/contrib/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

3 6

[Dovecot] deliver 1.0 vs 1.1
by arne van theemsche 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi I use deliver with an auth socket I have 2 namespaces (which isn't relevant here, but anyway) namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%1n/%2n/%n inbox = YES #hidden = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail/ location = mbox:/home/%1n/%n/mail inbox = no hidden = no } and also an general mail_location mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%1n/%2n/%n with deliver 1.0 branch everything works fine with latest deliver 1.1rc8 I get Jun 5 13:32:18 xxx deliver(<username>): mkdir(/var/spool/mail/%1n/%2n/%n/.SPAM/cur) failed: Permission denied looks like arguments don't get resolved kind regards Arne

1 1

[Dovecot] v1.1.rc9 released
by Timo Sirainen 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc9.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc9.tar.gz.sig Not many bug reports these last few days, so maybe this release will be a good one. + Maildir: When hardlink-copying a file, copy the W=<vsize> in the filename if it exists in the original filename. - mbox: With rc8 empty lines were inserted in the middle of saved mails' headers. - maildir: Fixed problems with opening newly saved messages which we saw in index file but couldn't see in dovecot-uidlist. Happened only when messages weren't saved via Dovecot (deliver or IMAP). - Several bugfixes to handling sort indexes - deliver: Boolean settings that were supposed to default to "yes" were set to "no" unless explicitly defined in dovecot.conf: dotlock_use_excl, maildir_copy_with_hardlinks, mbox_dirty_syncs, mbox_lazy_writes.

3 4

[Dovecot] typo in failures.c
by Mike Abbott 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hi, I found a typo on line 101 of dovecot-1.1.rc8/src/lib/failures.c. The first two arguments to io_add() are reversed. The fd should be first, and IO_WRITE second.

5 5

[Dovecot] last login time and host
by Dmitry Pryadko 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

Hi. How can I write login name, timestamp and remote host address to MySQL database every time user connects? Now I run a daemon, which "tails" log file and parses output, but maybe that can be done more simply ? -- Dmitry Pryadko http://www.hc.ru

2 1

[Dovecot] assertion after upgrading to 1.1rc7 from 1.1rc3
by Nuno Lopes 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

Hi, I'm getting this assertion after making an upgrade from 1.1rc3 to 1.1rc7. Deleting the index files solves the problem. This seems to happen only to some accounts but I haven't managed to find which ones. I'm using dovecot's deliver to deliver the messages. Panic: IMAP(user(a)example.com): file index-sort-string.c: line 575 (index_sort_add_ids_range): assertion failed: (strcmp(left_str, str) < 0) Here goes the output of dovecot -n # 1.1.rc7: /opt/dovecot-1.1.rc7/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap listen: *:10143 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no login_max_connections: 400 max_mail_processes: 750 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_uid: 501 mail_gid: 100 mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota zlib mail_plugin_dir: /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap auth default: executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: nobody passdb: driver: ldap args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: nogroup plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=2G quota_rule2: Trash:storage=102400 quota_rule3: INBOX.Trash:storage=102400

2 3