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[Dovecot] dbox
by Evaggelos Balaskas 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to create a user with dbox format. i get this error: dovecot: Jan 28 13:45:34 Error: IMAP(ebal2): Mail storage creation failed with mail_location: dbox:/var/mail/folders/testuser dovecot: Jan 28 13:45:34 Error: child 5336 (imap) returned error 89 my conf has this entry: mail_location: dbox:/var/mail/folders/%u dovecot 1.0.10 any ideas? - -- Evaggelos Balaskas - http://ebalaskas.gr Unix System Engineer Informatics Engineer Technological Education -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHncCfWIK+Pe9twhoRAsqJAKCD1Ctf0Tz+2uU5LpLsrmXyNQTg9gCeO/C3 6AzUw9JG3gMwq0cPwiUDmps= =Q/0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Plugin Trash
by Sebastien Andreatta 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello, I have a problem with the trash plugin. i'm not English, but if i ave understand this http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Trash , if a mailbox is full (90% for example) and i want to delete a mail, the plugin delete a mail in mailbox specified in a file ... I have this : dovecot.conf : protocol imap { [.....] mail_plugins = quota imap_quota trash } plugin { trash = /etc/dovecot-trash.conf } And in dovecot-trash.conf : # Spam mailbox is emptied before Trash 1 Spam # Trash mailbox is emptied before Sent 2 Trash # If both Sent and "Sent Messages" mailboxes exist, the next oldest message # to be deleted is looked up from both of the mailboxes. 3 Sent 3 Sent Messages I have 3 mail in a 20Mb mailbox : 2 in Mailbox (5.1mb both) 1 in Trash (6.2Mb) When i try to delete a mail from my mailbox i have a error and i only see this in maillog : Jan 28 15:49:37 soez dovecot: child 28398 (imap) killed with signal 11 Thanks for your help !! Number :-) _________________________________________________________________ Envoyez vos voeux de façon originale grâce aux nombreuses solutions de Windows Live ! http://get.live.com

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes
by Wouter Amsterdam 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

L.S. It is not clear to me why I should use namespaces or symlinks to share a single maildir mailbox with multiple users. Why not configure multiple mail clients with the same account information? TIA, Wouter

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[Dovecot] Howto set mail_location for system users over LDAP?
by Patrick Ben Koetter 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

In parallel to /etc/passwd I do have my system users in LDAP. I want to store their messages in /srv/mail/state-of-mind/<username>. Dovecot has been configured to retrieve the extra field mail to override the mail_location setting. I can see in the log it retrieves the correct information as long as I run Dovecot deliver as Postfix service 'dovecot' as shown in section "Virtual users" <http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix>. However if I use deliver as specified for "System users" it ignores the LDAP settings and delivers messages to my users $HOME directory as specified in /etc/passwd. Is this correct behaviour? What do I need to do to use the Postfix $mailbox_command _and_ have Dovecot deliver honor my LDAP settings? TIA, p@rick -- state of mind Agentur für Kommunikation, Design und Softwareentwicklung Patrick Koetter Tel: 089 45227227 Echinger Strasse 3 Fax: 089 45227226 85386 Eching Web: http://www.state-of-mind.de Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird Problem - What causes this?
by Marc Perkel 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Strange problem and I'm not sure what's causing it. I'm using IMAP. A new message arives in the inbox. I see it displayed in the message list in bold. I click on the message and it looks like it's reading it by the previous message that was in the window remains and the new message is still bold (unread). However I can then click on an old message and then click on the new message again and it reads. I have also seen Thunderbird be in a somewhat unresponsive state. You can click on messages and they don't read. But Shutting down Thunderbird and restarting it make it responsive again. Has anyone seen this?

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[Dovecot] proxy configuration
by bill-dovecot＠carpenter.ORG 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Before I spend some time experimenting with what might be impossible, maybe someone can just tell me (either "how" or that it's impossible). I'd like to get perdition out of my environment (mainly to have one less moving part in my architecture). I'm looking at dovecot's built-in proxying. In my setup, I don't have dedicated front-end machines. A user can connect to any server, but their mail files live on one particular machine. I'd like to transparently proxy them from whatever machine they happen to hit to their home machine. Except for the "proxy_maybe" feature advertised for dovecot 1.1, I don't see a surefire way to do this. Has anyone done it, or can anyone say for sure that it can't reasonably be done until "proxy_maybe"? Tx! -- bill-dovecot(a)carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird trouble with Dovecote and dbox
by Hannes Dorbath 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Hi, I'm new to Dovecot -- migrating from Cyrus. Version and config: # 1.1.beta14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols: imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: dbox:/data/mail/%u auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd Linux 2.6.22-gentoo-r10 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have chosen dbox as mailbox format as it is claimed to be the best performing -- and performance is the reason I'd like to migrate away form Cyrus. I'm aware that dbox might not be 100% mature, but I'm good at doing backups. Anyway, so far I have the following problems: - Greyed out Inbox After creating a new user and connecting to that account with Thunderbird the first time, the INBOX folder is greyed out and in italic. Restarting Thunderbird 3-4 times seems to fix the problem. Google suggests that other people have seen the same, but they never found a solution. - After creating sub folders they are not displayed, I need to manually subscribe to them after creation. - When "Trash" contains folders, Thunderbird is unable to "Empty Trash". While the folder is removed from Thunderbird's folder tree, it's there again after a restart of Thunderbird. - Deleted folders are never deleted from the file system. I'm not sure if this is intended with dbox. - Moving folders via drag & drop does not work, it just does nothing. So basically nothing besides reading existing mails seems to work reliable. My basic questions now is, are those problems related to dbox, or to Dovecot and Thunderbird in general? -- Best regards, Hannes Dorbath

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[Dovecot] User-specific mail_location using passwd database
by Maxime Brugidou 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

current version : 1.0.rc15 Hi, I would just like to know if it's possible to have different mail locations for different UNIX users, using pam authentication and the passwd userdb. We also have some virtual users using an SQL db. The current config is : auth default: username_translation: %@ verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf Then we can only modify mail locations for virtual users on the sql userdb. But how could we change it for real users ? Thanks for help, -- Maxime Brugidou

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA (deliver) stopped working
by falz 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hello, One day a week or so ago, a server that's Postifx w/ Local users, dovecot w/ LDA decided to stop working. The only thing that stopped is the LDA portion, the rest all works fine. I also posted to the postfix mailing list yesterday but wasn't able to debug any further. Here's the situation: if I use mailbox_command to point to deliver, postfix will always put the message in the deferred queue. However, if I run deliver from the command line, it works fine. I've recompiled Dovecot and Postfix cleanly and reinstalled a few times to ensure permissions are OK. It's not a virtual setup, so I do NOT have setuid root on the deliver binary. Postfix people suggested placing a wrapper script for mailbox_command, which I did, and have it log to a text file, so I do know that deliver is being called. However, although I have LDA debug logging on, and it DID log prior to this, when postfix supposedly calls deliver, dovecot does NOT log anything. It DOES however log if I call deliver from any account (root or not) from the command line (ls / | /path/to/deliver -d localaccountname). Any way I can debug this further? I would assume that deliver would log something even if it's called, but it appears that it does not. My postfix related details are here: http://marc.info/?l=postfix-users&m=120119147917409&w=2 I followed the postfix/lda wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix) when setting it up, and it worked perfectly for months. I did indeed only have to change mailbox_command and it worked (I'm also using sasl auth, but that should be unrelated). Obviously something happened on my system, but I would assume recompiling/reinstalling would reset things. Nothing in the config files for postfix or dovecot changed, from what I can see, as generally I am the only one making changes. Thanks, --falz

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[Dovecot] Count breaks socket
by Marc Perkel 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

If I use the socket option I can't use the count option to create more authentication processes. I get this error. Thanks in advance. dovecot: Jan 25 06:57:04 Error: auth(default): Socket already exists: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { # Master users that can log in as anyone args = /etc/dovecot.masterusers master = yes pass =yes } # Linuxconf passwd-like file with specified location passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/exim/control/vmail/shadow.%d } # Linuxconf passwd-like file with specified location userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/exim/control/vmail/passwd.%d } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0666 } client { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0666 } } # Number of authentication processes to create # count = 10 }

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