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[Dovecot] Weirdness and Questions...
by James 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

version 1.0.7 OK, so here is my weirdness. I sent mail to the server from the command line. mail username@localhost < /etc/passwd When I open /var/spool/mail/username I can see 2 messages. The "system" message at the top and the the message produced from my command line email. If I HUP the process that runs xinet.d and re-open the users mail spool the 2nd email disappears which I wouldn't expect. Has anyone seen this before. My SMTP server could be EXIM or Sendmail. My co- admin is in the process from switching over from to EXIM. I am not sure if the SMTP server has anything to do with it or not. I can see the contents of all the email in ~/mail which is rsynced from my old server so that seems to be working properly. I have mail_locatiion in my config file, do I need anything else? mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u In my list of mailboxes that are in ~/mail I see 2 folders that I'd rather not see. There .customeflags and .INBOX Anyway to hide these, as they are not needed in my opinion. Thanks, James

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[Dovecot] Problems reading mbox mail boxes.
by James 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

I just installed dovecot 1.0.7 Set up the pem files for SSL, set up the xinet.d/imaps files and it logs into the server gets a list of all the mbox files in the ~/mail directory and creates representations of them in Apple mail. The problem I am having is when I click on one any of them I see no content. Execpt one. For some reason one of them shows the 2 emails that are inside of it. I am very confused by it. Help? James

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[Dovecot] deliver and append brocken in hg head ("tip"?)
by Jakob Hirsch 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi, > Nov 22 18:48:15 seba deliver(jh): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 844 (maildir_uidlist_set_ext): assertion failed: (rec != NULL) > Nov 22 18:48:15 seba deliver(jh): Raw backtrace: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(i_syslog_fatal_handler+0x2b) [0x80be37b] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x80be18c] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x8066e56] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x8069f00] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x806a041] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(maildir_save_finish+0xec) [0x806a77c] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(mail_storage_copy+0xfa) [0x80ad59a] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(maildir_copy+0x52) [0x8067f42] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(deliver_save+0xcf) [0x805945f] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(main+0x12e5) [0x805a955] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x948f70] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x8058771]

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot loading during boot
by Karsten Bräckelmann 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

[ adding the list back to Cc ] On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 14:28 +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote: > On 2007-11-22 13:31:59 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > And impossible for SuSE out-of-the-box, given their > > braindead [1] init scripts. > > what is so braindead about it? See these posts, the second one in particular. Also, my original Shorewall rules and documentation might be interesting. http://www.mail-archive.com/shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03986.… http://www.mail-archive.com/shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03985.… Please note that the initial reason for the above pinning down NFS ports is firewall-friendly behavior and sane rules. With NFS, most involved services use random ports by default, particularly statd, lockd, mountd, rquotad. Which leads to somewhat unsatisfying rules as shown in [1]. The init script shipped by SuSE offers no way whatsoever to pass rpc.statd options, even though it does for rpc.mountd -- and thus no way to pin down the port out-of-the-box short of hacking the init script. Marcus, please feel free to keep me posted on this issue and a fix. I'll happily forward updates to the Shorewall lists. guenther [1] http://shorewall.net/ports.htm#NFS -- char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}

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[Dovecot] Broken system.
by Marcelo Iturbe 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hello, I had an Inbox with 975,604 emails on ext3 filesystem. I keept getting dropped on the comand "copy 1:2000 inbox2", the syslog gave me an error message indicating "out of memory" problems. This despite the fact that the server has 800MB of ram free. Anyways, I asked if I could manuanlly move the files at the filesystem level or if that would mess up dovecot (break the GUIDs etc). I was informed that dovecot does not use GUIDs and that I could go ahead and move the emails at the shell level. So I did that, now the /cur folder only has 40,000 emails, but when I connect to the account via telnet, I still get the following: telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 110 login somelameuser somelamepass 110 OK Logged in. 111 select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 975604 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1188426666] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 979500] Predicted next UID 111 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. So even though there are only 40,000 emails in /cur, dovecot still thinks that there are 9756304 emails. How can I fix this? Thanks Marcelo

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[Dovecot] dovecot loading during boot
by Robert W Nocella 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I have two RHEL4 email servers running postfix/MailScanner which use dovecot. They work great. But during bootup the nfslock script in my init.d loads rpc.statd and calls portmap to get a port number. Portmap keeps giving rpc.statd the imaps port number (993). I then have to stop my mail server services, manually start dovecot, then restart the mail server services and everything goes merrily on its way. Stopping the mail server services drops rpc.statd from using port 993(according to netstat -tlnp). This allows dovecot to take it by default. How to I reserve imap and imaps ports exclusively for use by dovecot. The imap and imaps ports are listed in /etc/services. Thanks for any insight. -- Robert W Nocella Systems Analyst III Computer Support Group Manager UNM ECE Department UNM SOE IT Agent

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[Dovecot] Getting two mails.....
by Bjørn T Johansen 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

When I receive a mail that is addressed to my email address and also with a cc to a mailinglist I subscribe to, I get two mails, which I guess is expected... But I have just moved to Dovecot from Cyrus, and Cyrus seems to know that this is the same mail, so only one of those two mail is stored on the imap srv... Is there some option I am missing in Dovecot or isn't this possible using Dovecot? Regards, BTJ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bjørn T Johansen btj(a)havleik.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone wrote: "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages" To which someone replied: "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Creating "special" folders?
by Bjørn T Johansen 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Is there anyway to make dovecot create Sent, Draft, etc folder automatically? Or is this the job for a MUA? Regards, BTJ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bjørn T Johansen btj(a)havleik.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone wrote: "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages" To which someone replied: "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] pop3_lock_session and NFS
by salimlist＠sdv.fr 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hello, I need an advice about POP3 and NFS with Dovecot 1.0 (as 1.1 is still tagged beta) . I currently have all messages and indexes under a NFS partition . I thus turned cache off using actimeo=0 . Of course, my current architecture does not allow me to keep the same user on the same dovecot server. Now, I have some NFS issues with high percentages of getattr() . If I understood well, the cache must be disabled, because of the case of 2 differents computers could log on the same time and mess up the index file . If I use the directive pop3_lock_session and enable it, that should block conccurent pop3 access using a lock file . Can I consider it safe enough to turn on the NFS cache (ie removing actimeo=0) ? Thanks in advance Salim Ps: For you info, we use dovecot here for a big cable broadband ISP, with 2,000,000 mailboxes using 30 dovecot POP3 servers,10 dovecot proxy servers and we are really happy with your nice software, we expect a lot from 1.1 .

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[Dovecot] virtual user login
by Paul A 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi, I have server with multiple virtual domains and this server also accepts mail for the local domain. I'm using postfix and have the following setup for a virtual sales(a)domain.com mapped to custsales@localhost I was wondering if there is a way to login with the virtual email address, for example sales(a)domain.com? I would also like to still be able to login with the local user as well. TIA, P

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