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[Dovecot] Virtual servers
by John Hedges 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hello I'm migrating from Courier to Dovecot (1.0.rc15) on Debian. I am trying to set up virtual servers based on the principal in this thread: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-October/017165.html which suggests something like this to support multiple certificates: server foo { listen = 1.2.3.4 ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/foo.cer } server bar { listen = 1.2.3.5 ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/bar.cer } My virtual configs look like this: server mail.domain1.org { listen = 1.2.3.4 protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/mail/hosts/domain1.org/ssl.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/mail/hosts/domain1.org/ssl.key auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/mail/hosts/domain1.org/userdb } userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/mail/hosts/domain1.org/userdb } } } server mail.domain2.org { listen = 1.2.3.5 protocols = imap imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/mail/hosts/domain2.org/ssl.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/mail/hosts/domain2.org/ssl.key auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/mail/hosts/domain2.org/userdb } userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/mail/hosts/domain2.org/userdb } } } but I can't get ithis to work. Dovecot starts but authorisation fails. Is this kind of setup possible - is it possible to configure different passwd-files for connections on different IPs, or am I going to have to run separate instances of Dovecot for each virtual host? Thanks John

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[Dovecot] Dovecot with iPhone
by Erik Dasque 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi, anyone using their Dovecot server with an iPhone ? While the iPhone is able to see the Inbox, I can't get it to see the other folder. I have tried ~/Maildir, /home/ed/Maildir and Maildir as the IMAP prefix but to no avail. Anything I am overlooking ? Erik

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[Dovecot] Index question
by Stewart Dean 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

The day I switch our user to dovecot and it goes into production, there will be a few thousand people all generating their indices for the first time (we have a legacy requirement for procmail, at least for now), so I wondered: 1) Is there is anyway to pre-emptively force indexing? 2) Is there any value in doing so? That is, will I gain much in terms of making the first time everyone connects to dovecot quicker (not that big initial wait)? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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Re: [Dovecot] Permission errors when creating/reading files in users' mail directories
by Bryan K. Wright 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

tss(a)iki.fi said: >> Jul 5 09:25:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): open() failed with mbox file >> /var/spool/mail/uid: Permission denied > Sounds like your userdb is returning wrong uid. Set mail_debug=yes to see what > Dovecot is really using. Excellent! After looking at the uids, I found that my test user had both an entry in our ldap database and the local /etc/passwd file. Removing the spurious /etc/passwd entry (and fixing the local file ownerships) gets rid of the permission problems. Thanks for your help. Bryan -- ======================================================================== Bryan Wright |"If you take cranberries and stew them like Physics Department | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes University of Virginia | than rhubarb does." -- Groucho Charlottesville, VA 22901| (434) 924-7218 | bryan(a)virginia.edu ========================================================================

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[Dovecot] Mark E-Mail as read
by Jens M. 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi all, is there a way to configure Dovecot, so that it marks my e-mails as read, when I recieve them with pop3, but leave them on the server? Regards, Jens

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[Dovecot] Permission errors when creating/reading files in users' mail directories
by Bryan Wright 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi folks, I'm trying to migrate an old uw-imap server to dovecot, and running into puzzling (to me) permission problems. I've configured mail_location as follows: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u and each user's mail directory has permissions like this: drwx------ 2 uid gid 4096 Jul 5 09:26 /home/uid/mail But when I try to check a user's mail using an imap client, I see the following error: Jul 5 09:59:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): mkdir_parents(/home/uid/mail/.imap/ INBOX) failed: Permission denied If I open up the permissions so anyone can write, I find that the .imap directory is successfully created, and owned by "uid". Is dovecot initially creating the directory with some other ownership, and then changing the ownership to "uid"? I can get around this problem by setting INDEX in mail_location, and pointing it to a directory with more open permissions, but then I run into the next problem: Jul 5 09:25:49 imap dovecot: IMAP(uid): open() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/uid: Permission denied In this case, the permissions are set as follows: -rw------- 1 bkw1a mail 1267 Jul 5 08:47 /var/spool/mail/uid How should the permissions be set on the spool files? Thanks in advance, Bryan -- ======================================================================== Bryan Wright |"If you take cranberries and stew them like Physics Department | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes University of Virginia | than rhubarb does." -- Groucho Charlottesville, VA 22901| (434) 924-7218 | bryan(a)virginia.edu ========================================================================

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf pop3_uidl_format
by Peter Eriksson 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

From the Dovecot 1.0.1 sample dovecot.conf file: # If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use: # UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu ... # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which was # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. # # NOTE: Nowadays this is required to be set explicitly, since the old # default was bad but it couldn't be changed without breaking existing # installations. %08Xu%08Xv will be the new default, so use it for new # installations. # pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv Notice the *very* small difference in the format between UW's ipop3d and the ones mentioned a little bit below? I think I just got bitten by this (we moved from UW's ipop3d to Dovecot). Loooots of users just got a lot of new (old) mail again ("Leave mail on server" is a popular setting). Ah well. They really should move to IMAP anyway and now they got some summer reading to do :-) Is the difference intentional? If so then perhaps this should be more clearly pointed out! - Peter

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[Dovecot] dotlock O_EXCL query
by derek kit hoong foo 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi there, I was wondering if someone can assist with clarifying why O_EXCL does not always work with NFS. Is it related to NFS protocol version support or export permissions mode out of the Celerra/Netapp ( e.g: mixed mode, unix file permissions ? ) Please advise. Thanks. Regards, new dovecot user.

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[Dovecot] MailMan option
by Sergey A. Kobzar 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi guys, Is it possible receive my own posts to the list? I have configured such option "Receive your own posts to the list? - Yes" on Mailman page but it still does not work. Any ideas? -- Sergey

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[Dovecot] problem with quota
by juan carlos 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

hi everyone I have dovecot 1.0.rc15-2, postfix 2.3.8 and virtual users and domains installed in debian sarge, the users quota are not working. I have applied the pacth VDA and didn't work, if a I sent a mail to another user which exceeds his quota this user can receive the mail without problem, this said to me that the quota doesn't work. I use maildir in mi configuration. Please help me with this problem.

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