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[Dovecot] Sync of read message status between squirrelmail and outlook express
by Mohd Ikhwan Abdullah 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi, We have a Linux email server running CentOS 4.4. I have a scenario here. The users here use a mixture of outlook express and squirrel mail as their email client. The users download their mail into outlook express via pop3 but the have configured outlook express to leave a copy on the server for 7 days. 1. After downloading the mail into outlook express the users would read the mail and the mail would be set as 'READ' in outlook express. 2. Is there a way to configure dovecot so that the 'READ' status in outlook express is reflected on the message still stored on the server as well. Cause when they access via squirrel mail the message is still mark as 'UNREAD'. Any suggestions is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] compiling dovecot on aix gcc 3.3.2
by funkypunky drunky 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

I try to compile the dovecot with gcc version 3.3.2 on aix. It seemed it was okay. It was working but when i try to use quota dynamic modules i get error. Edlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so) failed: Could not load module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so. System error: No such file or directory Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 When i check the /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so i see that it is a link which is pointing /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so . But there is no lib10_quota_plugin.so . I try compiling it on linux debian. I see that lib10_quota_plugin.so in it is proper place. I dont know what to do. Did i something wrong? I need help Best regards

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[Dovecot] LDA bouncing mails after upgrade
by Milan Holzäpfel 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hello, on my system, I have a copy of /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver located in /usr/libexec/dovecot/postfix-deliver/deliver (only accessible to postfix and with SUID root permissions). If I happen to forget to update this copy after an upgrade of dovecot, the deliver LDA bounces mails: | Mar 22 20:29:20 host.example.org deliver(user(a)example.org): Module is for different version 1.0.rc27: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so | Mar 22 20:29:20 host.example.org postfix/pipe[17344]: <ID>: to=<user(a)example.org>, relay=dovecot, delay=1.9, delays=1.5/0/0/0.35, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with status 89: "/usr/libexec/dovecot/postfix-deliver/deliver") Should I just set version_ignore=yes and remember myself to upgrade it, or could deliver return a code signaling "temporary failure", or should I rather make postfix interpret 89 as temporary failure? (don't know by heart whether that's possible). Regards, Milan -- Milan Holzaepfel <mail(a)mjh(d)name> <URL:http://mjh.name/> pub 4096R/C790FC23 EB8E 5E81 81E3 53A9 9B74 B895 5179 54C0 C790 FC23

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[Dovecot] Odd error message
by Steven F Siirila 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

We are running Dovecot 1.0-rc27 and have run across what seems to be a fatal error (SIGSEGV) in the past few days (4 times total in past 6 days). It appears to have been 5 separate users, 5 separate remote IP addresses. Two of these have this format: Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Don't send unrequested data: user=<rmtuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.9.9.9, lip=10.1.1.1, TLS The other three have this format: Mar 26 09:41:45 myhostname dovecot: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Don't send unrequested data: method=PLAIN, rip=10.9.9.9, lip=10.1.1.1, TLS Here's the first one a bit more expanded, showing the SIGSEGV (signal 11): Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=10.1.1.1 rip=10.9.9.9 Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: auth(default): pam(rmtuser,10.9.9.9): lookup service=IMAP Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=rmtuser Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 675645 3333 1 Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: auth(default): passwd(rmtuser,10.9.9.9): lookup Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 675645 rmtuser system_user=rmtuser uid=99999 gid=9999 home=/home/r/rmtuser Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Don't send unrequested data: user=<rmtuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.9.9.9, lip=10.1.1.1, TLS Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: user=<rmtuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.9.9.9, lip=10.1.1.1, TLS Mar 26 15:13:10 myhostname dovecot: child 3333 (login) killed with signal 11 What can I do to further diagnose this problem? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: sfs(a)umn.edu Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

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[Dovecot] imaps listen only at localhost
by Dirk Schleicher 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello list, I try to get dovecot listen only at localhost. I try listen localhost:993 and it did not work. The installation I made from http://holl.co.at/howto-email/ How it is possible that dovecot with imaps only work on localhost? Thanks for the help. Best regards Dirk

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[Dovecot] netapp/maildir/dovecot performance
by bofh list 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

We are seeing some poor performance recently that is focused around users with large mailboxes (100,000 message /INBOX, 80,000 message subfolders, etc). The performance problem manifests as very high system% utilization - basically iowait for NFS. There are two imap servers with plenty of horsepower/memory/etc. They are connected to a 3050c cluster via gig-e. Here are the mount options: rw,tcp,nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,nodev,soft,intr,noac,actimeo=0 I need to get this system% utilization brought down because it is starting to slowdown imap performance for other users (it goes up to 95% on a regular basis, with users that have folders with many messages). My thought is to try removing the noac option and bump up the actimeo value from 0 to 30. Unfortunately I don't have access to use a SLB to direct traffic to individual servers. My understanding is that the worst that can happen is index corruption (which will result in rebuilding them when it happens). Any thoughts? I'm running RC24.

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[Dovecot] authentication process fails when starting 2nd dovecot
by Cipriano Groenendal - TransIP 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello, With dovecot running already, (accidently) starting another dovecot seems to break the authentication process of the first dovecot. Login will be impossible untill dovecot is restarted. # dovecot Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use ## Wait several seconds. # telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 0: logout * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. 0: logout * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. -- Also, in the logfiles the following entries will appear: -- Mar 26 12:11:21 virt6 dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found Mar 26 12:11:21 virt6 dovecot: child 38054 (login) returned error 89 Mar 26 12:11:23 virt6 dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets found Mar 26 12:11:23 virt6 dovecot: child 38058 (login) returned error 89 -- Running dovecot-1.0.r22 on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, amd64 architecture. Standaard FreeBSD UFS fs. -- dovecot config -- # /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/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 namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: #mbox/ location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox: yes hidden: yes namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/Maildir auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd ------ Met vriendelijke groet, Cipriano Groenendal -- Transip BV | http://www.transip.nl/ Hoogwaardige Innovatie | Aangename Zekerheid

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[Dovecot] Unwanted INBOX. prefix issues
by Kevin Bowling 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

I have a strange problem. I installed Dovecot and had my trash folder and such in the root of my maildir, and everything was working great. I then installed SquirrelMail which created folders in with the INBOX. prefix. I manually removed these from the maildir, but the INBOX.Trash is still shown in the folder listing of Thunderbird. This leads to some strange behavior, such as the delete button not working. Is there a way I can reset the folder list, and take the INBOX.* items out? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Kevin

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[Dovecot] Rpm builders: Dovecot spec file
by Egbert Jan 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Maybe best asked to Axel... I'm re-building my server from scratch (the old one was MDK 10.1 -> Mandriva 2006.0 with Postfix/Courier) and I want to install the latest versions postfix/mysql/postfixadmin/dovecot/squirrelmail. I've been building Dovecot (and postfix) from tarballs/srpm in the past so I know more or less how it all fits together. But I wonder if 'old' patches still need to be included/applied in the building of the latest rc's. I still see references to those patches in the spec file. Unfortunately the latest 'official' rpm for Mandriva (I'm running 2007.0) is rc7 and I never succeeded getting in contact with the Mandriva maintainer to ask the same question. In the Axel's AT rpm I still see some patches included but others than in the Mandriva rc7 spec file. Are those patches not already applied to the latest sources by Timo? Tnx Egbert Jan NL

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[Dovecot] assertion failure with nopassword
by Johannes Berg 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hm, so my mailing list archive is up, but when I add nopassword to the list of settings in my passdb passwd-file I get: file auth-request.c: line 924 (auth_request_set_field): assertion failed: (request->passdb_password == NULL) Raw backtrace: dovecot-auth [0x806be11] -> dovecot-auth [0x806bd8c] -> dovecot-auth(auth_request_set_field+0x277) [0x80547d7] -> dovecot-auth [0x8060418] -> dovecot-auth [0x8060509] -> dovecot-auth(auth_request_verify_plain+0xb3) [0x80559b3] -> dovecot-auth [0x8055ac2] -> dovecot-auth(auth_request_verify_plain_callback+0x30) [0x8055b50] -> dovecot-auth [0x8060dbe] -> dovecot-auth(io_loop_handler_run+0x152) [0x806f1c2] -> dovecot-auth(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x806e508] -> dovecot-auth(main+0x2fb) [0x805aaab] -> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7a3fea8] -> dovecot-auth [0x8050ff1] This is with rc27. I don't seem to be able to get the passdb_password to NULL with passwd-file. johannes

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