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[Dovecot] permissions problem reading INBOX
by K. Clair 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hello, I'm sorry if I'm asking something that is documented - I could swear I saw something about this (dovecot changing to the uid of the entry in the userdb when accessing the mailbox), but now I cannot find it anywhere in the wiki! Dovecot seems to be getting the right uid for the mailbox, but then it is having permissions problems. The error is: Feb 27 17:31:08 rm-002-02 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=65.23.159.123 rip=65.23.128.14 resp= <hidden> Feb 27 17:31:08 rm-002-02 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=kclair Feb 27 17:31:08 rm-002-02 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 17052 1 Feb 27 17:31:08 rm-002-02 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 kclair system_user=kclair uid=12346 gid=12346 home=/home/kclair Feb 27 17:31:08 rm-002-02 dovecot: POP3(kclair): open(/var/spool/mail/kclair, O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied Feb 27 17:31:08 rm-002-02 dovecot: POP3(kclair): stat() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/kclair: Permission denied The mbox file permissions are: -rw-rw---- 1 kclair mail 489 Feb 27 16:40 /var/spool/mail/kclair The /etc/passwd file entry is: kclair:x:12346:12346::/home/kclair:/bin/bash I am trying to use the following passdb combination: passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot deny: no pass: no master: no passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/passwd.dovecot deny: no pass: no master: no and userdb combination: userdb: driver: passwd args: userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/passwd.dovecot Am I missing something obvious? Thanks, Kristina

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[Dovecot] Lower case flag characters ??
by Raymond Lillard 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

I know the purpose of the "standard" Maildir flags "FSRT, ..." but some of the files have lower case flag characters as well. What is the meaning of these lower case flags? Google and the Dovecot-Wiki have failed me. Can some kind soul point me to a document, Please. Ray

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[Dovecot] Fwd: RE: pid stamp on log entries?
by bhayden＠umn.edu 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

On Feb 26 2007, Bill Boebel wrote: >On Mon, February 26, 2007 2:40 pm, bhayden(a)umn.edu said: > >> Hi folks. Is there a way to modify the log stamp to include pid as well >> as time? > >Take a look at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables > >%p = pid > >I use: mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u)(%p): " > >Syslog adds the timestamp though. Thanks for that. A more specific question: is there a way to have imap/pop-login processes log the PID of the child imap/pop process? This would be for the purpose of connecting a specific authentication with its own session activity in the case of multiple logins by a single user. -Brian

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[Dovecot] relay-ctrl works
by Amitai Schlair 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

In case anyone still cares, relay-ctrl works with Dovecot. Dovecot's end of the bargain requires a dirty little script to set TCPREMOTEIP based on the arguments passed from imap-login: #!/bin/sh TCPREMOTEIP=`echo "$@" | sed -e 's|.* ||' -e 's|]$||'` export TCPREMOTEIP exec "$@" And this (long) line in dovecot.conf: mail_executable: envdir /etc/relay-ctrl /usr/local/bin/relay-ctrl- chdir /usr/local/bin/dovecot-settcpremoteip /usr/local/bin/relay-ctrl- allow /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap For the SMTP end of the bargain, relay-ctrl has docs for qmail-smtpd and mailfront.

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[Dovecot] stability?
by K. Clair 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi, I'm having trouble figuring this out from any of the documentation or website pages: is dovecot v1.0 considered to be stable, or is it still testing/beta? If the latter, is there any timeline for a "stable" release? Thanks, Kristina

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[Dovecot] how to configure quota in horde
by juan carlos 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

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[Dovecot] Migrating to dovecot: non-empty mboxes
by Alexander Shikoff 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hello, I migrate from cucipop to dovecot. Thus I move users' mailboxes (mbox format) to another location. Some POP3 client (for example Outlook or TheBat!) use flag 'Do not delete messages from server'. After the user's mailbox have been moved to a new location all old messages is retrieved again and user get duplicates. Is there a way to avoid such issue? Thanks a lot! -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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[Dovecot] rc23 Problem - Assertion Failed
by chandler.lists＠chapman.edu 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Feb 27 14:17:46 wurfel dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<USER>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Feb 27 14:17:46 wurfel dovecot: IMAP(USER): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 387 (mbox_sync_update_header): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.uid != 0 || ctx->pseudo) This is happening for dozens of users. Anyone have a suggestion of what to adjust? It was happening somewhat less frequently in RC22, and I believe the line number was in the 4hundreds there...

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Re: [Dovecot] rc23 Problem - Assertion Failed
by chandler.lists＠chapman.edu 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

I don't think this was touched from 23 to 24... Also, 24 hasn't hit the FreeBSD ports tree yet, so I'm not certain what would break if I built it manually... --J > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:19:45 -0800 (PST) > chandler.lists(a)chapman.edu wrote: > >> Anyone have a suggestion of what >> to adjust? > > rc24? > > -- > > Brian Morrison > > bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk > > "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in the mud; > after a while you realize you are muddy and the pig is enjoying it." > > GnuPG key ID DE32E5C5 - http://wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html >

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth (1.0rc24) on Solaris seems broken.
by Stephen Usher 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

I've trying to get dovecot-auth to talk to exim and have been running debugging on both sides. I've added the line: i_info("auth_client_input: client disconnected: %s", strerror(errno)); just after the "case -1" in the first switch statement in: auth-client-connection.c: auth_client_input() and get this in the logs: dovecot: Feb 27 13:35:09 Info: auth(default): auth_client_input: client disconnected: Illegal seek Now, on the exim end if I don't have the i_info() call in the routine the call to fgets() which exim is using never returns. If I put the i_info() call in there it does and gives an error, e.g. 2007-02-27 13:35:09 dovecot_plain authenticator failed for vanguard.earth.ox.ac.uk [163.1.22.82]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket protocol error Now, the istreams code in dovecot seems rather too obscure for me to debug any further. According to the read(2) man page under Solaris 10, the only version of read which can possibly return ESPIPE is pread(). Any ideas what's going on? Steve -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Systems Administrator, E-Mail:-steve@earth.ox.ac.uk Department of Earth Sciences, Tel:- +44 (0)1865 282110 University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, UK. Fax:- +44 (0)1865 272072

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