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[Dovecot] rc15 'configure' fails at "unexpected token `SSL,'"
by snowcrash+dovecot 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

i'm building dovecot-1.0.rc15 on osx. when i, ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl_certs --disable-static --enable-shared --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-ipv6 --with-mysql --with-sql-drivers=mysql --with-deliver --with-pop3d --with-storages=maildir,mbox --disable-debug it fails at, ... checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool ./configure: line 20184: AM_ICONV: command not found checking for strings.h... (cached) yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes ... checking whether va_lists can be copied by value... yes ./configure: line 26434: syntax error near unexpected token `SSL,' ./configure: line 26434: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SSL, openssl)' i've checked the cvs co of the 1.0-branch, and the same problem exists. any help? thanks.

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[Dovecot] quota question
by Kenny Dail 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

I'm afraid I'm being a little confused by the whole quota setup with dovecot. I see references to quotas about, but I'm not certain how many of them apply to 1.0rc15. I currently have the conf setup as indicated on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota So, in my setup, I'm using Postfix, Maildrop and Dovecot. Mailstore is on NFS. Dovecot is handling the pop3 and imap connects. There seems to be some trouble in the quotas because Courier counts quota one way and Dovecot in a different way. Quotas are stored on a per user basis in the MySQL DB. The trouble I'm getting is that very frequently the quota being reported is quite different from reality. This leads to erroneous over quota delivery errors. So what is necessary to make sure the quotas work as they are supposed to in my environment? Once again thank you very much for your help. -- Kenny Dail <kend(a)amigo.net>

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[Dovecot] Quota's KB or MB
by Richard Mayhew - Nashua Mobile Broadband Division 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Hi, Did dovecot ever implement quota's in MB's or has it always used quota's in KB's? I have RC15 using quota's in KB and beta8 somehow using quota's in MB's. Am I going mad? Regards Richard

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird and Quota
by Richard Mayhew - Nashua Mobile Broadband Division 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Ok, I found my problem, I run a backend IMAP/POP3 Server (DoveCot) with a front end IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server (DoveCot). I found that the proxy server was not advertising the fact that it supported QUOTA's. Once I enabled mail_plugins with quota support for the 2 protocols it all worked. Is this correct for a proxy server config. I have included my config below for comments? ################################## base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = no shutdown_clients = yes syslog_facility = mail ssl_disable = yes login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 5 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_connections = 256 login_greeting = POP3/IMAP Server Ready. protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota } auth_cache_size = 16384 auth_cache_ttl = 1800 auth_verbose = no auth_debug = no auth_debug_passwords = no verbose_proctitle = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } userdb static { args = static uid=1000 gid=1000 home=/dev/null } user = root count = 1 } plugin { quota = maildir }

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[Dovecot] checking during authentification if imap or pop3 connection
by wiki kaha 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Hello. I'd like to know if there is a way to differ between imap and pop3 during mysql-auth. I would need the possibility to allow some users imap and only allow pop3 to the rest. I think there could be a flag that'll be substituted in my auth query. Thanks for infos. Regards. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] maildir quotas, dovecot-lda
by Dean Manners 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Hey guys, Running rc15, I have maildir quotas working with deliver - however I seem to be unable to get the maildir quota ignore option to work. Am trying to ignore a user wide directory "Maildir/Filtered/", where detected virii/spam gets sorted to. Does deliver take notice of the maildir ignore option ? Applicable line from dovecot-sql.conf: user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/mailstore/',Domain,'/',Partition,'/',Email,'/') AS home, CONCAT('maildir:/var/mailstore/',Domain,'/',Partition,'/',Email,'/') AS mail, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=10240:ignore=Filtered') AS quota FROM Mailbox WHERE Email = '%u' AND Status = '1' As a side note is there a configurable variable/template to set the "Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent" messages. Or is customization only possible by modifying the source ? Regards __________________________________________ Dean Manners

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[Dovecot] Invalid password encoding
by Kenny Dail 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

ok so now I've got Dovecot 1.0rc15 started on the test server. however it seems that the auth-workers don't like their job: auth-worker(default): plain_md5_verify((null)): Invalid password encoding What do I need to do to make their life easier? Current dovecot.conf: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth = no login_greeting = amigo.net ready. mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no } mail_extra_groups = mail mmap_disable = yes lock_method = dotlock first_valid_uid = 465 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail/virtual maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota trash login_greeting_capability = yes imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)amigo.net } auth_default_realm = amigo.net auth_username_translation = %@ auth_username_format = %Ln@%d auth_worker_max_count = 60 auth default { mechanisms = plain login apop digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } user = vmail count = 1 socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = postfix group = mail } client { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0660 } } } plugin { quota = maildir trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf } -- Kenny Dail <kend(a)amigo.net>

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[Dovecot] maildirsize update error
by Maykel Moya 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

According to [1], Trash is a reserverd folder name. When moving a message to it, maildirsize should be update with a negative byte count. If I move a message from any folder to Trash, maildirsize gets two lines, one positive and one negative. The problem is that a user can't move messages to Trash while being overquota because the positive entry goes before the negative. I'm using dovecot-1.0rc14. Regards maykel [1] http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html

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[Dovecot] convert_mail ?
by Andrew Z 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

I can't find much documentation on the convert_mail plugin. For example, on the wiki plugins page, clicking on convert goes to <http://wiki.dovecot.org/InterWiki> which is not relevant. Can I use convert_mail to migrate from UW IMAP 2002 mbox format where some mail is in ~/ and the inboxes are in /var/spool/mail? Will it know which files are mbox folders, so it doesn't try to convert other files in the home directories? When are the e-mails converted? Are the old files deleted? Is this configuration snippet valid? default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir convert_mail = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u If I can do that, it seems like an easy change. Andrew

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[Dovecot] Performance Tuning Recommendations for Dovecot
by Jack Stewart 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has some performance tuning recommendations for Dovecot. We are currently building a series of department e-mail/imap servers and we will be replacing our central core in the coming summer. The department servers are relatively small 100-200 users and the central server is modest - around 7000 accounts. They will be using local filesystem or SAN for the backend storage. So far, enabling hard links seems to be a big win. I'm curious if there are others out there that people have found useful. I am considering putting the indexes on memory disks but I haven't scoped out the requirements for the central system yet (i.e. it is unclear to me how large the index will be for approximately 13 million messages take take up roughly 800GB of disk space. Any pointers are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, ---Jack Stewart

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