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[Dovecot] Stale imap processes
by Fran Fabrizio 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Anyone have any theories or experiences as to why for a certain user, some of his imap processes hang, and stay around for days and days? He just reported that his Thunderbird was timing out when trying to open folders, I looked on the server, and he had 3 old imap processes from 1 week+ ago. I killed those and his performance immediately improved. He checks mail with Thunderbird > 1.5 from both Win and Linux, Squirrelmail webmail, and pine. Of those, pine is the only one that is somewhat rare around here - any specific problems with pine's imap client code that anyone knows about? We have been using the dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7 rpm for Fedora Core 5, I'm updating to 1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5 to see if that helps, as well. Just curious if anyone else has seen this lately. Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

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[Dovecot] RC5 Outlook POP3 problem
by DNSExit Com 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

We have been using dovecot v1.0 alpha3 for almost 1 year for our mail hosting. It was running great until more accounts added to the hosting. I have been trying to upgrade it to v1.0 rc5 and we have found that the RC5 has problem with Outlook (Express) with POP accounts. We are getting error with POP3 on Outlook Express: Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'box5.dnsexit.com', Server: 'box5.dnsexit.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F Do you know if this is a bug or it is our configuration problem? I tried it on Thunderbird and it works great. Both Outlook and Outlook express fail. Are there anyone getting the same problem?

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[Dovecot] using procmail or some VDA with dovecot
by albi 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

i'm running postfix+dovecot+mysql on FreeBSD 6.1, which has dovecot-1.0.b7_1 i'd like to be able for each user to deliver all spam-tagged email (by spamassassin) in a separate mailfolder i've done some "googling" but find it hard to find a solution for this has anyone a working setup with the above ? can dovecot do this or should i find a solution via postfix ? in the past i've used procmail (in a setup without mysql), but i've just read that procmail is not meant to be used with virtual users any hints ? thanks in advance! -- grtjs, albi

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[Dovecot] Cyrus + ldap
by Gert Horne 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi I have a brand new problem now. I have ldap and dovecot working... but my users cant log in. Maillog: server dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<name>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1 dovecot.conf: protocols = imap #imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no login_user = dovecot first_valid_uid = 101 last_valid_uid = 101 first_valid_gid = 101 last_valid_gid = 101 valid_chroot_dirs = /home/vmail/domains default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vmail/domains/%d/%n auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth protocol imap { login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_greeting_capability = yes } auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_process_size = 256 auth_cache_ttl = 3600 auth default { mechanisms = plain user = dovecot-auth ssl_require_client_cert = no userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } } dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = localhost dn = cn=dovecot,dc=,dc=,dc= dnpass = Unl0ckM3 auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 2 base = o=hosting,dc=,dc=,dc= deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mail,homeDirectory,,,, user_filter = (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=% u)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) pass_attrs = mail,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=% u)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) default_pass_scheme = MD5 user_global_uid = 101 user_global_gid = 101 Can you assist me with this please

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[Dovecot] Dovecot IMAP and Mac OS X Mail.app
by Ronny Adsetts 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi All, I recently switched our Courier IMAP server over to Dovecot primarily for performance reasons. Server OS is Debian Sarge with Dovecot packages from backports.org (v 1.0.rc2-1bpo1). Access from Thunderbird and Horde worked fine with some shared folders defined and the Courier compatibility private folder stanza. Initial testing with Mail.app showed that, although the folder listing was fetched correctly including all shared folders, no mail could be viewed with Mail.app timing out with an error about invalid namespace. (I'll post the exact error message as a follow up when I can test again later). After searching the mailing list for a while, I came upon a message suggesting adding a second private namespace like so: namespace private { separator = . prefix = "INBOX." inbox = yes hidden = no } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } Now, this does work in a fashion and allows Mail.app to access the folders and mail. Problem with this config: * Mail.app displays all INBOX. folders at the top level *and* below Inbox * Thunderbird displays a spurious INBOX folder in the folder listing under Inbox. * Horde displays folders at the top level and below Inbox. Whilst not being a huge problem for our internal mail server, this is not optimal. Has anyone else had these or similar problems and managed to work them out? If so, how did you configure Dovecot or the clients to all play nicely together? I'd quite like to roll Dovecot out on our client mail server but I need to work this out first so any help is appreciated. Thanks. Ronny -- Ronny Adsetts Technical Director Amazing Internet Ltd, London t: +44 20 8607 9535 f: +44 20 8607 9536 w: www.amazinginternet.com

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[Dovecot] IMAP(aweaver): quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /dev/sda1) failed: Invalid argument
by Drew Weaver 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Anyone have a solution for this, it appears in the log every time a user accesses their E-Mail via IMAP it obviously relates to filesystem quotas. I'm running: Linux version 2.6.9-34.ELsmp dovecot-1.0.rc2 Disk quotas for user aweaver (uid 1880): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/sda1 72172 512000 640000 7167 0 0 Relevant config(/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf): mail_plugins = quota imap_quota quota = fs any advice would be lovely. Thanks, -Drew

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[Dovecot] Deleted email does not appear in the Trash folder
by Brent Clark 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi all I seem to have this problem whereby if I delete an email, then the deleted email does not appear in the Trash folder. I tried setting dovecot mail_debug = yes, but I find in syslog, mail.log etc that there is very limited information. If anyone could assit, I would be most greatful. Kind Regards Brent Clark P.s. I use Thunderbird as the mail client

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[Dovecot] Can't change permissions for /var/spool/postfix/dovecot.index.log
by James Brown 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

For some reason i can't change the permissions on /var/spool/postfix/ dovecot.index.log from postfix to dovecot, or anything else. I changed all the files in /var/spool/postfix to be owner postfix so that postfix wouldn't complain about insufficient priviledges. I'm running MacOS X 10.4.7. I can change it all I want, but the owner and group changes do not 'stick' - they simply stay at postfix. Does anyone have any ideas? Can I have the index and index.log files elsewhere? Thanks, James.

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env %d problem
by Den Zinevitch 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi all. I`ve got such problem: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/domain.net.ua/%n - it works. But when I say: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%d/%n - it not. Log: Aug 3 22:51:19 serv dovecot: POP3(user): mbox: data=/home/user/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail//user Aug 3 22:51:19 serv dovecot: POP3(user): mbox: root=/home/user/mail, index=/home/user/mail, inbox=/var/mail//user Aug 3 22:51:19 serv dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=xx.xx.xx.x, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Aug 3 22:51:19 serv dovecot: POP3(user): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0

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[Dovecot] alternate rawlog directory
by Thomas Hummel 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hello, In rc2 sources, the rawlog directory seem to be hard-coded to be looked for in $HOME. I'd like to have a way to centralized the place where rawlog files are, in order to be able : . to rotate them more easily . not to leave them at the user's reach . not to have to enter the user's directory to read them I'd like to have a layout similar to this : /var/log/dovecot.rawlog/ /user1/20060708-093811-45581.in /user1/20060708-093811-45581.ou /user1/... /user2/20060708-093811-45590.in /user2/20060708-093811-45590.out What do you think about that idea ? Is there already a patch to do that, should I change rawlog.c or is ther already a regular way do do that ? Thanks -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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