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[Dovecot] SASL bind for LDAP
by Geert Jansen 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hi, would it be possible to add support for SASL binds to dovecot's LDAP userdb/passdb? This would be a nice feature as it would allow the use of SASL EXTERNAL binds to a local LDAP server, thereby removing the need for storing clear-text passwords in configuration files. Regards, Geert

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[Dovecot] Freebsd 6.1 dovecot beta7: nss_dns.so1 not found
by pitun 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hello, FreeBSD 6.1 RELACE dovecot beta7 when enable: mail_plugins = quota imap_quota i've got: May 13 07:37:13 ranos dovecot: IMAP(pitun): module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_quota_plugin.so: dlsym(quota_plugin_init) failed: Shared object "nss_dns.so.1" not found, required by "imap" May 13 07:37:13 ranos dovecot: child 9942 (imap) returned error 89 any help? -- PJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poznaj Stefana! Zmien komunikator! >>> http://link.interia.pl/f1924

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[Dovecot] LDA Sieve feature request
by Luca Corti 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hello, In http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA I read # If there is no user-specific Sieve-script, global Sieve script is # executed if set. #global_script_path = so you can set global_script_path and override it using a per user script. It would be nice if the per user scripts could be optionally run after (or before maybe?) the global script. Another nice thing would be per-virtualdomain sieve scripts, but I think this is much more difficult. What do you think? -- Luca Corti PGP Key ID 1F38C091 BOFH excuse of the moment: The Borg tried to assimilate your system. Resistance is futile.

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[Dovecot] pam_authenticate() failed:
by Sutton, Geoff 12 May '06

12 May '06

I'm having the same problem.... Did anyone find a solution? -- Geoff

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta8 released
by Timo Sirainen 12 May '06

12 May '06

Next release will probably be called 1.0.rc1. People just don't seem to like the beta name in the version number. :) Also I think we're nearing the final v1.0. * Fixed a security hole with mbox: "1 LIST .. *" command could list all directories and files under the mbox root directory, so if your mails were stored in eg. /var/mail/%u/ directory, the command would list everything under /var/mail. + Unless nfs_check=no or mmap_disable=yes, check for the first login if the user's index directory exists in NFS mount. If so, refuse to run. This is done only on first login to avoid constant extra overhead. + If we have plugins set and imap_capability unset, figure out the IMAP capabilities automatically by running imap binary at startup. The generated capability list isn't updated until Dovecot is restarted completely, so if you add or remove IMAP plugins you should restart. If you have problems related to this, set imap_capabilities setting manually to work around it. + Added auth_username_format setting - pop3_lock_session setting wasn't really working - Lots of fixes related to quota handling. It's still not working perfectly though. - Lots of index handling fixes, especially with mmap_disable=yes - Maildir: saving mails could have sometimes caused "Append with UID n, but next_uid = m" errors - flock() locking never timeouted because ignoring SIGALRM caused the system call just to be restarted when SIGALRM occurred (probably not with all OSes though?) - kqueue: Fixed "Unrecognized event". Patch by Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
by Obantec Support 12 May '06

12 May '06

Hi stable 1.0 on FC3 , first time i have seen this. May 11 19:40:00 proteus2 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files May 11 19:40:05 proteus2 last message repeated 41406 times had to stop and re-start dovecot to free the error. Any ideas what caused it? Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

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[Dovecot] userdb prefetch not working with dovecot LDA?
by Luca Corti 12 May '06

12 May '06

Hello, I've configured MySQL authentication as follows. -- divecot-sql.conf -- driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=myuser password=mypass default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/vmail/', maildir, 'Maildir') AS home, '1234' AS uid, '1234' AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' -- dovecot.conf -- passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } And both access (IMAP) and delivery (LDA) work correctly. Now I want to setup prefetching to reduce SQL queries, so I did -- dovecot-sql.conf -- driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=myuser password=mypass default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password, CONCAT('/var/vmail/', maildir, 'Maildir') AS userdb_home, '1234' AS userdb_uid, '1234' AS userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' -- dovecot.conf -- passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } Dovecot mail access (IMAP) works correctly, but when the LDA tries to deliver mail I get: May 11 16:25:00 ns1 dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(luca(a)example.com): passdb didn't return userdb entries May 11 16:25:00 ns1 postfix/pipe[11040]: 21E31847BC: to=<luca(a)example.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=bounced (user unknown) thanks -- Luca Corti PGP Key ID 1F38C091 BOFH excuse of the moment: user to computer ration too low.

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda and sieve filtering (SMTP is Postfix)
by Der Olli 12 May '06

12 May '06

Hello list. I've got a working Dovecot with Postfix and MySQL-support but everything from the capabilities of sieve isn't working except one thing: Sorting emails to folders works fine. But no vacation, no reject, no redirect. I don't get any errors in the logs. Verbose logging is enabled. I compiled both from newest cvs-sources but also tried older combinations (nightly snapshots). Always the same result and there's no .dovecot.sieve.err so script is okay. If it is not, .dovecot.sieve.err will be generated. I've tested this :) Anyone here who has a working sieve implementation with dovecot-lda? Where do I have to search? Is it a configuration problem? Where can I configure which sending mechanism dovecot-lda should use? Is it a local sendmail binary? Where does dovecot-lda search for it. Is it a SMTP-server? So there's one on port 25 at the local machine. Greetz, Olli

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[Dovecot] comment on dovecot documentation on PAM
by president＠irithm.com 12 May '06

12 May '06

Dear Dovecote devotees, I have been going through dovecot configuration for the first time. I am not an experienced systems administrator so I had to do a left turn to read up about PAM while doing all the configuration for my new webmail service. I found that the writing in the dovecot documentation about PAM to be rather misleading in at least one aspect. The documentation I am specifically referring to is at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication?highlight=%28authentication%29 and in the comments found in the dovecot.conf file. In this documentation PAM is referred to as a password database. It appears that is not correct, rather PAM is something that uses a password database. Since the default for "auth_passdb" given in dovecot.conf was "pam" I spent sometime trying to find a pam password database. I eventually found out at an independent website that what pam uses is either /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow or /etc/samba/smbpasswd. It was a relief to find out pam uses one of these, since my system has one of them (/etc/shadow), but I was looking to find something quite different for pam since /etc/shadow is one of the listed alternative values for "auth_passdb". I would have been spared a somewhat lengthy search to find out this information if the documentation was written rather more clearly. So, to help others, I suggest changing the following lines in dovecot.conf # Where password database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam() # pam [<service> | *]: PAM authentication to: # Where password database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam() # pam [<service> | *]: /etc/shadow or similiar, using PAM authentication Updating the documentation in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication?highlight=%28authentication%29 to include a phrase that mentions that PAM authentication works from one of the standard password databases (i.e. /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow or /etc/samba/smbpasswd) would also be helpful. yours sincerely, Rolf

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[Dovecot] Pocket Outlook
by Josh Burley 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hi all, Another user posted the same thing a few months back... after contacting them, they said they never got it working. I'm unable to get Pocket Outlook, or FlexMail 2006 working on Dovecot 0.99.13. According to the logs it connects just fine. With Pocket Outlook I'll see the headers for a few seconds, and then it clears and shows nothing. With FlexMail, which is supposed to have fantastic IMAP support (and has tons of options), I just see an empty inbox. Any ideas?? .josh

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