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[Dovecot] maildir memory usage
by lenny＠edpausa.com 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Dovecot beta 5 + dovecot lda, solaris 9 sparc. Dovecot seems to use a lot of memory with large Maildir folders, ( 300-500 mb folder - 100-200 mb process), something I never noticed with similarly large mboxes. Is that expected behavior or are my observations incorrect.

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[Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup. Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically: /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has the accounts stored in the following format: user@domain.tld:(encrypted password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing this in the log file: Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip= 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user(a)domain.tld, 127.0.0.1): unknown user Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser= user(a)domain.tld So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before. They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and users. Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist.

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[Dovecot] PINE + dovecot
by Richard Randriatoamanana 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hi list, I have installed dovecot on fedora4 and I migrated courier-imap to dovecot with instructions given on the site. everthing works fine for thunderbird, horde, evolution and mail/macosx.. but i have some pbs with pine because it doesnt read .subscriptions and directories aren't seen as it should be seen like in the .subscription. maybe i should reconfigure the .pinerc correctly, but what should I put in place then? does anyone have a .pinerc template that reads like other mail browsers with dovecot? Thanks in advance Cheers. Richard

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP/Plain Text issue with Dovecot
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/24/06, Peter Fern <dovecot(a)obfusc8.org> wrote: > > Tom Ray wrote: > > > I finally got Dovecot working pretty good I just have one small > > problem. I can't seem to log in via IMAP, now everything works great > > through POP but when I try to login via IMAP I get the following error: > > > > "PLAIN authentication failed. None of the authentication methods > > supported by your IMAP server are supported this computer" > > > > Anyone seen this before? > > > From the config file: > > # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless > # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and > # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if > # you connect from those addresses. > disable_plaintext_auth = yes When I do this both IMAP AND POP stop working. When I have it set to disable_plaintext_auth = no I can get POP working but IMAP throws back errors. Any other thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Solved problem with index corruption (new mail not seen)
by Tom Alsberg 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Having had many problems in the past with IDLE not working, new messages not being seen from Thunderbird, and sometimes garbage seen as part of mailboxes, I eventually added some workaround/sanity check patch to the imap_sync_deinit code to reread the offsets from the index and that solved the problem. Now with beta7 (I've previously used beta2), this seems not to be necessary anymore. I installed vanilla beta7 and couldn't reproduce the problem in any way! I'm not sure what has changed there, and haven't yet checked if I see anything relevant, so this is just to let you know, and ask - any idea which change could have caused this. Happily I will soon be going on with working around other issues I have here, and start bugging you in the list again. Cheers, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] IMAP/Plain Text issue with Dovecot
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I finally got Dovecot working pretty good I just have one small problem. I can't seem to log in via IMAP, now everything works great through POP but when I try to login via IMAP I get the following error: "PLAIN authentication failed. None of the authentication methods supported by your IMAP server are supported this computer" Anyone seen this before?

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[Dovecot] Saving Maildir with Samba
by Brad Bateman 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

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Re: [Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/23/06, Angel Pavlov <angel(a)coffeejob.com> wrote: > > Tom Ray wrote: > > I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with > it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up > to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup. > > Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically: > /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories > etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and > passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the > passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has > the accounts stored in the following format: > > user@domain.tld:(encrypted <user@domain.tld:%28encrypted>password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null > > The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the > problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to > login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost > 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing > this in the log file: > > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in: > AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip= > 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): > pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file > /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user(a)domain.tld, > 127.0.0.1): unknown user > Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser= > user(a)domain.tld > > So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user > doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on > auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file. > > Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch > with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to > fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the > vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's > been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before. > They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a > bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and > users. > > Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I > just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist. > > > try : > > 1. htpasswd file formated : user@domain.tld:(encrypted<user@domain.tld:%28encrypted>password) > 2. Without PAM > > good luck ! > > Angel > I'm still getting told that the user doesn't exist. It's loading the proper password file, but it just doesn't see the user...it should be parsing it right correct?

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot-lda with imap and Maildir
by Angel Pavlov 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hello all, I've installed dovecot-lda today and it's working fine. But with Maildir mailboxes and imap (connected) I have some strange log messeges : Apr 23 14:28:49 shark postfix/pipe[3211]: A244E3040A2: to=<angel(a)coffeejob.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=sent (coffeejob.com) Apr 23 14:28:49 shark postfix/qmgr[26922]: A244E3040A2: removed Apr 23 14:28:49 shark dovecot: imap(angel(a)coffeejob.com): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/mail/coffeejob.com/angel/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x8080, offset=420, size=0) Apr 23 14:28:49 shark dovecot: imap(angel(a)coffeejob.com): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /var/spool/mail/coffeejob.com/angel/Maildir/dovecot.index I'm using dovecot-lda from cvs (2006-04-23) and dovecot-1.0_beta3 ( from gentoo )* *Someone have an idea how to solve this problem ? Angel

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 36, Issue 72
by Jiaying Xu 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hi, I am not sure if I can post or not. I believe I subscribed and I sent a post to dovecot(a)dovecot.org yesterday but has not seen my post yet. Sorry if I am too dumb to understand how this mailing list works. JX

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