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[Dovecot] Lost transaction log file in alpha2
by James Berry 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I had run alpha1 pretty uneventfully for several weeks. I upgraded to alpha2 a couple of days ago and have since suffered two incidents of "Lost transaction log", resulting in the client being unable to access the mailbox until I "rm dovecot.index.log*" Sep 14 10:48:35 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1 I should point out that this is a server with a single imap user (myself) and that I know only one imap client was trying to access the server at that point in time (though the client sw Mail.app may have had multiple connections to the server). Any suggestions/ideas/thoughts on whether something might have changed in alpha2 to start causing this? James.

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[Dovecot] auth-master socket access
by Lieven Van Acker 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hey, I'm doing a setup of dovecot (cvs) + postfix + dovecot lda (cvs). Is there any solution to the /var/run/dovecot/auth-master access restrictions, prohibiting the user running dovecot-deliver from communicating with the master (aside from the dirty and unsafe hack to reset the permissions of the /var/run/dovecot dir after starting dovecot)? Thanks, Lieven

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[Dovecot] Can't donwload mails with some attacchments
by Lethux 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hi. Does anyone find the same problem with attachments bigger than few Ks? The client (thunderbird) waits for the file to be downloaded. It can be waiting for several minuts and tryies before having it from dovecot. Can it be something against the lock of the file, the processes or something else? Any workaround or bugfix in the stable/alpha rel? thanks. L.

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[Dovecot] Shared access to mail accounts.
by Rory Campbell-Lange 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

We are intending to have some project mail accounts which many people (up to 10) will share. Will this work? Our configuration uses imap only, with maildir format mail storage. Thanks Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] Is Alpha2 slower than Alpha1?
by Marc Perkel 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I changed servers at the same time as changing from Alpha1 to Alpha2 but I'm on a faster server so it should be faster. But it seems slower especially deleting server side messages. Using mbox . Anyone else seeing tis?

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[Dovecot] Basic namespaces question
by David King 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I can't find a generalised "What the heck are namespaces all about?" anywhere, can anyone point me to a decent one? More directly, my question is this: if I set up two non-hidden private namespaces (one for mbox and one for maildir), will a well-written IMAP client automagically list folders from both as if they were part of (or below) the same hierarchy, or do I have to set up two accounts, one with a prefix of (say) #mbox and one of #maildir? One step further, I'd like to eventually get mail from /var/mail/%u in mbox format, and in "maildir:%h/.maildir" or "mbox:%h/.mail", whichever exists (I'm migrating from imap-uw, and would like the benefits of maildir without forcing users to change their mailstores in case they use pop3 or tools like mail(1)). I'm willing to do some coding for it, but I imagine that it would be non-trivial if namespaces aren't automatically integrated

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[Dovecot] courier imap --> dovecot imap
by Paul 'Google' Smit 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear Readers of tha list... Please help me out! I currenty have Dovecot Imap installed but I still have some old Courier Imap files from an old server which I want to use. Can I, in any way, import of convert them so I can use it? Regards, Millman ------------------------------- Linux: Fedora Core 4 Sendmail: 8.13.4-2 Dovecot: 0.99.14-4 Squirrelmail: 1.4.6-0 -------------------------------

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[Dovecot] trying to see different files
by David Willoughby 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

i am wanting to sort my email into different files per the different email lists i use. i've posted this before but nobody responded. is it possible to use dovecot and sort my mail into /home/dlw/Mail/file1, file2 etc.... ? -- David Willoughby email: dlw(a)d1w.org icq: 1852393

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[Dovecot] bug? Maildir ... sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox
by Peter Gervai 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Version: 1.00alpha2 Error: imap(grin): Maildir /home/grin/Maildir sync: UID < next_uid (94 < 95, file = 1127311363.H977932P25148.gollum:2,) imap(grin): Maildir /home/grin/Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (95 > 94, file = 1127311363.H977932P25148.gollum:2,) This error reappears frequently. Doesn't go away by restarting dovecot, but does go away when I delete all index and cache and whatnot (and restart dovecot). Appears in 10 minutes again... Could be sylpheed-claws-whatever-alpha imap problem, but whatever the client does dovecot shouldn't be fall apart I believe. Peter

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[Dovecot] Another address-spec problem
by Chris Wakelin 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I've had complaints from users about "MISSING_DOMAIN" in header fields and I've tracked it down to having "." in an unquoted display name. By my reading of RFC2822 (especially section 4.1) A N Other <a.n.other(a)somewhere.org> "A. N. Other" <a.n.other(a)somewhere.org> are legal, but A. N. Other <a.n.other(a)somewhere.org> is "obsolete", but should be supported by the server (no clients should do it). I think the relevant syntax is phrase = 1*word / obs-phrase word = atom / quoted-string obs-phrase = word *(word / "." / CFWS) and rfc822_parse_phrase() should be modified to cope with "obs-phrase". I'll have a go, but if Timo or anybody knows how to do it properly, that would be better! Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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