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[Dovecot] Wild Idea for a feature
by Marc Perkel 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

OK - this is a wild idea and wondering what it would take to make it possible. I get a lot of email from a lot of different people about a lot of different issues. What I need is a way to do some server side presorting of email into specific folders. I can build a LOT of Mozilla rules but that is too cumbersome for what I have in mind. Here's what I'm thinking - one classification of email is "customers" and what I want to do is to drag an email into the customers server side folder and once I do that then any incoming email that comes from that person goes into the customers folder. I'm trying to envision how to code this and I think what I would need is if Dovecot were to create an external berkeley db file or mysql database of what is a list of email addresses contained in the folder that could be quickly searched for a match, that might do it. I think I could write a backent in Exim to handle it. This idea isn't yet well though out. I'm just throwing it out there to see if it's feasable. Thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird, IDLE, mailbox not always SELECTed
by Tom Alsberg 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi there. Although it does not seem to be a Dovecot issue, I'm sending this here as people in this list may know better where exactly the problem is. I am working on Dovecot 1.0 (.alpha5, right now), with the aim that when Dovecot becomes stable we can put that into production. Recently after being more clear with the behaviour (I'm most into namespaces and mbox/maildir mixing issues, as you can see from my past messages), I have adopted a few (two, right now, with the third one gone) "Guinea-Pigs" to use the experimental IMAP server - people who very much want an IMAP service here and thus may help me test bugs. One of them reported, that he does not always see new mail. That user is using Mozilla Thunderbird (1.0.7). Looking a bit with him at the workings, I can see the issue. He has the IDLE extension enabled. However when sniffing the network, I see that sometimes when switching to another mailbox, the SELECT command is not always sent to the server. At the beginning, INBOX is (always) selected. Then another mailbox is selected, and usually a SELECT command is sent and the mailbox is seen. But going back to INBOX again, often no "SELECT INBOX" is seen on the wire. Then of course he sees no "EXISTS" or anything like that. I wonder if anyone else has observed this, or in some other way, that Thunderbird does not always show new mail. Sometimes it appears that a mailbox is selected in Thunderbird, and Thunderbird immediately (remembering from its cache) does a FETCH to show the message in the mailbox/folder, but not SELECT to update the folder itself. Can caching in Thunderbird be completely disabled, so that every action will be done against the server? Regards, -- 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] new 1.0 config and vpopmail
by Henti Smith 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

does anybody have a working config they can send me .. I just cannot seem to get this working. alternativly how can I set the debug so I can see where my config is wrong ? thanks Henti

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[Dovecot] dovecot auth using passwd-file
by Brad 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Im a dovecot newbie and need a little help with the passwd-like file auth mechanism in dovecot I got dovecot to work fine with regular /etc/passwd file auth .. so I wanted to start using another authentication store for virtual users. So .. I created a /etc/dovecot-passdb file and plopped in an encrypted password using md5crypt. Here are the appropriate lines from the dovecot.conf file auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_passdb = pam and here is the /etc/pam.d/dovecot file #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth So far .. no dice. Dovecot reports constant authentication failures. I fear that the dovecot-passdb file is wonky. Can anyone give me any pointers ?

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[Dovecot] Maildir permissions, shared folders & postfix
by Stroller 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi there, It's my understanding that shared folders can be implemented in the Dovecot IMAP server by simply symlinking one maildir to another, eg: $ ls -lan /home/DOMAIN/ned/.maildir/ total 40 drwx------ 9 10012 10000 440 Jan 9 04:23 . drwxr-xr-x 3 10012 10000 160 Jan 6 06:32 .. drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:21 .Deleted Items drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:32 .Drafts drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:39 .Junk E-mail drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:33 .Sent lrwxrwxrwx 1 10012 0 24 Jan 6 07:36 .Stroller -> /home/ stroller/.maildir/ drwx------ 2 10012 10000 336 Jan 9 04:23 cur -rw------- 1 10012 10000 268 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 10012 10000 192 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 10012 10000 21504 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 10012 10000 1908 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.log drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 new -rw------- 1 10012 10000 47 Jan 6 07:45 subscriptions drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 tmp In the above configuration the user Ned has a mailbox "Stroller", in which he can read messages & stuff - I can log in as ned and drag & drop messages into this mailbox quite happily. I thought all was well with this type of shared configuration until I actually started to try setting it up for the info(a)ourdomain.com mailbox, and tried delivering messages to it. It seems that Postfix doesn't respect the permissions of the parent folder when delivering mail into it: # ls -ldn /home/info/.maildir/ drwxrwx--- 5 10021 10000 120 Jan 9 04:26 /home/info/.maildir/ # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/ total 0 drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:26 cur drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:33 new drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:31 tmp # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 0 # cat HungUp.txt | sendmail info # sudo ls -l /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 # sudo ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 -rw------- 1 10021 10000 1806 Jan 9 04:39 1136781544.V4804I3606cM633316.mail.domain.local How inconsiderate of Postfix to set secure permissions on the message it delivered!! I need the message to have 660 permissions so that others in the group can read it! At present this causes Squirrelmail to squeal & give nasty messages whenever a shared mailbox is accesses. Can anyone advise me how to resolve this, please? Stroller. PS: should you consider suggesting using Dovecot's "namespaces" type of shared mailbox, I'd be grateful if you could answer this first: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-December/010459.html

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[Dovecot] POP3 only - why is cur/ growing?
by Wally Winchester 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi, I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder? Thanks a lot, Wally -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running 1.0alpha5 on FreeBSD 5.3. I'm using mbox mailboxes. > > I keep getting: > > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) > Jan 8 18:53:13 saigo dovecot: child 88663 (imap) killed with signal 6 This happens all the time with one specific mbox? Could you send it and the index files to me? You could put the mbox though http://dovecot.org/tools/mboxcrypt.pl

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[Dovecot] Running dovecot-lda
by Linus Nordberg 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning on setting up dovecot with dovecot-lda, for sieve support. What does the list have to say about versions to use? I prefer stability over features but sieve has to be there. Does anybody use the combination dovecot 1.0 alpha5 and dovecot-lda 0.1 with success or would you recommend running -lda from CVS? If so, is there any point in time that's better than another? And, will dovecot 1.0 alpha5 do for -lda from CVS? Finally, are there any release plans for dovecot-lda that can be shared? Thanks, -- Linus

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. How do I compile the CVS version? "configure" seems to be missing. I tried downloading the snapshot from 20060105 but that fails make: ~ main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory main.c: In function `main_init': main.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_register' main.c: In function `main_deinit': main.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_unregister' make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/imap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 The 20060107 snapshot won't ./configure : configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-sql/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-auth/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-charset/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-dict/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-imap/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-mail/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-ntlm/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-settings/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/maildir/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/mbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/dbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/subscription-file/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/register/Makefile config.status: creating src/auth/Makefile config.status: error: cannot find input file: src/dict/Makefile.in [root@www dovecot-1.0.alpha5]# make cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status config.h config.status: creating config.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' Making all in lib make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' Makefile:423: .deps/base64.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:424: .deps/bsearch-insert-pos.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:425: .deps/buffer.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:426: .deps/compat.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:427: .deps/data-stack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:428: .deps/env-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:429: .deps/failures.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:430: .deps/fd-close-on-exec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:431: .deps/fd-set-nonblock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:432: .deps/fdpass.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:433: .deps/file-cache.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:434: .deps/file-dotlock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:435: .deps/file-lock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:436: .deps/file-set-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:437: .deps/hash.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:438: .deps/hex-binary.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:439: .deps/hex-dec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:440: .deps/hmac-md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:441: .deps/home-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:442: .deps/hostpid.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:443: .deps/imem.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:444: .deps/ioloop-epoll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:445: .deps/ioloop-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:446: .deps/ioloop-notify-dn.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:447: .deps/ioloop-notify-inotify.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:448: .deps/ioloop-notify-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:449: .deps/ioloop-notify-none.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:450: .deps/ioloop-poll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:451: .deps/ioloop-select.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:452: .deps/ioloop.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:453: .deps/iostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:454: .deps/istream-data.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:455: .deps/istream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:456: .deps/istream-limit.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:457: .deps/istream-mmap.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:458: .deps/istream-seekable.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:459: .deps/istream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:460: .deps/lib-signals.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:461: .deps/lib.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:462: .deps/md4.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:463: .deps/md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:464: .deps/mempool-alloconly.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:465: .deps/mempool-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:466: .deps/mempool-system.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:467: .deps/mempool-unsafe-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:468: .deps/mempool.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:469: .deps/mkdir-parents.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:470: .deps/mmap-anon.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:471: .deps/mmap-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:472: .deps/module-dir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:473: .deps/network.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:474: .deps/ostream-crlf.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:475: .deps/ostream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:476: .deps/ostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:477: .deps/primes.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:478: .deps/printf-upper-bound.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:479: .deps/process-title.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:480: .deps/randgen.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:481: .deps/read-full.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:482: .deps/restrict-access.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:483: .deps/restrict-process-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:484: .deps/safe-memset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:485: .deps/safe-mkdir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:486: .deps/sendfile-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:487: .deps/seq-range-array.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:488: .deps/sha1.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:489: .deps/str-sanitize.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:490: .deps/str.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:491: .deps/strescape.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:492: .deps/strfuncs.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:493: .deps/unix-socket-create.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:494: .deps/unlink-directory.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:495: .deps/unlink-lockfiles.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:496: .deps/utc-mktime.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:497: .deps/utc-offset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:498: .deps/var-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:499: .deps/write-full.Po: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/write-full.Po'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 It seems like the code is horribly broken. All of the nightly snapshots except for 20060107 (which won't configure) fail with "main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory" it does this for src/imap/main.c AND src/pop3/main.c . I tried commenting out any lines that had to do with "dict-client.h" "dict_client_register();" and "dict_client_unregister();" inside the two files and it would compile those files but it would fail in src/deliver claiming that it is too old? make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' ~ deliver.c:4:2: #error This program is somewhat out of date, use dovecot-lda instead make[3]: *** [deliver.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Documentation updates in Wiki
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

I started writing a new front page for wiki.dovecot.org: http://wiki.dovecot.org/NewIndex This is partially based on the comments in Documentation thread starting from here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/008076.html "A simple Dovecot installation" section is pretty much finished from my point of view. I hope it's clear enough for anyone wanting to install a working Dovecot server. Suggestions are welcome of course. You're also welcome to just edit the pages directly. I'll get email notifications of all page changes, so if I see changes that I don't think belong in there, I'll just remove them and maybe move them elsewhere (so don't add too much text without asking :). I'm not sure about what exactly should be visible in the front page. Currently there's probably too much. But I think it's better to show more than too little, so that new people can just look at the page and quickly pick up the interesting keywords without having to click through multiple pages. Maybe most of the sub-sections in "full guide" section could be listed only under those root sections. So that it becomes something like: * Starting guidelines * Authentication configuration * Mail configuration * Namespaces * Shared folders * SSL * POP3 * Dovecot LDA * Full configuration file reference * Examples / Scenarios I'd leave namespaces and shared folders there so that they can be easily found. I'm not sure where to put "full configuration file reference" or what exactly to call it. The same goes for Examples/Scenarios. Tuning should maybe be only part of "full guide". "Generic information about mail servers" is meant for discussion of mail server components, protocols, etc. without being too much Dovecot-specific. It's partially for "mail server newbies", but also would contain some "hard core" information about how things really work (mailbox format and user authentication especially). Anyway, if you have time please start adding the missing pages and writing to them. Even if you only give a FIXME-list that others can then fill out :) My school starts again at monday, and I'll be too busy to do anything else than that and work for the rest of January (after that only finals, yay).

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