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[Dovecot] subscriptions or .subscriptions?
by Andy Cravens 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I may have found a problem with the documentation concerning the subscriptions file. On the Dovecot web site there is a document that outlines the conversion from UW IMAP to Dovecot. The document says Dovecot's folder list is stored in ".subscriptions" However, I have found that Dovecot's folder list is really "subscriptions" without the preceding dot. Did Dovecot version 1.0.alpha1 remove the dot from the subscriptions filename? .subscriptions does not seem to work at all. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Migration#head-5dde807bf059dea93fc2303e202…

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[Dovecot] buglet in dovecot.conf, 1.0alpha1
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Timo, The dovecot.conf file comments talk about login_process_per_user but this variable does not appear in the file. Do you mean login_process_per_connection instead? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: too many open files
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Help... Dovecot 1.0alpha1 hung up today with nothing working and the following spewing to my syslog: pipe() failed: Too many open files My setup: Solaris 9, just using imap, mbox format. The various "max" settings in dovecot.conf use the defaults. Suggestions on what to change in fovecot.conf to keep this from happening? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Problem in dovecot 0.99 - login username case sensitive create fake maildirs
by Max CtRiX 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello, I have noticed a weird behaviour in dovecot 0.99 which, I hope, is not replicated in 1.0-alpha. First I have to say that it works very well. So if I login with user foo(a)bar.com, the maildir is created. But when I log in with User FOO(a)BAR.COM, or FOO(a)BAR.com, then two other maildirs are created. Authentication is ok (I'm using mysql backend) but no mails are obviously found. Maybe a solutions would be adding some config item to turn lowercase the maildir path or authentication tokens (received from client) at login time. Or maybe I am missing something. Is there a solution for this problem out there ? Thanks, Massimo

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[Dovecot] POP3 problem about multi users from one IP address concurrent
by Yi Xuan 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi,all I have a POP3 problem about multi users from one IP address concurrent. [Issue description] The network architecture is as following. I have setup a mail server(sendmail/dovecot) in PlaceA with IP_A. And about 6 users are receving mail from the same IP_B( NATed public IP) in PlaceB. Their mails are many( about 1Mb/hour each) and ususally set fetch time as 10min/fetch. Then they complain that their mails often cannot be downloaded. [Reason investigation] I noticed that 1.when one of them fail to fetch mail. All TCP IP connection between IP_A and IP_B will be RST.which means that http/ssh/pop/smtp all not work for a while. And after about 10 minute, the http/ssh can work well. 2.I have asked them to backup and delete pop accounts and use webmail through imap provided by dovecot.And that seems work well but inefficient. I think this maybe because of multi users from one IP address concurrent, [Question] Would you pls provide some suggestion or solution about this issue? Is this a bug of dovecot or just a mis-configuration I don`t know? Thanks in advance for any advice. Best regards, Yi Xuan

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[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master Error
by Phil Bettinson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello all! I guess it's a standard reason for joining a mailing list, but I have a problem. For some reason, whenever I try to start dovecot, be it from the xinet.d or from the commandline, I get this rather bizzare error. I can't even work out what it means, so I can't even begin to debug it. There is nothing extra in /var/log/messages, so I'm out of ideas. I've tried it with the default config, as well as with a config that I adjusted to fit the environment. I'm currently out of ideas. I did notice that there is a brief thread on this in the mailing-list archive, but it doesn't seem to point to a solution. Hopefully someone can help. I'm running it with the command /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login I am using the 1.0.alpha1 version, running on RedHat AS 3. thanks in advance. Phil System Administrator, National Library of Wales.

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[Dovecot] Inbox weirdness
by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I recently had a system crash and my inbox became inaccessible via IMAP. ls -ld /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Sep 1 07:54 /var/spool/mail ls -l /var/spool/mail/ignacio -rw-rw---- 1 ignacio mail 7222021 Sep 1 07:54 /var/spool/mail/ignacio /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE] Logged in as ignacio A142 SELECT INBOX imap(ignacio): Error: open(/var/mail/ignacio.lock) failed: Permission denied imap(ignacio): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/ignacio: Permission denied imap(ignacio): Error: open(/var/mail/ignacio.lock) failed: Permission denied imap(ignacio): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/ignacio: Permission denied A142 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-09-01 08:00:34] rpm -q dovecot dovecot-(none):0.99.14-4.fc4.i386 System is running Fedora Core 4. SELinux is not a factor in the problem. http://fedora.ivazquez.net/private/dovecot.conf Thanks in advance for any help in resolving this issue. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Errors - Using Debian
by Mark Smith 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I recieve this error when trying to apt-get dovecot-common [Error Starts] apt-get install dovecot Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d The following NEW packages will be installed: dovecot dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/568kB of archives. After unpacking 1163kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Selecting previously deselected package dovecot-imapd. (Reading database ... 14230 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dovecot-imapd (from .../dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package dovecot-pop3d. Unpacking dovecot-pop3d (from .../dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package dovecot. Unpacking dovecot (from .../dovecot_0.99.14-1_all.deb) ... Setting up dovecot-common (0.99.14-1) ... Creating generic self-signed certificate: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem (replace with hand-crafted or authorized one if needed). hostname: Unknown host dpkg: error processing dovecot-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-imapd: dovecot-imapd depends on dovecot-common (>= 0.99.12-1); however: Package dovecot-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing dovecot-imapd (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-pop3d: dovecot-pop3d depends on dovecot-common (>= 0.99.12-1); however: Package dovecot-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing dovecot-pop3d (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot: dovecot depends on dovecot-imapd; however: Package dovecot-imapd is not configured yet. dovecot depends on dovecot-pop3d; however: Package dovecot-pop3d is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing dovecot (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d dovecot E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [Error Ends] What Should I do?? I am Using Debian Sarge PLEASE HELP _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

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[Dovecot] "$default_mail_env/cur" not found with passwd-file authentication on v1.0-test80
by OpenMacNews 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

hi all, i've built dovecot: Sep 09 18:04:24 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test80 starting up on OSX 10.4.2. in addition to pgsql auth, which is working 4 me, i'd like to step-by-step verify simple passwd-file authentication/testing. unfortunately, i'm having a problem with the login process NOT FINDING the ".../cur" dir. here are the details .... my config includes: ... default_mail_env = maildir:/var/Data/Mail/%d/Accounts/%1u/%u/Maildir:INDEX=/var/Data/Mail/indexes/%d/%n ... auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd-file {args = /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file} passdb passwd-file {args = /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file} ... } ... my 'test_user_file' has a test user "testuser(a)testdomain.com" with an appropriately CRYPT'd pwd % grep /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file testuser testuser@mydomain.com:XXXXXXXXXX:65001:65001:/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir:::: when i login via telnet/shell, i get: % telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK IMAP ready x login testuser(a)mydomain.com testuser x OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. and my log shows: dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGJsYWtlcnNAb3BlbmV4ZWMuY29tAGJsYWtlcnM= dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=testuser(a)mydomain.com dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 1486 1 dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 testuser(a)mydomain.com uid=65001 gid=65001 home=/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<testuser(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Effective uid=65001, gid=65001 dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Private/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: data=$default_mail_env dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: INBOX file: stat($default_mail_env) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat($default_mail_env/.imap) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat($default_mail_env/inbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat($default_mail_env/mbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: $default_mail_env (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Failed to create storage for 'Private/' with data: $default_mail_env dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: child 1496 (imap) returned error 89 ignoring, for the moment the mbox 'complaints', and worrying first about the first: dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory i'm a bit stymied .... if i understand correctly, that: autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) is looking for: "/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur", which, on my system, exists: % ls -d /var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur /var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur as i've had all this working fine with pgsql authentication, i have this sneaking suspicion that i'm missing something obvious here. thoughts? suggestions? thx! richard

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[Dovecot] Lot of crashing messages
by Matt Juszczak 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Receiving a lot of the following messags with 1.0-76: pid 633 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Any ideas? Sometimes, our entire port 110/143 servers begin refusing connections. Hardware checks out fine. Thanks in advance, Regards, Matt

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