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[Dovecot] Alpha4 pre-release, please upgrade
by Timo Sirainen 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Please try if http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-latest.tar.gz (or the CVS directly) works with you. I made a lot of changes to dovecot-auth, so I wouldn't want to make alpha4 release without some more testing in different environments. I'll release alpha4 in a few days, but it'll be basically same as this unless more bugs get fixed. Some of the changes include: - IMAP: We might have sent extra EXPUNGE messages when output buffer got full. This could have caused various sorts of very bad behavior. This is the main reason why everyone should upgrade as soon as possible. - POP3: We sent duplicate replies for LIST command when output buffer got full. Probably caused Thunderbird's duplicate deletion bugs? (Although I thought someone checked that Dovecot's reply was correct when the bug occurred?) - pop3_uidl_format setting is now required to be explicitly set in configuration file for pop3 to work at all. I want to get rid of the old default setting which breaks Outlooks, and simply changing the default would break existing setups. - Multiple passdbs and userdbs of same type can now be added with different parameters. Some people asked about this earlier. - Authentication cache works now with other than SQL and LDAP passdbs. Some passdbs such as PAM require some additional settings to work. See example config file. - Some other fixes to authentication cache related to failure handling and non-plaintext authentication. - deny passdb wasn't working for non-plaintext authentication.

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[Dovecot] auth
by Riccardo Bini 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

It's possible to have an auth order so if the first is true skip the other ones? Bye Rick

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[Dovecot] pop3 behaviour
by Krzysztof Janiszewski - IT Partner 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Hi! I'v installed dovecot over um-pop3 today. Dovecot has only pop3 enabled. imap will be enabled later. But there is one issue - on some accounts, after receiving mail to Outlook Express, mail is not deleted from /var/mail/username mbox file, and on most it is deleted. Why it works in that way? Best regards Krzysztof

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[Dovecot] how to configure dovecot, Error
by Roland Schmid 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Hi, we are using Squirrelmail, imapd is dovecot. OS is Debian Sarge. When I want to login with Squirrelmail the connection to the imap-server is aborted. /var/log/mail.log gives the these log-entries: Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: imap(rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de/mail: Permission denied Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: imap(rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /home/rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de) Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: child 31339 (imap) returned error 89 Need help, thanks. Roland

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[Dovecot] Pop3 Pipeing
by Mark Smith 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

How would I go about and setup pop3 pipeing with dovecot I have instaled Perldesk and there instructions is for only Exim or Sendmail. Regards, _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger 7.5 is now out. Download it for FREE here. http://messenger.msn.co.uk

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha4: mbox-lock asserts and cores
by Jeff A. Earickson 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Timo, I upgraded from alpha3 to alpha4 yesterday, and I am seeing a few of the following asserts: imap(user): file mbox-lock.c: line 379 (mbox_lock_fcntl): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_UNLCK) Gdb info on a couple of the cores is attached. It looks like the arg lock_type for mbox_lock_fcntl() is not getting passed in correctly, like the enum "enum mbox_lock_type type" in mbox_lock_list() is not getting set or used correctly so that lock_data[type].func is wrong. Hmmm. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.2. The filesystem for INBOXes is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 system, but the index files reside on local filesystems. My setting for "lock_method = fcntl", per your release notes. I did not change the default setting of "mmap_disable = no" because my index files are local. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] USER environment missing
by Ed 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

I am new to dovecot, and while I have the pop server running fine, I am having trouble with the imap server. It starts, but when I try to connect, I get an error: telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. imap(??): Fatal: USER environment missing Connection closed by foreign host. Not sure where to start on this one. (or what to show you). I am running under Ubuntu Linux, usiang postfix, fetchmail, etc.. (not sure that matters). -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/143 - Release Date: 10/19/2005

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[Dovecot] alpha4 and zlib-plugin?
by Jeff A. Earickson 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Hi, I saw the zlib-plugin reference in the alpha4 ChangeLog notes are searched the list for info about it. The only reference I found was from Timo back in March 2005. Questions: 1) Is this going to become a standard part of version 1.0? 2) Any plans or ability to make it read/write to a gzipped mailbox, or is this possible? Or will it always be read-only? 3) How does a mailbox get gzipped? From within dovecot somehow, or only by external action? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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Re: [Dovecot] pop3 behaviour
by Krzysztof Janiszewski - IT Partner 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Hello! > Do you have reason to believe that the clients are issuing a delete > command and that the mail is incorrectly being left on the server OR do > they have a 'keep mail on server' option checked? I'm sure thet they have 'keep mail on server' unchecked. When uw-ipop3d was used, mail was correctly deleted. Best regards Krzysztof

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[Dovecot] Two "pre-migration" questions
by Alan Mead 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

I have read the migration docs. They seem to relate to migrating from one imap product to dovecot on the same server. I'm interested in migrating my Maildir-formatted email from one server to another. 1. Can I tar my ~/mail directory on serverX.com, untar it on a different physical serverY.com (initially with a different domain name), and still see my mail when I access imap.serverY.com <http://imap.serverY.com> (dovecot's running on serverY.com .. but let me know if there are any tricks that I need to make this work). 2. If I maintain large mailboxes and check my mail frequently, how does the dovecot server load compare to something like apache or Samba? I ask because I have a vanity domain that I mostly use for email and I want to ensure that I can migrate my precious emails to a new service provider. And the provider that I'm considering offers low-cost virtual dedicated servers but meters usage (including RAM and CPU). One of the reasons I have question #1 is that the server name seems to be part of the email file names... amead:/home/amead> ls mail/cur | head -2 2022292282.22297_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S 2022312282.3225_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S (rootr.net <http://rootr.net> is my current provider, not my vanity domain; vulcan is the name of their mailserver) I don't know what effect this will have, if any? Thanks! -Alan

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