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[Dovecot] choosing syslog facility?
by Dominik Werder 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hello! How can I log dovecots messages into a separate file? Is it possible to set a custom syslog facility name somehow? I can't set the log file in dovecot because dovecot does not automatically rotate the logs like syslog does.. thank you! Dominik

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[Dovecot] alpha4 - Unknown passdb driver 'pam'
by Willem Riede 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Does anybody see this? Oct 24 19:41:44 athena dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'pam' Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: child 3374 (auth) returned error 89 This is on Fedora FC5-devel x86_64 (opteron), which is certainly pam based. FWIW, if I switch to passwd dovecot alph4 runs fine (so far). Regards, Willem Riede.

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[Dovecot] Pop3 Pipeing
by Mark Smith 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Does anyone know how to pipe with dovecot-pop3d? Please help Thanks _________________________________________________________________ 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] debian dovecot upgrade
by Brent Clark 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi all I find this highly upsetting, I just upgrade my debian dovecot, and I specified that I dont want to upgrade the conf file. and on restarting, I get this in my syslog. Oct 24 17:33:33 mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: imap-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: imap-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: child 5983 (login) returned error 89 Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: child 5985 (login) returned error 89 mail:~# Wierd thing is, at no time am I asking for ssl, and in my conf file I have it hashed out. mail:~# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | grep ssl # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl #ssl_listen = #ssl_disable = no #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem #ssl_ca_file = #ssl_verify_client_cert = no #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 #ssl_cipher_list = all:!LOW #verbose_ssl = no #ssl_require_client_cert = no mail:~# I tried on the command line # dovecot -F -c dovecot.conf my version is: mail:~# dovecot --version 1.0.alpha3 mail:~# Would anyone perhaps know why I cant get the daemon started. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] dual auth with real users and virtual users
by Erick Perez 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi, im using 0.99 stable in RPM form, Im using this for postfix+dovecot+real unix users, now i tried to enable virtual support with this: protocols = imap pop3 ssl_disable = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info login_user = dovecot mail_extra_groups = mail auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_passdb = pam auth_userdb = passwd auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/vhosts/userdb auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/vhosts/passwd The above configuration works for local users but is not working for virtual users, it produces the error: dovecot-auth: Oct 21 00:19:14 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(erickperez) failed: Authentication failure obviously the user erickperez exists in /etc/vhosts/userdb so PAM will fail. Im using 0.99 release. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha4: drowning in asserts/cores
by Jeff A. Earickson 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Timo, I have had to drop back to alpha3 because I found a pile of core files on my imap server this morning, from the weekend. They are all from the assert: imap(user): file mbox-lock.c: line 379 (mbox_lock_fcntl): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_UNLCK) I reported this issue to the list last Friday. Help... Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Case of %n (feauture request)
by Alexander Shikoff 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hello, I'm using dovecot not for a long time but I've newer seen most powerful and handy POP3/IMAP server. Thank Timo for dovecot; thank community for help! I would like to notice that %n is case-sensitive: it always stores user part of login without case conversions. As a result there are some inconveniences with virtual user organization, for example: password_query = SELECT `password` FROM `users` WHERE login = '%u' user_query = SELECT "mbox:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY" AS `mail`, 101 AS `uid`, 101 AS `gid` FROM users WHERE login = '%u' In this example authentication works perfectly but user can not access it's mailbox because all mailbox names are lower-case. I think it would be more handy to make %d, %n and %u aliases lower-case and introduce three new aliases %D %N %U which store values without case conversions. But I'm not enough skilled in C to write a patch... and now I'm waiting for comments on this and answer from the developer. Thanks in advance, Alexander. -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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Re: [Dovecot] Same email recieved
by Bob Hope 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Andrew Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Hope wrote: > >> They are using Outlook. I'm not seeing anything about UIDs of mails >> in dovecot.conf. I'm using dovecot 0.99.14 presently. >> >> Regards, >> >> Savage >> > > > Ah, afraid I can't really help then, I haven't used the .99 series of > Dovecot for over a year now and there seem to be quite a few issues with > it. > > Regards > Andrew > -- > Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru > Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ > Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ > Random quote 1: "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. > NO (or Linux) is the answer." - Unknown > > > > Well, I suppose I could upgrade to 1.0 then. I'll give that a try and drop a note here if it works. Thanks, Savage

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[Dovecot] dovecot + postfix + freebsd help
by glemme 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Hi. I'm currently setting up dovecot to work with my server. My inboxes from postfix are stored in /usr/var/spool/mail/ and then the username, so for me that would be / usr/var/spool/mail/viktor my homedirectory is /usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/ so from what i can understand. My settings should be: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/Mail:INBOX:/usr/var/spool/mail/%u But guess what, I am probably wrong. my mailapp tells me my inbox is empty and my log claims this: dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor: Effective uid=1015, gid=1004 dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor: mbox: data=/usr/home/ glemme/homes/viktor/Mail:INBOX:/usr/var/spool/mail/viktor dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail/inbox dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor): mbox: root=/usr/home/ glemme/homes/viktor/Mail, index=/usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail, inbox=/usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail/inbox Why is it defaulting from the right INBOX to the wrong one? HELP! /glemme

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha2: how to reject specific users?
by Jeff A. Earickson 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi, In Qualcomm's qpopper, you can specify a list of users to reject at authentication, even if they are otherwise valid, by putting them in a file (/etc/pop.nonauth). I use this to occasionally ban users who bang on the system needlessly until they Get a Clue. I looked thru the wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication pages and didn't see anything like this feature. Does it exist in 1.0? BTW, running 1.0alpha2 in production since Sunday night, working great. Zero core dumps, only minor chatter about "Corrupted index cache file" in the syslog, no problems. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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