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[Dovecot] Multiple Logins - Single Mail Account
by Net Cerebrum 04 May '05

04 May '05

I have a mail account which needs to be accessed by 4-5 people simultaneously through IMAP. As of now I have configured it on the respective clients using the same username and password so we have multiple people accessing the same account through their mail clients simultaneously and it is working flawlessly. Is this alright or can it lead to some problems or corruption of data later ? What is the best way to allow multiple people to access a single mailbox for read as well as write operations ? Thanks,

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[Dovecot] Segfault in imap
by Todd Burroughs 04 May '05

04 May '05

I'm running the current CVS version, as of April 26. There have been a few of these with the same problem. There was a NULL pointer dereference at mail-index-view.c:603 view->map == NULL Here's the log entry, etc. dovecot: May 03 08:30:08 Error: 10195 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1115122813 -> 1115123383) in mbox file /mailhome/new/m/2/support/mbox dovecot: May 03 08:30:13 Error: child 10195 (imap) killed with signal 11 Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. (gdb) bt full #0 mail_index_view_open (index=0x80c2fc0) at mail-index-view.c:603 view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x80c5608 #1 0x08077ccd in index_storage_mailbox_init (ibox=0x80c3bc8, index=0x80c2fc0, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at index-storage.c:345 storage = Variable "storage" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 mail_index_view_open (index=0x80c2fc0) at mail-index-view.c:603 #1 0x08077ccd in index_storage_mailbox_init (ibox=0x80c3bc8, index=0x80c2fc0, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at index-storage.c:345 #2 0x080679c2 in mbox_alloc (storage=0x80bc788, index=0x80c2fc0, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:500 #3 0x080684e0 in mbox_open (storage=0x80bc788, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:545 #4 0x0806863f in mbox_mailbox_open (_storage=0x80bc788, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", input=0x0, flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:603 #5 0x0808ce88 in mailbox_open (storage=0x0, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", input=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:295 #6 0x08057f9f in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80bcb98, readonly=0) at cmd-select.c:32 #7 0x08058171 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-select.c:97 #8 0x08059635 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #9 0x0809e04a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #10 0x0809d769 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #11 0x08060537 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:228 (gdb) p view->map $1 = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x0 (gdb) p index->map $2 = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x0 (gdb) p index->indexid $3 = 0

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[Dovecot] Error in rename uidlist while fetching through pop3
by James Berry 03 May '05

03 May '05

My dovecot server seems to randomly begin giving errors to pop3 users who try to fetch their email. Once this begins, they see no more new mail, though the mail is in cur. Running: dovecot-stable 20050501, Mac OS X 10.3.9 Log entries like this: May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: pop3-login: Login: kim [24.22.16.169] May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): rename(/Users/kim/Maildir/ dovecot-uidlist.lock, /Users/kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): file_dotlock_replace(/Users/ kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error Is this a known problem, and/or is there a known way to recover from such a situation? I'm managed to throw out the uidlist, but that means they get a whole dump of new mail. -jdb

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[Dovecot] How to try dovecot-lda
by Joakim Verona 02 May '05

02 May '05

Hello, I'm interested in trying the dovecot-lda with sieve support. What would be the proper way to test it? I'm currently using a Fedore core 2 server, with spamassassin and procmail. To get the same effect with dovecot-lda, would I put a line like this in my .forward? spamassassin|dovecot-lda I'm just guessing, so please correct me if im wrong. Im thinking of setting up a separate mail account and copy my mail there to test the ported procmail to sieve recipies also. -- Joakim Verona www.verona.se

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[Dovecot] disabling indexes?
by Marten Lehmann 02 May '05

02 May '05

Hello, I recently had the problem, that an index was corrupt. Thus, messages haven't been listed (talking about POP3), but still remained in the filesystem. As there is no SEARCH-command in POP3, dovecot didn't notice that the index is corrupt and didn't rebuild it. The problem is, that a user can't delete messages through POP3 which aren't listed by dovecot. If the maildir size increases, the arrival of new messages will be blocked because the mailbox is full. And the user has no chance to delete it. Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Blank lines in mailboxes
by Jakob Curdes 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Hello, we use dovecot on a regular basis. Sometimes I end up with a user telling me he does not get mail. When I look after the problem, I always find leading blank lines in the mbox file. We are using postfix with dovecot and amavisd as spam scanner. Amavisd never accesses the mbox files directly so this can be ruled out. I suspected procmail but now it happened also with accounts where no procmail is active. I found only a list thread where this happened always, i.e. it was a configuration error. (Meaning the mailbox was correct but dovecot would not read it). Here ist is only occasionally and therefore hard to track . Does anybody have the same problem or has hints to a solution ? We are running postfix 2.1.4 and dc 0.99.10.6 ; just now I am upgrading to pf 2.2.2. and dc 0.99.14. Yours, Jakob Curdes

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[Dovecot] Fresh Dovecot Install
by GPL 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Working on an RH9 box. Did not use yum. Downloaded the "dovecot-stable-latest.tar.gz". Uncompressed it, downloaded and installed gcc. Ran the following: ./configure make sudo make install Seemed to have done its thing. I'll admit I am not well versed in using "make" or compiling anything. When I install I usually use yum on fedora machines. This one being an RH9 machine I have plugged yum into the fedora legacy project and it did not let me install dovecot via yum. So I opted for this route. Regardless, if I run 'which dovecot' I see "/usr/local/sbin/dovecot" However now I do not seem to be able to see it run. I get nothing when I: rpm -qa | grep dovecot ps aux | grep dovecot service dovecot status SO AM HAVE MISSED SOMETHING! Is there another script I need to run? Suggestions welcome. Thanks, George

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[Dovecot] error: received another "not listening" notification
by Andreas Goertz 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i got a problem with dovecot 0.99.14 - after a while of checking pop3 periodically, the dovecot-auth process gets killed. Some clients, e.g. outlook (express), then requests for reentering the password. When this happens, i see something like this in th elogs: Apr 28 14:53:45 marge dovecot: child 25819 (auth) killed with signal 4 Apr 28 14:55:09 marge dovecot: login: received another "not listening" notification (if you can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) Any idea, how to solve this? Thanks in advance, Andreas Goertz. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCcOjTpAOZWzj6viQRAtz+AKCjfTe3ib3tsBUeqZjTuLY/hcJ2mACgqePc /T4TGvBNzmY0snTpOMHuUdE= =t5Ev -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99.xx to 1.0-stable how-to?
by Rich West 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I realize that there have been some big changes in features and configuration file settings between 0.99.xx and 1.0-stable, so when I went to perform an upgrade on our testing server, I carefully combed through the configuration files and matched up everything I could. I fired up dovecot-1.0-stable and was pleased to see that it was happily running. I attempted to connect to it, and discovered that it wasn't listening to any ports.. then I realized that the app had crashed due to a typo in the config file (oops). Fixed that, started it up, and it was happily running and listening. However, it wouldn't authenticate any users.. Backing down to the 0.99.14 version that we had installed allowed for authentication (against ldap) to work just fine.. Is there anything that I should be looking for within the dovecot-1.0-stable that is dramatically different in regards to user authentication? -Rich

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[Dovecot] Root uid
by Chris L. Franklin 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Whats the easy'est way to mod the source to allow the statis uid and or gid or of the users be root ? PS. I do wish this was an admin set-able option in the dovecot.conf -- Chris L. Franklin --

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