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[Dovecot] About maildir
by Jean-Edouard Babin 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hi, i just discover dovecot, and it's what i always wanted to have i read that it support qmail Maildir, i use postfix, but read on postfix site that postfix Maildir are compatible with qmail. so i have something like /var/mail/vhosts/domaine.tld/testuser/ i tried a simple setup to 'test' auth_userdb = static uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n auth_passdb = passwd-file /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot-passwd.conf all thing work exept that i don't see my email. dovecot has created /var/mail/vhosts/domaine.tld/testuser/mail/ and it seems that inbox email are stored in /var/mail/vhosts/archives.jeb.be/test3/mail/inbox (i have put an email on my inbox folder into my email client) but when i get a mail it's in /var/mail/vhosts/archives.jeb.be/.new/ so i'am wondering what is wrong, thank you, -- Jean-Edouard BABIN Mail: Jeb(a)jeb.com.fr Web : www.Jeb.com.fr IRC : Jeb @ Undernet

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[Dovecot] newbie question - no users can retrieve email (login works) pop3
by Web Enabled Info Systems 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

not sure where to go from here.... OS : Red Hat Fedora 2.6.5-1.358 #1 sendmail: sendmail dovecot version : 0.99.10.5 i can send email to the server. the email is then appended to the /var/mail/{user} file. i can view the /var/mail/{file} and see the email. i cannot retrieve the email from the local machine using Ximian Evolution (version 1.4.6). however if i use good ole #mail in a terminal it access the file and reads all emails. also as an added twist if i type in an incorrect email for the receiving email server it fails to login. however if i change it back it gets pass the login but it just hangs at retrieving messages. (again this is all on the local machine) i am sure i am just leaving out a pointer or permissions, or something crazy like that... thanks in advance Jack Taffar

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test41
by Timo Sirainen 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I think this release should be quite stable one. - fixes parsing mails with header lines longer than 8192 bytes - cache file corruption fixes - fixed "corrupted offset in mbox file" errors - don't return extra INBOX replies in LIST Those mbox and cache problems were pretty tricky to figure out. Thanks to Tomi Hakala for tons of testing while I tried to fix them. I've also began working with keywords support which hopefully doesn't take too long to finish. After that 1.0-alpha1 should be near.

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[Dovecot] mail not received from dovecot
by Tanim Islam 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hello all, I cannot receive emails to my dovecot IMAP server. Are there any WIKIs or anything in the dovecot mailing list that can address this issue? I use fedora core and dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. Tanim Islam

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0-test32 fails with assertion
by dovecot 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hello, dovecot-1.0-test32 continuously fails on one of our customers mboxes with the following error: Sep 11 16:27:15 web dovecot: POP3(xxxxxxxxxxxxx.de1): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 360 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == -mails[idx].space) About 200 other mboxes are working perfectly on the same server. Where should I start looking for the cause of this? Regards, Martin

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[Dovecot] Errors with NFS root filesystem?
by Nate Carlson 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hey all, I've been testing out Dovecot, and it works nicely. However, when I tried to roll it to my production server, I'm getting the following error: Sep 10 17:14:22 tungsten imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying to get list of authentication servers: Stale NFS file handle Any ideas on what I can do for this? I am running on a NFS root filesystem on the production server, so that's likely where this error is coming from. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars(a)natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Re: evolution/dovecot
by Stephen Waters 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:57, Stephen Waters wrote: > This bug may interest you: > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65679 I've updated it... looks like there's a problem with using /var/spool/mail/user for INBOX and subfolder creation/deletion using mbox in ~/Mail. The result is this: Request: A00099 LIST "" INBOX Response: * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX Request: A00100 LIST "" {7+} Response: * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "INBOX/" Which makes Evolution think INBOX is unreadable. :) Thanks for looking at this. -s

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[Dovecot] pop/imap & smtp auth installation with just one userdb
by Christoph Steigmeier 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Hi First of all thanks to the authors of dovecot. It's a pleasure to work with it. I would like to ask, if somebody has an idea about how I can combine all mailusers (dovecot pop/imap & sendmail smtp) into one db, given that I'd like to use sasl with CRAM-MD5 as authentication mechanism to ensure security. The idea behind my question is, that it is easier to administer all mail users, which in my case are mostly non-interactive users, into one db, instead of creating native unix accounts for them. Any input appreciated. Thanks and Kind regards Chris

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[Dovecot] Re: 0.99 mail env - mbox to maildir
by C.Lee Taylor 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Greetings ... > I'm all sorted now, anyway... but it has inspired me to build > a mailbox conversion tool using the dovecot mail handling > code.... watch this space. mbox to maildir converter ... There are a few perl scripts which could do this ... But I like the idea of mbox to maildir in dovecot ... But I wonder if that is the right place to put it ... Mailed Lee P.S. If anybody has scripts or a system that moves mail from mbox to maildir, I would be happy to use them ... I run FC2, with procmailrc setting maildir, but it seems when the system is busy or something, my mail is still put into mbox ...

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[Dovecot] ah ha!!
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

i don't know what happened, but it just started giving me better errors. i had to set first_valid_uid=100 since that's where my users start. wow, dovecot is FAST. -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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