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[Dovecot] procmail, mutt, and Mac OS X
by Alan Schmitt 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm using procmail to deliver my mail to my maildir boxes, that are watched by dovecot, and I configured mutt to use imap to access these boxes. After installing a more recent procmail (the default one from Apple has a bug with "/" in the filenames, so I used the one from Fink), I sent myself a message, which was delivered correctly to Maildir/.INBOK/new (I can see the file there). However, I cannot see this file from mutt. I think it is dovecot that is not seeing it, as I tried quitting and restarting mutt. So my question is: how can I tell dovecot that it should check the mailboxes, and is there a way to make it do so regularly? Or is my problem from somewhere else? Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] installing dovecot on Mac OS X
by Alan Schmitt 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm trying to install dovecot on Mac OS X, and I'm having trouble to make it run. If someone could point me to what I'm doing wrong or suggest some documentation to read, I'd be very glad (I've search the wiki for Mac OS X specific documentation, but could not find any). I installed dovecot using darwinports. The version installed is 0.99.10.5. (It's running well enough to tell me that when I do a: sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot --version ;-) Before trying to tweak the configuration file, I wanted first to get dovecot to run. When I first launched it, it told me that there was no dovecot user. After searching for a while, I finally found how to create one (and a dovecot group as well), doing the following: sudo niutil -create / /groups/dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /groups/dovecot gid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /groups/dovecot passwd '*' sudo niutil -create / /users/dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot uid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot gid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot name dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot passwd '*' sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot _writers_passwd root sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot change 0 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot shell /dev/null sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot home /var/empty sudo niutil -deleteprop / /users/dovecot realname sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot realname 'Dovecot user' sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot expire 0 This seems to create the correct thing, and looking in NetInfo it looks like the other users and groups used for daemons. I then launched dovecot and I got (trying to run it as a normal user, then as root): top% /opt/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: fchown() failed for /opt/local/var/run/dovecot: Operation not permitted top% sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for base directory /opt/local/var/run/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login zsh: bus error sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot and it seems that this happens every time I try to launch dovecot. Could someone point me at what I'm doing wrong? The setting I'm aiming for is the following: - being able to read local mail in maildir format using mutt - being able to read local mail using Mail.app and IMAP access - being able to use ssh to connect to the machine and locally run the IMAP server (in order to synchronize mail maybe using isync.sf.net) Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] Subscription problem with various clients
by Lucky U 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm a newbie with dovecot but i managed to install it and it's running great except i have this weird problem when trying to subscribe folders. I can subscribe to one folder at the time (for example inbox + sent), but if i try to subscribe an other directory client (tried with outlook express 6, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8, Iloha Webmail) automaticly unsubscribes other directories. I've tried to search a solution for this problem without success. Please help. I'm using Dovecot 0.99.10.2 on FreeBSD 5.0

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test50
by Timo Sirainen 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Support for LOGIN-REFERRALS (see wiki) - IMAP and POP3 proxies (see wiki) - disable_plaintext_auth = yes works correctly again - Don't leak fds in IDLE with non-Linuxes - Fixes connection hanging in certain situations - Added tb-negative-fetch workaround

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[Dovecot] test49 "killed with signal 6" errors...
by jross＠wykids.org 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

I upgraded yesterday from 1.0test46 to 1.0test49 in an attempt to eliminate an error that a couple of my users were getting. Both users were using Thunderbird 0.6 over imaps, and were getting errors that said: "The current command didn't succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid Body [..] Parameter: Missing '>'in'<14336-13057>'. When the user would click the Okay button on the e-mail client error message, the message would be delivered as normal. There wasn't any entry in the system logs about this that I could find. Googling didn't turn up anything concrete. I decided to upgrade to the latest test49 version. Now the same users are getting occasional e-mails that will not display, and I'm getting the follwing in the logs: 2004-10-20 09:48:51.854386500 mail.info: Oct 20 09:48:51 dovecot: imap-login: Login: jgarcia [69.146.158.154] 2004-10-20 09:49:13.195974500 mail.err: Oct 20 09:49:13 dovecot: IMAP(jgarcia): Trying to allocate 0 bytes 2004-10-20 09:49:13.197151500 mail.err: Oct 20 09:49:13 dovecot: child 14738 (imap) killed with signal 6 I upgraded one of the users to the latest Thunderbird with no change. But, if I have them go through our web interface (horde/imp) the same message displays just fine. The mail server is OpenBSD 3.6 -current. Dovecot is built with the following configuration: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-pam=NO \ --with-ldap=no \ --with-vpopmail=no \ --with-rawlog I added the --with-rawlog switch yesterday and created a dovecot.rawlog folder in the Maildirs but nothing seems to be logged. Any other information I can provide please let me know. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- http://wykids.org/

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[Dovecot] dovecot failing to chdir in home
by Stefano Maffulli 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi all, I have been fiddling with dovecot and things seem to be stuck on this problem: Oct 20 11:21:35 mail dovecot: chdir(studiosala.net/federico/) failed with uid 1001: Permission denied Oct 20 11:21:35 mail dovecot: child 22150 (pop3) returned error 89 This is the telnet session that generates it: mail:~# telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user federico(a)studiosala.net +OK pass XXXXXX +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. I am stuck: the UID/GID that postfix uses for dropping the mail in /varm/mail/domains/ is 1001/1001. The query string to mysql (the backend where I have stored the users) is (from mysql log, so it is executed): 682 Query SELECT 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid, '/var/mail/domains/' AS mail, maildir AS home FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'ale(a)studiosala.net' mail:/etc# ls -lad /var/mail drwxrwsr-t 3 root mail 4096 2004-10-19 23:49 /var/mail mail:/etc# ls -lad /var/mail/domains/ drwxr-sr-t 4 vmail vmail 4096 2004-10-20 07:03 /var/mail/domains/ I am not sure of how to proceed from here, any hint appreciated. thanks stef

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env problems
by Neil Marjoram 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

sorry if this mail is a duplicate - I am testing the new mail system! I am having problems setting the default mail environment.# I am using Fedora Core 2 with version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 My users all have an NFS mounted home directory, and all mail is delivered to ~Mail/.mailbox it is all mbox format. I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}. So I set these parameters for default_mail_env : mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/Mail/.mailbox Which produced the error : imap(test): stat() failed with mbox file ~/Mail/.mailbox: No such file or directory I set the mail environment back to default, linked inbox to .mailbox in the ~/Mail directory and all worked fine. Is there a better way to do this ? I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}, so I decided to set: default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n and got this error: imap(test): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/indexes//test dovecot: child 9142 (imap) returned error 89 I also tried : default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%u And got the same error. I guessed at permissions, so I tried changing the ownership to dovecot and then test and then root and then 777, but I still get this error. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL 01473 663711

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[Dovecot] Occasional error msgs from 1.0-test49
by Gregory Bond 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

I'm running 1.0-test49 on Solaris 2.8. MUA is Thunderbird (or mutt) running on FreeBSD. I'm using Maildir boxes. Occasionally, when browsing new mail in INBOX, I get an error back from the imapd, displayed in Thunderbird as the following popup msg: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in '<36864,-34800>'. >From this point, nothing much works reliably until I quit the MUA and start again. Sometimes, if I keep working, the email that was being fetched is shown but is corrupted and the msg body contains another copy of the whole email (header & body), sometimes 2 extra copies. Nothing is in the maillog. This _didn't_ happen with 0.99.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test49 FD leak
by Gregory Bond 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

I'm running 1.0-test49 on Solaris 2.8. The good news is that this version fixes my problem with corrupted index files (so far). The bad news is it seems to be leaking FDs to do with inbox: imap 10198 gnb 156r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 157r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 158r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 159r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 160r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 161r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 162r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 163r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 164r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 165r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur (seems to be a new pair of FDs leaked each time my MUA checks for new mail).

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[Dovecot] 49-latest compile problem and CVS method
by Kim Culhan 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

--- Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On 17.10.2004, at 21:02, Kim Culhan wrote: > > > The connection is being made with ssl so it looks like > > the plaintext auth preventer is broken. > > Fixed in CVS now (and in next nightly snapshot). Very good, this compile problem though on test49-latest from nightly: ar cru libpassword.a mycrypt.o password-scheme.o password-scheme-md5crypt.o password-scheme-cram-md5.o password-scheme-ntlm.o password-scheme-rpa.o ranlib libpassword.a make: don't know how to make auth-master-interface.h. Stop Also, tried getting the cvs tree with: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dovecot.org:/home/cvs co dovecot It doesn't populate the directory with all the files; does not include the build files such as Makefile.in, configure etc Any way to get cvs to do that ? -kim _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com

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