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[Dovecot] Dovecot Local Delivery Agent
by news.gmane.org 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hi I noticed in a post that Timo might start work on a LDA Great! If so, here is something I would really like included. Support for PAM There is quite a lengthy reason behind this. In my organisation, user accounts are created on ldap. It is up to the services to create home directories whenever the user first uses them. For instance, Samba will do this the first time they connect to their windows home share. This achieved in other places using pam, using the pam_mkhomedir module. The MTA we run, Exim, is incapable of creating the home directory automatically, or using PAM for local delivery, thus we have the problem that when an account is created in the LDAP directory, it cannot receive email until the user first logs in through IMAP - Dovecot calls pam, which creates the home directory :-) Also attributing to this is the fact that exim is configured to deliver email into $home using maildir format rather than a mbox mail spool. We needed to do this because of the huge size of some of the inboxes of our users. This caused a severe amount of i/o blocking. So far, I have been unable to find a LDA capable of doing this. Since we migrated to dovecot, performance has improved ten-fold. I will give it a week then show you the graphs to prove it! Keep up the great work! Regards -- Chris Hills IT Services North East Worcestershire College

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir
by alan premselaar 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Zoong Pham wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org >>[mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On >>Behalf Of nino(a)swiftdsl.com.au >>Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 3:07 PM >>To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org >>Subject: [Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir > > >>Thanks in advance. I am not sure if my system is setup to use >>'mbox' or >>'maildir'. How do I find this out? > > >>I am running an OpenBSD (v3.5) box with an Intel P3 >>motherboard. I have >>installed the OpenBSD port of Dovecot (0.99.10) and have >>manually started >>dovecot and configured the ssl certificates as per the >>documentation. As >>far as I can tell there is no problems but I am confused >>about 'mbox' and >>'maildir' > > > It's mbox. > The default MTA of OpenBSD is Sendmail. > More specifically, this is related to your local delivery agent (LDA). Although I'm not extremely familiar with default OpenBSD installations, it's been typical for default RedHat installations (up to and including RH 9) to have sendmail installed and configured to use procmail for its LDA. while recent versions of procmail can support maildir format, it defaults to using mbox format. alan

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[Dovecot] mkdir imap with user@domain.com
by wiki kaha 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

I have a bit a problem. In a virtual domain enviroment i use for login "user(a)domain.com" and the password. in the mysql authentication it works beautiful with %d and %u placeholder. Now when is whould like ad a folder via imap i get an error imap(user(a)domain.com): mkdir(/var/mail/domain.com/user@domain.com/.test) failed: No such file or directory It should be mkdir(/var/mail/domain.com/user/.test) Is there a way to configure this? Thanks Regards Karl-Heinz __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] RPA authentication mechanism
by Andrey Panin 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hello all, attached patch implements Compuserve RPA athentication mechanism. Tested with: - Eudora 6 (uses Compuserve "Virtual Key" RPA software); - TheBat! 2.11 (uses it's own RPA implementation). I hope it can be useful for someone. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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FW: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type'mysql'
by Alex Low (e-wise) 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

After better looking in the config.log, We found this, mysql wasn't compiled because of this; /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o)(.text+0xd8): In function `my_compress_alloc': : undefined reference to `compress' /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o)(.text+0x171): In function `my_uncompress': : undefined reference to `uncompress' I am using Fedora Core 2, using own compiled mysql 4.x rpm's. Timo Sirainen wrote: It looks like it's needed to be linked with zlib. Hmm. I haven't heard this to be necessary before. It seems to be statically linked in my mysql library. I think it'd work with: LDFLAGS=-lz ./configure --with-mysql And indeed adding -lz to LDFLAGS= in the spec file helped. Anyways I have dovecot rpm for Fedora Core 2 compiled with mysql 4. So if anybody want it, mail away. Greets, Alex _____ From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Alex Low (e-wise) Sent: woensdag 4 augustus 2004 11:15 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type'mysql' Hi, I am trying this way(mailinglist), as I cant find good 'support'/howto/tutorials on the website. I am running Fedora Core II, using postfix with mysql, and I want to use dovecot as imap server. Now I installed Dovecot using dag wieers SRPM, I compiled it with mysql, pgsql; %configure \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_datadir}/ssl" \ --with-ldap \ --with-pgsql \ --with-mysql \ --with-cyrus-sasl2 \ --with-rawlog %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags} After compiling it, I installed the rpm. No problem at all. I configure the dovecot.conf like this; #auth = plain digest-md5 #auth_methods = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mail/virtual/%d/%n # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log1 # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log2 Then I try run it: [root@octa SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log1 dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: child 2118 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe dovecot-auth: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: child 11137 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe [root@octalys SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log2 dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:28 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:38 Info: Dovecot starting up [root@octalys SPECS]# Can anyone tell me whats wrong please ? Thank you in advance, Alex

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RE: [Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir
by Zoong Pham 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On > Behalf Of nino(a)swiftdsl.com.au > Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 3:07 PM > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: [Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir > Thanks in advance. I am not sure if my system is setup to use > 'mbox' or > 'maildir'. How do I find this out? > I am running an OpenBSD (v3.5) box with an Intel P3 > motherboard. I have > installed the OpenBSD port of Dovecot (0.99.10) and have > manually started > dovecot and configured the ssl certificates as per the > documentation. As > far as I can tell there is no problems but I am confused > about 'mbox' and > 'maildir' It's mbox. The default MTA of OpenBSD is Sendmail. I have similar configuration here. Let me know if you need any help. Cheers, Zoong PHAM UNIX systems Administrator ICT - Information, Communications & Technology Mercy Health & Aged Care 678 Victoria Street Richmond 3121 ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir
by nino＠swiftdsl.com.au 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hi, Thanks in advance. I am not sure if my system is setup to use 'mbox' or 'maildir'. How do I find this out? I am running an OpenBSD (v3.5) box with an Intel P3 motherboard. I have installed the OpenBSD port of Dovecot (0.99.10) and have manually started dovecot and configured the ssl certificates as per the documentation. As far as I can tell there is no problems but I am confused about 'mbox' and 'maildir' Any assistance is appreciated. Thankyou NS

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[Dovecot] Debian sarge release and dovecot
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

In what must surely be the first sign of the apocalypse, Debian is actually freezing in preperation for a new release. Probably the last day for uploads will be August 17. Is there likely to be another dovecot release by then? In the event of 0.99.10.9 being the released version, are there any other patches Debian users would like me to include? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] Problem moving folders with Thunderbird
by Loek 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

I can move around folders to sub-folders in an IMAP account on my dovecot server, but when I try to move a sub-folder back to the top-level (by dragging it to the account name), I get an error: "The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Mailbox exists." It doesn't exist on the server though, and I can create a folder with that name on the top-level. But it is a little annoying. I am using TB 0.7.2. I tried different IMAP server settings in Thunderbird under the account options, but without success. Loek

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[Dovecot] Both mbox and Maildir
by Yann Rouillard 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to configure dovecot so that it use mbox file format for the INBOX mailbox but Maildir format for all the subfolders. My problem is I would like an IMAP server which allow to easily create folders and subfolders of folders, but at the same time I don't want to break all MUA which rely on /var/mail/johndoe in mbox format. Thanks in advance. Yann

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