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[Dovecot] Maildir quotas support in Dovecot and 2 other newbie questions
by Theodore Knab 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

I am not familiar with all the features that Dovecot has, but I am familiar with Courier IMAP using Maildir. Does Dovedot have a software based Maildir supporting quota program like Courier IMAP ? Can maildrop be used with Dovecot for quotas ? Courier IMAP has maildrop integrated. - If maildrop support is turned on in Courier IMAP, then a user will get a quota warning mail message each time they login to their account and are over the specified amount. Is there a recommended MTA to be used with the DoveCot IMAP server ? -- ------------------------------------------ Ted Knab Chester, MD 21619 ------------------------------------------ 35570707f6274702478656021626f6c6964796f6e602f66602478656 02e6164796f6e60237471647560216e6460276c6f62616c60257e696 4797e2a0

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[Dovecot] Re: Bug#224092: Dovecot IMAP: detection of folders
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeroen van Disseldorp wrote: > Package: dovecot-imapd > Version: 0.99.10.4-2 > Severity: normal > > When accessing a maildir with "all folders" instead of "only subscribed > folders", dovecot wrongfully reports its index-files (.imap.*) as mail > folders. When the client (KMail 1.5.2 in my case) checks for email, it > aborts halfway with the message: > > Unable to get information about folder imap.index. The server replied: > Internal error [2003-12-15 23:53:05] > > I noticed the same thing with the .subscription-file, but that seems to > have disappeared after a reinstall of dovecot*. Squirrelmail, which > only checks subscribed folders, has no problems. > > The problem started with the last upgrade from 0.99.10.4-1 to -2. -1 was > working fine. I am using Debian GNU/Linux unstable (fully updated) with > kernel 2.4.18-686. I don't think the problem was caused by the upgrade as I only changed one Debian dependency. I am Cc'ing the Dovecot mailing list to see if the developer or anyone else has some insight into this. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] multiple auth= statements
by Stephan van Beerschoten 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

I'm new to dovecot and it's configurations. Reading the config file, I have a question regarding having multiple auth= lines in there. Is this some sort of a pass-through or fail-through system of authentications like where if a user is not authenticated using 'pam', then the second method is tried (which might be sql or plain passwd-txt) ? Am I assuming the right thing here ? I have system-users, but am planning to migrate the majority of those users to a virtual_mailbox system (using postfix) where they have no more system-users . I just want to be sure this will work. If anybody has setup a system with postfix and virtual mailboxes in combination with dovecot, and wants to swap stories and setups, I'd be grateful :) /Stephan -- Stephan van Beerschoten [KeyID: 0x08F12864] "If you are adminstering UNIX systems and don't master tools such as make, shell, and perl, then you are working too hard." -- Wietse Venema. Fri, 12 Dec 2003

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[Dovecot] Always 'new mail' false notifications?
by Stephan van Beerschoten 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Hi, I just yesterday played around and installed dovecot. I like it a lot (except for the lack of mysql support), but I have one issue I can't seem to fix. I am using mutt as my mailclient and mutt will alert me whenever new mail has arrived in any mailfolder I have configured. The thing is, that mutt continously signals me of new mail in all my folders, when in reality nothing has entered there. Does this sound familiar to anyone ? All I can think of, is that something is happening with modification timestamps of my mailboxes which signals the new mail flag, but I don't know what causes it. A small description of my setup: One server running dovecot. I access mail locally via IMAP, but can also access the spoolfiles and mailfolders directly. I'm the only one with shell access. Procmail filters mail and delivers it to my mailfolders in ~/Mail. Any ideas ? -- Stephan van Beerschoten [KeyID: 0x08F12864] "To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy"

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[Dovecot] Mailing list problems fixed
by Timo Sirainen 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 12:00, mailman(a)dovecot.org wrote: > ...: host ...[...] said: 504 > <talvi>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname (in reply to > RCPT TO command) Whops. 12 people's subscriptions got disabled because of that. It's fixed now and I've restored the subscriptions.

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[Dovecot] corrupted empty message with CVS
by dean gaudet 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

with CVS as of an hour ago i'm seeing corruption of messages (in an mbox) with an empty message body. for example, here's what i have in my test INBOX right after receiving the empty message: --- top of INBOX --- >From dean(a)arctic.org Tue Nov 25 19:02:23 2003 Return-Path: <dean(a)arctic.org> Delivered-To: dgtest(a)arctic.org Received: (qmail 3626 invoked by uid 500); 26 Nov 2003 03:02:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs(a)127.0.0.1) by 127.0.0.1 with SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 03:02:23 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:02:23 -0800 (PST) From: dean gaudet <dean(a)arctic.org> To: dgtest(a)arctic.org Subject: quibble Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311251902160.15721(a)twinlark.arctic.org> X-comment: visit http://arctic.org/~dean/legal for information regarding copyright and disclaimer. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on twinlark.arctic.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=2.60 --- end of INBOX --- and then i use pine 4.58 to access {localhost}INBOX and it shows a corrupted message (no subject/etc) then i quit pine, and here's what the INBOX looks like on disk afterwards: --- top of INBOX --- >From dean(a)arctic.org Tue Nov 25 19:02:23 2003 X-IMAPbase: 1069815483 6 Status: RO X-UID: 6 Content-Length: 0 X-Keywords: --- end of INBOX --- any ideas or other info which would be useful? thanks -dean

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[Dovecot] Authenting in Linuxconf format
by Marc Perkel 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

I have an existing email system and I'm trying to addapt dovecot into it. It uses the linuxconf virtual email format. The way it is set up is there there are multiple passwd/shadow files - one for eact domain. They are in standard format. The names of these files are: /etc/vmail/passwd.domain.com /etc/vmail/shadow.domain.com I tried this: auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/passwd.%d auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/shadow.%d but - it didn't expand the %d So - is this going to work? If not - how do you do virtual domains? The documentation is less than complete on this.

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[Dovecot] Folder names
by Keith Edmunds 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

I'm not sure offhand exactly which version of Dovecot I'm running - it doesn't seem to have a -V switch. Anyway, I created a folder which had periods in the name. There was no problem with that, but MUAs now report that folder as a hierarchy. For example: customers | +-customername.com | +-another.customer.com has become: customers | +-customername | | | +-com | +-another | +-customer | +-com Now the obvious answer is "don't do that". However, should Dovecot either a) refuse to create a folder with an embedded period in the name or 2) manage (somehow) the fact that not all periods represent hierarchical delimiters? Keith PS Damn fine software, Dovecot

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[Dovecot] server changes
by Timo Sirainen 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Moved Dovecot's web, dns, mails, cvs and all to different server. Plan is to get it moved elsewhere for hosting once everything looks to be working. dovecot(a)dovecot.org is the preferred posting address to this list now, although dovecot(a)procontrol.fi should still keep forwarding the mails.

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[Dovecot] subscriptions list destroyed
by kalle-e＠medelklassen.com 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

What could be the reason that the subscribed folders list becomes messed up? If i do this: $ rm ~/.maildir/.subscriptions $ evolution [subscribe to everything, exit program] $ cat ~/.maildir/.subscriptions debian sers va $ (or some other random text which seems to come from parts of the folder list) This makes Mozilla Mail go crazy. Evolution and Gnus work OK since they seem to have their own list, but switching back and forth between Evolution and Gnus makes Evolution forget the list. I don't think I had this problem before. I used mbox then.

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