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[dovecot] SMTP options
by Jesse Peterson 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

I realize this is not an SMTP discussion list, but... here goes: This is my situation. We have mobile users that need a secure (SSL) SMTP+auth gateway that simply forwards rfc822's to our real MTA. All it would have to do is accept SSL connections, authenticate the user, accept his message, then send that to the MTA. Anybody know of a very minimal software package that can do this? -- Jesse Peterson / jesse(a)pixeltechs.com

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[dovecot] 0.99.8.1 out
by Timo Sirainen 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Nothing but bugfixes from CVS: * src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-list.c: mbox: LIST "" invalid-directory/% doesn't anymore give internal error * src/lib-storage/index/index-fetch.c: FETCH: \Seen flag updating didn't work (eg. FETCH BODY[]). * src/lib-imap/imap-parser.c: Literal parser broke if \r\n wasn't in buffer at the time '}' was parsed. * src/lib-mail/message-address.c: message_address_write() didn't work. * src/lib-mail/message-address.c: message_address_parse(): allow using data_stack_pool (above two fix SEARCH FROM, TO, CC, BCC crashing) * src/lib-storage/index/index-save.c: Don't crash if something tries to write 0 bytes in headers while saving the message. This happened sometimes with mbox. * src/auth/master-connection.c: Don't crash if auth request wasn't found. * src/lib/failures.c: Handle /dev/stderr directly instead of open()ing. * src/lib-imap/imap-quote.c: Use literals for strings containing '"' and '\' characters too. This wasn't done at all before so FETCH ENVELOPE, BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE could have returned pretty broken results. * src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c: Selecting INBOX didn't use index files if full_filesystem_access was yes. * src/auth/db-ldap.c: Setting user_global_uid or user_global_gid crashed. * src/lib/safe-mkdir.c: safe_mkdir(): usage fchmod() and fchown(). chmod() wasn't really safe and lchown() wasn't portable. * src/auth/mech-plain.c: Invalid PLAIN auth request crashed auth process. * src/master/main.c: [::] address wasn't treated exactly as "ipv6 any", but looks like gethostbyname() worked with it. * doc/nfs.txt: updated * doc/index.txt: update

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[dovecot] Apple's Mail.app
by Scott A.McIntyre 10 Mar '03

10 Mar '03

Hi, I solved the OSX Authentication issue; I'm now reliably able to get authenticated using the Password Server with PAM with: # login: auth account password session auth required pam_nologin.so auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so auth required pam_deny.so account required pam_permit.so password required pam_deny.so session required pam_permit.so As the /etc/pam.d/imap Anyway -- new problem. With Apple's Mail.app and how it wants to download messages into it's cache, I've found that there's a problematic interaction between Dovecot and Mail.app -- but pinning down exactly what and where is proving to be a hassle. I was running Courier-Imap with Mail.app, and that worked without incident (however, the courier-imap server was on Linux, not OSX Server, that will not work (yet) with osx-server). If I use Entourage and Dovecot, it works fine. The primary symptom is that as it downloads messages Mail.app just hangs; no response, the session just freezes. Usually it's when the status bar is saying something akin to "Caching 9 of 506" at which point it stops. The number varies, but it's always in the first couple of dozen. Messages are small, so it's not that it's hanging on a large mail download. I eventually have to forcibly kill Mail.app. The log says nothing of use: dovecot: Mar 07 17:31:23 Info: Dovecot starting up imap-login: Mar 07 16:32:50 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21] imap-login: Mar 07 16:33:46 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21] imap-login: Mar 07 16:35:38 Info: Login: scott [194.109.29.21] But perhaps there's a more verbose option somewhere. Thoughts? Scott

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[dovecot] IMAP Folder paths
by Juergen Kahnert 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

Hello, we like to use dovecot, but our old imapd used to store the paths of the folder in the file ~/.mailboxlist. This file contains something like this: mail/read mail/dovecot .netscape/imap/mailbox .Mail/foo Each line with a path to one mbox folder. And please pay attention that there is no path to the inbox, because this is stored on the server... Is there a way to use this files with dovecot? It would be a real pain to change this for a few thousand user... Do you see a chance of using such a file? Or is it already possible and I'd overlooked it? Or is it easy / hard to implement? kind regards, Jürgen Kahnert

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[dovecot] vpopmail auth failure
by Oskar Eyb 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

hello! when is try to use IMP with dovecot and vpopmail i receive the following error-msg: dovecot-auth: Mar 06 20:43:24 Info: vpopmail(test@$DOMAIN): unknown user But this user exists! Where i can search for the mistake? Greets, Oskar

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[dovecot] OSX & Authentication
by Scott A.McIntyre 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

Hi, Taking a stab at getting OSX Server 10.2.4 running Dovecot -- with a minor tweak of replacing lchown() with chown() in the src/lib/sakfe-mkdir.c, it compiled and installed without any problems. However, oddness in authentication. It works once, but only once. I'm trying to use pam and have the following: auth required pam_securityserver.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so In the dovecot.conf I have (amongst other things): auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam I start up dovecot and do: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. . login scott pass . OK Logged in. . logout * BYE Logging out . OK Logout completed. No problem. However, try it again and: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. . login scott pass . NO Authentication failed. . logout * BYE Logging out . OK Logout completed. Perhaps there's a better way to get dovecot playing under osx; I'd tried a number of ways of using pam, but perhaps there's a magic other option I've not got working yet. I do run the password server and my account name is using that as per the Workgroup Manager's settings (as opposed to Basic)... Any thoughts appreciated! Scott

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[dovecot] ldap support
by Farkas Levente 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

hi, it seem to me that dovecot support only v2 ldap protocol but openldap2.1 support only v3 (or you can enable v2 in the conf file, but it seems they wouldn't like to support it in the future). will dovecot support v3 ldap protocal? thanks. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] problem with COPY?
by JP 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

hi all, I've been trying to use dovecot (from cvs 03.mar.2003, linux 2.2.20, gcc 2.96, openssl 0.9.7a) as an replacement for uw-imap, and it seems to be doing its job, except for one thing: I have my mua (sylpheed-claws from cvs) set up so that it will sort message into certain(imap) directories. so when I check the mail in the INBOX, new mails will be processed automatically and, for example spamcop related emails are moved to their own 'folder'. imap session below. [STARTTLS and LOGIN stuff not included... no errors whatsoever there.] [18:06:39] IMAP4< 5 OK Logged in. [18:06:39] IMAP4> 6 SELECT INBOX [18:06:40] IMAP4< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) [18:06:40] IMAP4< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 49 EXISTS [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 3 RECENT [18:06:40] IMAP4< * OK [UNSEEN 47] First unseen. [18:06:40] IMAP4< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1046109663] UIDs valid [18:06:40] IMAP4< * OK [UIDNEXT 64] Predicted next UID [18:06:40] IMAP4< 6 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 7 UID SEARCH UID 1:* [18:06:40] IMAP4< * SEARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 49 52 55 56 57 58 61 62 63 [18:06:40] IMAP4< 7 OK Search completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 8 STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [18:06:40] IMAP4< * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 49 RECENT 3 UIDNEXT 64 UIDVALIDITY 1046109663 UNSEEN 3) [18:06:40] IMAP4< 8 OK Status completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 9 UID FETCH 61:63 (UID FLAGS RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date From To Cc Newsgroups Subject Message-Id References In-Reply-To Content-Type Seen Status X-Status From)]) [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 47 FETCH (UID 61 FLAGS (\Recent) RFC822.SIZE 3111 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO CC NEWSGROUPS SUBJECT MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE SEEN STATUS X-STATUS FROM)] {322} [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 48 FETCH (UID 62 FLAGS (\Recent) RFC822.SIZE 3111 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO CC NEWSGROUPS SUBJECT MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE SEEN STATUS X-STATUS FROM)] {322} [18:06:40] IMAP4< * 49 FETCH (UID 63 FLAGS (\Recent) RFC822.SIZE 3109 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO CC NEWSGROUPS SUBJECT MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE SEEN STATUS X-STATUS FROM)] {322} [18:06:40] IMAP4< 9 OK Fetch completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 10 STATUS Spamcop (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [18:06:40] IMAP4< * STATUS "Spamcop" (MESSAGES 14 RECENT 0 UIDNEXT 51 UIDVALIDITY 1046109859 UNSEEN 0) [18:06:40] IMAP4< 10 OK Status completed. [18:06:40] IMAP4> 11 UID COPY 61 Spamcop now after this, the conenction goes unresponsive and the following appears in the server log: Mar 4 18:06:42 btp212 imap(jp): file index-save.c: line 61 (write_with_lf): assertion failed:(size > 0 && size <= SSIZE_T_MAX) Mar 4 18:06:42 btp212 dovecot: child 6022 (imap) killed with signal 6 any ideas on what might be causing this? dovecot/mua/some else? regards, JP

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[dovecot] Torture tests
by Ian R. Justman 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Hi, all. I've been so impressed with Dovecot, I'm in the process of moving my mail over to it. In fact, one of my mailboxes got SO huge, it'll likely literally take more than a day to move it all over (in excess of 19,000 mails, about 140 megabytes). So far, the IMAP server shows absolutely no sign of crapping out yet. It should also be noted that I'm moving all this mail out of a Cyrus mailstore into an mbox folder on the same server using Pine. And at work, for my work mail, I recently installed Dovecot 0.99.8, using the POP2 port so I can have test it out while not disturbing my coworkers' ability to retrieve mail. So far, I have yet to see anything bad happen. My IMAP test is taking place under Debian GNU/Linux Woody and my POP3 test under FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. Though any suggestions in what to keep an eye out for in either case? --Ian.

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[dovecot] pine/dovecot issues
by David E. Storey 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Folks, I'm running into some issues with pine and dovecot. (dovecot is running mbox for now... plan to switch to maildir soon.) At first I thought it was a funky issue with the way I was using pine to access mailboxes. (I use rsh to invoke imap as pre-authenticated so when I switch to maildirs, I don't have to worry about pine being patched to support it.) But after switching over to using authenticated IMAP over port 143, it still had issues. I'm getting messages like: Junk in start of group Not an Address Junk at end of envelope Unknown Message property Thus far, it seems to only occur in pine. (Squirrelmail and evolution appear to be fine) Is it the client? Is it dovecot? is it easily fixable? It feels like some sort of escaping issue or parsing issue or something. I just don't know enough about IMAP to determine exactly what it is. I'm using dovecot v0.99.8, MAIL=mbox:%h/Mail/:INBOX=%h/.mailbox I've just converted off of wu-imap in hopes of someday migrating to maildirs on that box. (anyone know of a good mbox to maildir conversion tool? I used to have on that worked fine, but I've since found a ton that don't work well for me at all. I have about a gig of email to backup and convert) d!

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