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[Dovecot] problem with auth
by Ewald Geschwinde 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

I'm new to dovecot (it's a cool piece of software!!!) I'm using Debian woody I'm trying to start the server but then there is this mail Do I have to set an environment variable or waht does this mean. I'm trying to use a pgsql backend for authentification and I have compiled it from source /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth start dovecot-auth: Fatal: MECHANISMS environment is unset Regards Ewald Geschwinde

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[Dovecot] feature request: maildirquota
by Eero Volotinen 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

Hope maildirquota++ is soon supported, without it, dovecot is useless in my use (mail hosting with maildirquotas). Also QUOTA cabability in dovecot is needed to get to use my webmail plugins that use a001 CAPABILITY to get quota support. Courier imapd supports this. --snippet from quota usage plugin to squirrelmail-- function sqimap_get_quota ($imap_stream, $mailbox) { if (check_quota_capability($imap_stream, "QUOTA")) { fputs ($imap_stream, "a001 GETQUOTAROOT \"$mailbox\"\r\n"); $read_ary = sqimap_read_data ($imap_stream, 'a001', true, $result, $message); for ($i = 0; $i < count($read_ary); $i++) { if (ereg("STORAGE", $read_ary[$i])) { $tempusage = ereg_replace("^.*[(]STORAGE +(.*)[)].*$", "\\1", $read_ary[$i]); $usagearray = explode(" ", $tempusage); return $usagearray[0].":".$usagearray[1]; } } } return "NOQUOTA"; } function check_quota_capability($imap_stream, $capability) { global $imap_general_debug; fputs ($imap_stream, "a001 CAPABILITY\r\n"); $read_ary = sqimap_read_data($imap_stream, 'a001', true, $a, $b); for($i = 0; $i < count($read_ary); $i++) { if (ereg("QUOTA", $read_ary[$i])) return TRUE; } return false; } -- end snippet-- -- Eero

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[Dovecot] Secure coding guide
by Timo Sirainen 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

I thought I'd write a small guide to what Dovecot's "secure coding techniques" are and how you'd use them: http://dovecot.fi/doc/securecoding.txt

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[Dovecot] convert wu-imap Maildir format to dovecot
by Alin Osan 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

Hello, I intend to migrate a mail server with Maildir from wu-imap to dovecot imap. Using horde/IMP, users can not access their imap forders, as wu-imap created Mail directory that holds all created folders. Dovecot could not detect the mail directory so I had to put default_mail_env = ~/Maildir in dovecot.conf. Before I begin to read the source-code of dovecot or try to migrate the the mailboxes using a shell script, is there any way I can make dovecot read the wu-imap folders format? Please suggest any solution that you find viable. Thank you. -- -- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Alin Osan

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[Dovecot] namespaces
by Brian Marcotte 21 Sep '03

21 Sep '03

I'm trying to use the namespaces feature to set up dovecot to look just like our existing Courier IMAP server, and our previous Cyrus server. That is, all folders are subfolders of INBOX, and the hierachy separator is ".". I put this in the configuration file: namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. location = maildir:~/.maildir } This makes subfolders work correctly, but it can't find the INBOX: x1 select INBOX x1 NO Unknown namespace. Also, I don't really want to specify the location here. I want to use the userdb settings (I'm using password-file). Is there a way to make it use my setting in the userdb/password-file? Also, I'm not sure if it actually matters, but when selecting a folder, the number of RECENT messages is always the same as the number of messages which EXISTS: x2 select INBOX.Tech * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 70 EXISTS * 70 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 69] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1057356619] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 181] Predicted next UID x2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. I'm afraid some clients may use this information for something, and display incorrect information to the user. Thanks! -- - Brian

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[Dovecot] Feature question/request
by Dan Sully 20 Sep '03

20 Sep '03

So I have a bunch of users who are roaming - IE no static IP address from all over the internet. Some of them are able to use SMTP-AUTH which is great, but for those that can't, a pop before smtp solution is in place using relay-ctrl-age & cdb files via qmail. Would it be desirable to have this feature in dovecot? I'd really like to ditch qmail-pop3d, etc. vpopmail has a open_smtp_relay() when using vchkpw directly. -D -- <iNoah> I won't be satisfied until I have a rectally-insertable laptop

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[Dovecot] Multiple auth checkers
by Dan Sully 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

I noticed this is in the TODO: - support for multiple auth checkers. passdb+userdb should be tied together. auth process configurations really should be used for this.. and is functionality that I really would like, as I have local users (passwd+shadow) and vpopmail users. In -test7's dovecot-example.conf, there is a different format for "blocking" multiple auth types, and I created a conf as such: auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd passdb = shadow user = root count = 2 } auth vpopmail { mechanisms = plain userdb = vpopmail passdb = vpopmail user = vpopmail count = 2 } Password authentication still works fine, but I can't find a way to get it to fallback to using the vpopmail auth. Is this simply not working yet? Timo - what part of the code needs this update? Thanks. -D -- Change? We fear change.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + PostgreSQL + Postfix with SMTP AUTH HOWTO
by Timo Sirainen 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Just built one and figured I'd write down what I did :) Still needing some web thingy to configure it. At least a password changer plugin for Squirrelmail. http://wiki.dovecot.fi/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql

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[Dovecot] Unable to access the mailbox or folders !!
by nasir nasir 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, Thanx a lot for your reply. But my log file(its /var/log/dovecot) doesnt have any information other than the following line for example, imap-login: Sep 16 10:31:50 Info: Login: usr1 [127.0.0.1] After this when I give select command or anything like that, its not logged(I dont know also, how to enable maximum debug information, I checked the docs and all) Again, let me tell you that I suspect there is something wrong with the mail environment setting. its as follows default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u/Maildir and when i give some nonexisting location ( eg; /var/blah/blah) also, I get the SAME ERROR. Here is a sample telnet session Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. a01 login usr1 XXXXXXXXX a01 OK Logged in. a02 select inbox a02 NO Please tell me if you would like to have any other info. Thanx again and regards, Nasirudheen --- Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 01:35, nasir nasir wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have installed dovecot on redhat linux > with > > ldap backend. I can login using ldap account in to > my > > webmail (squirrelmail) .But when I login to the > > webmail , I cant see any inbox or anything . Just > some > > error messages like this , > > Check the log file. /var/log/mail.log usually. It > should give more > specific error message on what happened. > > > I tried to telnet to port 143. Its also similar > case. > > It allows me to login but when I give "select" > command > > , it gives error(in fact, "NO" and nothing else). > > "x select inbox" too? > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Locking foolishness
by Ian Marlier 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

I'm working on getting Dovecot set up on my school's mailserver, as an IMAP and POP server. Everything is going well, move over to maildir went well, and all that... The catch: When I coverted from mbox to maildir (as part of this whole process), I put the Maildir folders under user home dirs -- and the home dirs are mounted via NFS from a server. This is for reasons of space as well as simply seeming to make sense. Now I get errors in my mail.log which read: imap-login: Sep 16 00:16:24 dovecot:Info: Login: marlier [209.6.159.188] imap(marlier): Sep 16 00:16:28 dovecot:Error: file_wait_lock() failed with index file /Network/Servers/network.uphamscornercs.net/Users/marlier/Maildir/.INBOX/.im ap.index: Invalid argument It looks to me like it's a file locking problem...any thoughts on how to get around it? I've already tried the dotlock mechanism alone...without success... More information available upon request... - Ian

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