Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:03 -0800, Lee Howard wrote:
Curtis Maloney wrote:
Have you checked out Dovecot's own LDA?
No, but I just did, and it looks like exactly what I need... except that it doesn't support passwd-file auth. Or am I missing that?
It uses dovecot-auth directly, so you don't have to configure users for the LDA separately.
I'm was trying to follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/LDA
I didn't realize that I had to create a "socket listen" in auth default... I was trying to use the other "socket listen" instances that are found in the example config for other uses.
Once I got that sorted out I got the socket fine. But because permissions wouldn't allow it, I had to put the socket somewhere other than /var/run/dovecot/auth-master, and that was easy enough with dovecot.conf, but the dovecot-deliver.conf file shown on the Wiki indicates an auth_socket_path option which doesn't seem to have an effect. I had to look at the code to see that it's modified with the -a option now.
Okay, so that's now all sorted out on this end. My own LDA now uses Dovecot deliver, and it works well... I don't seem to have the problems that I had just sticking the mail file into the maildir new directory on my own.
If I could offer a suggestion here it would be to get some more accurate documentation out there for deliver... even if it is just runtime "--help" or some such messages.
As long as the filenames are always unique (eg. inode numbers get reused), there should be no problem. Dovecot doesn't require any index updates either from MDA.
This certainly doesn't appear to be the case.
What errors are you getting?
Well, I'm not getting those errors any more because I'm using Dovecot deliver ;-)
However, when I was just sticking the files into the maildir new directory "by hand" (yes, they used unique filenames)...
With the dovecot-0.99.13-4.FC2 binary installation I was getting "Corrupted index file" errors pointing at the .imap.index file in the maildir and with a "Fixed duplicate" error message the mail would get moved to the cur directory and the POP3 client would never download it.
With the 1.0alpha5 tarball installation that I performed (after uninsalling the binary RPM installation) I didn't get the "Corrupted index file" messages, but I did get the "Fixed duplicate" messages, and the mail would still get moved to the cur directory.
Having now installed both 0.99 and 1.0alpha I can see obvious improvements in the newer version. However, admittedly I found 0.99 less complicated to configure than 1.0alpha. I think that the formatting of the config file is a bit too programmer-esque and would be more user-friendly with context-style (.ini) entries like this:
[auth default] passdb = passwd-file passwd-file-path = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-users .......
[pop3] uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv ......
In any case, thank you for all that you do. Dovecot is a wonderfully better than Cyrus from an installation and maintenance perspective.
Lee.