I spent most of today adding new content to the Wiki and cleaning up the existing content. The front page is now also reorganized, but there are several links in it to pages which are still missing. Please write them. :)
Thanks Timo! I've spend most of today to read and understand it ;-/
When I know the answers to all the questions I still have, I might jump in and try to write a few wiki pages.... For the moment I can't get my real users (local accounts) to access their Maildir/ via IMAP. Virtual accounts seem to work now. I use an XP Outlook client for testing. For some strange reason I couldn'd tell Evolution where to look for the Maildir/ (which is in $HOME/Maildir). It will probably be my own ignorance; I started with Dovecot just 3 days ago...
Keep up the good work! Egbert Jan (NL)
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:14 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Wiki documentation
I spent most of today adding new content to the Wiki and cleaning up the existing content. The front page is now also reorganized, but there are several links in it to pages which are still missing. Please write them. :)
Timo Sirainen wrote:
I spent most of today adding new content to the Wiki and cleaning up the existing content. The front page is now also reorganized, but there are several links in it to pages which are still missing. Please write them. :)
More documentation is better. Thanks for also improving that.
What I'm still missing is a way to use a OpenLDAP installation on a remote server as password and user db.
A few months ago I got an answer here that in dovecot-ldap.conf instead of the hosts keyword I could use uris and then write something like uris=ldaps://my.server.domain
That didn't work for me in RC7 and I also couldn't find any documentation about that anywhere. And (that's the reason I'm writing that here) online documentation on Dovecot with LDAP is sparse in general.
Jürgen
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:24 +0100, Jürgen Herz wrote:
What I'm still missing is a way to use a OpenLDAP installation on a remote server as password and user db.
A few months ago I got an answer here that in dovecot-ldap.conf instead of the hosts keyword I could use uris and then write something like uris=ldaps://my.server.domain
I don't really understand. If you want SSL connection then you need to use uris, but if you don't use SSL then hosts will do just the same.
That didn't work for me in RC7 and I also couldn't find any documentation about that anywhere. And (that's the reason I'm writing that here) online documentation on Dovecot with LDAP is sparse in general.
Didn't work why?
Anyway these hosts/uris settings go directly to the LDAP library, so I don't even know how it internally handles them. In general much of Dovecot's LDAP settings are simply passed onto libldap, so you should be able to configure most of those by looking for generic libldap instructions or instructions for other software.
Hi list! (cc to Jerome of Mandriva.org)
I'm fighting to get dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 with Postfix 2.3.3. Postfix works fine for both system and virtual users. Mail is delivered in the correct Maildirs. System users have /home/user/Maildir/ and virtual users have /home/virtual/domain.tld/user/.
I think I've build and installed correct rpm's using the Cooker src.rpm (by Jerome) for rc7 modified by me for rc12.
My problem is to get a working dovecot.conf file. Apart from all relocated file locations in Mandriva (/usr instead of /usr/local and other less obvious changes), I want to use imap (and later imaps) with local real system users. I'm completely lost here. Whatever I think is right syntax in dovecot.conf, is immediately leading to problems. Dovecot refuses to start. The doc in the dovecot.conf is rather chaotic, imho. Could somebody give me a WORKING example of the userdb and passdb setting for ordinary imap to the Maildir in /home/user of an ordinairy system user, please?
Later on I hope to be able to add MySql lookup of virtual users myself...
TIA Egbert Jan (NL)
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:19 +0100, Egbert Jan wrote:
Hi list! (cc to Jerome of Mandriva.org)
I'm fighting to get dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 with Postfix 2.3.3. Postfix works fine for both system and virtual users. Mail is delivered in the correct Maildirs. System users have /home/user/Maildir/ and virtual users have /home/virtual/domain.tld/user/.
I think I've build and installed correct rpm's using the Cooker src.rpm (by Jerome) for rc7 modified by me for rc12.
My problem is to get a working dovecot.conf file. Apart from all relocated file locations in Mandriva (/usr instead of /usr/local and other less obvious changes),
There's no need to change the paths since they're commented out, and the defaults are the ones where Mandriva placed them.
I want to use imap (and later imaps) with local real system users. I'm completely lost here. Whatever I think is right syntax in dovecot.conf, is immediately leading to problems. Dovecot refuses to start.
How about giving the exact error message? Much easier to help you then.
The doc in the dovecot.conf is rather chaotic, imho. Could somebody give me a WORKING example of the userdb and passdb setting for ordinary imap to the Maildir in /home/user of an ordinairy system user, please?
The default config file should work without any changes for you. I think your problem is elsewhere.
Thanks Timo,
Sorry to bother you with my newbie problems while you're so busy getting rc13 out of the door. Since I have no external mail yet om the development box, it's difficult to cut and past to Outlook which is on another piece of iron. I'll see if I can get some results with the original conf file.
CU Egbert Jan
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:38 PM To: egbert@vandenbussche.nl; Dovecot Mailing List Cc: saispo@mandriva.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot rc12 on Mandriva 2007.0 woes
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:19 +0100, Egbert Jan wrote:
Hi list! (cc to Jerome of Mandriva.org)
I'm fighting to get dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 with Postfix 2.3.3. Postfix works fine for both system and virtual users. Mail is delivered in the correct Maildirs. System users have /home/user/Maildir/ and virtual users have /home/virtual/domain.tld/user/.
I think I've build and installed correct rpm's using the Cooker src.rpm (by Jerome) for rc7 modified by me for rc12.
My problem is to get a working dovecot.conf file. Apart from all relocated file locations in Mandriva (/usr instead of /usr/local and other less obvious changes),
There's no need to change the paths since they're commented out, and the defaults are the ones where Mandriva placed them.
I want to use imap (and later imaps) with local real system users. I'm completely lost here. Whatever I think is right syntax in dovecot.conf, is immediately leading to problems. Dovecot refuses to start.
How about giving the exact error message? Much easier to help you then.
The doc in the dovecot.conf is rather chaotic, imho. Could somebody give me a WORKING example of the userdb and passdb setting for ordinary imap to the Maildir in /home/user of an ordinairy system user, please?
The default config file should work without any changes for you. I think your problem is elsewhere.
Hi again.
I hace Dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 now for system accounts and virtual accounts both imap and imaps can be used. Th problem now is that I cannot use both types of user at the same time. The 'mail_location = ' strings are very different: Real system users have their Maildir in /home/%u/Maildir/ but virtual users have their maildir in /home/virtual/%d/%n/. How can tell dovecot to use the first for pam clients and second for mysql authenticated clients? Just adding two private namespaces does not work. That is for ONE user having more mailbox locations, isn't it?
Thanks for any hints!
Egbert Jan (NL)
Please don't start a new thread by replying on an old mail. This makes threaded mail views inconsistent:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/thread.html#17474
GeertOn Wed, 2006-11-08 at 12:59 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
Please don't start a new thread by replying on an old mail. This makes threaded mail views inconsistent:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/thread.html#17474
I've tried to educate people about this by saying this in the mailing list page and in the mailing list subscribe page. Wonder if it could be made any more clearer without adding a <blink> tag..? :)
On Wednesday November 08, 2006 at 07:36:10 (AM) Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 12:59 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
Please don't start a new thread by replying on an old mail. This makes threaded mail views inconsistent:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/thread.html#17474
I've tried to educate people about this by saying this in the mailing list page and in the mailing list subscribe page. Wonder if it could be made any more clearer without adding a <blink> tag..? :)
Every list I subscribe to, and there are several, suffers from this phenomena. Other then employing some rhadamanthine punishment such as banishment from the list, I think you are pretty much at their mercy.
-- Gerard
"Ah, yes, divorce-from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's
genitals through his wallet."
Robin WilliamsOn Wed, 2006-11-08 at 12:07 +0100, Egbert Jan wrote:
Hi again.
I hace Dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 now for system accounts and virtual accounts both imap and imaps can be used. Th problem now is that I cannot use both types of user at the same time. The 'mail_location = ' strings are very different: Real system users have their Maildir in /home/%u/Maildir/ but virtual users have their maildir in /home/virtual/%d/%n/. How can tell dovecot to use the first for pam clients and second for mysql authenticated clients?
mail_location = system users location
For virtual users change the dovecot-sql.conf to return "mail" in the user_query. Like:
user_query = select 'maildir:/home/virtual/%d/%n' as mail, ...
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