September 2003 - dovecot

[Dovecot] still getting weird .{inbox} folder creations with latest -test7
by Charlie Allom 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hi, I am still getting strange creation and mailbox lookups from 0.99.11-test7. dovecot creates in ~/Maildir/ .INBOX/ .imap.index .imap.index.cache .imap.index.log .customflags dovecot-uidlist .INBOX seems to be a reference to ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} yet I cannot get an IMAP client uo pick up my other maildir, located at ~/Maildir/mi/{cur,new,tmp}. In Apple's Mail.app, it picks up a file called ~/Maildir/.procmaillog as if it were a maildir directory! This is with the Mail.app preference for "IMAP Path Prefix" set to null. mutt just seems plain confused. I have these settings: # imap styleee set folder=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/ set mbox=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/mbox set record=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/sent set postponed=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/postponed set spoolfile=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/ set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates set mail_check=10 set timeout=10 set imap_home_namespace="" set imap_pass="foo" I have included the tcpflow files to show what the clients are doing.. Is it normal to search for folders starting with "." ? Why won't it just pick up my normally nested maildir folders? C. -- charlie(a)rubberduck.com - http://rubberduck.com/~yeled/

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[Dovecot] dovecot, vpopmail and djb's tcpserver
by Lasse Danielsen 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hello! I've tried to set up dovecot in conjuction with vpopmail, and running it under djb's tcpserver instead of (x)inetd. Btw - there was no reference to setting dovecot up using (x)inetd either in the manuals/faqs i read, though I didn't search all that hard. Anyway, back to my Q: vpopmail uses vchkpw as an authentication mechanism, and with tcpserver I can do relaycontrol (based on vchkpw) with roaming users. Is there anyone who have tried this, and succeeded? Right now I use two imap services to accomplish this (bincimap has support for vchkpw). Thank you for any response. - Lasse Danielsen Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, then beat you with experience.

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[Dovecot] pine, INBOX, and dovecot
by Jethro R Binks 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

Hi all, I've been experimenting with Dovecot; tests with Maildir seemed to work fine. However, now I'm trying with mbox folders, and I'm having a problem where I do not get an INBOX listed using pine. Outlook Express and IMP show it fine. I snooped part of the session, which appears to go like this (it is slightly garbled, sorry -- I couldn't get rawlog to work by creating dovecot.rawlog in the mail home directory): 00000002 CAPABILITY\r\n * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UN 00000003 LIST "" %\r\n" * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "test" * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) ""/" "Sent Items" * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "Drafts" 0000000a OK List .completed.. Pine just displays "test", "Sent Items", and "Drafts". OE happily downloads mail from the inbox I put there, and IMP can see it and read it. Perhaps there is something there that IMAP protocol people might see. Or else, perhaps there is a known reason why pine does this? Any clues would be appreciated - I browsed the list archives but couldn't spot anything very relevant. Pine version is very recent - I updated today to 4.56. Incidentally, is mbox support still broken in the CVS version? Is there an expected timescale for the next release, preferably with mbox fixed again?! Thanks for any advice. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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Re: [Dovecot] How do i load a configfile ?
by Tweek 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

>which does everything itself without loading the config file it dosen't do anything - i can connect to the server but thats all. how should the server know where i store my mboxes etc. i must load the config file - but how ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> To: <dovecot(a)procontrol.fi> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How do i load a configfile ? > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:57, Tweek wrote: > > hello, > > > > this may be a very stupid question but how do i load a config file? > > i didn't find the docs part which explains how to start the imapserver at > > all. > > There's two possibilities: Run the "dovecot" binary which does > everything itself, or start imap-login from inetd. > > > server = /usr/local/dovecot/imap > > So imap-login here :) > > -- E-Mail by http://www.jesus.ch/ and http://www.livenet.ch/ News, Magazin, Events, Forum, Chat, Free E-Mail, Dialin, Jobs, Top-Newsletter

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[Dovecot] How do i load a configfile ?
by Tweek 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

hello, this may be a very stupid question but how do i load a config file? i didn't find the docs part which explains how to start the imapserver at all. i have put this in my xinetd.conf: service imap { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/local/dovecot/imap flags = IPv4 } and the server is running, but thats all. as u can see i have installed the server in /usr/local/dovecot and i have put the config file in /etc, /usr/local/etc and the programmdir itself - nothing worked. what commands must i write in the xinetd.conf to get the server running ? thanks -- E-Mail by http://www.jesus.ch/ and http://www.livenet.ch/ News, Magazin, Events, Forum, Chat, Free E-Mail, Dialin, Jobs, Top-Newsletter

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[Dovecot] observations about delays
by Eric S. Johansson 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

I've tried two imap clients (mahogany and Mozilla) and they both have strange delays and weird failures. As a reminder, I am using mbox format mailboxes on the server and client side filtering of messages from the inbox. In both cases when the client fetches messages from the inbox and starts redistributing them, CPU utilization on the imap server goes to around 40 percent for Mozilla and around 90 percent for mahogany. There are long delays on the order of two minutes when filtering messages. or 30 to 50 seconds when opening a mailbox. Other than the performance problems, Mozilla is relatively well-behaved. Mahogany on the other hand is a bit more rough and (not) ready. It uses c-client for its imap code and during the filter driven message redistribution process, it all of a sudden started started complaining about unexpected EOF and I found one corrupted message: on 31/8/03 7:36 pm, Morten Christensen at ipcop-d(a)indbakke.dk wrote: >> These bugs might keep many people from trying a new alpha with >> interesting improvements. >> >> A more detailed help for fixing them after install is needed. OK, I'll have a From esj(a)harvee.org Sun Aug 31 16:01:21 2003 Return-Path: <ipcop-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Received: from red.harvee.home (red [192.168.25.1] (may be forged)) by harvee.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7VK1KiE029762 for <esj(a)harvee.billerica.ma.us>; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:01:20 -0400 Received: from sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net (lists.sourceforge.net [66.35.250.206]) by red.harvee.home (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7VK1I111902 for <esj(a)harvee.billerica.ma.us>; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:01:19 -0400 Received: from sc8-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.13] helo=sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net) I had read this message before it was filtered and moved to the right mailbox. It was complete then. Now it's not so happy. How can I gather more data to make it possible to debug these problems. ---eric

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[Dovecot] Crash when searching messages
by Nicolas STRANSKY 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Hi, I've been encountering a crash when trying to use the "Search messages" function with mozilla on a newly indexed/subscribed mailbox. I tryed to search something in "To or CC" and got the following : Sep 1 09:07:13 aster imap(nico): file message-address.c: line 255 (message_address_write): assertion failed: (addr->domain != NULL) Sep 1 09:07:13 aster dovecot: child 15674 (imap) killed with signal 6 In addition, mozilla gives the following message : "Server mail.neo-lan.net has disconnected. The server may have gone down or there may be a network problem" and the search fails. But there was no problem when doing other searches. After trying several different types of searches, the initial one (on TO or CC) worked fine, but the crash is reproducible on an other newly subscribed mbox. -- Nico Si cela fonctionne, c'est obsolète. Marshall McLuhan

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