July 2004 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Re: [Dovecot] Re: Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Marcus Rueckert 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

On 2004-07-29 22:54:12 +0100, David Marsh wrote: > [Unreadable in Outlook, here's why: http://viewport.co.uk/outlook ] something like that sucks. it really makes me consider not to help people. > What do I need to do to configure it? > > I haven't touched the mailserver since installing SuSE, mailservers tend > to frighten me (not least with worry as to what can go wrong if I mess > up!) depends on your needs the comments are very helpfull. and look in the printed manuals or the pdf versions of it. > > 6. chkconfig dovecot on > > I was going to ask what that does, but the man page explains all. > Ah, so *that*'s the right way to fiddle with /etc/init.d/ entries.. yes. it will check dependencies of services e.g. darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[Dovecot] Problems compiling PHP --with-imap - can't find rfc822.h
by Chris Weiss 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

I'm trying to add webmail (IMP/HORDE) to my OpenBSD 3.5 mail server (Procmail/Amavid/SA/DCC/Razor/Dovecot 0.99.10.7), which means adding PHP and several other libraries. I'm building PHP 4.3 from the ports tree and, as per the IMP/HORDE readme files, added --with-imap to the makefile. Makeing PHP barfs with a "Cannot find rfc822.h. Please check your IMAP installation." error. I did some digging around and this seems to be part of Courier-IMAP and Mutt, but not part of Dovecot. Can this header file just be grabbed from Courier or Mutt and dropped into /usr/include? Is there something else that's got to be done here?

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[Dovecot] dovecot mounts user home dir?
by TM 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Why does dovecot mount the user home directory whenever the user checks his email (either pop or imap)? Is there a way to disable this? I have indicated in the default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/:INBOX=/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY. The users are in ldap. Windows users' home is in /home/%u so this is ok but unix users' home are in their local computers and are mounted (via automount) at /d1-data/pcname/username. Even if mounted, the users' home directory isn't used by dovecot since nothing gets written to it. The users only checks his pop mail but still, his home directory gets mounted. Is it possible that dovecot won't try to mount the user's home directory whenever the user checks his mail? Thanks a lot. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.8-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ + LDAP support compiles now with Solaris LDAP library - IMAP BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE replies were wrong for MIME parts which didn't contain Content-Type header. - MySQL and PostgreSQL auth didn't reconnect if connection was lost to SQL server - Linking fixes for dovecot-auth with some systems - Last fix for disconnecting client when downloading mail longer than 30 seconds actually made it never disconnect client. Now it works properly: disconnect when client hasn't read _any_ data for 30 seconds.

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[Dovecot] Errors with a blackberry
by Jeremy Sanders 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hi - We tried to access a dovecot-0.99.10.7 IMAPS server with a Blackberry 7230. The Blackberry was on loan so we don't have much access to it for testing. We got the following in our logs: Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap-login: Login: testuser [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for modify log file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.log Apparently the blackberry didn't see the new mail. Has anyone had any luck with such a Blackberry? Thanks Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss(a)ast.cam.ac.uk> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053

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[Dovecot] mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox
by Wouter Van Hemel 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hello, I found this in the logs of a Dovecot v1.0-test29 test server (OpenBSD 2.9, as mentioned in a previous email): Jul 24 05:37:47 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/username/.mailbox (235 > 234) Jul 24 05:37:52 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 357 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == -mails[idx].space) Jul 24 05:37:52 myhostname dovecot: child 28601 (imap) returned error 1 Is this bad? :) / Wouter Van Hemel

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Marcus Rueckert 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

hi as i created the rpms: my steps to get a working setup: 1. install postfix,fetchmail,dovecot 2. configure postfix via /etc/sysconfig/mail /etc/sysconfig/postfix 3. run SuSEconfig 4. create a selfsigned cert for ssl (script in /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot) 5. enable ssl in the dovecot config 6. chkconfig dovecot on 7. rcdovecot start 8. configure fetchmail (not a topic on this list) 9. working setup reached at least for system users hope that helps darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[Dovecot] Concerning: in 0.99.10.7 - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks
by chris pickert 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

TSS/Dovecot: I saw the recent change in the ChangeLog about the 'subtraction' of the listing of symlinks. The point showed(minus): - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks Does this truly mean the functionality was removed? I'd tried doing symlink'd maildirs in 99.10.6 w/ no luck and when I saw this change I hoped this was an addition, as it would be great in lieu of Dovecot's lack of ACL/Shared folders. If it was intented to be ADDED in the recent .7 release, it still doesn't work. If it was pulled (which is strange becauase my .6 release didn't do it), why? Are the .conf directives about it I'm missing by chance? (Didn't notice anything) I'm using Dovecot in combo with horde/imp and it's amazingly faster than courier-imap or uwash-imap, well done! What about the aforementioned ACL/Shared folders? I'm getting into a crux that I may need it and courier-imap-/-cyrus-imap will do my trick but, dovecot smokes them on performance! (Especially with horde/imp's preview/info stuff) Thanks! -- Chris Pickert

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Lars E. Pettersson 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 19:08, David Marsh wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this part! > Can anybody offer any advice? A short description on how I did this can be found at my web page: http://www.sm6rpz.se/mailserver.html I use Fedora Core 2, but I do not think that will matter, it should work for SuSE also I think. Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars(a)homer.se> http://www.sm6rpz.se/

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[Dovecot] weakness in hash salt generation
by Joshua Goodall 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Dovecot has routines for password hashing; two of these, crypt_generate and md5_generate, both use sizeof(salt_chars) when reducing a random string to salt. I became suspicious when I noted that all salts generated are composed only of "./01". Unfortunately salt_char is declared static const char * rather than static const char [], and so sizeof(salt_chars) is the size of a pointer. Recommend: diff -u -r1.8 password-scheme.c --- password-scheme.c 30 May 2004 03:57:15 -0000 1.8 +++ password-scheme.c 23 Jul 2004 17:05:36 -0000 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ # include <openssl/sha.h> #endif -static const char *salt_chars = +static const char salt_chars[] = "./0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; static buffer_t *schemes_buf; joshua. -- Joshua Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua(a)roughtrade.net - FW109

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