October 2006 - dovecot

[Dovecot] test
by Timo Sirainen 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

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[Dovecot] test mail
by Timo Sirainen 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Lets see if the server move actually worked..

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[Dovecot] Customizing Sign-Off Message
by Gerard Seibert 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

This is probably a dumb question; however, I have never let a thing like that stop me before. A user can configure Dovecot to give a customized greeting when it is accessed. Is there anyway to customize the message it displays when it terminates the session? -- Gerard Seibert gerard(a)seibercom.net "Losing my virginity was a career move." Madonna

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[Dovecot] Server move complete
by Timo Sirainen 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Looks like everything is working. Please mail me if you find something broken.

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[Dovecot] imap-login problem
by "M. Tolga Özses" 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<kartagis>, method=plain, rip=212.98.201.1, lip=192.168.1.2 dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Error: IMAP(kartagis): open(/var/mail/.temp.kunduz.org.14095.855b9feb950c2c78) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Error: IMAP(kartagis): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/kartagis: Permission denied Hi, I get these when I attempt to check my mail. Any ideas? Regards and thanks, -- M. Tolga Özses Bilgi Teknolojisi Sabanci Üniversitesi Orhanli 34956 Tuzla Istanbul Tel: (216) 483 91 98 Web: http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/mtozses

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[Dovecot] re-installation
by "M. Tolga Özses" 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hi, I reinstalled my system, therefore lost dovecot. I get this message after reinstalling imap-login: Authenticate plain failed: Plaintext authentication disabled.: method=plain, rip=192.168.1.2, lip=192.168.1.2. Can you help me? Thanks :) Regards, -- M. Tolga Özses Bilgi Teknolojisi Sabanci Üniversitesi Orhanli 34956 Tuzla Istanbul Tel: (216) 483 91 98 Web: http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/mtozses

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[Dovecot] dovecot mailbox to csv
by John Heim 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

We (the Math department at the U of Wisconsin) recently switched over from another server to dovecot One thing that a lot of people here do is set up an on-line form that sends them email. They use formmail for this. I have them edit their procmail config so that all the messages go into a particular mail folder.... So far so good. With our old system, all messages in a folder were kept in a single file. With dovecot, they go into a couple of different directories. This is problematic because we often need to convert the form field data to csv values so it can be imported into a spreadsheet. So a professor can create an on-line form and end up with the data from it in an Excell spreadsheet. Slick (when it works). I understand that I can make dovecot store messages in a file by leaving the trailing slash off when specifying the folder name. Sample procmail segment: :0: * Subject:.*\[feedback\] .feedback But I can't get the feedback folder to show up in the list of IMAP folders in my mail client. I've tried Outlook Express and Thunderbird. If I put the slash at the end, it creates a .feedback folder and then I can see it in my mail client. But then I can't export it to cvs. Anybody know why I can't see the .feeback folder? Or maybe somebody has a good way to get data from the body of messages stored in a dovecot folder, for example, .feedback/cur/ and .feedback/new/.

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[Dovecot] Site down?
by Michael Blinn 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

I'm getting a 'Forbidden' when accessing dovecot.org.. Have we been rooted, or is this scheduled maintenance, or..? -Michael

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[Dovecot] Website down? SSL2?
by Rick Romero 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

I think the website is down.. I can't get to the root, or any of the 'previously visited' links I still have in my browser. How do I turn off SSLv2 support?

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[Dovecot] bug with rsh/ssh connections
by David Lee 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

(Using rc7 code) There seems to be a bug in rsh/ssh-style connections. For reference, on a normal imap connection (port 143, 993, etc.) things are OK. The imap session ends (from a client-end command "a logout") thus: --- a logout * BYE Logging out a OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. unix-prompt% --- But when the connection had been established using rsh or ssh to the servers's "/etc/rimapd" which contains: exec /usr/dovecot/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap the session ends thus: --- a logout * BYE Logging out a OK Logout completed. imap(<username>): Info: Disconnected: Logged out unix-prompt% --- Note that additional, protocol-breaking, "imap(...): Info ..." line. This seems to be coming from "imap/cmd-logout.c" calling: client_disconnect(client, "Logged out"); which in turn ("imap/client.c") does: i_info("Disconnected: %s", reason); On the imap connection, this "i_info(...)" output goes (correctly) to syslog, but on the rsh/ssh connection this output seems to go to something like stdout. This strongly suggests a bug: an inconsistency between the two connection types, possibly regarding the way that stdout, stderr, syslog etc. are initialised, assigned, adjusted, etc. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : Durham University : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham DH1 3LE : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. :

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