October 2006 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Unsolved : mbox-sync-rewrite.c : assertion failed
by Jakob Curdes 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Some days ago I wrote about an inaccessible mailbox after an upgrade from 0.99.14 to 1.0rc10. Today I get this problem with another mailbox but it seems to be it is not only related to the upgrade : - user comes back from holiday, does not see his inbox : dovecot: Oct 24 18:51:09 Error: IMAP(abcd): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 405 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space) (he accessed it last with the old dc version) Solution : moving account to other server, copy everything over to the old account and it worked. This is what I did and afterwards the mailbox was readable. Now the user goes back to his PC (I made my work from another machine) and opens his mailclient (with the still existing account) and BINGO dovecot crashes again on the mailbox as berfore. Once ist has crashed on it, it than crashes always, even if you make a new account or remove the index. So I suppose it has rather to do with cached information in the client than with the upgrade itself. But nothing the client sends should be able to crash the server ! Hoping for an idea, Jakob Curdes

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[Dovecot] Status of Shared Folders?
by Charles Marcus 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Hi Timo, I'm just curious... is the Wiki up to date regarding the status of Shared Folder support for Dovecot? Specifically, does Dovecot still have a problem with Read-only (for certain users) maildirs using Shared folders defined via namespaces? I'm about ready to start testing a rollout, but wanted to find out what to expect with regard to Shared Folders - we use them extensively right now (Courier-imap), so it is important for us. Having per-user read/unread flags will be a very nice bonus, but I don't see anything about support for those... -- Best regards, Charles Marcus I.T. Director Media Brokers International 678.514.6200 x224 678.514.6299 fax

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[Dovecot] LDAP Dovecot Configuration Problem
by kleiton＠pcs.com.br 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Good Morning I have a problem with my dovecot configuration, somepeople can help-me sending me a example of a dovecot with ldap configuration ? dovecot.conf slapd.conf I'm have - dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5 - kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 - openldap-2.3.19-4 - Fedora Core 5 Today we connect using PAM but we like connect by LDAP because we have some problems. Thanks !

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[Dovecot] converting from courier questions
by Aaron P. Martinez 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I currently run postfix and courier on my mail servers with squirrelmail. The problem with courier is it seems to run so slow. The webmail takes forever to load if you have many mails. I have this set up in virtual domains with all longin and path info in an mysql database. I just joined the list and DID google before asking, hope this isn't a common question. With courier it looks for a "homedir" and then a "maildir".. I tried doing a query as such: user_query = SELECT Homedir and Maildir AS home, VUID AS uid , VGID AS gid FROM users WHERE Email_address = '%u' to no avail, is my sql wrong or can you not cat the homedir and maildir fields together to create the complete path to home? . i got around the homedir problem by setting mail_chroot = /var/spool/postfix/virtuals (is this the general way, only way?) and then in my dovecot-mysql.conf i have user_query = SELECT Maildir AS home, VUID AS uid , VGID AS gid FROM users WHERE Email_address = '%u' This almost worked but as i was watching the logs it was looking for /var/spool/postfix/virtuals/<somedomainname>/Maildir//Maildir In courier the "Maildir" is not implied, it has to be spicified in the database. I have a LOT of users and would love to avoid chaning every line in my database. or add another filed just for dovecot. I would also like the ability to switch back and forth for testing with courier.. Is there anyway that this can be done? Thanks in advance, Aaron

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[Dovecot] LDAP authentication blank password
by Matheus Antonio Oliveira 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

People, I have a situation: when use a passwd LDAP module against "microsoft active directory" and one user send a blank password the authentication module returns: "ERR [IN-USE] Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information."; after this the authentication module never authenticate again "ERR Temporary authentication failure." Thanks in advanced. Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0 (0.0.0.0). Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user xyz@domain +OK pass <BLANK> -ERR [IN-USE] Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0 (0.0.0.0). Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user xyz@domain +OK pass correct-password -ERR Temporary authentication failure. -- Matheus Antonio Oliveira

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[Dovecot] Creating MySQL db
by Gerard Seibert 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I was just wondering if anyone was using or aware of a program to create MySQL Data Bases for use with Dovecot. For Postfix, there is the 'Postfixadmin' application. I have not seen anything similar for Dovecot and was wondering if one existed. My system consists of all virtual users. -- Gerard Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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[Dovecot] problems with authentication
by Paul Aguirre 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Hi, I have some problems I'm using fetchmail to get my mail from the server to a local server, but the problem is that my user name of the mail is "user@virtualdomain" and I can't make a system user with "@" on centos. So, I want to know how can I tell to dovecot the user "user@virtualdomain" is associate to a sistem user "user.virtualdoman". Or if any one knows another solution. Thanks Paul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot still failing with RC10...
by Brent Spencer 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Are you getting a "chdir (null)" type of message just prior to the Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded"? Thanks, Brent Spencer XsiteDesigns _________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for viruses by ClamAV

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[Dovecot] Proxy using passd file
by Clayton Epp 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

I'm trying to create a proxy using passwd files. Can I use the existing passwd files created by the system (ie passwd and shadow) or do I have to create new passwd files for the email proxy users? How would the passwd and shadow files for a proxy using passwd files look? I've tried the example on the wiki but I'm not getting anywhere, pop and imap requests are not getting sent to the other server.

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Re: [Dovecot] any idea why the mail downloading is slow?
by LeVA 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

2006. October 23. 18:46, Ejay Hire: > What client are you using? I've found Outlook to be a huge > bottleneck compared to Tbird. I'm using KMail 1.9.5. Indeed, with Tbird, the download is faster with KMail. Any idea what could be the problem? I don't think this is a "bug" in KMail; maybe a configuration issue? Daniel > > -ejay > > -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of LeVA > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 4:37 AM > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: [Dovecot] any idea why the mail downloading is slow? > > Hi! > > I'm using rc10, but had this problem with previous releases too. Not > sure if this is a dovecot problem, but I can not think of anything > else. The mail downloading with pop3 is ~very slow, approx. 20 Kbyte > / sec. no matter how many mails I've got in my mailbox, or how big > are the mails. My ISP provides me a dedicated 100mbit line, and > everything else works as fast as expected eg. http, ftp, scp... > The OS is OpenBSD 3.9-stable and the system is not under heavy load > at all. I've tried to turn off TLS but there was no change. > > Is the pop3 protocol this slow by design or there is something wrong > with my setup? > > Thanks! > > Daniel > > -- > LeVA -- LeVA

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