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[Dovecot] About domains in antispam plugin
by Eduardo Morales Chavez 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi there, I have the problem that the antispam filter is looking in a different subdirectory (I think is the domain subfolder) than the actuallly used i.e., The following error message is constant: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aug 12 12:07:58 mail dspam[4540]: Unable to open file for reading: /var/spool/dspam/data/local/itadmin/itadmin.sig/48a1c36c24 9461173910573.sig: No such file or directory Aug 12 12:07:58 mail dspam[4541]: Unable to open file for reading: /var/spool/dspam/data/local/itadmin/itadmin.sig/48a1c36c24 9461173910573.sig: No such file or directory ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The file in the error exists but in a different subdirectory than the one AntiSpam Plugin is looking: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ls -l /var/spool/dspam/data/local/itadmin/itadmin.sig/48a1c36c249461173910573.sig ls: cannot access /var/spool/dspam/data/local/itadmin/itadmin.sig/48a1c36c249461173910573.sig: No such file or directory ls -l /var/spool/dspam/data/mydomain.com/itadmin/itadmin.sig/48a1c36c249461173910573.sig -rw-rw---- 1 root dspam 968 Aug 12 12:07 /var/spool/dspam/data/mydomain.com/itadmin/itadmin.sig/48a1c36c249461173910573.sig ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I looked at the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf for a line containing a local doman vs mydomain.com but there's nothing even in the comments. So If there's something I'm missing I'd be glad you to enlight me. Thanks a lot in advance for you help. Rgds, Eduardo

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[Dovecot] NFS vs CIFS - and Dovecot
by Daniel L. Miller 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

I've seen a number of posts discussing NFS based storage and issues with Dovecot. When the term "NFS" is used - does this exclusively refer to the Linux NFS network file system, or is it a generic reference to any network file system? I don't recall seeing any posts referencing issues with CIFS or SMBFS - is this because no one is using it, or because it just works instead of fiddling with NFS? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Install from source of dovecot 1.1.2
by Guy 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi guys, I have what I'm sure is a stupid question. I'm trying to install Dovecot 1.1.2 from source and my command sequence is this: cd dovecot-1.1.2 ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --with-mysql --with-storagesmaildir --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot make make install cd ../dovecot-sieve-1.1.5 ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-1.1.2 make make install I don't get any errors during either install I've done the odd config on dovecot to try and keep it as close to the install dirs used by the Dovecot package included with Ubuntu. Once it's done, dovecot -n still looks in /usr/local/etc and when I try and start dovecot it looks for the libexec dir in /usr/local instead of /usr. Is there something I'm missing on the configure? I've very, very little experience (rather obviously) installing directly from source so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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[Dovecot] Cyrus vs Dovecot
by Mathieu Kretchner 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

First of all : forgive me for my poor English Hello all, I've to compare cyrus with dovecot for my work. Because these are the only solutions that could fit our needs. Unfortunately I really don't know a lot about dovecot and I would like to have some of its assets. Here are the properties of the versus table I've done : dovecot cyrus Installation: Update: Migration from cyrus : Migration from dovecot : functionalities : Management : Local Delivery : availability : Security : Indexes management : NFS compatibility : Scalability : Configuration : interoperability : Sieve filter : Documentation : Quota capability : Performance : IMAP capability : So I know this can scared you, but If you have some asset for dovecot, It could be great and a lot more FAIR !! Thank you in advance for your advice.

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[Dovecot] GlusterFS
by Jeroen Koekkoek 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi everybody, We use a Dovecot setup with GlusterFS. Dovecot 1.1.2 and GlusterFS 1.3.9. I enabled the following options (I don't have posix-locks translators): lock_method = dotlock dotlock_use_excl = no mmap_disable = yes mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes I receive the following error message. Aug 7 09:38:51 mta2 dovecot: POP3(somebody(a)domain.tld): nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/var/vmail/domain.tld/somebody/Maildir/dovecot.index, F_RDLCK) failed: Function not implemented I think that I can disable mail_nfs_index to fix these messages. Has anybody had the same problem, if so, how did you solve it? Kind regards, Jeroen Koekkoek

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[Dovecot] proxy_maybe and IPv6
by Matthieu Herrb 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi, Using dovecot 1.1.2 on a dual-stack server, with the 'proxy_maybe' attribute to forward some clients to another server, it seems that only clients connecting with the same protocol version as the one used by address in the 'host' attribute in the password db are recognized as local. If an IPv4 address is specified as 'host', a dovecot proxy is created for clients connecting using IPv6 to this server, and symmetrically if the proxy is specified as an IPv6 address, clients connecting through IPv4 will get forwarded to the v6 address. Is there a way to avoid that? -- Matthieu Herrb

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[Dovecot] Good news for CPanel users
by Marshal Newrock 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

In response to a feature request for cpanel to have native support for dovecot: Rudimentary support was added in 11.23. Full support for Dovecot will be available in 11.24. -- Marshal Newrock 517-679-0699 x223 FreedomBI, LLC - http://www.freedombi.com

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[Dovecot] nombre de compte imap/ rapide rapide
by Mathieu Kretchner 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

find . -type d -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 3 -print | sort | uniq | grep -vE "user$" | wc -l

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[Dovecot] optionnal arguments to ntlm_auth helper
by François LEGAL 10 Aug '08

10 Aug '08

Hello, I'm setting up (at least I try) to set up network services with single sign on. I could build and configure dovecat to use samba's ntlm_auth helper to achieve ntlm authentication of imap users. The point is, I wanted to restrict which users could actually authenticate through ntlm. The ntlm_auth helper has this ability with the --require-membership-of=... command line parameter. I first tried (unsuccessfully) to add this parameter to the auth_winbind_helper_path token in dovecot.conf, and figured out by checking the source that this was not possible. I then decided to patch the source so that one can pass any argument to the ntlm_auth helper by specifying at new line in dovecot.conf with the token "auth_winbind_helper_args" (for instance, what I wanted to do is "auth_winbind_helper_args = --require-membership-of=... ") Well, here comes the patch. It is to be used with recent 1.1.2 release. Best regards François

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[Dovecot] tcp-wrappers.patch
by Edgar Fuß 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

I'd like to see tcp-wrappers.patch getting integrated into dovecot. I ported the original 1.0 patch to 1.1, but would prefer not to have to maintain another local patch. As the name suggests, the patch adds libwrap support to dovecot. We use is to limit access from outside our network to secure (imaps/pop3s) protocols only and to exclude certain internal addresses from accessing dovecot in general. I fully understand Timo's concern of people not reading documentation and then whining that librwapping doesn't work whereas they simply forgot to put hosts.{allow,deny} into the login chroot. Would it be acceptable if either dovecot itself or the init script copies /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} into the chroot (unless it's already there)? Also, dovecot could probably complain/abort/turn off libwrap if these files are missing in the login chroot. The problem mainly occurs with the default (Linux) setting of login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login; on NetBSD, I use /var/chroot/dovecot-login instead, which doesn't get wiped out at boot. Comments? Suggestions? Oh, yes, managesieve (which uses src/login-common) would need a slight update, too.

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