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[Dovecot] dual auth with real users and virtual users
by Erick Perez 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi, im using 0.99 stable in RPM form, Im using this for postfix+dovecot+real unix users, now i tried to enable virtual support with this: protocols = imap pop3 ssl_disable = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info login_user = dovecot mail_extra_groups = mail auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_passdb = pam auth_userdb = passwd auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/vhosts/userdb auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/vhosts/passwd The above configuration works for local users but is not working for virtual users, it produces the error: dovecot-auth: Oct 21 00:19:14 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(erickperez) failed: Authentication failure obviously the user erickperez exists in /etc/vhosts/userdb so PAM will fail. Im using 0.99 release. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha4: drowning in asserts/cores
by Jeff A. Earickson 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Timo, I have had to drop back to alpha3 because I found a pile of core files on my imap server this morning, from the weekend. They are all from the assert: imap(user): file mbox-lock.c: line 379 (mbox_lock_fcntl): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_UNLCK) I reported this issue to the list last Friday. Help... Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Case of %n (feauture request)
by Alexander Shikoff 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hello, I'm using dovecot not for a long time but I've newer seen most powerful and handy POP3/IMAP server. Thank Timo for dovecot; thank community for help! I would like to notice that %n is case-sensitive: it always stores user part of login without case conversions. As a result there are some inconveniences with virtual user organization, for example: password_query = SELECT `password` FROM `users` WHERE login = '%u' user_query = SELECT "mbox:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY" AS `mail`, 101 AS `uid`, 101 AS `gid` FROM users WHERE login = '%u' In this example authentication works perfectly but user can not access it's mailbox because all mailbox names are lower-case. I think it would be more handy to make %d, %n and %u aliases lower-case and introduce three new aliases %D %N %U which store values without case conversions. But I'm not enough skilled in C to write a patch... and now I'm waiting for comments on this and answer from the developer. Thanks in advance, Alexander. -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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Re: [Dovecot] Same email recieved
by Bob Hope 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Andrew Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Hope wrote: > >> They are using Outlook. I'm not seeing anything about UIDs of mails >> in dovecot.conf. I'm using dovecot 0.99.14 presently. >> >> Regards, >> >> Savage >> > > > Ah, afraid I can't really help then, I haven't used the .99 series of > Dovecot for over a year now and there seem to be quite a few issues with > it. > > Regards > Andrew > -- > Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru > Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ > Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ > Random quote 1: "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. > NO (or Linux) is the answer." - Unknown > > > > Well, I suppose I could upgrade to 1.0 then. I'll give that a try and drop a note here if it works. Thanks, Savage

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[Dovecot] dovecot + postfix + freebsd help
by glemme 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Hi. I'm currently setting up dovecot to work with my server. My inboxes from postfix are stored in /usr/var/spool/mail/ and then the username, so for me that would be / usr/var/spool/mail/viktor my homedirectory is /usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/ so from what i can understand. My settings should be: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/Mail:INBOX:/usr/var/spool/mail/%u But guess what, I am probably wrong. my mailapp tells me my inbox is empty and my log claims this: dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor: Effective uid=1015, gid=1004 dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor: mbox: data=/usr/home/ glemme/homes/viktor/Mail:INBOX:/usr/var/spool/mail/viktor dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail/inbox dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor): mbox: root=/usr/home/ glemme/homes/viktor/Mail, index=/usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail, inbox=/usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail/inbox Why is it defaulting from the right INBOX to the wrong one? HELP! /glemme

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha2: how to reject specific users?
by Jeff A. Earickson 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi, In Qualcomm's qpopper, you can specify a list of users to reject at authentication, even if they are otherwise valid, by putting them in a file (/etc/pop.nonauth). I use this to occasionally ban users who bang on the system needlessly until they Get a Clue. I looked thru the wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication pages and didn't see anything like this feature. Does it exist in 1.0? BTW, running 1.0alpha2 in production since Sunday night, working great. Zero core dumps, only minor chatter about "Corrupted index cache file" in the syslog, no problems. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] latest dovecot rpm for RedHat Enterprise 3
by Erick Perez 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Does anyone have a repository with the latest dovecot for RHEL3 ? I have only found dovecot-1.0.0.4-200502 which is for february 2005. I dont know how to build rpms from .tar so i will not venture on that without some magic tool. Thanks,

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[Dovecot] Performance issues in Alpha4 gone
by Daniel 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi The performance issues I noticed on my system/setup with Alpha3 seem to be gone with Alpha4. As soon as I installed it I noticed imap seemed more responsive. Just thought I would let the list know. Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] imaps on alternate ports
by Andrew D. Clark 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

I'm trying to test out dovecot 1.0 alpha 3 prior to an upgrade from dovecot-0.99.14, but I cannot get imaps listening on anything other than 993. I've tried putting listen = *:2023 in the global section or in the imap { } section. No luck. What is the proper format for a config that only runs imaps and only listens on a particular port? -- Andrew Clark Campus Network Programmer University of California, Santa Barbara andrew.clark(a)ucsb.edu (805) 893-5311

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[Dovecot] alpha4: flock change
by Jeff A. Earickson 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Timo, The comments in dovecot-example.conf regarding lock_method for Solaris users needs to note your change. Your changelog says: - Default lock_method changed to flock instead of the old fcntl. Solaris users will need to set it back to fcntl. This makes sure that Dovecot's indexes aren't accidentally used with NFS. But there is no warning about this in the file for Solaris users. There should be; it will bite somebody later. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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