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[Dovecot] 1.0-test69
by Timo Sirainen 11 May '05

11 May '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Several mbox fixes, upgrade recommended for test68 mbox users - Possibly fixes some IMAP hangs where Dovecot just stopped replying - Fixed delay-newmail workaround. It was badly broken before. And somewhat off topic advertisement: I got a bit distracted from Dovecot a week ago when a guy started mailing me about wanting to write an irssi2 client as a project to learn Ruby. Half a year ago I had written a semi-working irssi2 server but I got stuck with it because I wasn't interested about writing client for it. Now that the client actually works, irssi2's development has kind of exploded :) Irssi2 is a bit related to Dovecot too, in that it'll be integrated with it more or less tightly to provide instant messaging support. Nothing prevents extending irssi2-protocol to support all other kinds of realtime events either, for example to send new mail notifications. If you're interested, see: http://main.irssi.org/projects/irssi2.html And for the lazy, here's the introduction copy&pasted: Shortly put, irssi2 is to instant messaging what IMAP is to mail. You can safely exit your irssi2 client, and irssi2 server just keeps on going. When you connect back with your client, you can see all the discussion that happened while you were away (and even older discussion, too, if you want). You can also use multiple clients even at the same time, so you could for example keep one client always open at home and still be able to check what's going on with your mobile phone. Irssi2 clients are encouraged to keep their configuration in server side, so nothing should prevent you from temporarily using another irssi2 client from your friend's home with no other configuration needed than irssi2 server's address, your username and password. Irssi2 is designed to support multiple chat protocols (IRC, SILC, MSN, ICQ, etc.) but without ignoring hardcore IRC users. That means that unlike all other similar attempts (such as Jabber), irssi2's client-server protocol will actually allow fully featured irssi2 IRC client to be written with no compromises (but still the same client can be used to talk to MSN and elsewhere). Note that irssi2 isn't trying to replace IRC servers (yet ;). irssi2 server simply connects to normal IRC servers just as a regular IRC client. To prevent mixups with these terms, IRC servers are usually called "gateways" in irssi2.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Sendmail Maildir
by Gabriel Granger 11 May '05

11 May '05

Hi all, I'm using Debian (testing) for my office mail. I'm using sendmail and Dovecot to deliver email to clients over IMAP using mbox format. I want to move over and start using Maildir. I know that I can use different MTA's to do the job, but I really like sendmail, and I run additional sendmail servers across the my internal and external networks. I'm probably being anal, but I want to keep my MTA the same across the board. Does anyone here use sendmail + dovecot + maildir? if so what's the best way of going about this? Gabe

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[Dovecot] Assertion failed in dovecot 0.99.14
by Quadriplegic Leprechaun 11 May '05

11 May '05

Hi, I am using the dovecot imap server on Linux 2.6.8.1. I get the following error when running it: imap(quad): Panic: file index-sync.c: line 25 (index_storage_sync_size): assertion failed: (messages > ibox->synced_messages_count) This usually occurs when I use imapfilter to move messages from one folder to another, while my client (thunderbird) is connected. Quad

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2003 duplicates UIDL
by Alex Needham 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi I have Redhat ES4.0 with dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 installed. Reading a post Outlook Duplicates issue is still killing me, there seems to be asolution to this, I was wondering when this will be available on redhat es40? # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which is # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. #pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u Rgds Alex

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[Dovecot] Standard dirs
by Claudio Succa 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, thank to developers for such a flexible imap server. Is solves succesfully my needs to have a single passwd file for clients accessing both imap/imaps and pop3/pop3s protocols (on a diskless mail/web server with NFS maildirs and NFS indexes!). My question: With 1.0-test68 I have to set login_dir=/var/run/dovecot-login (just a dir not under /var/run/dovecot) instead of /var/run/dovecot/login. I guess that imap-login (running with uid=dovecot) can't access /var/run/dovecot/login if it is under /var/run/dovecot because it is set with permission 0700 and uid=root by dovecot. How can I run dovecot with its standard login_dir config? Claudio -- Claudio Succa PERTEL - Torino - Italy +39-011-437.4141 http://www.pertel.it http://www.uniassist.it http://www.progettocapolinea36.it

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[Dovecot] start_tls on the user and password ldap connection
by Farkas Levente 10 May '05

10 May '05

hi, it seems when dovecot use ldap user and password databases it's not possible to use tls connection and certificate with the ldap connection. wouldn't it be possible to use the same certificate on the ldap connection as used in the ssl_{cert,key}_file parameters in the dovecot conf (or would be possible to use it's own cert in the ldap conf file? yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] problems with ldap auth
by Nuno Lopes 10 May '05

10 May '05

I'm trying Dovecot v1.0-test43 with ldap authentication but can't seem to make it work. I'm getting the following errors in the log: dovecot: Sep 16 19:50:09 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test43 starting up dovecot: Sep 16 19:50:10 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down What can I do to see where the error is? I have this configuration working with dovecot 0.99.xx . And if I replace the ldap authentication scheme with another one it starts up right. Following some past mailing list sugestions I've also tried removing most of the auth modules from the compilation but it made no diference. You can see my configuration files in: http://iluvatar.portugalmail.pt/dovecot/dovecot.conf http://iluvatar.portugalmail.pt/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf (I've intalled the binaries in /opt/dovecot) Don't know how much more data I can provide to help finding out what the problem is here (I think this won't be enough unless there's a known bug). Thanks, -- Nuno Lopes

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[Dovecot] trouble getting digest-md5 & ldap working
by Udo Rader 09 May '05

09 May '05

hi, I am trying to set up dovecot with digest-md5 as authentication mechanism and openldap as passdb. My problem is ... that I just can't get it working. PLAIN authentication works as expected, but no luck with digest-md5. An excerpt from the two configuration files: dovecot.conf: --------CUT-------- auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf --------CUT-------- dovecot-ldap.conf: --------CUT-------- user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(|(mail=%u)(uid=%n))) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(|(mail=%u)(uid=%n))) default_pass_scheme = plain --------CUT-------- My dovecot installation with plain authentication and OpenLDAP has been quite mature for a long time, so I doubt that it is an issue with openldap. >From Cryrus-SASL I know that in order to get DIGEST-MD5 running it is required to have plaintext passwords in the DIT, but that does not solve anything. syslog tells me this: dovecot-auth: May 08 21:25:09 Error: ldap(frodo): No password in reply So any ideas on where I went wrong? Udo Rader BestSolution.at GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] transparent proxy
by Mark E. Mallett 09 May '05

09 May '05

I'm excited to see that dovecot 1.0-test series supports transparent proxy, but that excitement is muted by: - the recommendation to avoid 1.0 at present; - the requirement to use SQL authentication. I guess I could ignore the first, but the second is sticky. How hard would it be to hack a different sort of proxy server cue into the authentication? Perhaps one of: If authenticating via passwd, use a gid as an index into a server table (or perhaps have the group name be a server name), If passwd authentication fails, try a starting the proxy to a specific other server and see if one can log in there. Or something else.. I dunno, I'm just looking not to install a SQL server just for this. mm

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[Dovecot] index file corruption
by Andy Pastuszak 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hello everyone. I am new to the list, so forgive me if this has been discussed already. My configuration is as follows: Fedora Core 3, fully patched through yum through today. Dovecot 0.9.9.13 Postfix 2.1.5 Using Maildir with Mail stored in ~/Maildir My issue is that, for some odd reason the inbox file index gets corrupt, There is no rhyme or reason as to why it happens or when, but a simple rm -rf ~/Maildir/.INBOX fixes everything (I assume because Dovecot rebuilds the index file.) Has anyone else on the list seen this? Is there some workaround for it? Andy

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