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[Dovecot] configure problem with MySQL 4
by Laurent Papier 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Hi, the configure mysql detection doesn't work with MySQL 4.0.x from MySQL AB. Detail information: dovecot 0.99.13, MySQL-devel-4.0.21-0 from MySQL AB. ./configure --with-mysql ... checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... (cached) no This version of MySQL need to be linked with '-lz'. The configure script check for mysql both with and without '-lz' but the test result is cached ... so the test with -lz failed. The included patch helps me compiling dovecot (only check mysql with -lz). I know that this workaround is not a general solution. Full configure output and config.log available on demand. Execpting this problem, dovecot works fine for us (RedHat, MySQL auth, maildir). -- Laurent Papier - 03 88 75 80 50 Admin. systeme - Sdv Plurimedia - <http://www.sdv.fr/>

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 21, Issue 24: vacation messages
by Ted Knab 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Normally, the vacation message works with the default mail server (MTA). In my case, I use the vacation program. Postfix delivers to the local mail user and if they have a .forward with the vacation info on it gets called. For a truly virtual setup that does not require unique uids on the filesystem there is gnarwl. Gnarwl is a program written in C that does vacation messages for virtual users. It works with Postfix, which is simplier that sendmail. :) >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:13:48 -0700 >From: "Del Stoliker" <dstoliker(a)alphagraphics.com> >Subject: [Dovecot] Virtual users vacation notices and forwards >To: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> >Message-ID: <200501140613.j0E6DfZ9012233(a)smtp2.alphagraphics.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >I'm in the process of moving from UW-IMAP to dovecot. I'm exploring the idea >of using virtual users with dovecot and storing all user information in >LDAP. While bouncing this idea off of a coworker, he asked me how we could >handle vacation notices and forwards. Currently, we're using a procmail >recipe to generate the vacation notice, and the sendmail .forward file for >forwards (although most of our forwarding takes place elsewhere so the >.forward file is rarely used). These are, of course, dependant on the user >having an account on the mail server. How are those of you using virtual >users supporting this functionality? > >Thanks! > > > >

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[Dovecot] istream-limit.c - assertion failed
by Mail Admin 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Yes, that seems to eliminate the error on our server. It has been 3 days without seeing it. Thanks! Derek ------------------> I think this is the same problem I was having, try this.. After running configure and before doing a make, edit config.h: /* Define if you have FreeBSD-compatible sendfile() */ /* #define HAVE_FREEBSD_SENDFILE */ ^^ ^^

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[Dovecot] 0.99.14-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Two backports from 1.0-tests and pretty important fix for mbox users if you're not already filtering X-UID header somewhere. For 1.0-tests you can fix it for now by applying patches http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2005-January/004046.html and http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2005-January/004047.html - Message address fields are now parsed differently, fixing some issues with spaces. Affects only clients which use FETCH ENVELOPE command. - Message MIME parser was somewhat broken with missing MIME boundaries - mbox: Don't allow X-UID headers in mails to override the UIDs we would otherwise set. Too large values can break clients and possibly Dovecot itself.

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[Dovecot] Announcement: New Fedora releases
by Kenneth Porter 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

For FC2 and FC3. Users of MySQL and postgres should take note as the default build options have changed to remove these. The boot order has also changed to start dovecot after named, but this only takes effect if you run chkconfig to disable and re-enable the service and recreate the symlinks. More details in the RH announcements: <https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-January/msg00057.…> <https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-January/msg00058.…>

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[Dovecot] test61 error
by "Branko F. Gračnar" 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:39 Error: IMAP(bfg(a)noviforum.si): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 138 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq ~ || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:39 Error: child 18837 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:52 Info: imap-login: Login: gregord(a)noviforum.si [127.0.0.1] dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:58 Info: imap-login: Login: bfg(a)noviforum.si [192.168.2.14] dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:59 Warning: IMAP(bfg(a)noviforum.si): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 65536 dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:59 Warning: IMAP(bfg(a)noviforum.si): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 131072 dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:59 Warning: IMAP(bfg(a)noviforum.si): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 262144 dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:59 Warning: IMAP(bfg(a)noviforum.si): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 524288 dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:59 Warning: IMAP(bfg(a)noviforum.si): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 1048576 dovecot: Jan 18 10:48:59 Error: IMAP(bfg(a)noviforum.si): Corrupted transaction log file /export/mail/noviforum.si/bfg/.Mailing liste.Postfix Users/dovecot.index.log: record size to o small (type=0x0, size=0) linux 2.6, slackware 10, xfs filesystem. Brane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFB7NxlN7LHXgqRB4IRAqEAAJ9g0mJS10crV83rWKnjbmVBYeu40gCgkV4o 3Eh9ZOhjPWbOVfAiGDTAhn0= =R2t6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] test61 + kmail problem
by "Branko F. Gračnar" 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello :) I'm using dovecot 1.0-test61 and it works ok with most MUAs except with KMail (1.7.1 KDE 3.3.1) Kmail downloads message headers from folder (i'm using IMAP), but displays that there is only one email message in each folder... Well, i have thousands of messages in each folder. Everything works okay with Thunderbird 1.0. Ideas? Best regards, Brane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFB68SWN7LHXgqRB4IRAiGyAJsHxm/Zw/rnTbWmUTRd/ZsbnSUUMwCdGQDa m2q9y8TySu99QMq/sfWwkDE= =MSa4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + Xmail Setup Howto
by Chris L. Franklin 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

OK I finally found time to write this. (this is for dovecot 99.X and Xmail 1.X >= 1.17) (in dovecot 1.0 it'll able to auth against Xmail via a auth script. aka You'll only need to have 1 user account databases, XMAIL's YAY !!!) Steps: 1. Install Dovecot. (rpm or Source) >From Source : http://wiki.dovecot.org/CompilingSource >From RPM : http://wiki.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries 2. Edit config (my's listed below) CODE base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login = imap login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login = pop3 pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 verbose_ssl = no default_mail_env = /var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_cache_fields = Envelope MessagePart client_workarounds = outlook-idle mailbox_check_interval = 5 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 maildir_stat_dirs = no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no maildir_check_content_changes = yes auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = static uid=97 gid=97 home=/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_passdb = passwd-file /var/MailRoot/dovecotusers.tab 3. Isnatll Xmail >From Source : http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#build >From RPM : (rpm -i xmail-X.rpm) 4. Configure XMail, edit server.tab Server.tab Config: http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#server_tab_variables Heres Mine (with in all xmail files there are no SPACES only TABS !!!) CODE "RootDomain" "nomadcf.com" "SmtpServerDomain" "nomadcf.com" "POP3Domain" "nomadcf.com" "HeloDomain" "nomadcf.com" "PostMaster" "postmaster(a)nomadcf.com" "ErrorsAdmin" "postmaster(a)nomadcf.com" "SMTP-MaxErrors" "0" "NoSenderBounce" "1" "RemoveSpoolErrors" "1" "NotifySendLogToSender" "1" "ReceivedHdrType" "1" "SmtpMsgIPBanSpammers" "Denied due to you being a F'in SPAMMER !!!!!" "SmtpMsgIPBanSpamAddress" "550 Denied due inclusion of your email address in our spam lists" "SmtpMsgIPBanMaps" "550 Denied due inclusion of your IP in the following map" "EnableAuthSMTP-POP3" "0" "AllowNullSender" "1" "AllowSmtpVRFY" "1" "AllowSmtpETRN" "1" "CustMapsList" "list.dsbl.org.:1,blackholes.mail-abuse.org.:1,dialups.mail-abuse.org.:0" "SMTP-RDNSCheck" "1" "CheckMailerDomain" "1" "DefaultSmtpPerms" "MRVZ" 4.5 Setup Admin Account for Xmail moreinfo : http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#ctrlaccounts_tab CODE (Replace BOB with you admin password, Replace ROOT with your Admin userame) cd /var/MailRoot/bin ./XMCrypt BOB | awk '{print "ROOT\t"$1"\n"}' > ../ctrlaccounts.tab 5. Setup your XMail Domains + Users It's easy'st with a interface. Heres a list of some Windows : http://www.alouria.com/ Web : http://dev.waaf.net/xmail/ Web : http://www.akxak.de/xpai/ Web : https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmail 6. Give Dovecot permission to the domains dir under MailRoot I used acls to do this so that Xmail can still run as root and Dovecot could still run as a non-root user. (if you rather not do this your other option is tp run xmail as the same user a dovecot See non-Acls below) CODE setfact -R -m d:u:dovecot:rwx,d:g:dovecot:rwx;d:o:---,d:m:rwx /var/MailRoot/domains setfacl -R -m u:dovecot:rwx,g:dovecot:rwx;o:---,m:rwx /var/MailRoot/domains 7. Set Xmail to listen on another port then 110 for pop3. Add "-Pp 20110 " to xmail startup options. 8. Setup User Accounts. As of 99.X of dovecot it doesn't support using a external script to check user acount info (user/password). So it needs a place to have it's own useraccount storage place. For more ways dovecot can store user info see : http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication I use " passwd-file /var/MailRoot/dovecotusers.tab" and create it from a modified xmail2smapost script called xmail2dovecot. (See xmail2dovecot below) 9. Restart Xmail 10. Startup Dovecot Non-Acls: To allow Xmail to so it's thing + Allow dovecot Access to XMails MailRoot. You'll need to run Xmail as the user Dovecot runs at. I found after some trial and error that is pretty easy. What you'll need. 1. Iptables 2. su Setup 1. Disable Xmail from starting at boot. 2. Stop Xmail 3. edit the user dovecot and chnage there shell to /bin/bash 4. Create a IPtables rule to route port 25 to 20025 Example: CODE iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 25 -j REDIRECT --to-port 20025 5. Change permissions in MailRoot from root.root to dovecot.dovecot CODE chown -R dovecot.dovecot * 6. Startup Xmail as so : CODE su - dovecot -c "/var/MailRoot/bin/XMail -Mr 24 -Pl -Ph -Sl -Ql -Yi 30 -Yl -Fl -Cl -Ll -PX 0 -Sp 20025 -Pp 20110 -Fp 20079 -Ms /var/MailRoot" XMail2Dovecot Script: This a script that was Org. used with smartpost. And was called xmail2smartpost.php But I changed it to output All the user account info into a simple passwd/Shadow. (user@domain:MD5-password) Download From : http://xmail.nomadcf.com/info.php?program=xmail2dovecot After Downloading it , extract it to the MailRoot/bin/ and then edit it. And lastly Run it as like so : CODE cd /var/MailRoot/bin/ ./xmail2dovecot.php > ../dovecotusers.tab -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] Squirrelmail - messages not marked as read
by Kim Culhan 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

As of test-60 and test-61, running Squirrelmail 1.5.1[cvs] on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, messages are not marked as read after they are read. If I switch back to test-59, it works normally. When switching back to test-59, with log_path = /var/log/dovelog dovelog shows: dovecot: Jan 14 11:43:38 Error: IMAP(kimc): Corrupted index cache file /home/kimc/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Jan 14 11:43:38 Error: IMAP(kimc): Corrupted index cache file /home/kimc/Maildir/.INBOX.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Jan 14 11:43:38 Error: IMAP(kimc): Corrupted index cache file /home/kimc/Maildir/.INBOX.Sent/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Jan 14 11:43:38 Error: IMAP(kimc): Corrupted index cache file /home/kimc/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed If I change to test-61, when starting Squirrelmail for the first time the same will logged: log dovecot: Jan 14 12:00:26 Error: IMAP(kimc): Corrupted index cache file /home/kimc/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Jan 14 12:00:26 Error: IMAP(kimc): Corrupted index cache file /home/kimc/Maildir/.INBOX.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Jan 14 12:00:26 Error: IMAP(kimc): Corrupted index cache file /home/kimc/Maildir/.INBOX.Sent/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Jan 14 12:00:26 Error: IMAP(kimc): Corrupted index cache file /home/kimc/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed After this initial version switch, it will not log any errors. Each time switching back to test-59 will cause the 'read' state to again work correctly (and a one-time logging as above.) Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help debug this. regards -kim -- w8hdkim(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Proposed dovecot update changes in Fedora
by Kenneth Porter 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

FYI, forwarded from the Fedora development list: ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Saturday, January 15, 2005 7:16 PM -1000 From: Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> To: John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com> Subject: Proposed dovecot update changes John, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143707 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145214 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145241 Any objections to my proposed changes? I can implement all of this and supply patches for your review, or apply it myself to CVS if you wish. I summarize each problem and my proposed solution below. 1. Unnecessary dependency on mysql/postgresql ============================================= Prereq: postgresql Prereq: mysql These lines are wrong. The package is fine without it, because RPM auto-dep pulls in the client library of mysql and postgresql rather than a larger unnecessary chunk of those databases. These dependencies are resolved properly by yum and handled automatically. Solution: Just remove those lines. 2. dovecot.conf should default to fcntl locking =============================================== https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145214#c7 Our default dovecot.conf changed from fcntl to dotlock sometime after the release of FC2. That is one of the reasons why we see this above bug. This problem must now be attacked on two fronts: 1) Our default dovecot.conf must be changed to use fcntl by default again. If someone uses a broken NFS where fcntl doesn't work, then it is up them to edit their configuration to use dotlocks. If users have not modified dovecot.conf, then upgrading to the new package will set fcntl default. 2) For exisiting users who have modified dovecot.conf, it would be dangerous to force a change to fcntl during %post. Then "mail_extra_groups = mail" is the correct line to add durin 3. FC2 should not link to mysql/postgresql (???) ================================================ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145241#c1 FC2 dovecot originally did not link to mysql and postgresql, so arguably we should not add those dependencies in an update. Unfortunately our current FC2 update is linked in this way, so we would be breaking existing users if they did begin using this functionality in FC2. I am guessing that the likelihood of this is very low and we should go ahead. (However we could just as easily leave it as is, then it would only be a minor annoyance rather than a real problem.) FC3 dovecot did link to mysql/postgresql libs, so we must not change that or split into sub-packages because then an update would break existing users. FC4 we have the option of splitting mysql/postgresql into sub-packages, which is probably the correct thing to do based on the php precedent. Thoughts? Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------

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