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[Dovecot] migrating from uw imapd
by Craig 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Hi, I'm trying to migrate from uw imapd to dovecot. I'm having two problems at the moment. 1. uw imapd grabs new mail from /var/mail/user and then shoves it into ~/mbox, is there any way to make dovecot handle this kind of setup or am I better off merging ~/mbox back into /var/mail/user? If merging is better are what tools are best for this? 2. While I did have have everything in ~/Mail coming up dovetail stopped working and logs the following error: syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap-login: Login: haakon [192.168.0.107] syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 imap(haakon): Failed to create storage with data: ~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/haakon syslog:Jul 19 23:01:07 epsilon3 dovecot: child 10417 (imap) returned error 89 any idea what is causing this? Regards, Craig.

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Re: [Dovecot] How to use SASL2?
by Matthew Reimer 19 Jul '03

19 Jul '03

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 02:02, grpmind+dovecot(a)boromir.vpop.net wrote: > >>How does one use SASL2 for authentication? I looked for docs but found >>none. > > There's some code for supporting Cyrus' SASL library, but it hasn't been > tested for a while and I doubt that it works. I don't really have plans > to make it work either. > > Why do you want it anyway? Dovecot supports PLAIN, DIGEST-MD5 and > ANONYMOUS SASL mechanisms internally. Most important missing one is > Kerberos 5 I think. I'm not really interested in using SASL for its own sake, but because it's a way to get dovecot to authenticate against my mysql users db. I might try to write a patch to implement mysql support for dovecot, hopefully good enough for you to commit. Matt

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[Dovecot] Loadable module
by Maikel Verheijen 19 Jul '03

19 Jul '03

Hi List! I read a post about moving a .mailbixlist to a .subscriptionfile when a user did not have one, but did have a .mailboxlist file. Timo emailed a module for that purpose, so it could be done for this user. My question is: - Where and how does dovecot call this function? - Would it be easy to use a module to a) create a mailpath (can be done as the mailuser's id, I use one uid, and my path is all owned by that uid), and b) simply remove a quota file? Thank you for your time, Maikel Verheijen. Ps: the email I am referring to has: Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 0.99.10-rc3 Message-Id: <1056538261.8144.38.camel@hurina> Date: 25 Jun 2003 13:51:01 +0300

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[Dovecot] Status of database integration / Willing to help
by Gregory Hartman 18 Jul '03

18 Jul '03

I a PhD student here at Carnegie Mellon. I have ten years of experience working in C in industry. I am working on a research project here at Carnegie Mellon that needs to integrate a database with mail clients. We are planning to use the IMAP protocol to communicate with the mail client. After I spent some time looking at the code of various IMAP server implementations, I got very interested in Dovecot. Then I noticed that you were planning to integrate Dovecot with a SQL database. Is this work in progress? Do you have a schema? Is there some way that I could help? -- Gregory Hartman <gghartma(a)cs.cmu.edu>

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[Dovecot] How to use SASL2?
by grpmind+dovecot＠boromir.vpop.net 18 Jul '03

18 Jul '03

How does one use SASL2 for authentication? I looked for docs but found none. Thanks in advance. Matt

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Linux 2.6.0-test1-ac1
by Grahame Bowland 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

Hi all For various reasons I was looking into 2.6, so I installed a copy on my desktop. Everything works fine, except for dovecot - errors such as this appeared in the syslog: Jul 15 14:41:09 typhaon dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jul 15 14:41:12 typhaon imap-login: setuid(113) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Jul 15 14:41:12 typhaon dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down I can imagine why setuid() should ever fail, I've confirmed that the daemon is running as UID zero at the time it makes the call. However, the call succeeds if I comment out: restrict_process_size((unsigned int)-1, 1); on line 134 of src/login-common/main.c it starts to work again. It's very strange - I got the idea to try this from the list archives. I'm willing to track this down if anyone can suggest possible things in restrict_process_size() that might be causing this failure. All the other daemons that I run that need to drop root privileges work fine.. Cheers Grahame -- Grahame Bowland Email: grahame(a)ucs.uwa.edu.au University Communications Services Phone: +61 8 9380 1175 The University of Western Australia Fax: +61 8 9380 1109 CRICOS: 00126G

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[Dovecot] Indexes again
by Timo Sirainen 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

A bit quiet here, so here's some more thoughts about indexes. Even though I was thinking only how to make them usable with NFS (I wrote it to doc/nfs.txt), it then occured to me that exactly the same tricks would help with local filesystem indexes as well. Especially the lockless reading would help with lock contention issues I was worrying about earlier with shared mailboxes. Also it occured to me that keeping maildir filenames fully synchronized in index file probably isn't very good idea from performance point of view.. BTW. I almost committed the .tree removal code to CVS today. Then I noticed that expunging ignores about half of the deleted messages. This could have been actually happening with the old code in some situations as well, although it probably would have skipped only a couple of messages. Anyway, fixing this properly takes some more time.. -------- Ideas how to make indexes work pretty well with NFS: Reading shouldn't require locks, so modifying should be done using only atomic operations. These include: - Replacing the file completely using rename() - We probably can't assume that writing more than one byte at a time is atomic. If we have to modify a larger dataset, we could do: - struct { bit_t use_first; dataset_t first; dataset_t second; } - when reading, we use first if use_first is set, second if it's unset - when writing, we first write to the non-used variable, only then we update the flag. - This of course requires twice the amount of space for dataset plus one extra bit, so it shouldn't be used too much - If data can be only set, but never changed, we need only one extra bit to specify if the data is set. - Appending new data to end of file. We'd have to have used_file_size variable in header, done like described above. - Each cached message record would have a pointer to next part, so more cached data could be appended to file. Message flags are the most commonly modified data. If we just modify them directly, a simultaneous read might catch the change only partially. But luckily for us, this is accepted behaviour so we can do it. Another commonly modified data is maildir filenames. We probably want to store only the base name in index and keep the full name synchronized only locally. Compressing unused data from index files would have to be done by rewriting the index into index.lock file and renaming it over the index file. All file operations should probably be done with lseek(), read() and write() to avoid extra network traffic. There should be some clever read-ahead caching however.

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[Dovecot] New indexing code
by Timo Sirainen 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

If someone's interested, here's an explanation and test code how I was planning on replacing the current .imap.index.tree file's functionality. The .tree file will be removed so you'll save some disk/memory as well, something like 5-20% of whole indexes.

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RE: [Dovecot] dovecot.procontrol.fi anonymous access fails?
by Maikel Verheijen 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Maikel Verheijen wrote: > > When I tried connecting using MS outlook express, it is complaining > > about the fact that the folders aren't subscribed. If they are not > > subscribed, you cannot read them... :( > > OK, added the subscriptions now. Ah great! :) Thanks, Maikel Verheijen.

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RE: [Dovecot] dovecot.procontrol.fi anonymous access fails?
by Maikel Verheijen 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Hi List, When I tried connecting using MS outlook express, it is complaining about the fact that the folders aren't subscribed. If they are not subscribed, you cannot read them... :( I did read through the archives using mutt though, that worked quite well! :) Regards, Maikel Verheijen. Ps: did not try it lately, maybe Timo changed the subscription status of the folders in between.... > -----Original Message----- > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] > Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 6:10 PM > To: dovecot(a)procontrol.fi > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.procontrol.fi anonymous access fails? > > > On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 18:47 Europe/Helsinki, Marco > Molteni wrote: > > > I was using a patched sylpheed that doesn't support ANONYMOUS > > authentication, so I gave anonymous as username and empty password, > > but it failed as shown in the following trace: > > > > 2 LOGIN anonymous > > 2 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. > > Sylpheed is buggy and doesn't give password parameter. It should have > said: > > 2 login anonymous "" >

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