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[Dovecot] Dovecot can't connect to mysql
by fa 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi. I've just compiled dovecot-1.0.alpha5 with mysql support.from freebsd ports (FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE). It looks like dovecot has problems connecting to mysql. In the log I'm getting: dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:41 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (exim): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 5 seconds before retry dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:41 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(facha(a)facha.org.ua,127.0.0.1): Password query failed: Not connected to database dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:44 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<facha(a)facha.org.ua>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured This is my dovecot-mysql.conf: connect = host=localhost dbname=exim user=root password=qwer default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM auth WHERE username = '%u' AND domain = '%d' Exim is working with the same settings on the same machine. I also checked if I can use these settings with mysql console client. I don't know where to look for errors. Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks in advance for your answers.

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[Dovecot] index file vs. memory
by Marten Lehmann 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hello, we have a large base of mailbox users and while pop3-connections are usually closed after the download of all mails, I noticed hundrets of imap-connections kept idle by the users. This is surely according to the idea behind imap, but I'm a bit afraid of overwhelming memory consumption if there are too many imap-connections opened at the same time. Is the index file kept in memory as long as an imap-connection exists, or is it closed as soon as a certain read or write command has finished? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Re : dovecot 0.99 to 1 (solved)
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Thanks it's the solution. I added to dovecot.conf protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu }

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[Dovecot] Re : dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Thanks for your precision. So, i do : telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user toto +OK pass mypasswd +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. And with evolution : Unable to connect to POP server pop.toto.org. Error sending username: -ERR No username given.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi, I change this auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "dovecot" } passdb passwd { } userdb passwd { } But i have the same error : telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. 1 login toto mypasswd -ERR Unknown command. telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 login toto mypasswd 1 OK Logged in In pam.d/dovecot, i have auth required pam_unix.so nullok account required pam_unix.so In pam.d/imap, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth In pam.d/pop3, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth include pam_stack.so service=system-auth account include pam_stack.so service=system-auth session include pam_stack.so service=system-auth and in pam.d/pop, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth account include system-auth session include system-auth I don't know of pam

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[Dovecot] ssl_parameters_file
by Sergey Redin 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hello Timo, What was the reason to remove ssl_parameters_file setting? Is it possible to restore it? We really need it, and I can see no reason to remove this useful setting. -- Sergey Redin

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi, Gentoo updated dovecot to 1.0 beta3 and don't succeed in authentification with pop3. Here is my dovecot.conf 0.99 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * imaps_listen = * pop3s_listen = * login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir mbox_locks = fcntl dotlock auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam dovecot auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes and here is my translation for dovecot.conf 1.0 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "*" } passdb passwd { } userdb passwd { } user = root } I succeed in connection with telnet localhost 143 but not with pop3 I compiled dovecot with -debug +ipv6 -kerberos +ldap -mbox +mysql +pam +pop3d -postgres +ssl -vpopmail Thank you for your help

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[Dovecot] rpm build problem with beta 3
by Daniel 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi I have a small problem with building a rpm of dovecot. I normally build rpms from the tar balls to install on our servers. With beta 3 I'm getting the error below. It builds fine if it is left stock with no ldap support. This the snip from the .spec file I put the --with-ldap as I require ldap support however this is stoping it from building. %configure \ --with-ldap \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_sysconfdir}/ssl" I have tested this on Fedora Core 3 and Core 4 both get the same. Output of the end of the 'rpmbuild -tb dovecot-1.0.beta3.tar.gz'. /usr/bin/install -c pop3-login /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3-login' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3-login' Making install in pop3 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'pop3' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3' /usr/bin/install -c pop3 /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' Making install in util make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'rawlog' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog' /usr/bin/install -c rawlog /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'gdbhelper' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper' /usr/bin/install -c gdbhelper /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'dovecotpw' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin/dovecotpw' /usr/bin/install -c dovecotpw /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin/dovecotpw make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' Making install in plugins make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' Making install in convert make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' mkdir -p -- /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 /usr/lib/dovecot/lda for d in imap pop3 lda; do \ rm -f /usr/lib/dovecot/$d/lib02_trash_plugin.so; \ ln -s ../lib01_convert_plugin.so /usr/lib/dovecot/$d; \ done ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30428 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30428 (%install)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot username mapping
by Adam "Fuzzy" Kennedy 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Ok, here's my situation. I currently run IMail 7.x with about 80 domains and nearly 4000 users. I want to switch this to a Linux server. I'm using Virtualmin to manage the users/postfix. I have dovecot working just peachy with the setup, except for one problem. We are an ISP. The easiest thing for us (and our users) is to have them use their full email address as their username. What I need is some way to have Dovecot take a username and map it to the real unix user. Our unix users are created as "username-domain.com" When our users login to our current email system, they enter their username as "username(a)domain.com". I for the life of me cannot figure out how to make Dovecot take "username(a)domain.com" and know that the unix username is really "username-domain.com" Ideas? -Adam "Fuzzy" Kennedy

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RE: [Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion
by Zoong Pham 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 9:39 PM > To: Zoong Pham > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion > > What passdb and userdb do you use? Unless you're authenticating from > SQL you probably have to modify the source. Let me explain: My server runs OpenBSD-3.5 and Sendmail. We host few virtual domains. Local accounts have login names in this format: login-domain_abc_xyz For example: joedirt-joedomain_com_au, info-adomain_com, info-otherdomain_com That way login accounts are unique across all the virtual domains. I use the OpenBSD pre-compiled dovecot-0.99.10p2. It is set to use "auth_passdb = passwd" and "auth_userdb = passwd" I can use mutt to access my mailbox via IMAPS with login name format joedirt-joedomain_com_au. Other users use different MUA like Outlook and prefer to login with their email addresses (joedirt(a)joedomain.com.au, info(a)adomain.com, info(a)otherdomain.com) We use squirrelmail for webmail. I modified squirrelmail to automatically convert login name from format of joedirt(a)joedomain.com.au to joedirt-joedomain_com_au. So if users use squirrelmail, they can just login with their email addresses. My question is how to achieve the same thing with other MUAs like Outlook? Do I have to modify dovecot source? Can I use LDAP or SQL instead? Note that we are using Sendmail and prefer it than othe MTA. I have looked at the Wiki, specially the "DovecotOpenLdap" but am still confused. Thanks Zoong

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[Dovecot] Old Maildir UW-imap
by Torbjörn Gripp 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi all, I'm new in using dovecot and I'm running in a problem, which I cannot solve without hours and hours of work. Maybe there is a solution, which I didn't find with old friend google :_) Here is the problem: We are using an old mailserver (it's running fine for 5 years) with qmail and the old uw-imap server. All users have their grown directories under a home/Maildir folder. All subdirectories are lying under Maildir/sub/sub/sub. Now I want to migrate to dovecot and I have a lot of trouble, cause I cannot find a solution to migrate to the folder structure /Maildir/.sub.sub.sub. It's really difficult cause all the windows users have subdirs like one folder (1945)/a new ö/ and something like that! Any hints?? greetings and sorry for the bad english -- [ t o r b j o e r n g r i p p ] senior systemadministrator opus 5 interaktive medien gmbh grossneumarkt 50 20459 hamburg fon: +49(0)40 350174-439 fax: +49(0)40 350174-404 mobil: 0175 9326096 mailto:gripp@opus5.de http://www.opus5.de

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[Dovecot] Server & move to Dovecot
by K Gilpin 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, I a currently running a server which is using uw-imap server which currently has 190 users. I am looking to move the server OS and the imap server to Dovecot Imap Server. We are currently using mbox as the default mail file. I have a couple of questions to ask. 1) Would it be better if we moved to maildirs during the server move? 2) All current mail files are in a directly called /export/home/mail/%username. How would one configure dovecot to use the above path? How points to any good FAQs would be great. Thanks Kevin

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[Dovecot] Digest-MD5 and GSSAPI not working in beta3
by Casey Allen Shobe 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I have built dovecot with kerberos support, however am not able to log in using GSSAPI support in my mail client. I receive the following error: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found Additionally, Digest-MD5 does not work - I receive an authentication failed (as though I have an incorrect password) if I try to use it. I am using PostgreSQL for authentication, and returning a plaintext password with my SQL query. LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM, and CRAM-MD5 are all working as expected. I tried making the change shown in Mark Davies' src/auth/mech-gssapi.c patch (posted to the list on 10 February), but it had no effect. Any advice welcome! Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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[Dovecot] INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox
by Chris Wakelin 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox. I've tried something like default_mail_env = mbox:/folders/user/mail:INBOX=maildir:/inboxes/maildir/user:INDEX=/indexes/user but it doesn't seem to work (treats INBOX as mbox). I'm hoping to move some INBOXes from mbox on local disk to Maildir on nicely-mirrored NetApp NFS (or possibly iSCSI) servers for redundancy and better incremental backups. I'm probably doing something silly, or have misunderstood something! Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] dspam plugin updated
by Johannes Berg 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, Since debian just updated to beta 2, I updated the dspam plugin for that. Also, I added ignoring a Trash folder, Taivo please test if it works for you (but you will need to patch again for dspam daemon mode!) As always: http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-dspam-integration johannes

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[Dovecot] Restore of a message
by Luigi Rosa 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Hello, if I want to restore from a previous backup a single message or a single folder, what is the correct procedure? Do I have to do it with Dovecot shut down? Does Dovecot recognize automagically the new message/folder? Thank you in advance. Ciao, luigi -- +--[Luigi Rosa]--

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[Dovecot] Beta3 bug - non-first make install's fail
by Casey Allen Shobe 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' mkdir -p -- /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 /usr/lib/dovecot/lda for d in imap pop3 lda; do \ rm -f /usr/lib/dovecot/$d/lib02_trash_plugin.so; \ ln -s ../lib01_convert_plugin.so /usr/lib/dovecot/$d; \ done ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 Workaround: make uninstall before make install. Fix: Use ln -snf instead of ln -s. -- Casey Allen Shobe | cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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[Dovecot] Changing listen ports
by Václav Haisman 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Hi, I want to change ports that Dovecot uses to listen for connections. I have listen = [::] in global section and listen = 0.0.0.0:10143 and listen = 0.0.0.0:10110 in protocol imap and protocol pop3 sections. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work for SSL ports of the two protocols and I get following error when I try to start the service: Fatal: listen(993) failed: Address already in use This is because I still have IMAP-UW installed and running. So, how can I change the SSL ports for both IMAPs and POP3s? Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] Clients cannot empty trash
by james edwards 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

I am having a problem with Dovecot and imap; users are not being able to empty their trash from time to time. Here is what I am running: [root@xxxx root]# rpm -q dovecot dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 [root@xxxx root]# uname -a Linux xxxx 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 21 04:03:26 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@xxxx root]# Several times a week different users get the following pop up message when they empty trash (manually by selecting "delete trash" on their mail client): "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. {2006-02-22 08:46:24]." The quick and dirty fix is to go into their home dir and empty the trash folder (ie "> Trash"). I have checked the log and do not see anything useful at the time noted in the pop up error message on the users client. I have now set up logging to separate files to make debugging a bit easier: log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log Most of my users are using Netscape for mail. I have searched the web and archives of this list with little luck. Some people mention issues with quota but I am not running quota. Has anyone seen this or can point me in the right direction to debug this problem further ? James H. Edwards Network Systems Administrator Judicial Information Division jedwards(a)nmcourts.com (505)476-6960

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Squirrelmail problem
by Scott Mayo 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I get the following error when I check my mail a lot. I can keep refreshing until all errors are gone, then I am alright. This started happening when I turned on the serverside sorting in squirrelmail. How do I check to see which mails are causing this problem? ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: COPY 10223:10223 "INBOX.Trash" Reason Given: Internal error [2006-02-22 10:08:53] All that I am doing is filtering a lot of listserves that I am on to go to the trash. Thanks. -- Scott Mayo Technology Coordinator Bloomfield Schools PH: 573-568-5669 FA: 573-568-4565 Pager: 800-264-2535 X2549 Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.

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[Dovecot] fcntl and F_NOTIFY
by Michael Blinn 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I've set up dovecot on a testbed server. Each time a user ('myusername') connects via imap, I get the following info in mail.log: dovecot: imap(myusername): fcntl(F_NOTIFY) failed: Invalid argument I'm using these config settings in dovecot.conf in an attempt to avoid fcntl lock_method = dotlock mbox_read_locks = dotlock mbox_write_locks = dotlock I've looked through the archives but haven't seen this particular message, so I am a bit lost. I've tried fiddling with the NOTIFY defines in config.h but these don't seem to make a difference, if they compile at all. I'm on lib6 on this Debian Woody (kernel 2.2.25) box. I don't know how realistic it would be to get up to a latest glibc, if this is where the problem exists. Can anyone point me in the right direction or provide some insight? Cheers, -Michael Blinn -- If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unremembered seasons? - Kahlil Gibran CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message, and any attachments that may accompany it, contain information that is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the recipient of this message is not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or other use of this communication or any of the information, which it contains is unauthorized and prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender by return mail and delete this message, along with any attachments, from your computer. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] Disconnect IMAP session after certain time?
by Jan-Piet Mens 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Is it possible to have Dovecot cleanly terminate an IMAP session after a certain time? I have a number of users who leave their MUA (Mozilla Thunderbird) on all night, and I'd like to have them (cleanly) disconnect in order to free up resources after a certain "inactivity" time (e.g. 2 hours). Can that be done? -JP

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[Dovecot] BUG: PASSL had invalid passdb num
by Jakob Hirsch 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

With current cvs: Feb 22 14:30:32 ymmv dovecot: auth-worker(default): BUG: PASSL had invalid passdb num never seen that before.

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[Dovecot] Problem getting new mail from Postfix to Dovecot
by Dave Engbers 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Dear reader, I am having problems getting new mail into my Inbox. I have this in my dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u The logs show nothing special, catting /var/mail/%u shows the new mails coming in, as does /var/log/mail.info Any clues? Regards, Dave.

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[Dovecot] Stale configure options...
by Curtis Maloney 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Does the GNUTLS support in Dovecot currently work? Last I saw it was quite stale, and broken. If it doesn't work, should it perhaps be removed as an option from the configure script? ... just a thought. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] building in AIXV5.3 using the IBM C for AIX compiler V6.0
by Stewart Dean 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

What fun. I don't often stoke up the boiler and actually compile open-source code, but here I am at the beginning of just such a joyous and wondrous adventure. I'm running the latest level of AIX (V5.3...V4.3 has been obsolete for at least, what, 5 years) and using the IBM compiler (xlc is similarly obsolete, from back when the compiler came with the O/S...oh, for the halcyon days of Unix's youth) as above The IBM compiler is now know as xlc rather than xlC, and configure doesn't find it: checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no and it isn't happy with the quota stuff: checking sys/quota.h usability... no checking sys/quota.h presence... no checking for sys/quota.h... no checking sys/fs/ufs_quota.h usability... no checking sys/fs/ufs_quota.h presence... no checking for sys/fs/ufs_quota.h... no checking ufs/ufs/quota.h usability... no checking ufs/ufs/quota.h presence... no checking for ufs/ufs/quota.h... no I guess this is because AIX has journalled filesystems and the quota.h stuff is under /usr/include/jfs/quota.h Configure completes with this summary. Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 32bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file pam checkpassword (modules) Right now, I'm just shooting (sorry, Mr. Cheney) for a clean compile...I'll leave such niceties as finding the OpenSSL binaries (which IBM, in its wisdom, puts in special places), doing a multiproccesor-enabled compile, etc. for later. Onward! I have defined CC= /usr/vac/bin/cc. But alas, the party just doesn't happen. There's much like this: "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='hostpid.c' object='hostpid.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/ xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c hostpid.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='imem.c' object='imem.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/xlc -D HAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c imem.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='iostream.c' object='iostream.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bi n/xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c iostream.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='istream.c' object='istream.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/ xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c istream.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "ioloop.h", line 17.31: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text ',' encountered. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Yikes. Would someone be so kind as to lend me a hand? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] documentation on modifying the configure script
by Stewart Dean 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

On second thought (unless someone is fantastically charitable), I suppose I need to seriously concentrate on modifying the current configure script to work with the current AIX operating system and compiler. Can someone direct me to documentation on configure so I can begin my trek through the wilderness? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Procmail sending to 'Folder ^'
by Anne Wilson 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Due to a fault in a procmail recipe, a number of files have been sent to 'Folder ^'. Would this mean anything at all to Dovecot? At this point I don't know whether the messages are physically on my drive or have been sent to /dev/null. I know there was one important message among them, so if they are recoverable I'd like to check them. Anne

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[Dovecot] dovecot memory consumption beta vs. old "stable" series
by Gunter Ohrner 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi! I just wanted to know if anyone can give a definitive answer if dovecot beta's memory requirements are much better than in the old pre-alpha "stable" series? I'm using a rather old stable.20050712 release on an also rather old Debian Sarge box to manage my personal mails. I'm pretty satisfied with this dovecot release but it's memory consumption when deleting messages causes major troubles on this box - more than 500 MB of virtual memory allocated to the "imap" process is quite a lot and often causes random processes to fall victim to the OOM killer. :-( Adding even more swap space also is no viable option. (The system has 64 MB RAM and currently about 650 MB swap space.) So, would it be worth a try to install dovecot beta2 or something when it's released, or won't it help in this regard? I won't want to sacrificy the otherwise well working installation, if dovecot beta2 isn't guaranteed to help I'll continue to monitor available memory and swap space while cleaning up my spams... Greetings, Gunter -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + http://aachen.uni-dsl.de/ - Der direkte Draht in's Hochschulnetz! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "What do people like to drink here, then?" The landlord looked sideways at his customers, a clever trick given that they were directly in front of him. -- Mort goes out for a drink (Terry Pratchett, Mort) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + PGP-verschlüsselte Mails bevorzugt! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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[Dovecot] '+' addesses and Foldered delivery
by Brad 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Before I start tearing my hair out .. I am using sendmail 8.13.5 with the exact setting for the dovecot lda specified in the dovecot wiki. Does the mailer definition for the lda ensure that it can understand +'ed addressing for foldered delivery ?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot lda woes
by Brad 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Having some painful problems with the dovecot lda and getting it to (a). Just work (b). Work with sendmail This is how I have dovecot setup (appropriate dovecot.conf snippets included) protocol lda { module_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda postmaster_address = postmaster(a)bradphinney.com auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master } auth default { .... # passwd-like file with specified location passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot-passdb } userdb static { args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u mail=mbox:/export/dovecot/%d/%u/ nice=10 } ... } Here is what deliver is set up as -rwsr-sr-x 1 dovecot dovecot 2070623 Feb 19 18:22 deliver* I drop sendmail into debugging mode so I can at least see if it is resolving the address correctly. Here is my mailertable entries : testdomain1.com dovecot:dovecot I fire up sendmail. telnet to port 25 and see if I cant get some mail delivered. Here is what sendmail spits out Feb 20 18:54:18 titan sendmail[6475]: k1KNqWti006459: to=<echo(a)testdomain1.com>, delay=00:01:16, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=120016, relay=dovecot, dsn=5.3.0, stat=unknown mailer error 89 Not good. On a hunch .. I change the permissions on the dovecot log to be 777. Now .. I get a different error .. Feb 20 18:12:14 titan sendmail[6014]: k1KNBQ1e006006: to=<echo(a)testdomain1.com>, delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=120012, relay=dovecot, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: dovecot mailer (/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL Any ideas ?

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[Dovecot] Problems with authentication
by Lapo Luchini 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi there. I've got a running qmail+vpopmail+mysql5 server on FreeBSD and I would like to give IMAP access to it (both for user's sake and to have a decent webmail), so I decided to install dovecot (it certainly does its work on my home box). Problem is: I haven't had success with authentication. At first I tried the most obvious: using the vpopmail backend. Unfortunately I received lots of "vmysql: MySQL server has gone away" just like in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/10321 So I decided to spice up a query to vpopmail's MySQL table, and there another problem was waiting for me: "Access denied" just like in this thread http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/9077 Only difference: in my case using OLD_PASSWORD() didn't solve the problem and -thinking about it better- couln't possibly have solved it: that FreeBSD is a recent fresh install and I installed MySQL 5.0.18 from sources using the "ports" system, so a library with no support for new PASSWORD() has never seen the light on that box. I kinda went around the problem using a shell script to dump the MySQL table to a SQLite file and authentication dovecot against that, but while this work-around can do for a little bit I'd really like to solve the problem itself, and avoid having to keep ni sync those two DBs (no, unfortunately vpopmail doesn't support SQLite, else I'd use that: it would also have the nice side-effect that a "down" on mysql side wouldn't hurt the mail subsystem). Any suggestions or idea how I could solve or, at least, better diagnose the problem(s)? Yours, Lapo

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[Dovecot] Plain password auth issues
by nospam 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Have the following entries in dovecot.conf auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_user = dovecot passwd-file is owned by user and group dovecot When I try to log in .. I get dovecot: Feb 19 16:41:30 Error: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user echo) imap-login: Feb 19 16:41:30 Info: Internal login failure: echo [127.0.0.1] dovecot-auth: Feb 19 16:41:30 Info: Login process 12 disconnected Any ideas ?

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[Dovecot] MySql Server Has gone
by Marc-André Joyal 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

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[Dovecot] rawlog for Dovecot proxies
by Bill Boebel 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Is there a way to use rawlog to log the full IMAP session when running Dovecot as a front-end proxy for other IMAP servers? If so, how?... I couldn't figure it out. Or is there another debug setting that can give me this information? If not, what is the best method to sniff the IMAP session for debugging a proxy?... ethereal? Thanks, Bill -- http://billboebel.typepad.com/

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[Dovecot] Updating the web?
by Peter Lindgren 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hello! I was looking for some information about which signals I can send to dovecot to do various things, but I couldn't find it. Since it's a wiki, is it ok to just edit the pages, or should I post here first? I thought I'd check with Timo and you guys first, maybe I missed that page that describes the signals... If it's ok, I can edit or add a new page. /Peter -- Peter Lindgren, dataingenjör E-post: peter "at" norrskenkonsult punkt com http://www.norrskenkonsult.com

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[Dovecot] IMAP stress testing tool
by Timo Sirainen 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I updated my IMAP stress testing tool to support also APPENDs and print some nice statistics. If you want to try for yourself, it's here: http://dovecot.org/tools/imaptest.c I thought about adding some more features in future to it, such as: - Add a header to each appended message containing MD5 sum of it. When fetching, verify that the MD5 sum is valid. - Do randomized fetch requests (headers, size, flags, etc.) - Do randomized search requests - sort, thread

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[Dovecot] Messages disappear and reappear when I check mailbox using KMail
by Lincoln Peters 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Not sure if this is a Dovecot bug or a KMail bug, but since it only seems to happen to people using KMail to access a Dovecot server or a Novell NetWare IMAP server, I thought I should mention it here. <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121866> From the bug report: When I check for mail on an IMAP account (not disconnected), all recently-received messages disappear prior to any mail check, any new messages appear, and then the messages that disappeared earlier reappear. This does not seem to cause any harm, but it is horrendously inefficient if there are a lot of messages in an IMAP folder so affected. Any ideas as to what could cause this behavior in a mail client when connecting to a Dovecot IMAP server but not when connecting to other kinds of IMAP servers? -- Lincoln Peters <sampln(a)sbcglobal.net> BOFH excuse #80: That's a great computer you have there; have you considered how it would work as a BSD machine? /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards

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[Dovecot] IMAP and Outlook XP Contacts
by DiskMan 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I was wondering, does Dovecot's IMAP server hand Outlook XP's contact lists? I tried to enter a contact on my IMAP server and received an error from Outlook stating that the Contacts formatting was too complex and thus couldn't be saved. I went ahead and swung my box over to MailDir and scrapped Sendmail for Postfix [for maildir support], I was wondering, would this issue continue? In other words, by swinging over to MailDir, would Dovecot be able to handle Outlook's Contacts information? Will L G

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[Dovecot] Another permissions problem?
by Anne Wilson 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

The rebuild server is now almost complete. Dovecot is running, and I can telnet and log in. In kmail on this workstation I have created an imap account, for which Inbox was created. I also created Trash and sent-mail as top-level folders, and they display correctly with the cur, new and tmp sub-folders on the server. I now want to create subfolders of Inbox, and there I'm coming unstuck. According to the info box URL: (unknown) Date and time: Saturday 18 February 2006 16:51 Additional information: imap://anne@192.168.0.30:143/INBOX/LAN//;INFO=ASKUSER Possible causes: Your access permissions may be inadequate to perform the requested operation on this resource The location where the folder was to be created may not exist A protocol error or incompatibility may have occurred This is what I have at the moment: ls -al -R ~/Maildir /home/anne/Maildir: total 44 drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 49 anne anne 4096 Feb 18 17:23 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:48 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 61 Feb 18 17:21 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 .INBOX drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 new drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .sent-mail -rw------- 1 anne users 16 Feb 18 16:48 .subscriptions drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 tmp drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .Trash /home/anne/Maildir/cur: total 28 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. -rw------- 1 anne users 18063 Feb 18 17:21 1140283312.P16651Q0M725303.wkstn.domain.lan:2,FS /home/anne/Maildir/.INBOX: total 32 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 17:21 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.tree /home/anne/Maildir/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail: total 48 drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:51 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 new drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 tmp /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash: total 48 drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:51 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 new drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 tmp /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. Any suggestions, please? Anne

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[Dovecot] Login processes don't die
by Jürgen Herz 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hello, I'm a fresh dovecot user (resp. admin), using dovecot 0.99.14 (a little old, but that's what Debian Sarge provides). In general everything works as it should, but there's something that makes me wonder. The wiki says "By default each login process will handle only a single connection and afterwards kill itself." But it does look different to me. On startup there are two imap-login processes running (login_processes_count is 2). When connecting with Sylpheed, one additional imap process is running. But when connecting with Mozilla (Seamonkey), I get three imap-login and one imap process at minimum (Maximum number of server connections to cache set to 1 in Mozilla). If the cached connections is set to 2, there are four imap-login and two imap processes. So it looks to me as the login processes don't get killed. Is this a client issue (but how could it keep the login alive?), is this a known bug in the older dovecot, or something unknown? BTW, login_process_per_connection is default. Regards, Jürgen

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[Dovecot] Second user problems
by Anne Wilson 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

I have dovecot (0.99.14 under FC4) set up and working beautifully for my mail, handing on to procmail, and handling many subfolders. Today I needed to set up a second user. I added his account in kmail and created a sub-folder, but no sent-mail, trash etc. were created. I have sent test messages and /var/log/maillog says they have been processed, but they are not arriving in his inbox. /var/log/mail.info shows that he has logged in to dovecot. He has a simple .procmailrc to handle the one subdirectory. I'm sure that it must be something I've missed in dovecot.conf, but I can't see anything there that shouldn't work just as well for him as it does for me. Any pointers? Anne

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Re: [Dovecot] Second user problems
by Anne Wilson 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:55, Stroller wrote: > On 16 Feb 2006, at 20:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > > ... Today I needed to set > > up a second user. I added his account in kmail and created a sub- > > folder, but > > no sent-mail, trash etc. were created. I have sent test messages > > and /var/log/maillog says they have been processed, but they are > > not arriving > > in his inbox. > > How did you create the user on the server, please? Using Fedora's User management tool > Can you show us the output of `grep -ie FirstUser -ie SecondUser /etc/ > passwd`? grep -ie anne -ie david /etc/passwd anne:x:500:100:Anne Wilson:/home/anne:/bin/bash david:x:502:100:David Wilson:/home/david:/bin/bash > Of `ls -la ~FirstUser ~SecondUser`? > Do you really want that - it's huge - or do you want me to look for specific lines? I'll post all of it if you need it. Anne

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[Dovecot] "undefined reference to `yes_storage'"
by DiskMan 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Well after the 'issues' with Compaq C, I decided to attempt compile using GCC-3.4.3... To put it short, that didn't fair well either. Will L G. Redhat 7.2 [Alpha] GCC 3.4.3 Binutils-2.16.x Kernel-2.6.13.4 ccache gcc-3.4.3 -std=gnu99 -g -O5 -finline -fstrict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -mieee -w -mtune=ev56 -mmax -pipe -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wl,-lots -Wl,-lcpml -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o imap cmd-append.o cmd-authenticate.o cmd-capability.o cmd-check.o cmd-close.o cmd-copy.o cmd-create.o cmd-delete.o cmd-examine.o cmd-expunge.o cmd-fetch.o cmd-idle.o cmd-list.o cmd-login.o cmd-logout.o cmd-lsub.o cmd-namespace.o cmd-noop.o cmd-rename.o cmd-search.o cmd-select.o cmd-sort.o cmd-status.o cmd-store.o cmd-subscribe.o cmd-thread.o cmd-uid.o cmd-unselect.o cmd-unsubscribe.o client.o commands.o commands-util.o imap-expunge.o imap-fetch.o imap-fetch-body.o imap-messageset.o imap-search.o imap-sort.o imap-sync.o imap-thread.o mail-storage-callbacks.o main.o namespace.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a ../../src/lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a ../../src/lib-index/libindex.a ../lib-storage/libstorage.a ../lib-storage/subscription-file/libstorage_subscription_file.a ../lib-imap/libimap.a ../lib-mail/libmail.a ../lib-dict/libdict.a ../lib-charset/libcharset.a ../lib/liblib.a -ldl ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a(mail-storage-register.o): In function `mail_storage_register_all': /usr2/www/linux-related/servers/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/lib-storage/register/m ail-storage-register.c:6: undefined reference to `yes_storage' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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[Dovecot] Segmentation fault
by DiskMan 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Receiving nothing but a 'segfault' when ever I attempt to run any of the binaries after building... Redhat 7.2 [Alpha] Compaq C 6.5.9 Binutils-2.16.x Kernel-2.6.13.4 CC="ccache ccc" CXX="ccache cxx" \ CFLAGS="-shared -O2 -fast -ansi_alias -arch ev56 -mieee -w -pipe" \ CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fast -ansi_alias -arch ev56 -w -pipe" \ ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --build=alpha-alpha-linux \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-passwd \ --with-mysql \ --with-storages \ --localstatedir=/var make -s This GDB was configured as "alphapca56-alpha-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr2/www/pub/alpha-RH7/servers/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3/pop3 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000002000100a4c0 in __do_global_dtors_aux () (gdb) (gdb) (gdb) bt #0 0x000002000100a4c0 in __do_global_dtors_aux () Cannot access memory at address 0x120019f24 TIA, Will L G

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[Dovecot] Growing pools and disconnects
by mmaurer＠betterbe.com 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Since a couple of hours I see *a lot* of the following messages in my maillog: Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 32768 Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 65536 Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 131072 This happens also when viewing small inboxes (but the number being ~1024). This is dovecot 1.0.beta2, which has been running for about 2 days. Any indication where this message is coming from? The first day we never saw this message appearing. Dovecot now also seems to randomly disconnect people from time to time. Any insights would be appreciated. Marc

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[Dovecot] Authentication failing - Ant Internet Suite (Risc-OS)
by Simon Waters 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Switched to using dovecot for POP3, PLAIN login. One client with "Ant Internet Suite" can't use the service with this client, he used the same setting with another email client and it worked. On inspection of the packets, it is sending one packet with; "user username\r\npass password\r\nstat\r\n" Dovecot sends an "-ERR Unknown command", then a "+OK Logged in". I'm wondering if things got out of sequence here, since a "STAT" to dovecot before authentication causes the "Unknown command" error. "STAT" isn't allowed in the authentication stage... but well it issued it last.... Anyway I'm unclear here on the precise details of the packet trace, possible it is responding to an earlier packet, but thought I'd ask before pursuing this further in case some one leaps up and says "oh that'll be...". The client software has an option to disabled "queued commands" buried deep within it (append /ucb to user details), I suggested trying this if possible, will report back if it works. Also mentioned in a Google search. I'm curious as to what is right here, but the "/ucb" is presumably the practical answer if it works. Simon

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[Dovecot] 1.0beta3 released
by Timo Sirainen 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Since there have been so many requests, I guess it's time for beta3 now. There are a couple of issues that I'm still concerned about, but those probably happen with beta2 as well. If you're beginning to see more connection hangs/timeouts with this release, please tell me. * Dotlock code changed to timeout faster in some situations when the lock file is old. + Added support for loading SQL drivers dynamically (see INSTALL file for how to build them) + Keywords are stored to dboxes, and other dbox improvements. + dict-sql could actually work now, making quota-in-sql-database possibly working now (not fully tested) + Added mail storage conversion plugin to convert automatically from one mailbox format to another while user logs in. Doesn't preserve UIDVALIDITY/UIDs though. + Added plugin { .. } section to dovecot.conf for passing parameters to plugins (see dovecot-example.conf). + Added ssl-build-param binary which is used to generate ssl-parameters.dat. Main dovecot binary doesn't anymore link to SSL libraries, and this also makes the process title be clearer about why the process is eating all the CPU. - Fix building without OpenSSL - Fixed memory leak in MySQL driver - Fixes to checkpassword - Broken Content-Length header could have broken mbox opening - Fixed potential hangs after APPEND command - Fixed potential crashes in dovecot-auth and imap/pop3-login - zlib plugin now links with -lz so it could actually work - kqueue fixes by Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] Support of M-IMAP?
by Peter Hessler 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

I was looking at some new mobile phones, and apparently there is a form of IMAP that is optimized for mobiles called M-IMAP. Its not a rush (since I'm not even sure the phones will be out before Q2), but it'd be a cool thing to have. The spec is in the following PDF. http://www.3gpp2.org/Public_html/specs/X.S0016-311_v1.0_022404.pdf -- Klein bottle for sale ... inquire within.

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[Dovecot] Beta 3 fixes slow delete problem
by Marc Perkel 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

The slow delete and move that started with Beta 1 is now fixed in Beta 3. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] maildir and stat
by David Spidley 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Hi. I plan to use dovecot on nfs with maildir. Does dovecot need to stat each file in a maildir, or does it just read a list of files in the directory? i.e. does it do the equivalent of an ls -f, or an ls -l? HYCH

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[Dovecot] ugly hack to make maildir quotas work
by Joshua Goodall 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Timo encouraged me to forward this to the list. Basically it pokes the right value into the right place to make quota deltas work properly when saving mail to Maildirs. It's a nasty hack workaround, so don't rely on it without understanding that it should be superseded in future. Without this, saving to a maildir doesn't increment quota. --- src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c 14 Jan 2006 18:47:50 -0000 1.64 +++ src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c 16 Feb 2006 04:32:49 -0000 @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #include "str.h" #include "maildir-storage.h" #include "maildir-uidlist.h" +#include "index-mail.h" #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> @@ -233,6 +234,7 @@ struct utimbuf buf; const char *path; int output_errno; + struct stat st; if (ctx->failed && ctx->fd == -1) { /* tmp file creation failed */ @@ -264,6 +266,9 @@ "fsync(%s) failed: %m", path); ctx->failed = TRUE; } + if (fstat(ctx->fd, &st) < 0) { + ctx->failed = TRUE; + } if (close(ctx->fd) < 0) { mail_storage_set_critical(STORAGE(ctx->mbox->storage), "close(%s) failed: %m", path); @@ -297,6 +302,8 @@ if (mail_set_seq(dest_mail, ctx->seq) < 0) return -1; + + ((struct index_mail *)dest_mail)->data.physical_size = st.st_size; } t_pop(); /k -- Josh "Koshua" Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua(a)roughtrade.net - FW109

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[Dovecot] Question regarding 'dovecot-auth'
by Paul E Virgo 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Hello Timo, I am compiling dovecot-1.0.beta3, and I get the following message when the dovecot-auth module is being compiled: Undefined symbol sql_drivers_register_all first referenced in main.o Now I had run 'configure' with the '--without-sql-drivers' since I neither have MySQL or PostgresSQL installed on my server. Does this mean I DO have to get either package, install, and run it '--with-sql-drivers'? Or is it that the '--without...' feature doesn't work as intended? Am I making ANY sense? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] NFS Stale File Handles on Indexes
by Tony Kay 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

The configuration files has settings that seem to address the issues of using indexes on NFS (i.e. locking and mmap fixes), but we are using Dovecot on NFS, and when the load gets high we start to see a lot of NFS stale file handle errors, particularly with MS clients like Outlook. I see the discussion about these errors from last year. Any updates on the state of the code? Should we be using in-memory or local indexes instead for now? - Dovecot 1.0b3 - four physical IMAP servers - mbox format accounts on NFS netapps - currently allowing NFS indexes w/mmap disabled, and using dotlocks -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Perfection uncanned Like a beautiful redhead Fresh from her trailer from Spam-Ku : Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf by John Cho

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[Dovecot] imap_capability setting
by Bill Boebel 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

In src/master/master-settings.c, there is a config variable "imap_capability" that is read in from the conf file... but in the rest of the code it looks like that variable is never used. I assume this is there for future use, but just wanted to confirm that the code not using it was intentional. Since we are using Dovecot as an IMAP proxy for a Courier backend (for now), we need to advertise a different capability string than the Dovecot default. I have changed the hardcoded value in the ./configure script (@ 31015) for now. Bill

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[Dovecot] Dovecot RFC non-compliance: Mailbox names
by Tony Kay 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hi, I think I already know the answer to this and I agree with it, but I have a question about "invalid" mailbox naming decisions in dovecot. Technically, RFC3501 (Section 5.1, pg. 18, client consideration 3) says that * and % are legal in mailbox names, though it implicitly discourages their use. We just migrated to dovecot, and unfortunately have a few users who used * in their mailbox naming (which worked on our old IMAP server). I looked in the mailing list and source comments, but I could not find any discussion. Was there any discussion about the imap/commands-util.c:48? 46: /* make sure it even looks valid */ 47: sep = mail_storage_get_hierarchy_sep(storage); 48: if (*mailbox == '\0' || strspn(mailbox, "\r\n*%?") != 0) { 49: client_send_tagline(cmd, "NO Invalid mailbox name."); which is technically not RFC-compliant? I have a feeling it fixes much more important things than it breaks (i.e. LIST/LSUB), but then again we never had complaints from people using those characters in names until they stopped being supported. -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Sanity is a cozy lie. Susan Sontag

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[Dovecot] Solaris and T1
by Martin Preen 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hello, is someone using Dovecot with Solaris on a T1 cpu ? I would like to hear about pros and cons. Martin --------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Preen, Universitaet Freiburg, Institut fuer Informatik Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum 00-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany phone: ++49 761 203-8250 preen(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de fax: ++49 761 203-8242 www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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[Dovecot] dovecot-LDA and fromwho-argument
by Björn Ketelaars 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hello, Im using dspam 3.6.3 in combination with Dovecot, procmail and Sendmail. Everything works fine but I want to replace procmail by dovecot-LDA. A few changes to dspam.conf results in a takeover by dovecot-LDA. Unfortunately this is where it goes awry; besides the d argument (user), dspam also supplies the f argument (fromwhom). The use of the f argument results in an error because dovecot-LDA does not know what to do with it. Is there an option to ignore the passing of 'fromwhom' from dspam? -- In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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[Dovecot] Upgrade alpha5 to beta3
by Jan-Piet Mens 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hello, after an upgrade from alpha5 to beta3, every operation after login from an MUA returns ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: COPY 9 "Trash" Reason Given: (null) Both were built with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \ --disable-ipv6 \ --with-passwd \ --with-passwd-file \ --with-ldap \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/etc/dovecot/ssl \ --localstatedir=/var \ --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot \ --with-mysql \ --without-deliver \ --with-moduledir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot Just before `make install' on beta3, I removed content of /usr/local/lib/dovecot to ensure a clean install of the modules. My dovecot.conf contains base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imaps imap listen = * ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/ssl/net.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/dovecot/ssl/net.key ssl_ca_file = /etc/dovecot/ssl/chain.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth = yes syslog_facility = mail login_user = dovecot login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c verbose_proctitle = yes mail_debug = no default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_log_prefix = "%Us %p %r [%u]: " protocol imap { mail_use_modules = yes mail_modules = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap login_greeting_capability = no } protocol pop3 { } auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain user = root passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-client/sock mode = 0666 } } } Can someone please help me? Thank & regards, -JP

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[Dovecot] SASL und APOP
by Luca Bertoncello 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi, all! I configured Dovecot to use many protocols. To do this, I wrote: mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop ntlm Very strange, if I ask the capability, I get: CAPA TOP UIDL RESP-CODES PIPELINING STLS USER SASL PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM . I can't understand why APOP is not written (but I can use it!) and why I can see SASL, that I didn't configure... How can I change these message so that I get PLAIN APOP DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM? Thanks a lot! -- _______________________________ Luca Bertoncello -Programmierung / Mailserver- IMS Internet-Media-Service GmbH Bärensteiner Straße 7 01277 Dresden Fon: +49 351 2112034 Fax: +49 351 2112020 email: bertoncello(a)internet24.de

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[Dovecot] Message index corruption when using Thunderbird and Dovecot
by Reuben Pearse 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi all, I have recently upgraded from UW-IMAP to Dovecot 1.0.beta3 on Redhat9. I migrated my mailbox to from Mbox to Maildir using the mb2md perl script, and created a procmail recipe file to get email arriving in the Maildir directories. However, when accessing my mailbox from Thunderbird (version 1.5), it occasionally mixes up the email header with the email content. I also occasionally get errors like this when clicking on old messages (ones that got converted as part of the mb2md script). The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in '<16384.-15744>' However, if I click on the email item again, Thunderbird is then able to retrieve the message correctly. Can anyone provide some help with these problem. Thanks in advance -- Reuben Pearse Principal Technical Consultant reuben.pearse(a)pslconnect.com T +44 121 428 4440 F +44 121 428 3454 PSL The Old Sewing Factory 5a Greenfield Road Harborne Birmingham B17 0ED To find out more about our services please visit http://www.pslconnect.com -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the confidential use of the above named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you have received this communication in error and must not distribute or copy it. Please accept the sender's apologies, notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this communication. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] Re: Mail.app help
by Roger Weeks 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

I'm wondering if this is a version issue with Mail.app? Are you on OS X 10.3 or 10.4? The reason I ask is that we also migrated from Courier IMAP to Dovecot 1.0alpha5 and then beta3, and we did not have this problem with Mail.app that either of you are describing. I did have to remove the "INBOX." prefix from my Mail.app configurations. I also renamed all of the existing folders in my Maildir from INBOX.foldername to .foldername, because after removing the "INBOX." prefix Mail.app could not see them. Before I renamed all of the existing folders and changed the prefix in Mail.app, I had also tried setting up alternate namespaces as described in the wiki documentation for converting from Courier, but that did not seem to work. Mail.app and Thunderbird clients could not see their IMAP folders with the courier-style namespace configuration. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network On Feb 14, 2006, at 8:45 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:44:53 -0800 > From: Steve Pellegrin <steve(a)convoglio.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Mail.app help > To: Mike Garfias <mike(a)garfias.org> > > Sorry to respond so late to this, perhaps my experience will help. > > I believe that Mike's problem is caused by weird behavior in > Mail.App. I had the same issue after switching from Courier IMAP to > Dovecot 1.0beta2. (Courier requires the INBOX prefix). > > I only experienced this problem for folders that I defined myself. In > other words, the "standard" Sent, Trash and so on were OK. What I > found was that if I had a custom folder, call it Dovecot, and a rule > that directed mail list messages into that folder, Mail.App would > insist on creating INBOX.Dovecot, even though .Dovecot already > existed. > > It's as if Mail.App had internalized the INBOX prefix in some secret > place and would not let go of it even though I changed the prefix > setting to be empty. > > My solution was to delete my mail account, shut down Mail.App, re- > launch it, and recreate the mail account. Now, everything works as > expected. > > -Steve

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0.beta1: New mail sometimes fails to appear
by Tom Alsberg 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi there... Having updated to 1.0.beta1, I for a while thought a bad bug with IDLE handling that caused new mail in INBOX not to appear when using Mozilla Thunderbird has been solved. Although I can not reproduce one kind of problem anymore, after a short while it again appears that one does not always see one's new mail with Thunderbird. I can not consistently reproduce the bug, but from some network captures it indeed appears that sometimes Thunderbird has (in one of its connections to the server) INBOX SELECTed and IDLE on it, new mail arrives, but 10 minutes afterwards it was still not sent an EXISTS message. Initially the symptoms appeared to suggest that something really bad happened to the index files, but I tried INDEX=MEMORY and that did not help much. Thunderbird using multiple connections to the server does of course only make debugging more difficult. But it appears that without multiple connections, one has to constantly cycle around SELECTing to get notified on more than one mailbox, so that may justified. I am a bit lost on this now, and would appreciate some ideas. Although there were several related bugs I noticed in Thunderbird 1.0, it appears that they are gone in 1.5, and yet now it really seems Dovecot is doing something wrong here. Attached is the configuration file I use for the testing installation of Dovecot 1.0.beta1 (somebody tell me if you see something wrong there). The mailbox arrangement is as follows, right now (until we have a better way): * INBOX in /var/mail/%u * most mailboxes in ~/imap.maildir/... as maildirs. * mboxes in ~/imap.mbox/... accessible as #imap.mbox/... * the mbox:~/mail/ is for when namespaces are not used - now there are so it should not be relevant Except for myself, and one test account I have, I have two guinea-pigs using it (who are well aware that it is still under development and that it will break once in a while) and reporting problems to me. Vaguely (since I can't figure the exact reasons), the symptom can be described as follows: When using Mozilla Thunderbird to access mail, new mail arrives to INBOX (mbox:/var/mail/%u), but is sometimes not seen for a long while after it arrives. Sometimes the first (or first few) message arriving appears, but then no new messages appear, and sometimes everything works right and immediately new mail is seen. However whenever (according to Thunderbird) something changes in the mailbox, the mailbox is seen up-to-date as it really was at that time. Thanks, any help appreciated, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further. # Dovecot IMAP server configuration at CS.HUJI ############################################## # # $Id$ # GENERAL PARAMETERS: ##################### # Base directory where to store runtime data: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot # Protocols we want to be serving: protocols = imap pop3 # IP or host address where to listen in for connections: listen = * ssl_disable = yes # LOGIN PROCESSES: ################## # Directory for authentication sockets: #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login # chroot login process to the login_dir: #login_chroot = yes # User to use for the login process: login_user = nobody # Maximum process size in megabytes: #login_process_size = 16 # Have each login be processed in its own process: #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create: #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create: #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state: #login_max_logging_users = 256 # Greeting message for clients: login_greeting = Dovecot mail access server at CS.HUJI ready. # MAIL PROCESSES: ################# # Maximum number of running mail processes: #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process title (in ps): verbose_proctitle = yes # Valid UID range for users: first_valid_uid = 10 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users: #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 # Extra groups for mail processes: #mail_extra_groups = # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed: #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes: #mail_chroot = # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # NAMESPACES: ############# namespace private { separator = / prefix = "" location = maildir:~/imap.maildir/ } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "#imap.mbox/" location = mbox:~/imap.mbox/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox = yes } # MAIL STORE: ############# # Space-separated list of fields to initially save into cache file: #mail_cache_fields = # Space-separated list of fields to never save into cache file: #mail_never_cache_fields = # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command: #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # Whether to allow full filesystem access to clients: #mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name: #mail_max_keyword_length = 50 # Whether to save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF: #mail_save_crlf = no # Whether to use mmap to access mail files: #mail_read_mmaped = no # Whether to disable mmap at all: mmap_disable = yes # Whether to disable write to mmap: #mmap_no_write = no # Locking method for index files: lock_method = dotlock # Whether to list only directories in LIST command: maildir_stat_dirs = yes # Whether to copy mail to other folders using hard links: #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no # Locking methods to use for locking mbox: mbox_read_locks = dotlock mbox_write_locks = dotlock # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them): mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # Timeout to overwrite dotlock files if mailbox isn't modified: mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # Whether to read only appended data on change (unless corrupt): #mbox_dirty_syncs = yes # Like mbox_dirty_syncs, but no full syncs with SELECT, EXAMINE, # EXPUNGE, or CHECK: #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no # Whether to delay writing mbox headers until doing a full write sync: #mbox_lazy_writes = yes # umask to use for mail files and directories: umask = 0077 # Whether drop all privileges before exec of mail process: #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no # Maximum mail process size in megabytes: #mail_process_size = 256 # Log prefix for mail processes: mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " # IMAP SPECIFIC SETTINGS: ######################### protocol imap { # Login executable location: #login_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login # IMAP executable location: #mail_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap # Maximum IMAP command line length in bytes: #imap_max_line_length = 65536 # Suypport for dynamically loadable modules: #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap # Whether to send IMAP capabilities in greeting message: login_greeting_capability = yes # Workarounds for various client bugs: imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle netscape-eoh } # POP3 SPECIFIC SETTINGS: ######################### protocol pop3 { # Login executable location: #login_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login # POP3 executable location: #mail_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 # Whether to not update recent/seen flags in POP3 sessions: #pop3_no_flag_updates = no # Whether to support deprecated LAST command: #pop3_enable_last = no # POP3 UIDL format to use: #pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv # Support for dynamically loadable modules #mail_user_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Workarounds for various client bugs: pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } # AUTHENTICATION PROCESSES: ########################### # Authentication executable location: #auth_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Maximum authentication process size in megabytes: #auth_process_size = 256 # Authentication cache size in kilobytes: #auth_cache_size = 0 # Time to live in seconds for cached data: #auth_cache_ttl = 3600 # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms: #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified: #auth_default_realm = # List of allowed characters in username: #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789.-_@ # Username character translation before it's looked up in database: #auth_username_translation = # Whether to disable plaintext authentication disable_plaintext_auth = no # More verbose authentication logging: auth_verbose = yes # Even more verbose authentication logging for debugging purposes: auth_debug = yes auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms mechanisms = plain # Password database specification: passdb pam { } # User database specification: userdb passwd { } # User to use for the authentication process: user = root # Directory where to chroot the process: #chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create: #count = 1 # Whether to require a valid SSL client certificate for # authentication: #ssl_require_client_cert = no }

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[Dovecot] Mail.app help
by Mike Garfias 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

I'm having a problem with Mail.app and imap folders. I've got a new install of dovecot 1.0beta2, and am only experiencing this problem with Mail. Mutt works as expected, as well as thunderbird. When I create a folder using Mail.app, it is written to ~/Maildir/.INBOX.newfolder, which would be fine, if I wasn't telling everything that I wanted no prefixes. If I move that folder to ~/Maildir/.newfolder, Mail.app can no longer see it, but mutt and thunderbird can. Thunderbird _CAN_ see the folders created as .INBOX.Folder, and even shows it as a subfolder of my inbox, but Mutt completely refuses to see it. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?

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[Dovecot] Duplicate entry in ./configure --help
by Luigi Rosa 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

The help message has a duplicate entry for "--with-gnu-ld" option: --without-PACKAGE do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no) --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no] --with-pic try to use only PIC/non-PIC objects [default=use both] --with-tags[=TAGS] include additional configurations [automatic] --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld default=no --with-libiconv-prefix[=DIR] search for libiconv in DIR/include and DIR/lib Ciao, luigi -- +--[Luigi Rosa]--

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RE: [Dovecot] passwd-file
by cha yang 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication Look 3/4 down the page. I think this is what you are looking for. Cha Yang

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[Dovecot] passwd-file
by Simon Waters 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi, the wiki doesn't explain the file format for passwd-file. I want to do a small set of virtual users using flat files. I have my postfix "vmailbox" generated, and working as expected for delivery. I've configured dovecot, put passwd-file for the auth_passdb, and specified a file name. By "passwd like" what is allowed? Where is it document. How unlike passwd can it be? Must I read the source code? Simon

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[Dovecot] nologin
by Robert A. Thompson 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

I need to be able to setup a nologin system for users on my mail server on a per user basis. We are going to do some maintenance on each user (individually) and would like it if they could not login to dovecot while we do this. I was curious if dovecot implemented anything like this. We are currently using standard pam authentication (nothing db related) and I was hoping to be able to touch a "nologin" file on a per user basis in their home directory. I think I could do this with some pam magic, but was curious if dovecot had something in it that would allow for this. Note: I understand I will have to forcibly kill active connections. --Robert

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[Dovecot] Problems with POP3 UIDL when migrating from MBOX to Maildir
by Jonas Olsson 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hello, I am in the process of migrating a hosting setup from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. The protocols available to mail clients are IMAP and POP3 both before and after migration. I also wanted to change the mail storage format from MBOX to Maildir. However, at this point I hit a major snag with Dovecot and POP3 UIDL (unique identification listing for POP3 mailboxes). Several of the customers connecting to the mailserver in question are using POP3 clients and leave their e-mails on the server. To avoid downloading all messages every time the clients connect they use the UIDL command in the POP3 specification to determine if any new messages have arrived since last time they checked. In order for this to work the unique identifier of each message must be static and can never change. If the identifiers change, every client will download all messages again, mixing old messages with new, in the belief that all messages are new since their identifiers changed. The first step, migrating from UW-IMAP to Dovecot, did not pose any problems in this regard. Connecting to the POP3 service manually to show the UIDL output revealed: With UW-IMAP: uidl +OK Unique-ID listing follows 1 43ef424e00000001 2 43ef424e00000002 With Dovecot: uidl +OK 1 43ef424e00000001 2 43ef424e00000002 However, after performing a migration to Maildir, storing all messages in ~/Maildir for the user in question, I received a different UIDL output: uidl +OK 1 43ef523100000001 2 43ef523100000002 I used the mb2md utility available from http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ to do the conversion. A diff between the new Maildir messages and the old mailbox reveals no other difference than the leading "From " line of each message missing from the Maildir messages. ----------- snip ------------------------------ --- /var/mail/testuser 2006-02-12 15:13:01.000000000 +0100 +++ maildir-concat.txt 2006-02-12 15:21:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -From test(a)example.com Sun Feb 12 15:09:49 2006 Return-Path: <test(a)example.com> X-Original-To: testuser Delivered-To: testuser(a)localhost.localdomain @@ -16,7 +15,6 @@ Testing 1 -From test(a)example.com Sun Feb 12 15:10:23 2006 Return-Path: <test(a)example.com> X-Original-To: testuser Delivered-To: testuser(a)localhost.localdomain ----------- snip ------------------------------ When removing the ~/Maildir directory of the user to redo the conversion I discovered that Dovecot returned another set of UIDL output this time around: uidl +OK 1 43ef528300000001 2 43ef528300000002 This output is for the same messages as in the previous example, with preserved message filenames. Doing a diff between the old ~/Maildir and the new reveals the following differences: ----------- snip ------------------------------ $ diff -ur Maildir.example1 Maildir.example2 Binary files Maildir.example1/dovecot.index and Maildir.example2/dovecot.index differ Binary files Maildir.example1/dovecot.index.cache and Maildir.example2/dovecot.index.cache differ Binary files Maildir.example1/dovecot.index.log and Maildir.example2/dovecot.index.log differ diff -ur Maildir.example1/dovecot-uidlist Maildir.example2/dovecot-uidlist --- Maildir.example1/dovecot-uidlist 2006-02-12 16:20:17.000000000 +0100 +++ Maildir.example2/dovecot-uidlist 2006-02-12 16:21:39.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -1 1139757617 3 +1 1139757699 3 1 1139757559.000001.mbox:2, 2 1139757559.000000.mbox:2, ----------- snip ------------------------------ Questions: ---------------- How does Dovecot generate the POP3 UIDL? Is there any workaround that I could use to make Dovecot generate a consistent POP3 UIDL output, enabling a migration from MBOX to Maildir, or am I stuck with using MBOX? My environment ----------------------- OS: CentOS 4.2 Dovecot version: 1.0 beta3 (built locally to an RPM package, available on request) I have tested with earlier versions of Dovecot, getting the same behaviour. Relevant entries in /etc/dovecot.conf: ----------- snip ------------------------------ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * disable_plaintext_auth = no protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } ----------- snip ------------------------------ -- /Jonas Olsson

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[Dovecot] IMAP timeout
by Eugeny N Dzhurinsky 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi there! Is it possible to set timeout for IMAP connection somehow? The problem is when I'm using mutt to access IMAP mailbox, everything works fine, but after some idle time mutt tells mailbox is closed and next connection crashes it. With courier mutt works just fine, so I think may be dovecot have some timeout which need to be adjusted? I checked manuals and configuration, but no luck... In both cases (dovecot/courier) I'm using IMAP over SSL -- Eugene N Dzhurinsky

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Re: [Dovecot] drac.c
by Matthias Andree 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

"Takehiko Abe" <keke(a)gol.com> writes: > I am using dovecot [1.0 beta3] as a pop server with drac. It is Drac is an abomination that needs to go away. I am requesting to unsupport it before Dovecot 1.0. Drac is insecure by design, in that it doesn't authenticate the same channel (but POP3/IMAP instead) that is being privileged (SMTP for relay), and without any clue of how long dynamic IP mappings remain stable. Better solutions are available (and have been for years), namely SMTP AUTH, supported by all relevant mail transfer agents(*) and - IMO - all relevant clients. ________ (*) I do not consider qmail relevant any more. <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/qmail-bugs.html> -- Matthias Andree

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Re: [Dovecot] Solaris 10 U1 (x86?) LDAP gotcha
by Alex Moore 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:25:15 +0900 Peter Evans <peter+dovecot(a)ixp.jp> wrote: > This is not actually a problem with dovecot, but something with the > way the library in /opt/sfw/lib/libldap.* is compiled. If you find > yourself eating cpu, compile your own ldap from openldap, it is NOT > dovecot's fault. > > It looks like pilot error with the sun freeware edition. Or get openldap from www.blastwave.org:> Although I have not tried openldap with dovecot, I do use it for virtual accounts with another mail product and have never seen what you describe. The blastwave package is typically quite up to date with the current stable from openldap.org. Alex -- --

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[Dovecot] imap process spinning (ix86/OpenBSD 3.8, dovecot 1.0b3)
by Joseph Kiniry 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Hi Dovecot-ers, Immediately on accessing our new dovecot 1.0b3 build, we see processes spinning, much like the old dovecot 0.9x builds did for us. Here is a ktrace of the spinning imap process: topos:tmp# kdump 18248 imap EMUL "native" 18248 imap PSIG SIGALRM caught handler=0x1c03ff88 mask=0x0 18248 imap CALL setitimer(0,0xcfbcb3bc,0xcfbcb3ac) 18248 imap RET setitimer 0 18248 imap CALL sigreturn(0xcfbcb3ec) 18248 imap RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN 18248 imap PSIG SIGALRM caught handler=0x1c03ff88 mask=0x0 18248 imap CALL setitimer(0,0xcfbcb3bc,0xcfbcb3ac) 18248 imap RET setitimer 0 18248 imap CALL sigreturn(0xcfbcb3ec) 18248 imap RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN If any additional config information is needed to debug, just ask. I am now subscribed to (the digest version of) this list. Thanks, Joe --- Joseph Kiniry School of Computer Science and Informatics UCD Dublin http://secure.ucd.ie/ http://srg.cs.ucd.ie/

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[Dovecot] locking problems with RHEL 3 and dovecot
by Dan Bongert 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

I just migrated from a FreeBSD/Sendmail/UW-IMAP setup to RHEL 3/Postfix/Dovecot (1.0a5 currently). Both systems used Procmail as the final delivery agent (into inboxes or . Since the changeover, things have *mostly* been going ok, but I've been having some problems that I think are locking-related. I'm getting reports from users about IMAP hangs (mostly from Thunderbird). Sometimes I see this in the Dovecot logs: ovecot: Feb 06 11:30:45 Error: imap(dbongert): fcntl() failed with mbox file /home/d/dbongert/mail/worklists/tech-partners: Resource temporarily unavailable Now, I have read that one should have everything that touches a mailbox use the same sort of locking, but that's the thing--these mailboxes are only accessed via dovecot. I'm sure a few users use procmail to filter their mail, but they're in the strict minority here. As as experiment, I changed these lines to flock rather than fcntl: mbox_read_locks = flock mbox_write_locks = dotlock flock But all that seems to have done is removed the fcntl errors from the log file. These errors seem to be Thunderbird only (1.07-1.5, Linux and Windows clients), but I'm not sure what that means. I've enabled the only thunderbird-specific IMAP workaround I know of: tb-extra-mailbox-sep, but I doubt that has anything to do with this problem. -- Dan Bongert dbongert(a)ssc.wisc.edu SSCC Unix System Administrator

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Re: [Dovecot] drac.c
by Udo Rader 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 22:02 +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote: > Udo Rader wrote: > > > a question from an uninitated: what is drac after all? > > Dynamic Relay Authorization Control. > <http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/> > > [it is simple... and i think it is clean <duck>] Hmm, SMTP-after-POP ... I would not use it these days. Before we switched to SMTP AUTH, we were also using a POP-before-SMTP model, yet we dropped it immediately when one of our customer's network had been compromized by a virus and due to POPb4SMTP the virus distributed itself using our mailserver without limitation. Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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Re: [Dovecot] drac.c
by Matthias Andree 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Takehiko Abe wrote: > Matthias Andree wrote: > > > Drac is an abomination that needs to go away. > > I do not share that view. Are there any arguments that might support your view? -- Matthias Andree

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[Dovecot] drac.c
by Takehiko Abe 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Hello, I am using dovecot [1.0 beta3] as a pop server with drac. It is working nicely, but I am getting the following message in a log: dovecot: pop3(keke): file ioloop.c: line 154 (timeout_remove): \ assertion failed: (*timeout != NULL) dovecot: child 15752 (pop3) killed with signal 6 Adding '&' to 'to_drac' in drac_deinit of drac.c stops the message: void drac_deinit(void) { if (to_drac != NULL) timeout_remove(&to_drac); /* was to_drac */ } But I am not sure if the mod is correct. Thanks, T.

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[Dovecot] Maximum Folder Size/Number of Messages
by Ropetin 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

I hope I'm asking this question in the right place, I don't want to offend. I've recently put together a proof of concept Dovecot IMAP server, and I'm very happy with its performance up to this point. I'm looking into using it to replace our existing POP3 server, allowing users to store email on the server rather than on their local machine, hopefully avoiding loss of data. The big question I have is, is there a realistic maximum realistic folder size, either in reference to number of messages or total file size with Dovecot? I'm using Maildir and running it on Debian Linux x86. Right now the filesystem is Ext3, although once the system goes live I'd be looking at something a little more fault tolerant and able to handle the large amount of data. Any recommendations you may have on Filesystem choice are appreciated too! Thanks, Ropetin.

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[Dovecot] LDA delivery problem
by Martin Stephan 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi I compiled and configured dovecot-lda as explained in the Wiki (current CVS version). Now I get the following error message: Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 80: "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver". Command output: deliver: Fatal: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: Permission denied Now, do I have to set this socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0666 user = vmail # User running Dovecot LDA group = vmail # alternatively mode 0660 + LDA user in this group } } to something else? Or chown the log file? I use Postfix and Dovecot on Ubuntu Breezy. Thanks Martin

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[Dovecot] LDAP mailLocation weirdness
by Udo Rader 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi, I've reported this some month ago before (without response), but still I have no clue what is going wrong. Our installation is LDAP based (for virtual hosting) and up to I think alpha2 or 3 everything was working as expected. The trouble I have is that dovecot does not correctly use the information it gets about mailLocation. This is what is stored in the MailMessageStore attribute for a user "f.someone": mbox:/virtual/oeush.at/var/mail/f.someone:INBOX=/virtual/oeush.at/var/mail/f.someone now despite of this setting, this user is unable to fetch any mail, because dovecot partially ignores this setting: ---------CUT--------- dovecot: Feb 04 12:20:42 Info: pop3(f.someone.oeush.at): Effective uid=200, gid=4000 dovecot: Feb 04 12:20:42 Info: pop3(f.someone.oeush.at): mbox: data=/virtual/oeush.at/home/f.someone/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/f.someone.oeush.at dovecot: Feb 04 12:20:42 Info: pop3(f.someone.oeush.at): mbox: root=/virtual/oeush.at/home/f.someone/mail, index=/virtual/oeush.at/home/f.someone/mail, inbox=/var/mail/f.someone.oeush.at ---------CUT--------- As you can see, dovecot uses /virtual/oeush.at/... both for data and index but not for inbox, where it uses /var/mail/... My LDAP configuration for the mailLocation settings looks like this: ---------CUT--------- # User attributes in order: # Virtual user name (user@domain) # Home directory # MAIL environment # System user name (for getting user's groups from /etc/group) # - For virtual users you don't want to use this, so this defaults to none. # System UID # System GID user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,MailMessageStore,,uidNumber,gidNumber ---------CUT--------- So where am I wrong? Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] startup script
by William Ross 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

hello, Lacking any other guidance, I'm using the following minimal sysv script to start and stop dovecot. If anyone would like to comment on or improve it, I'd be most grateful. thanks, will #!/bin/sh # # System V init script for dovecot imap server # bodged together by will 12.2.06 PIDFILE="/var/run/dovecot/master.pid" LONGNAME="dovecot imap server" NAME="dovecot" DOVECOT='/usr/local/sbin/dovecot' case $1 in start) echo -n "Starting $LONGNAME"; dovecot echo "...done"; ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping $LONGNAME" PID=`cat $PIDFILE` kill $PID echo "...done"; ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 # EOF

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[Dovecot] debian testing and dovecot
by vmstech 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi all - Does anyone know how far off beta2 is from getting into debian testing? thx Glenn

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[Dovecot] Compiling Dovecot with gssapi
by Luca Bertoncello 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi, all! I'm new to Dovecot and I try to compile it to allow GSSAPI authentication. Unfortunately, configure says me always: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword mysql (modules) And, of course, I can't use this authentication method... I searched in google and Dovecot docs, but I didn't found anything... Can someone help me? The system is a Linux RedHat 9 Thanks a lot! -- _______________________________ Luca Bertoncello -Programmierung / Mailserver- IMS Internet-Media-Service GmbH Bärensteiner Straße 7 01277 Dresden Fon: +49 351 2112034 Fax: +49 351 2112020 email: bertoncello(a)internet24.de

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[Dovecot] Dovecot pop3s problem : can't see email
by Rory Campbell-Lange 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Hi. I am trying to setup dovecot running a pop3 service for external clients (and intend in future to setup an imap interface on localhost only for squirrelmail.) Exim is delivering ok to local mailboxes, but I can't seem to get dovecot to serve them. Configuration details: ---------------------- All users run as the tst user, and authentication is done through postgresql. ...excerpt... mail_extra_groups = tst default_mail_env = mbox:INDEX=~/home/tst/Mail/:/home/tst/Mail/%u protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } ...excerpt... Log details: ------------ The log shows that docecot is looking at /home/tst/Mail/test Feb 11 13:54:55 tst dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip=217.147.82.200^Irip=83.146.33.145^Iresp=AHRlc3QAcXVhdWpv Feb 11 13:54:55 tst dovecot: auth(default): sql(test,83.146.33.145): query: SELECT passwd as password FROM users WHERE userid = 'test' AND active = 'Y' Feb 11 13:54:55 tst dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=test Feb 11 13:54:55 tst dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I1^I14586^I1 Feb 11 13:54:55 tst dovecot: auth(default): sql(test,83.146.33.145): SELECT '/home/tst/Mail/' || home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'test' AND active = 'Y' Feb 11 13:54:55 tst dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I1^Itest^Ihome=/home/tst/Mail/test^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001 Feb 11 13:54:55 tst dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<test>, method=PLAIN, rip=83.146.33.145, lip=217.147.82.200, TLS Feb 11 13:54:58 tst dovecot: pop3(test): Logout. top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 tst:/home/tst/Mail# ls -lt | grep test -rw------- 1 tst tst 1017 Feb 11 13:41 test -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] Bug in gssapi support
by Mark Davies 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hi, Was trying to use the gssapi support and the authentication would consistently die for me. The following patch fixes: --- src/auth/mech-gssapi.c.orig 2006-01-10 15:46:10.000000000 +1300 +++ src/auth/mech-gssapi.c @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static OM_uint32 obtain_service_credenti return major_status; } - gss_release_name(&minor_status, gss_principal); + gss_release_name(&minor_status, &gss_principal); return major_status; } as gss_release_name takes a pointer to a gss_name_t as second arg. cheers mark

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[Dovecot] Outlook anonymous IMAP login
by Vincent Jaussaud 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hello guys, I'm trying to setup anonymous IMAP login on a bunch of Outlook clients, but it doesn't seems to work. I'm using dovecot-0.99.14-r1, on a Gentoo Linux OS. Using command line anonymous login, it's working just fine: youri / # telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. . CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=ANONYMOUS . OK Capability completed. . AUTHENTICATE ANONYMOUS + . OK Logged in. But with Outlook it's not working at all. I tried using no password, or just some random stream, it makes no difference. The error I got in dovecot's logs are: Feb 07 12:31:16 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(anonymous) failed: Authentication failure Feb 07 12:31:19 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(anonymous) failed: Authentication failure Feb 07 12:31:28 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(anonymous) failed: Authentication failure My assumption is that Outlook doesn't provide anonymous IMAP support. Could someone confirm this ? Do you know if any workaround/anonymous plugin exist ? Thanks ! --- Everything takes longer, costs more, and is less useful. -- Erwin Tomash

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[Dovecot] Simulating UW Snarf...
by Todd Piket 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

I already wrote to Timo, but I thought some others on this list may have had a similar situation. So here goes: The scenario at Michigan Technological University stems from long standing traditions and policies that probably won't change. That said, two of the policies are 1.)we don't bounce mail and 2.)we guarantee delivery when we accept a piece of mail. The UW IMAP "snarf" capability was nice because it allowed us to introduce file system, per user quotas w/o worrying about the "INBOX" in an over quota situation. This is because the user could still read mail. The delivered mail would get "snarfed" from /var/mail/user when the user went back under quota. In our test cases with switching to Maildir with Dovecot, we deliver directly to the user's INBOX instead of /var/mail/user so what do we do when the user is over quota because we can't bounce the mail? After many lengthy discussions our thought was this. Could we symbolically link the user's "Maildir/new" to a non-quota file system such that the move from "new" to "cur" would fail if the user is over quota? What will Dovecot do in that failure situation? Do you have other suggestions? I would be more than willing to develop a patch that makes this an option in the config file. Probably similar to allowing the indexes and control files be on a non-quota file system. Again, it would only allow "Maildir/new" to be on a separate file system, not the whole "INBOX". I hope this conveys the idea well enough. Any thoughts or ideas the list provides would be greatly appreciated. -- Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------ | Todd Piket | Email: todd(a)mtu.edu | | Programmer/Analyst | Phone: (906) 487-1720 | | Distributed Computing Services | | | Michigan Technological University | | ------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] In-memory Index file bug
by Tony Kay 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hi, I am getting intermittent error messages in the log when my mail client tries to create/open a folder named ".imhoprefs". Some accounts seem to able to do it, but I have at least one that gives the log error: Feb 7 09:29:54 acad-cl1 dovecot: imap(tkay): close() failed with index file (in-memory index): Bad file descriptor I traced through the code, and it seems to be coming from mail_index_close() (line 1527 of mail-index.c), which seems to be attempting to close a file descriptor for an index. The funny thing is that since I am using in-memory indexes, I believe that there shouldn't be any file descriptor to close, which would explain why the close is failing... Environment information: - Dovecot 1.0b2 - mbox - Environment setting: default_mail_env = mbox:%h:INBOX=%h/.mail:INDEX=MEMORY - Attempting to create/use a folder called mail/.imhoprefs At first, I though the folder itself might be corrupted, so I removed it. No dice. I've checked file permissions. No problems. I honestly can't explain why some users are able to use this folder without error, and others are not. -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rich Cook

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[Dovecot] RE: epoll error when running as proxy
by Bill Boebel 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Also, for testing in the error message I patched src/lib/ioloop-epoll.c to show the "ret" and "errno" variables as well as the variable names, which is why there is a bit of extra data in this error message... imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(op=3, fd=10, ret=-1, errno=2): No such file or directory Bill On Thursday, February 9, 2006 16:32, Bill Boebel said: > I am running dovecot 1.0 beta3 as a front-end proxy, and getting the > following error when using epoll. The error goes away if I switch to > poll. On the backend IMAP server I see that the login was successful. > The error occurs when I try to retrieve an email or get a folder listing > via IMAP after logging in successfully... > > Feb 9 15:35:57 director4 dovecot: imap-login: proxy(bboebel(a)webmail.us): > started: user=<bboebel(a)webmail.us>, method=plain, rip=204.119.252.7, > lip=192.168.1.68 > Feb 9 15:09:50 director4 dovecot: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: > epoll_ctl(op=3, fd=10, ret=-1, errno=2): No such file or directory > Feb 9 14:58:23 director4 dovecot: child 9688 (login) returned error 89 > > I can't find anything in the mailing list archives about this error, so > here are some details. I hope somebody can point me in the right > direction to fix this. > > - I am running this on Red Hat ES4 (32-bit x86), compiling with the > following options: > > ./configure \ > --prefix=/usr \ > --sysconfdir=/etc \ > --localstatedir=/var \ > --with-ssldir=/usr/share/ssl \ > --disable-ipv6 \ > --with-file-offset-size=32 \ > --with-mem-align=4 \ > --with-ioloop=epoll \ > --without-passwd \ > --without-passwd-file \ > --without-shadow \ > --without-pam \ > --without-checkpassword \ > --without-bsdauth \ > --without-gssapi \ > --with-ldap \ > --without-vpopmail \ > --with-static-userdb \ > --with-prefetch-userdb \ > --without-pgsql \ > --with-mysql \ > --without-sqlite \ > --without-ssl \ > --with-storages=maildir > > - I have also complied with these options and got the same error: > > ./configure \ > --prefix=/usr \ > --sysconfdir=/etc \ > --localstatedir=/var \ > --with-ioloop=epoll \ > --with-mysql > > > - I have also tried the latest CSV snapshot (dovecot-20060209.tar.gz) and > 1.0 beta2, and I get the same error. > > - If I switch to poll instead of epoll, everything works fine. > > Any ideas? > > Bill >

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[Dovecot] If mbox does not exist dovecot creates directory
by Alexander Shikoff 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hi, I've searched the archive of mailing list but did not find anything about this issue. dovecot 1.0alpha5, using mbox format and MySQL DB of users When user is trying to login via POP3 and there is no corresponding mailbox for it dovecot creates a directory instead of mbox file. In this time log looks like Feb 10 10:39:36 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua,192.168.3.9): query: SELECT `password` FROM `users` WHERE login = 'ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua' Feb 10 10:39:36 orion dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.5.23 rip=192.168.3.9 resp=AGl2YW4uaXZhbm9mZkBmY2JhbmsuY29tLnVhADE= Feb 10 10:39:36 orion dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua Feb 10 10:39:36 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua,192.168.3.9): SELECT "mbox:/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid:INDEX=MEMORY" AS `mail`, 'mailnull' AS `uid`, 'mail' AS `gid` FROM users WHERE login = 'ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua' Feb 10 10:39:36 orion dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 101 98738 1 Feb 10 10:39:36 orion dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 101 ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua mail=mbox:/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid:INDEX=MEMORY uid=26 gid=6 Feb 10 10:39:36 orion dovecot: pop3(ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua): Effective uid=26, gid=6 Feb 10 10:39:37 orion dovecot: pop3(ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua): mbox: data=/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid:INDEX=MEMORY Feb 10 10:39:37 orion dovecot: pop3(ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua): mbox: root=/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid, index=, inbox=/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid Feb 10 10:39:37 orion dovecot: pop3(ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua): open() failed with mbox file /var/mail/virtual/fcbank.com.ua/ivan.sid: Is a directory Feb 10 10:39:37 orion dovecot: pop3(ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 Feb 10 10:39:37 orion dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ivan.sid(a)my.com.ua>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.3.9, lip=192.168.5.23 Please help me with this issue! Thanks in advance, Alexander -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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[Dovecot] Maildir, imap and newness of messages
by Anand Buddhdev 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

I'm using the standard Dovecot 0.99.14 on Fedora Core 4, with a Maildir++ mailbox. I've noticed what I think is an oddity in the way dovecot handles messages: According to the Maildir specification, a message in Maildir/new is a truly new message, which has not yet been touched by any reader. From an IMAP viewpoint, such a message should have the flag RECENT. However, if a message exists in Maildir/cur, then it means that the message is no longer new (because some other reader has opened the Maildir, and moved the message from new to cur). From an IMAP viewpoint, such a message should NOT have the RECENT flag. However, dovecot seems to get this wrong. For example, if I have a message in Maildir/new, and I use mutt (a console-based maildir-aware mail client) to open the Maildir, then mutt moves the messages from Maildir/new to Maildir/cur (note here that I haven't actually read the message yet, just opened the Maildir with mutt). I expect that when I now open this Maildir with dovecot imap, and do a "select inbox", it should report "1 EXISTS" and "0 RECENT". However, dovecot reports this as "1 EXISTS" and "1 RECENT". In my opinion, this is a bug in Dovecot. Would any of the developers like to comment? Anand

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stops logging of imap logins after logrotation
by Gerhard Hofmann 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hi list, on my Debian box there is a logrotation cron job that will gzip existing /var/log/mail.log file and create a new mail.log. It seems that after running logrotation dovecot stops logging successful POP or IMAP logins to /var/log/mail.log (nevertheless, it still works to login with POP or SMTP). This is bad because pop-before-smtp mechanisms also stop working. I have deactivated logrotation cron job and will monitor mail.log file. Maybe I should just run /etc/init.d/dovecot restart after logrotation script. What do you think? TIA Gerhard

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[Dovecot] Programming Help
by Neal Katz 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hi, I was hoping you could provide me with some pointers on how to get started adding some features to dovecot. What I am trying to do is add an optional publish mechanism, that would publish a list of events as they occur, so that an external program could read these events and do "something". These events would be "Add", "Delete", "Move" - these would be posted every time a new message is added, deleted or moved. "CreateDir", "DeleteDir" would be published when a user creates a subf-folder or removes one. A simple example would be to configure the system to publish 'Add Message' events, and then an external program would read these, and send a notification event to web based users who are currently logged in. The publish feature would be controlled by the config file, and would be disabled by default The config setting would allow an administrator to specify what events to publish, the mechanism to use, and optional arguments for the mechanism For mechanisms I plan on developing a file based system, one file per event, written into a directory, the subscriber/reader would delete the file Other mechanisms could include TCP/IP based (connect to port XX, and send some data); or even connect to a commercial Message Queue product. Ex. Publish=ADD+DELETE+MOVE:file:/var/spool/imapevents Or Publish=ADD+DELETE+MOVE:tcpip:localhost:9999 It would help me a lot if you could just provide me with a few pointers as to the best place to add my features into the dovecot code, I took a quick look at the code and decided to contact you first before going ahead and putting things in the WRONG place. I did see the code for supporting inotify and similar mechanisms, but I don't see the big picture ? How does dovecot use inotify ?, what features are enabled that you don't get without inotify. If you have a code-roadmap, or architectural diagrams (or doodles) that would be helpful too. In terms of inotify, I don't think this will work for me, since I would like to have the user, Message-Id and Imap UIDL sent in the event message I hope this makes sense, if not just send me an email asking for clarification. All of the changes I make I will submit back to you, and hopefully they will be made part of the base product. Thanks, Neal Katz p.s. I chose Dovecot because I was very impressed with the ease of installation and migration (from courier), my early tests have shown it to be twice as fast when traverse all messages in a large mailbox ( 100K message ).

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[Dovecot] Mixed IMAP/POP3 environment, a success
by Denis Sbragion 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hello everybody, I just want to inform the Dovecot developers and users that I completely migrated the first mailbox (my own one) from Eudora/UW to SquirrelMail/Dovecot. I'm using it since a couple of days and after a bit of tuning (mostly SquirrelMail related) it works like a charm. I even performed some heavy operations, like moving thousands of messages between different mailboxes or searching within a 1 Gb folder, and performances are indeed great. My sincere greatest compliments to the Dovecot developers and my biggest thanks to the people who helped me. No wonder that Fedora/RedHat has decided to adopt Dovecot as the default IMAP server for future releases. It looks like the perfect balance between security, performances, flexibility, standards conformance and ease of use. Bye, -- Denis Sbragion InfoTecna Tel: +39 0362 805396, Fax: +39 0362 805404 URL: http://www.infotecna.it

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0b2 now in pkgsrc packaging system
by Todd Vierling 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

After months of testing in the "work in progress" pkgsrc-wip playground, dovecot-1.0b2 is now in the main pkgsrc mainline and will be tracked up through the 1.0 release and beyond. This means it's now much easier to get Dovecot 1.0 up and running on NetBSD and any other platform supported by pkgsrc (see www.pkgsrc.org) prior to this, 0.99.x was the newest available. Binary packages for NetBSD and some other systems should start appearing within a week or two of this message. As before, dovecot-nightly is still available in the pkgsrc-wip package tree, for those who like to live on the edge. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv(a)duh.org> <tv(a)pobox.com> <todd(a)vierling.name>

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RE: [Dovecot] alternate ports?
by Villalovos, John L 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org <> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:40:45PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > >> I'm trying to set up 1.0 beta 2 on one of our systems, and would >> like to run it on alternate ports from the standard IMAP and >> IMAP/SSL ports so that we can test it out a couple users at a time. >> How does one tell dovecot to listen on alternate ports? I can't >> find anything in the example config file... > > imap_listen = host:port > pop3_listen = host:port I don't think that works in the 1.0b beta 2 (Note: 1.0 beta 3 just came out): Try something like this: # Listen on localhost for IMAP. Listen on all interfaces for IMAP/SSL protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1 ssl_listen = * }

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[Dovecot] alternate ports?
by Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

I'm trying to set up 1.0 beta 2 on one of our systems, and would like to run it on alternate ports from the standard IMAP and IMAP/SSL ports so that we can test it out a couple users at a time. How does one tell dovecot to listen on alternate ports? I can't find anything in the example config file... Thanks, Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade Sr. Systems Administrator Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3b 1216 Phone: (858) 822-2625 E-mail: gkra(a)ucsd.edu

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[Dovecot] Openwebmail with Dovecot
by ftnx＠ksbase.com 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

So far I've managed to get Dovecot to work fine for regular POP users and Squirrelmail. Even though it seems dead slow and obsolete, a few users would like to use Openwebmail. All users are virtual, and there are/will be no system accounts. Anyone have a working example for Dovecot/Openwebmail for virtual user setup? Kari Suomela KARICO Business Services Toronto, ON Canada http://www.karico.ca

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[Dovecot] epoll error when running as proxy
by Bill Boebel 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I am running dovecot 1.0 beta3 as a front-end proxy, and getting the following error when using epoll. The error goes away if I switch to poll. On the backend IMAP server I see that the login was successful. The error occurs when I try to retrieve an email or get a folder listing via IMAP after logging in successfully... Feb 9 15:35:57 director4 dovecot: imap-login: proxy(bboebel(a)webmail.us): started: user=<bboebel(a)webmail.us>, method=plain, rip=204.119.252.7, lip=192.168.1.68 Feb 9 15:09:50 director4 dovecot: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(op=3, fd=10, ret=-1, errno=2): No such file or directory Feb 9 14:58:23 director4 dovecot: child 9688 (login) returned error 89 I can't find anything in the mailing list archives about this error, so here are some details. I hope somebody can point me in the right direction to fix this. - I am running this on Red Hat ES4 (32-bit x86), compiling with the following options: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-ssldir=/usr/share/ssl \ --disable-ipv6 \ --with-file-offset-size=32 \ --with-mem-align=4 \ --with-ioloop=epoll \ --without-passwd \ --without-passwd-file \ --without-shadow \ --without-pam \ --without-checkpassword \ --without-bsdauth \ --without-gssapi \ --with-ldap \ --without-vpopmail \ --with-static-userdb \ --with-prefetch-userdb \ --without-pgsql \ --with-mysql \ --without-sqlite \ --without-ssl \ --with-storages=maildir - I have also complied with these options and got the same error: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-ioloop=epoll \ --with-mysql - I have also tried the latest CSV snapshot (dovecot-20060209.tar.gz) and 1.0 beta2, and I get the same error. - If I switch to poll instead of epoll, everything works fine. Any ideas? Bill

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[Dovecot] trouble compiling today's CVS in Solaris 9
by Glenn Leavell 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I've recently been able to compile the CVS code in Solaris 9, but I'm now getting a few errors. First, I receive this error during the autogen process: src/plugins/Makefile.am:5: required directory src/plugins/convert does not exist configure.in:1717: required file `src/plugins/convert/Makefile.in' not found I can workaround that by removing the reference to src/plugins/convert in configure.in. I then get this error: src/plugins/Makefile.am:5: required directory src/plugins/convert does not exist I can workaround that by removing the reference to the convert plugin from src/plugins/Makefile.am. After that, the autogen process completes and I get the previously discussed shell error when running make: if [ "" != "" ]; then \ for i in ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_${i}_db;" >>sql-drivers-register.c ; \ done \ fi /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `if [ "" != "" ]; then for i in ; do echo "extern struct sql_db driver_${i}_db;" >>sql-drivers-register.c ; done fi' I can workaround that by simply running make from /bin/sh. I then get this error: Making all in auth make[3]: Entering directory `/home/glenn/dovecot/src/auth' /bin/bash ../../libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall ... <snip> userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -L/usr/local/ssl/lib libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -lldap -ldl -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -lsendfile Undefined first referenced symbol in file sql_drivers_register_all main.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to dovecot-auth collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/glenn/dovecot/src/auth' I'm not sure why sql_drivers_register_all is getting referenced. I tried explicitly turning off all sql-related options on the configure command line, and that didn't help. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Glenn

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