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[Dovecot] test76 segfaults?
by Johannes Berg 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Hi, I was just trying to port my dspam plugin to the latest test release but ran into trouble so I decided to test the code itself first. I have the following maildir: johannes:~/.mail$ find . ./cur ./new ./new/test ./tmp ./.SPAM ./.SPAM/cur ./.SPAM/new ./.SPAM/tmp Now I run $ exec /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as johannes A SELECT INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1120680468] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID A OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. B COPY 1 SPAM imap(johannes): Error: Corrupted index file /home/johannes/.mail/.SPAM/dovecot.index: uid_validity = 0, next_uid = 2 Segmentation fault However, it actually did copy something: johannes:~/.mail$ find . ./cur ./cur/test:2, ./new ./tmp ./.SPAM ./.SPAM/cur ./.SPAM/new ./.SPAM/new/1120680473.P1535Q0M900310.johannes ./.SPAM/tmp ./.SPAM/dovecot.index ./.SPAM/dovecot-uidlist ./.SPAM/dovecot-uidlist.lock ./.SPAM/dovecot.index.log.2 ./.SPAM/dovecot.index.log ./dovecot.index.log ./dovecot.index ./dovecot.index.cache ./dovecot-uidlist The mail in that, for reference, is just this: --- A: xxx Subject: hallo! From: johannes X-DSPAM-Signature: asdf wow! --- johannes

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[Dovecot] I need sleep (dovecot auth / postfix 2.3)
by /dev/rob0 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

I need the new sleep feature (smtpd_*_restrictions) of Postfix 2.3 snapshots, but I'm using the Dovecot auth patch. The 2.2.1 patch had problems in the snapshots I tried. Fortunately the problems were very simple. rob0@room101:~/src/mail/postfix-2.3-20050630$ patch -p1 < ~/dl/postfix-2.2.1-dovecot-auth.patch [snip] patching file src/smtpd/Makefile.in Hunk #1 FAILED at 1. Hunk #2 FAILED at 296. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/smtpd/Makefile.in.rej patching file src/smtpd/smtpd.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 854. Hunk #2 succeeded at 1006 (offset 16 lines). Hunk #3 succeeded at 1173 (offset 1 line). Hunk #4 succeeded at 1306 (offset 20 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 1562 (offset 33 lines). Hunk #6 succeeded at 1692 (offset 54 lines). Hunk #7 succeeded at 1834 (offset 72 lines). Hunk #8 succeeded at 2918 (offset 135 lines). Hunk #9 succeeded at 2952 (offset 73 lines). Hunk #10 succeeded at 3262 (offset 152 lines). Hunk #11 succeeded at 3301 (offset 73 lines). Hunk #12 succeeded at 3551 (offset 154 lines). 1 out of 12 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/smtpd/smtpd.c.rej [snip] I fixed the failures manually. Attached is a patch which only changes those two files ... it's a supplement to the existing patch as provided by Timo: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/postfix-2.2.1-dovecot-auth.patch I have not yet tested either sleep or AUTH, because I *do* need sleep for real. :) But it did compile with no errors nor [noted] warnings. I do have this running. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header

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[Dovecot] Username mapping
by nodata 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Hello. We're using dovecot with mysql for authentication, with postfixadmin for the admin web interface. We are moving users from passwd file usernames to email@domain style logins. Is there a better way to allow both sets of usernames (old and new) to work with dovecot than by adding extra copies of rows to the mailboxes table and changing the username? i.e. does dovecot support some kind of username mapping or aliasing? Thanks a lot

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[Dovecot] dovecot not able to access sentmail folder in home directory(chdir)
by vineet 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

using dovecot version 0.99.11 while accessing through squirrelmail or even connecting manually(using openssl) to the server dovecot is not able to access the folder the mail.err log file has the following entry: dovecot: (/home/user) permission denied error no 89 returned by child process the squirrel mail error was connection dropped by imap server Query capability thanks vineet _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1 for production? which one?
by Jeff A. Earickson 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hi, I've been lurking on the list since Spring, planning to replace UW-IMAP with dovecot 1.0 sometime this summer. The recent thread on "1.0" has not given me a good feeling about seeing it before summer's end. So I wonder if I should use dovecot-1.0-test-xx code or dovecot-stable-[date] code (which seems to change every day, how stable is that???). This is confusing, advice please. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Root password or key access to pop3?
by Matt Juszczak 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hi all, We're an ISP, and are currently looking for a way for our tech support guys to access customer's email without having shell access to the server, or knowing the customer's password. We'd like to install a custom webmail client that would only show the user's inbox and the ability to delete the messages. The problem is, that we would have to know the user's password in order for my PHP pop3 code to go out and fetch the mail. Is there a way I can setup and/or patch dovecot so that any connection from <said IP address> can use the password "jq3erjq3535" for any account, and it will authenticate them? Or is this some kind of custom patch I would need to write? Thanks! -Matt

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[Dovecot] error connecting dovecot from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

the problem is: 1. the error in the mailerr file is: Jul 4 19:42:26 obelix dovecot: chdir(/home/user) failed with uid 1229: Permission denied Jul 4 19:42:26 obelix dovecot: child 16385 (imap) returned error 89 2. the error msg given by Squirrelmail is: ERROR: connection dropped by imapserver QUERY: CAPABILITY the dovecot and squirrelmail settings are same on both the servers 3. the mailbox settings in dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u OS: Debian Sarge stable thanks srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] BOGUS files
by Obantec Support 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi what does this mean BOGUS.watasiuk.8B8I (watasiuk is a username). FC3 Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

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[Dovecot] dovecot - outlook users keep getting locked out of imap
by Anthony Kolasny 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Greetings: My outlook users accessing mail via dovecot's imaps have been consistantly getting locked out of their email. It happens about once a week per outlook user. It appears to happen when the are cliking on emails with attachments. When this happens, there are two imap deamons running for that user. I kill both deamons and things start working again. Squirrelmail, thunderbird and pine users haven't had this issue. I'm running a version of dovecot dated dovecot-stable-20050610. All user accounts have their mail on nfs mount points. The INBOX directory is local to the imap server but we have a smtp server that gets this data via nfs. Below is the dovecot.conf info: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /usr/local/imaps/certs/dovecot_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/local/imaps/certs/dovecot_key.pem disable_plaintext_auth = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_process_size = 128 login_processes_count = 9 login_max_processes_count = 256 login_max_logging_users = 512 verbose_proctitle = yes mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mmap_disable = no lock_method = fcntl mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_lock_timeout = 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 mbox_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } protocol pop3 { } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam userdb = passwd user = root } Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Anthony

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[Dovecot] dovecot restart bug?
by Andrew Hutchings 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Using my initd script (no idea of the origin now) to do a restart I randomly get: Jun 28 13:56:05 svr24 dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Jun 28 13:56:05 svr24 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test74 starting up Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: auth(default): net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.23322) failed: No such file or directory Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: child 23322 (auth) returned error 89 It then suddenly starts working again, is this something to do with that new mysql timeout feature? This started happening when I migrated from test72 to test73. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ A-Wing Internet Services - http://www.a-wing.co.uk/ Random quote 111: "It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me." - BILL GATES

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[Dovecot] dovecot problem or not ?
by Mircea Hutanu 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi, I've setup a postfix mailserver with dovecot and postgres database for virtual domains with virtual users, but I have some problems getting the accounts to work. I've used instruction from this tutorial : http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql I want users to be able to get their email with imap or pop3, but I didn't manage to solve this problem. The server makes mbox style user accounts, I can send email to them but when I try to read emails from virtual accounts I get the following error : Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 connected Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 10491 Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)foo.org' Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT '/home/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)foo.org' Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user(a)foo.org): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user(a)foo.org): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3-login: Login: user(a)foo.org [127.0.0.1] Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 8 disconnected Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot: child 10492 (pop3) returned error 89 The error " mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied" appears because, using mbox, the home for virtual accounts is /home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user, where user is allready the mbox file, to the sistem can't create the directory structure for IMAP settings. What I'm doing wrong ? Did someone else got this problem ? Thanks ! -- ------------------------------ Mircea Hutanu voodookid(a)gmail.com ------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Automating message archiving
by Steffen Kaiser 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hallo, I recently stumple over some discussion about Sieve and what's the advantage to integrate it into the server rather than the LDA. Most of the filtering capabilites local users want to have performed are related to the INBOX or more preciesly the way to filter the message coming in. However, there are few tasks left: 1) Auto-archive old mail. 2) Drop old mail. 3) "Seen" mails are moved from INBOX to somewhere else. To 1) Several people love to store each single mail, but because the system becomes very slow when they open a mailbox with, day, 5000 messages (Mozilla even core dumps sometimes); they archive the mails by year or month, if they got elder than, say, 6 month. I do not want to discuss this habbit, it's like it is and I have the trouble with it. To 2) There is the doing of dropping all messages flagged as SPAM into a specific folder. It would be nice if the does messages are deleted, when they grew get elder. To 3) I don't grasp the idea, but it seems that notebook users want to look, what messages are new, flag and download selected ones; when they connect next time the "old, already seen" ones should be invisible, but still accessable on demand in another folder. Maybe it has to do with that the client sometimes reads the whole IMAP INBOX again, instead just the new ones. I've seen this behaviour with Mozilla myself in conjunction with a variaty of IMAP servers now and then. Those things must be user-configurable, of course ;-), I hoped Sieve would solve this problems, but it doesn't. The MVMF mentioned in the mailing list, doesn't as well. Does somebody has some solution for these tasks, besides to setup a cronjob and hack a webinterface? Is there some Dovecot tool that one can use to manipulate the mail storage? UW-IMAP ships such thing (mailutil), but it does not support Maildir and it would be nice, when the Dovecot extensions are created well. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism
by Orchun Kolcu 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi, I just switched (or tried to) from UW-IMAP to dovecot. When I try to login through the telnet client I get: 1 NO Authentication failed and in the log I get: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism If I try to login through the IMAP client (Thunderbird), in the log I get the slightly different: imap-login: Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism Here's the auth setup from the conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam imap userdb = passwd user = root } And here's /etc/pam.d/imap for good measure: 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 The server is a fairly standard Redhat 8 setup. Any idea what's going on? Thanks! -- Orchun Kolcu orchunk(a)fastem.com -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service

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Re: [Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

dovecot and squirrelmail configuration successfull!! The problem was: There were many other options related to ssl,which were enabled, like ssl_cert_file,ssl_parameters_file and so on. i disabled them all, and it's working fine now. Now, only, ssl_disable = no is uncommented. Thank you all. Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] newbie - trying to set up pop3 access for multiple domains
by Andy Green - Green Consulting 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

I'm hosting multiple domains, and I'm having problems getting dovecot to play nicely. The only protocol I've got enabled in the conf file is pop3, yet the maillog shows the following entries when I try to authenticate: mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /mail: Permission denied Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/mail/vhosts/<domain name here>/<user name here> returned error 89 Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: [Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

>Only two things I can think of: >1. Dovecot was not configured for imap with ssl (check that >ssl_disable is not set to yes). Also check the protocols statement >that it supports imaps. > >2. Check that you do not have access lists blocking off 993 to your >squirrelmail. This is often encountered if using tcp wrappers and >you're running dovecot through (x)inetd. > >Regards, Neil The ssl_disable is set to no and the protocols statement contains all the four protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s. But i couldn't make out the 2nd point, you suggested.Can you, please, describe it a little more ? Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi all, I am new to dovecot and squirrelmail and I am trying to configure squirrelmail with dovecot as its imap server. When i disable "Secure Imap (TLS)" option (2-A-7) from squirrelmail configure menu, it's working fine. But when i try to enable tls support, squirrelmail is giving the following error: Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to 192.xx.xx.xx:993 in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 445 ERROR Error connecting to IMAP server: tls://192.xx.xx.xx. 111 : Connection refused Go to the login page The port numbers of the imap server are as follows: imap_listen 143 pop3_listen 110 imaps_listen 993 pop3s_listen 995 Squirrelmail and the dovecot imap server are running on different machines, so it is essential to enable tls support. All the machines are running Debian Sarge. Can anyone suggest a solution for the above problem ? Thank you. Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] root login is refused, but....
by Roberto Tagliaferri 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

If i try to connect as root (dovecto 1.0) with wrong password doveco exit with an auth error robyt:~# telnet dns pop3 Trying x.x.x.x Connected to dns. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user root +OK pass [wrong] -ERR Authentication failed. but if the password is correct dovecot exit but with another error: user root +OK pass [correct] -ERR [IN-USE] Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. robyt:~# Why dovecot don't close the connection at user root? With this system i may know the root password.. -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn't use vchkpw properly :(
by Casey Allen Shobe 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hey all, It seems that dovecot does NOT call vchkpw properly when using vpopmail-style authentication, I can only guess that it reads the vpasswd{,.cdb} files directly. This is indicated by the syslog log for the mail facitily which reads: Jun 30 16:51:30 [vpopmail] vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success blah@blah.com:24.17.153.137 Jun 30 17:16:25 [pop3-login] Login: blah(a)blah.com [24.17.153.137] Jun 30 17:47:42 [imap-login] Login: blah(a)blah.com [216.57.201.58] pop3-login and imap-login are dovecot processes - vchkpw is never called or there would also be log entries for it. I've verified this with the vpopmail list, who agree that the problem lies within dovecot. This might not be quite so annoying, but we are using vpopmail compiled with the --enable-learn-passwords option, which will populate the password files with cleartext versions of the passwords where they are missing. Because of dovecot not calling vchkpw, this doesn't work for POP3/IMAP logins, only SMTP (using qmail-smtpd). People don't send mail from every account they poll, and we need to get all of the passwords in cleartext form so that we can complete migration to a PostgreSQL password database which multiple applications will use to authenticate. Are there plans to make dovecot use vchkpw in the normal checkpassword manner? If not, I'd like to request it. We will probably switch back to qmail-pop3d and bincimap for the time being to finish collecting passwords if we can't get a quick fix...I think we can do that without much impact. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | http://casey.shobe.info cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | cell 425-443-4653 AIM & Yahoo: SomeLinuxGuy | ICQ: 1494523 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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RE: [Dovecot] LF not found where expected
by Miles Mawyer 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Thanks for the reply. I think I'd found the issue. It seems to be the empty line that is ending up at the top of mail file. I removed that blank line out of one of the mail box files, and it started working without an issue. I'm not sure what is causing the empty line in the mbox file however. Most of my clients use pop3 to download their messages through dovecot. Could this be happening if the client only downloads part of their messages? Pretty easy for me to straighten out, but I didn't know if this was a bug that needed to be addressed. ... Miles Mawyer -=- Webmaster . Centralva.net ... ... mmawyer(a)rosecomputers.com ... ... 434.385.5053 ... -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:52 AM To: Miles Mawyer Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LF not found where expected On 27.6.2005, at 18:45, Miles Mawyer wrote: > pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file > /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected These usually happen because the mbox file has two adjacent From-line, ie: From foo ... From bar ... Message-headers: ... That shouldn't happen normally though. Sounds like something is wrong with how your mails are written. Are all the software that are writing to the mbox using same lock methods? Anyway, 1.0-test/stable versions of Dovecot can handle the adjacent From-lines too without failing.

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[Dovecot] How to lock a user out?
by Kai Wang 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hi, We are considering to migrate to Dovecot. We can running uw-imap and have a local path which allow us to lock a user by creating a .lockdir directory in the user home directory and put our warning message to .lockdir/mbox. The locked user can still receive messages in ~/mbox. But can not access any messages except ~/.lockdir/mbox. I wonder if Dovecot has any similar feature which we can use to lock a user out without affecting the mail delivery? Kai Wang University of Calgary

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test74
by Timo Sirainen 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Not much has happened, but the APPEND bugfix is important since it was broken in test73 (at least). Summer makes me tired and lazy. :( I've been trying to get keywords implemented in maildir. Hopefully works soon.. After that I'll create 1.0-stable2 (ugh. any other naming ideas?) branch of the code before merging the new master/config code. - Fixed APPEND .. I hope? At least works much better than before - pop3_uidl_format = %m now doesn't return broken 0 MD5 sums when the MD5 sum wasn't written in indexes for some reason (eg. appended/copied to INBOX with IMAP and trying to access mail with POP3). - Authentication cache wasn't working when Dovecot was used for proxying - Index cache file wasn't keeping track of how much of the file was deleted, so it may not have ever shrinked - Maildir+NFS: Fixed skipping mails when moving files from new/ to cur/ - Maildir: We didn't notice if messages were directly deleted from new/

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[Dovecot] imap corrupted indexes
by Emmett Pate 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I've searched the archives and find a lot of references to corrupted indexes but can't seem to find any solutions. It seems like folks either have the problem or they don't. We recently migrated from a RedHat Linux server to an OpenBSD 3.7 server (both using dovecot). Imap was working flawlessly on the RedHat box but now gives numerous index errors. I then upgraded to dovecot-1.0-test66 compiled from ports - still no luck. Here's an example of the errors: Jun 27 12:02:23 mail dovecot: IMAP(epate): Corrupted transaction log file /home/epate/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Keyword record UIDs are broken Jun 27 12:02:24 mail dovecot: IMAP(epate): Lost transaction log file /home/epate/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 7 I found references to "disabling indexing" but they don't say how. Would this be a reasonable temporary solution? Any other suggestions? Thanks for your help, Emmett Pate

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[Dovecot] Sudden IMAP problem - UID Errors
by Jamie Heckford 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, We have quite happily been running dovecot with no issues at all for approx. two years now and have had no problem whatsoever. Great work :) BUT (there is always a but!).... yesterday one of our users started complaining that they were having issues with their mail. I checked and although they can still view their IMAP mailbox ok it constantly throws up error messages such as: "The UID of a message changed unexpectedly. This typically indicates a server bug. Your program may not function properly after this. MsgSeqNum 131: Previous UID: 21402, New UID: 21555 Protocol: IMAP" and "Your server has reported a UID which does not comply with the IMAP standard. This typically indicates a server bug. Your program may not function properly after this." This is using Outlook 2003 as the IMAP client, and is only affecting a single user. Server is dovecot-0.99.14 running on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #1: Thu Apr 15 10:00:08 GMT 2004 Anybody seen this before or have any suggestions? Also is there a way I can make the logging more verbose as I only get info on date/user/ip when they login. I did see a --raw-log or similar compile flag, is this whats needed? I suspect this is Outlook being stupid and not dovecot though. Any help would be greatly received. Many thanks! -- Jamie Heckford Network Manager Trident Microsystems Ltd. t: +44(0)1737-780790 f: +44(0)1737-771908 w: http://www.trident-uk.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] UID confusion
by Andrew Hutchings 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, 2 or 3 customers have reported that they are having problems downloading their mail via. POP3. I have attached the rawlogs of their transactions and the UID list at the time. Is this because I am using an incompatible UID format or is something else at fault? Deleting the UID list and indexes fixes the problem. I am using Test72. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ A-Wing Internet Services - http://www.a-wing.co.uk/ Random quote 148: "We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993" - Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust) STAT UIDL DELE 12 DELE 13 DELE 14 DELE 15 DELE 16 DELE 17 DELE 18 DELE 19 DELE 20 DELE 21 DELE 22 DELE 23 DELE 24 DELE 25 DELE 26 DELE 27 DELE 28 DELE 29 DELE 30 DELE 31 DELE 32 DELE 33 DELE 34 DELE 12 DELE 31 DELE 20 DELE 14 DELE 32 DELE 19 DELE 21 DELE 33 DELE 23 DELE 28 DELE 22 DELE 34 DELE 27 DELE 30 DELE 24 DELE 18 DELE 17 DELE 29 DELE 26 DELE 25 DELE 15 +OK 37 3133628 +OK 1 1102086912.6586 2 1102086912.6604 3 1102086912.6606 4 1102086912.6607 5 1102086912.6613 6 1102086912.6614 7 1102086912.6624 8 1102086912.6627 9 1102086912.6628 10 1102086912.6637 11 1102086912.6638 12 1102086912.6642 13 1102086912.6643 14 1102086912.6644 15 1102086912.6645 16 1102086912.6646 17 1102086912.6647 18 1102086912.6649 19 1102086912.6650 20 1102086912.6651 21 1102086912.6652 22 1102086912.6653 23 1102086912.6655 24 1102086912.6656 25 1102086912.6657 26 1102086912.6658 27 1102086912.6659 28 1102086912.6660 29 1102086912.6661 30 1102086912.6662 31 1102086912.6663 32 1102086912.6664 33 1102086912.6665 34 1102086912.6666 35 1102086912.6668 36 1102086912.6669 37 1102086912.6670 . +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Too many bad commands. 1 1102086912 6671 6586 1119365297.H428351P22768.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6604 1119430792.H16069P15059.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6606 1119435803.H269574P27211.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6607 1119438782.H651475P11876.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6613 1119444180.H435092P3752.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6614 1119446623.H168979P14147.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6624 1119519980.H840253P23730.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6627 1119534126.H915877P9542.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6628 1119534129.H58338P9545.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6637 1119590807.H77202P16581.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6638 1119594010.H314838P14558.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6642 1119631309.H826676P15985.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6643 1119634096.H108358P8422.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6644 1119651249.H740483P15403.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6645 1119652382.H85165P25444.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6646 1119662861.H891233P15682.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6647 1119666011.H343203P9515.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6648 1119678421.H726408P9343.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6649 1119682873.H656272P7774.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6650 1119709610.H933163P23969.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6651 1119711088.H95605P27225.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6652 1119717756.H183955P3515.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6653 1119726592.H247339P1807.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6654 1119727779.H102401P8785.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6655 1119749596.H731030P9216.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6656 1119760115.H508676P14834.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6657 1119761702.H762025P27895.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6658 1119774991.H8003P28710.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6659 1119780623.H432714P11671.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6660 1119797027.H333204P330.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6661 1119799332.H700308P15617.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6662 1119800637.H600428P30602.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6663 1119807991.H64209P14572.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6664 1119808834.H473596P22065.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6665 1119838893.H830072P23165.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6666 1119838934.H873217P23186.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6667 1119860409.H899984P26859.svr34.nsnoc.com:2, 6668 1119860596.H249033P27907.svr34.nsnoc.com 6669 1119867953.H904781P22645.svr34.nsnoc.com 6670 1119867978.H374439P22691.svr34.nsnoc.com

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[Dovecot] getpeername() and SSL
by Andreas Goertz 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi Timo, first of all: i'm using 0.99.14. You helped me to raw-log the client-IP using something like this in rawlog.c: if (net_getpeername(0, &ip, NULL) == 0) { str = t_strdup_printf("IP: %s\n", net_ip2addr(&ip)); write_full(log_out, str, strlen(str)); } Now i got the problem, that this doesn't work when the client is connected using SSL. After some testing i think, the problem is, that after calling net_getpeername() the ip-family is AF_UNIX, not AF_INET, so net_ip2addr() returns null, but i'm not sure ;-) And i have no clue, how to solve this and find out the ip... Do you have another hint for me? Thanks in advance. Regards, Andreas.

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[Dovecot] Blank messages and problems starting Dovecot
by Lars Karset Grimsrud 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

When I use Evolution for viewing my e-mail and display full headers, no content is shown. The number of messages indicated in Evolution is however correct. Logging into webmail (Squirrelmail) doesn't work either, saying "Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost. 13 : Permission denied". I have verified that ~/Maildir/new actually contains valid e-mails. Does anyone have suggestions on how to debug this problem? A connection is established if I telnet. I use Fedora Core 4. Another problem I have, is changing log_path and info_log_path to something useful. If I change either to i.e. /tmp/dovecot.log, dovecot refuses to start (service dovcot restart) with noe error message. If it helps, my /etc/dovecot.conf is here: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~grimsrud/info/dovecot.conf.txt -- Lars Karset Grimsrud <grimsrud(a)stud.ntnu.no>

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[Dovecot] password scheme
by Nathalie Boulos 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, I have dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4 running on fedora core 3, and authenticating with openLDAP on a remote server. When i try to authenticate, i get the error "Unknown password scheme SSHA". I read that earlier on this mailing list, SSHA was not suported by dovecot. Is it supported now? what should i do to make my password authentication work? The users in the openLDAP database have userPassword {SHA} already used by other services, so i cannot change them. Any suggestions? Regards, Nathalie ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] LF not found where expected
by Miles Mawyer 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I'm using Dovecot 0.99.13 on a fedora core 3 server. I keep getting these errors from time to time. There user ends up retrieving no mail (but no error in their client, be it web mail or pop3 client) What usually fixes it is this procedure: Cp mbox file to mbox_ Remove original mbox Send a test message to recreate mbox. Cat mbox_ >> mbox Problem solved! Can anybody tell me what causes this? pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-06-27 11:16:38] pop3-login: Jun 27 11:17:06 Info: Login: mjmurray [64.203.167.125] pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-06-27 11:17:06] imap-login: Jun 27 11:17:28 Info: Login: mjmurray [127.0.0.1] imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:28 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:28 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap-login: Jun 27 11:19:12 Info: Login: mjmurray [127.0.0.1] imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:19:12 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:19:12 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected ... Miles Mawyer -=- Webmaster . Centralva.net ... ... mmawyer(a)rosecomputers.com ... ... 434.385.5053 ...

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[Dovecot] possible bug with incoming mail
by Luke Ehresman 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I've been using Dovecot for a couple months now and am very impressed. Thanks for a great package. However, I have noticed a problem that I haven't been able to solve. When a new message comes into my inbox, the last message that was received is marked as new as well as the new one. I originally thought this was a bug in my client (mutt) but I have verified that the same thing happens with Thunderbird, Sylpheed, mutt, and pine. My configuration is as follows: ------------------------------- using mbox: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/vfolders/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n using imaps Linux version 2.6.11-hardened-r1 (root@gondor) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #2 Thu May 5 13:14:52 EDT 2005 Thanks for any help you can give, Luke

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + MySQL no auth
by Dylan Baxter 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I haven't been able to login to my mail server using MySQL authentication and I believe I've found the issue. My POP log says: dovecot: Jun 07 09:58:56 Error: auth(default): sql(dylan(a)domain.com,127.0.0.1): Password query must return a field named "password" dovecot: Jun 07 09:58:56 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected [127.0.0.1] The password field in MySQL is called "passwd". Am I to understand that there is no way around this? I must rename the field to "password"? My config files all check out. I'm pretty sure I'm at a road block here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, aren't there anough Dovecot users to warrant a forum and/or IRC channel? I cant seem to find either (but thank you for the mailing list!). Thanks all for any help! Dylan

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[Dovecot] Restrictions on User Basis
by Net Cerebrum 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, I am running dovecot on Fedora Linux in our organization and use IMAP as well as POP3 protocols for mail retrieval. I want to impose the following user based restrictions: (a) I want to permit only selective users to access either POP3 or IMAP server or both. (b) The server can be accessed from LAN as well as WAN. However I want to allow only selective users to be able to access POP3 or IMAP server from the WAN side (or on the basis of IP addresses). What do I need to do to impose these restrictions ? Thanks,

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[Dovecot] APPEND issue with Thunderbird
by Todd Burroughs 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I'm getting a strange problem with APPEND and Thunderbird 0.8. This was working fine in the CVS version from June 8 and is not so fine as of June 20. It works fine using Pine. It appears that imap is hanging when trying to append to a folder. Right now, an imap process has the file open for about 1/2 hour. It wrote the headers out, but not the body. When Thunderbird disconnects from it, it closes the file, but does not finish writing the email. Here's the difference in the commands sent by Pine and Thunderbird from rawlogs. These are different accounts. (Thunderbird) (.in file) 2 append "Sent" (\Seen) {520+} Message-ID: <42BAC447.7050901(a)hostopia.com> (rest of headers and message follows) The .out file is empty --------------------------------------- (Pine) (.in file) 00000003 CAPABILITY 03000004 APPEND Sent {392} Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:35:42 -0400 (EDT) (rest of headers and message follows) 03000005 LOGOUT (.out file) * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2005-06-22 19:36:20 * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS 00000003 OK Capability completed. + OK 03000004 OK Append completed. * BYE Logging out 03000005 OK Logout completed. ----------------------------------------- Todd

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[Dovecot] IP Based Access
by kasharif＠citech-bd.com 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, Can someone tell me how can I restrict 110 port access other than my IP block? if it through tcp-wrapper then how can i do that? Thanking Sharif

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[Dovecot] FAM support?
by Michael Tibben 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, Is there any planned support for FAM http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ in dovecot? One of my favourite features of Courier IMAP server is that it alerts my email client through IMAP when email has arrived. Regards, Mick

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[Dovecot] pop3 retr error
by Marten Lehmann 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello, I'm getting the following error while Mozilla Mail is downloading >4000 emails: The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving message. Mail server xxx responded: Message is deleted. So what's the error? Can't I retrieve a message, that has been marked as deleted before? If the Mesage-ID wouldn't exist, the error message would be different. I don't know what Mozilla Mail is doing and on which message id it is failing. Also, there's no output in the logfiles. Any ideas? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] quetion about duplicate messages
by Michiel van Es 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, we recently switched from Imap-Uw to Dovecot as a pop3 server. I was wondering why people who have the flag 'Leave messages on server' in their email client (Outlook, Outlook Expres) that they receive duplicates of their stored mail? Is it because Dovecot doesn't know that the messages has already been popped by Imap Uw or is the email client which thinks there are new messages on the server and if so..how can I avoid this behaviour? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Kind Regards, Michiel

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[Dovecot] dovecot and solaris 9
by Sander 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Hi, Does anyone know where to find a how-to to get dovecot working with Solaris. Specifically how to setup plain authentication? Thanks in advance, Sander

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0
by Jeff Graves 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Either Timo's got most of the bugs worked out or everyone is on vacation this week (traffic on the list has been very light). Good Job! Jeff Graves, MCSA Customer Support Engineer Image Source, Inc. 10 Mill Street Bellingham, MA 02019 508.966.5200 - Phone 508.966.5170 - Fax jeff(a)image-src.com - Email www.image-src.com

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[Dovecot] [newbie question]to receive mail
by neo anderson 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

sorry, i forget to attach the result that run by mail command. the "mail" command i use it shows the mail as follow: ========== mail command beg 12 mail-user(a)[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Thu Jun 23 11:21 48/1478 "this is a test mail" ========== mail command end ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] [newbie question]to receive mail
by neo anderson 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

hi, i'm newbie to dovecot. lately i install postfix on a server for providing mail service. however, i encounter a problem in receiving mail, i.e., to get mail download to the remote client. (i'm able to send mail through mozilla client, but can't get the sent mail download to the client). what reasons may cause such problem? check several points that i suppose it may have problem, yet can't figure out where the problem may be resulted from. for instance, ========== telnet beg telnet target-server-ip 143 ... * OK dovecot ready. telnet target-server-ip 25 ... 220 host-name.domain.com ESMTP Postfix (ehlo localhost) <---------- hidden command i enter 250-host-name.domain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 20971520 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250 8BITMIME (quit) <---------- hidden command i enter 221 Bye telnet target-server-ip 110 .... +OK dovecot ready ========== telnet end btw, i'm able to read and write mail through mail program in the target server; simply can't get the mail downloaded to the other client with mozilla mail client (out look also doesn't work). mozilla mail client is version 1.7 . target server using centos 4.0. postfix 2.1.5 dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 i appreciate any help, sincerely. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] miugrating mail to new server
by Gabe Granger 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hi All, I've just a new server to help with migration of our email, the old email server is using mbox and the new is using Maildir. I've managed to some user mail migrated fine. The new server is only a temp server as I have too many users to migrate easily in one go(Also I want to nuke the current mailserver, remove SuSE and install Debian on it). So what i'm doing it moving users one by one to temp server and converting to Maildir. My question is. I notice that all email files in maildir format end with .<host> when I go to migrate everything to back over to the original server is this going to cause me problem? Ie will the original server now have to be named the same as the temp server so that the maildir format files end with the same .<host> or does that not matter? Any help, advise would be great. Gabe

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[Dovecot] question about
by Michiel van Es 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hi, I am running Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on centos 4) and we are switching from newer machines. I copied all usernames from /etc/passwd,/etc/group and /etc/shadow to the new machine. I do not want that every user has it's own /home/$user directory.. When I test my dovecot installation with a telnet 'servername' 110 user test pass test I get this error: ################################################################################ Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 pop3(aaptest): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/aaptest/mail: Permission denied Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 pop3(aaptest): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /home/aaptest) Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 dovecot: child 3393 (pop3) returned error 89 ############################################################################## So I changed the MAIL environment to /var/spool/mail (using Sendmail and mbox) Now I get this error: ###############################################################################3 Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3-login: Login: aaptest [::ffff:10.101.3.37] Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3(aaptest): open(/var/spool/mail//inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3(aaptest): mkdir_parents(/var/spool/mail//.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied ################################################################################# Wht is Dovecot trying to AUTOcreate IMAP folders? I do not want Dovecot to do this hence I tell Dovecot to serve only pop3 and pop3s: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = pop3 pop3s # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with # "host:port". #imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] Does anyone know how I can dissable this IMAP-AUTOcreate behaviour? Thanks in advance. Michiel

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[Dovecot] test73 not compiling with iconv?
by Sean Porter 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

I've recently upgraded from test53 to test73 from a source compile on FreeBSD 5.3, and am getting some [BADCHARSET] errors in 73 that I wasn't getting in 53 (specifically with Squirrelmail). When I run one of Squirrelmail's built-in filters, I get the following error: ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 UNSEEN Subject {14} *****SPAM***** Reason Given: [BADCHARSET] Unknown charset Googling around, I found the admonition on the wiki about chrooted environments: http://wiki.dovecot.fi/moin.cgi/QuestionsAndAnswers#head- e146cada4e103a4a93a736998c64f23b1a8cd312 so I disabled all chroot directives in my config and ran as root, just to see if that was the error. No luck. When running configure with "./configure --with-mysql --with- storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl", I noticed that I got this error regarding iconv: checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv Oddly enough, I do have libiconv-1.9.2 installed in /usr/local: /usr/local/lib/libiconv.a /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so@ -> libiconv.so.3 /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 /usr/local/include/iconv.h and an iconv -l shows support for the charset in question. I tried adding the prefix directive to configure: ./configure --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl -- with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local and got the same message. I presume that 53 picked up iconv headers and libraries from LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and now 73 isn't getting it even set explicitly -- I see some ChangeLog entries for iconv files in dovecot source in May, but nothing more. How can I verify that dovecot compiled with libiconv support? Anyone else see the same thing? Thanks, Sean

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[Dovecot] Hang-up problems with outlook 2003 and test 1.0
by Alfonso Sparano 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hi all, I'm testing dovecot 1.0 on a tru64 v5.1 and on a rhel3 platforms. I've a problem when I use outlook 2003 to download mails: outlook stop responding and hang-up when I use imap protocol. Someone have the same problem? What should I do? This is my configuration: protocols = pop3 imap disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_save_crlf = yes mail_read_mmaped = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = passwd userdb = passwd user = root } Alfonso

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RE: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Jeff Graves 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I don't know C or C++ but here's the patch I wrote for lowercase auth on test69. Hopefully it's a starting point for anyone who wants to try and tackle this but well beyond my abilities. Jeff Graves, MCSA Customer Support Engineer Image Source, Inc. 10 Mill Street Bellingham, MA 02019 508.966.5200 - Phone 508.966.5170 - Fax jeff(a)image-src.com - Email www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Peter Evans Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:33 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames? Dan Hollis (test3943395(a)anime.net) wrote: > So that's three people then. me, jeff graves and peter hessler. More than > two :-) > What's the exact 'minimum required users for a feature' number? :-) Feel free to code it yourself and submit a patch to Timo. I guess you want to start with 1.0-test-reallybignumber as a base. If I had the energy, I might do this. P

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[Dovecot] GSSAPI support status
by Fredrik Tolf 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi list! I'm wondering, what is the current status of GSSAPI (krb5) support in Dovecot? I know from googling that there used to be a patch for it around a year ago, but I haven't seen a trace of that patch ever since, and GSSAPI doesn't even seem to be mentioned in the Dovecot source tree (at least not according to "grep -irl"). Is GSSAPI planned at all, as it stands? If not, is there a way for me to get my hands on the original patch, so that I can fix it up for the current version of Dovecot? I'm eagerly waiting for the day that I can switch from UW-IMAP to Dovecot, but I don't want to until I can get GSSAPI authentication. Thanks for reading! Fredrik Tolf

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[Dovecot] "Angle" address with empty "display name"
by Chris Wakelin 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Some clients are sending from addresses like <someone(a)somewhere.org> i.e. without a "friendly" name. It seems to me from RFC2822 that you should either have "Display Name <someone(a)somewhere.org>" or just "someone(a)somewhere.org" (both without the quotes). Dovecot, not unreasonably, treats "<someone(a)somewhere.org>" as having an empty Display Name, but this seems to confuse at least one client - our webmail ;) - which then displays "?" for the "from" address. The patch below tries to make dovecot treat empty display name as non-existent display name (so that the IMAP "ENVELOPE" command responds with "NIL" instead of "" in the relevant places). Best Wishes, Chris --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-address.c.orig Fri Apr 8 12:30:34 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-address.c Mon Jun 20 10:42:23 2005 @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ return -1; ctx->addr.name = p_strdup(ctx->pool, str_c(ctx->str)); + if (*ctx->addr.name == '\0') { + /* Cope with "<address>" without display name */ + ctx->addr.name = NULL; + } if (parse_angle_addr(ctx) < 0) { /* broken */ ctx->addr.domain = p_strdup(ctx->pool, "SYNTAX_ERROR"); -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- 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] MySQL user_query ignored
by Helmut Zeilinger 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi all, i installed Dovecot 0.99.14. Everything works fine except that the mysql setup directive "user_query" seems to be ignored - however the password_query works. Instead the default user query in db-mysql.c always takes effect. Might this be a bug or is something worng wit my setup below? (To keep on working i changed the default query in db-mysql.c..) Helmut dovecot-mysql.conf: db_host = localhost #db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db = mail db_user = mail db_passwd = db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = '%n' and domain='%d' user_query = SELECT '/var/mail/%d/%n' as home, 506 as uid, 100 as gid FROM users WHERE login = '%n' and domain='%d'

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[Dovecot] "LDAP: No username in reply" error
by Jim Canon 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

Hi All, I am using the latest Dovecot stable with Fedora Core 4. I am trying to use it with LDAP, but I am getting the following error in my mail log when I attempt to check my mail: Jun 18 09:12:24 relm dovecot-auth: LDAP: No username in reply Jun 18 09:12:24 relm imap-login: Internal login failure: yaw(a)yaw.org [192.168.1.20] Here is the slapd log: Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SRCH attr=uid homeDirectory uidNumber gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=566 fd=21 closed Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SRCH attr=uid homeDirectory uidNumber gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=565 fd=18 closed Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=568 fd=18 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:54510 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" method=128 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=1 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SRCH attr=gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=569 fd=21 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:54511 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" method=128 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=1 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SRCH attr=gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= I can supply more information if needed. I'm not actually sure what the error message means. Any ideas? Thanks, Jim

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[Dovecot] imap crash
by Todd Burroughs 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

This is from the June 16 CVS, it also happens with June 15 but not with June 8. Basically, imap segfaults when opening my mbox. Some details are below: Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 755 if (msg[0] == '\n' || (gdb) bt full #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 msg = (const unsigned char *) 0x0 i = Variable "i" is not available. (gdb) p *ctx $1 = {line = {name = 0x0, name_len = 0, value = 0x0, value_len = 0, full_value = 0x0, full_value_len = 0, middle = 0x0, middle_len = 0, name_offset = 14794827, full_value_offset = 0, continues = 0, continued = 0, eoh = 0, no_newline = 0, use_full_value = 0}, input = 0x80c9cfc, hdr_size = 0x0, name = 0x80cf030, value_buf = 0x0, skip = 0, skip_initial_lwsp = 0, has_nuls = 0} (gdb) p *hdr_r $2 = (struct message_header_line *) 0x0 (gdb) bt #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 #1 0x0806bfaf in mbox_sync_parse_match_mail (mbox=0x80c3ba8, view=0x80c8ea8, seq=2028) at mbox-sync-parse.c:521 #2 0x080689d0 in mbox_file_seek (mbox=0x80c3ba8, view=0x80c8ea8, seq=2028, deleted_r=0xbffff748) at mbox-file.c:164 #3 0x0806a91f in mbox_mail_seek (mail=0x80c9200) at mbox-mail.c:63 #4 0x0806ab2a in mbox_mail_get_stream (_mail=0x80c9200, hdr_size=0x0, body_size=0x0) at mbox-mail.c:176 #5 0x0808cc55 in mail_get_stream (mail=0xfffffffe, hdr_size=0x0, body_size=0x0) at mail.c:106 #6 0x080760ef in index_mail_get_header_stream (_mail=0x80c9200, _headers=0x80c95d8) at index-mail-headers.c:606 #7 0x0808cc31 in mail_get_header_stream (mail=0xfffffffe, headers=0x80c95d8) at mail.c:97 #8 0x080769d0 in index_storage_search_next (_ctx=0x80c9188, mail=0x80c9200) at index-search.c:492 #9 0x0808d525 in mailbox_search_next (ctx=0x0, mail=0x80c9200) at mail-storage.c:405 #10 0x08057bee in cmd_search (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-search.c:33 #11 0x080594f5 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #12 0x0809e1ca in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #13 0x0809d8e9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #14 0x080603e7 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:228

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[Dovecot] dovecot.index.cache 1/3rd of INBOX size
by Chris Wakelin 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

I've noticed that my dovecot.index.cache file has got very large (24MB, which is more than 1/3 of my INBOX size). I've tried deleting (well, renaming) the dovecot.index.* files, and re-opening my INBOX, and the new dovecot.index.cache is only 90KB so far. I'm using dovecot-1.0-stable and mbox format. My mail_cache_fields and mail_never_cache_fields are set to the default. Looking back in the list archives, I found a message from Timo that suggested the cache entries are created for each message when the indexes are created, rather than when each message is accessed, so it ought not to grow? What happens when a message is deleted? I "strings/grep" ed through the dovecot.index.cache file and it looks like it's not caching any headers it shouldn't (like Received, X-Spam-XYZ etc.), but they seem to occur multiple times for each message. None of my other dovecot testers seem to have huge cache files (yet!). Anybody else seen this? Best Wishes, 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] Compressed maildir
by Curtis Maloney 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Greetings, I noticed a while back someone posted a patch/plugin that allowed Dovecot to use compressed mbox files. I'm now wondering how far that would put us from having compressed maildir? I have a server with more CPU than disk space, and while I can buy more HDD space, my backup solution doesn't make that practical. It seems to me that when looking for a message file, if it ends in .gz unpack it, and otherwise everything acts as normal. Worst case, this is one strcat() and a stat() slower to find. Newly delivered messages could remain unpacked, and a cron job could come by whenever to compress old/large/un-looked-at-for-months messages. So, new and frequently referenced messages would be as fast as ever, and older messages would be slower. I would love to dive in an do this myself, but 1- my time is very very limited, working two jobs, and 2- I'm not running 1.0 yet, as it apparently still doesn't support my Thunderbird users tagging their messages (am I wrong? please tell me I'm wrong... I want to upgrade! :) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] SSHA with LDAP?
by Ben Beuchler 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Poking around in the code for dovecot-stable seems to indicate that support has been added for the {SSHA} password scheme. This is not reflected in dovecot-ldap.conf. Is the SSHA code actually functional? Thanks! -Ben

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[Dovecot] small dovecot problem
by Cor Bosman 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hi all, just noticed a small problem in test70. If you have an mail in your maildir 'new' directory, and use another method to delete that email (for instance pop it through another pop server), dovecot will continue to report that email as being on the server. So if you had 1 email, delete it through pop, dovecot will continue to say that 1 email is on the server, even if you disconnect/reconnect. If that same email is in the 'cur' dir (so its been read), this doesnt happen and dovecot will report 0 emails. Cor

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and openmailadmin ?
by albi＠scii.nl 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

hi, wondered whether some people tried dovecot and openmailadmin ? http://www.openmailadmin.org "openMailAdmin is a little administration interface to IMAP mailservers." "openMailAdmin works with most of the popular MTAs, such as Postfix or Sendmail, and with almost every complete IMAP-server, i.e. Cyrus or Courier" a google-search didn't show any useful results so far, i'm just curious whether some people already tried it with dovecot (of course i can try it myself, but quite busy currently)

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[Dovecot] customflags and keywords
by Curtis Maloney 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

OK. After checking the 0.99->1.0 migration documentation, it seems I've been a little confused between customflags and keywords. (Though this is partly due to my repeated requests for clarification being ignored.) The page (http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/UpgradingDovecot) says 1.0 does not use .customflags any more. Now, I'm hoping they're still supported, in which case I'm curious to know where those details ARE stored? If 1.0 does support custom flags in a usable way, I'll migrate next week (with Andrey's gzip patch applied :) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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Re: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Timo Sirainen 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 03:16 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > PAM module only works for PAM passdb, Dovecot still does userdb lookup > > from /etc/passwd or wherever you have it. > > PAM should be given a chance to modify the username dovecot uses to do the > userdb lookup with. Hmm. I remembered PAM wouldn't allow that, but looks like it does. Changed CVS version to support that now (non-tested though, but doesn't at least break the normal behavior).

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[Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Dan Hollis 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Is it possible for dovecot to strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames? We have a lot of dumb customers who try logging in to pop3 with crap like UsERNAmE and bla(a)nonexistentdomain.com. All our usernames are lowercase and we have no realms. Trying to get hundreds of customers to fix this is hard and is a significant and costly support burden. It would be nice if dovecot could handle this in some way. -Dan

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test73
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Two potentially dangerous changes: - mbox parser should now be able to handle CR+LF linefeeds. Hopefully doesn't break anything. - Some mail header parser changes. Hopefully doesn't break anything. And other stuff: - COPY shouldn't crash anymore with 64bit systems - If PAM modifies username, keep it - When auth workers died they leaked file descriptors in dovecot-auth - Auth workers were leaking memory for each request - Make MySQL connect abort in 10 seconds if it can't connect - 32bit UID/GIDs were truncated to 31bit value - dovecot-auth reports cache hits and misses on SIGUSR2

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 19:27 +0900, Peter Evans wrote: > > > 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config > > > 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log > > > This is very lucid. Only argument I can see against is that solaris > > uses /nn to mark number of threads on a process (eg prstat). My vote > > will be on slashes before dashes any day. > > Or that solaris doesnt have setproctitle The above is done by modifying argv[0] before exec()ing. setproctitle() doesn't matter..

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[Dovecot] master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

I've finally got it to work, kind of .. It should allow you to log in, but several settings don't work yet and there are probably many bugs. Anyway, I thought I'd show this already in case someone is interested of looking how it works :) One thing I'm still wondering a bit is if I should show process names as: 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log 32604 ? Ss 0:00 dovecot 32606 ? S 0:00 dovecot/imap-login 32607 ? S 0:00 dovecot/auth -s 3 Or if I should name the binaries all as dovecot-config, dovecot-log, etc. One nice thing with the above is that it also shows imap and imap-login processes while grepping for dovecot. You can get the tarball from http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.0-test67-mrewrite.tar.gz (it has all the test73 changes despite the name..) Example configuration file (with bare minimals) is at http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot.conf I think I'll create a separate dovecot-master.conf for those service-blocks in the above config file (after I add include-directive to config file parser code). After the code is working better, I'll commit it to CVS and it'll be in future -test releases.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stable slow
by Loren M. Lang 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

A few days ago I installed dovecot stable to replace uw-imap. The install went well and all boxes were converted ok. When accessing the new imap server though, certain operations seem much slower, in particular, moving mail between boxes is very slow, and I have received several complaints from users that the mail server has slowed down. I can't figure out what the slow point is as maildir should be faster than mbox. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2

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[Dovecot] Pop-before-smtp issue
by Rob Kettle 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi, I'm trying to use pop-before-smtp with Dovecot IMAP (not running pop3). Pop-before-smtp has fixes to work with the fact that Thunderbird holds the Dovecot Imap connection open and therefore doesn't record regular 'login' entries in maillog. Problem is that pop-before-smtp relies on Dovecot recording a disconnect in the maillog when an Imap client disconnects. Dovecot doesn't seem log disconnects. How can I get it to do this please ? Regards Rob -- This message has been scanned for viruses and other dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Quota
by Josh Kelley 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

We're getting ready to set up a new mail server running dovecot 0.99.11 (CentOS 4) with maildir and filesystem quotas. I saw on the Dovecot web site that "hard filesystem quota can also be problematic." How problematic? What problems might we anticipate? Thanks. Josh Kelley

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[Dovecot] Can't see existing mail folders
by Chris Green 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system recently and it basically works as expected. However I can't get it to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies. I have the following in dovecot.conf:- default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u (I also originally tried with %h/Mail) IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the mail in $HOME/Mail. There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems. Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and folders that it's created itself? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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[Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms, many problems
by Jani Karlsson 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

dovecot: Jun 11 23:57:56 Info: auth(default): pam(testi(a)irkkaa.net,83.145.196.129): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure tried also debugging whats wrong with it, it queries ok, the password in the query is ok and everything. but it never replies +OK. that connection just halts after PASS command. Tried IMAP, same result. config: (dovecot.conf, PLAIN etc all enabled) passdb pam { args = * } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT username as user, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT concat('/usr/local/virtual/',maildir) as home, 207 AS uid,208 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' postfixadmin-format mysql-DB, mails in /usr/local/virtual/user@domain/Maildir Any ideas where stuff could go wrong? Passwords in the MySQL are cleartext and checked that query returns right values. Yet authentication-phase just gets stuck. System is hardned Gentoo-Linux (2.6.11r13-grsec)

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[Dovecot] Question regarding dovecot 0.99.14 & 1.0 stable
by Sebastiaan de Vogel 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi all, For several day's now I've been attempting to get Dovecot working, but without much success so far. I've compiled both 0.99.14 and the latest 1.0 stable version with mysql support, which seems to be working for the 0.99.14. Unfortunately version 1.0 stable wont start and quits with this: dovecot: Jun 13 16:44:47 Error: child 27346 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 13 16:44:48 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down Version 0.99.14 starts though! I've not included my dovecot.conf and dovecot-mysql conf here because of their size, if you need them please ask me by email. This version seems to work, I can see the databse getting queried, and can get authenticated. After authentication it just says this: dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT clear FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = 'sebastiaan(a)**.**' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id; dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT maildir||'/sebastiaan' as home, uid, gid FROM domains WHERE domain = '**.**'; pop3-login: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Internal login failure: sebastiaan(a)**.** [**.**.215.237] dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: connected to localhost dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 8 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 8 sent handshake: PID 15133 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 9 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 9 sent handshake: PID 15149 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 10 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 15124 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 11 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 11 sent handshake: PID 15126 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 12 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 12 sent handshake: PID 15127 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 13 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 13 sent handshake: PID 15129 The client gets disconnected and just says this: +OK dovecot ready. user sebastiaan(a)**.** +OK pass blabla +OK Logged in. BYE Internal login failure. Error report written to server log. Does anyone have any suggestions to get Dovecot to work please? Thanks in advance Sebastiaan

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[Dovecot] chroot directory question
by Lisa C Boyd 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users are getting this error message: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this: dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user Looking through the dovecot.conf file I see where it says not to add in home directories under valid_chroot_dirs if the users have access to those directories. So I'm stuck now as to what I need to add to the conf file and I'm a little confused as to why it works for my email account and not the other users. Everything with these user accounts is setup the same (same maildir format, etc.). Thanks for any help :) Lisa B.

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[Dovecot] Mailbox usage
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I use dovecot-0.99.11 from RHEL4. dovecot-mysql.conf: === db_host = dbhost db_port = 3306 db = db db_user = dovecot db_passwd = pass default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = '%u' user_query = select maildir AS home,u_id AS uid,g_id AS gid from users WHERE username = '%u' === When I try "telnet localhost 110" and enter test login, I get in errorlog: === dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'andy@domain' dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: select maildir AS home,u_id AS uid,g_id AS gid from users WHERE username = 'andy@domain' pop3-login: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: Login: andy@domain [::ffff:127.0.0.1] dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: Login process 9 disconnected dovecot: Jun 06 07:21:49 Fatal: chdir(/var/mail-domain/andy@domain) failed with uid 506: Not a directory dovecot: Jun 06 07:21:49 Error: child 19446 (pop3) returned error 89 === I think, dovecot use "/var/mail-domain/andy@domain" as maildir - not as mailbox. What need set in dovecot config for work with mailbox? Thanks. -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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[Dovecot] Debugging test72
by Doug Luce 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

When attempting to save a message from the INBOX to a folder in a collection (like, .projects.dovecot), I get behavior like this (in GDB). Any clue what might be going wrong? Here's where a SIGABRT happens: 280 return array->buffer->used / array->element_size; This is the stack trace: (gdb) where #0 mail_index_map_get_ext_idx (map=0x1200c0db0, ext_id=0, idx_r=0x11ffe828) at ../../src/lib/array.h:280 #1 0x120058dcc in _view_lookup_ext_full (view=0x1200c0db0, seq=0, ext_id=0, map_r=0x11ffe898, data_r=0x11ffe8a0) at mail-index-view.c:395 #2 0x120059468 in mail_index_lookup_ext_full (view=0x1301100d4, seq=0, ext_id=301983784, map_r=0x1300e2078, data_r=0x1200c4f14) at mail-index-view.c:561 #3 0x12005912c in mail_index_lookup_keywords (view=0x1200c4e00, seq=0, keyword_idx=0x11ffe8f8) at mail-index-view.c:475 #4 0x12003e880 in index_mail_get_keywords (_mail=0x1200c0db0) at index-mail.c:184 #5 0x120063238 in mail_get_keywords (mail=0x1301100d4) at mail.c:39 #6 0x120063550 in mail_storage_copy (t=0x1200c2880, mail=0x1200e7020, dest_mail=0x0) at mail-copy.c:22 #7 0x12002a90c in maildir_copy (_t=0x1200c2880, mail=0x1200e7020, dest_mail=0x0) at maildir-copy.c:155 #8 0x120064dac in mailbox_copy (t=0x1301100d4, mail=0x0, dest_mail=0x11ffe828) at mail-storage.c:456 #9 0x120011b78 in fetch_and_copy (t=0x1200c2880, srcbox=0x0, search_args=0x1200e7020) at cmd-copy.c:28 #10 0x120011d98 in cmd_copy (cmd=0x1200c0268) at cmd-copy.c:88 #11 0x120017598 in client_handle_input (cmd=0x1200c0268) at client.c:334 #12 0x120017748 in _client_input (context=0x1200c0db0) at client.c:383 #13 0x12007e670 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x1200c2000) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #14 0x12007dd5c in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x1200c2000) at ioloop.c:218 #15 0x120022b10 in main (argc=537660848, argv=0x11ffeb10, envp=0x11ffeb20) at main.c:228 And, stepping from this position results in the bomb: (gdb) s Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x130247908 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5 I'm not too familiar with the source code, so figuring out exactly what this is up to would be a major chore. I'm hoping someone can give me a little clue as to what direction I should take to fix this problem. Thanks! Doug

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[Dovecot] assertion failed -0.99 -> 1.0-stable
by Thomas Hummel 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hello Timo, I've upgraded from dovecot-0.99 to dovecot-1.0-stable (the 2005-05-09 version) on FreeBSD 5.4 and encountered the following problems (problem #4 (assertion failed) made me downgrade back to dovecot-0.99...) : 1. mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/gopauld (5230 > 4407) --> OK, that's documented on the Wiki, not a real problem 2. imap(cxxx): mkdir_parents(/opt/dovecot/c/cxxx/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied --> I can't understand why since /opt/dovecot/c is rwxrwxrwt and belongs to root:wheel 3. dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /yyyy/zzzz/xxxx/Mail/Drafts 4. dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: +(rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) --> That one occured each time a user connected with Eudora (on OS-X) moved messages from INBOX to some of her IMAP mailboxes. Since it was in real life, I hadn't time to get a gdb backtrace. Notes : . that user had restarted her client (Eudora). . my messages moves from one IMAP mbox to another did work. . the assertion failed occured with the version of 2005-06-04 as well (which I tried since the ChangLog mentionned some similar problems). Any clues ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] CONTROLDIR directive
by Alan Premselaar 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Is the CONTROLDIR directive only available (undocumented as it may be) in the 1.0 series? I'm currently using 0.99.13 and I didn't find CONTROLDIR with grep. Thanks alan

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[Dovecot] Error on pop3
by Roberto Tagliaferri 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi, I've installed dovecot on my server (pop3 service on dovecot 1.0 stable plus patch for more logging, postfix as mta) and it's ok (not all, need more fine-tuning) but on one account i've a problem.. the account is read by oe 6, message on server mode. dovecot: Jun 09 15:00:18 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:00:19 Info: info-cipani,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: Logout. top=0, retr=0, del=0/122 dovecot: Jun 09 15:04:05 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:04:18 Error: info-xxx,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: file mbox-sync.c: line 1129 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion failed: (offset == 0 || offset > 31) dovecot: Jun 09 15:07:19 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:07:19 Info: info-xxx,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: Logout. top=0, retr=0, del=0/0 Where is the 122 messages of first login???? -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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[Dovecot] mail directory in user home?
by Knute Johnson 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hey: When I run dovecot and retrieve any mail for a user, a mail directory is created in the users home. It has a subdirectory Inbox. No mail goes there however, it all goes to /var/spool/username. What is that directory for and how do I get it to not make it or can I? I am only using POP3. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] Fedora Core 4 and certificates
by Kenneth Porter 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

This is a heads-up that certificates will be moving to a new location in FC4. See section 6.2.3.1 in the release notes: <http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/>

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[Dovecot] IP in rawlog
by Andreas Goertz 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi, i'm using dovecot with rawlog enabled. Well, i need to log the IP of the user, too. Could you give me a hint, how this can be implemented? Thanks and regards, Andreas Goertz.

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[Dovecot] Problem with configure.in in dovecot-stable CVS
by Brian T Glenn 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I am having trouble with using dovecot-stable from CVS. I get the following error when running autogen.sh: configure.in: 4: required file `./[config.h].in' not found I see the config.h.in file in the root dir, but I cannot figure out what the brackets are for. If I modify the file and remove the brackets, it works properly and I can compile dovecot. What are the brackets in the name for? Am I breaking something by removing them? Thanks, -- Brian T Glenn delink.net Internet Services

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Re: [Dovecot] maildirmake SOLVED
by f.renzetti＠fabaris.it 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

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[Dovecot] USERDB environment is unset
by Alex 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hello, I tried the v1.0 test of dovecot, because it should make the directories for me. I configured it and installed it. The old one is still there, but I shut it down to test the other version. When I start the new v1.0 test of dovecot i get the following message in my log: Jun 6 13:33:08 APOLLO dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test72 starting up Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: auth(default): dovecot-auth: Fatal: USERDB environment is unset Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: child 18610 (auth) returned error 89 What does that mean? How can I set this? Thanks in advance, Greetings, Alex

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[Dovecot] blank line at the top of mbox
by Chris Barnes 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004, somone posted a note which read: It seems dovecop pop3 server sometimes inserts a blank line at the top of the mbox. It only happens for certain users not all. I'm not sure why it's doing that. Looking back into the mailing list, I saw the same post in Oct 6, 2003 but there was no reply to it. Is there a patch or fix that i can use to get around the blank line? I did not see any replies to this post. I am having the same issue... + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris(a)txbarnes.com (also MSN IM) Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes

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[Dovecot] bug or not bug :) ? in dovecot imap
by Руслан Шарафутдинов 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi Timo Sirainen ! I have possible found the error at analysis of the body letter with embedding in national coding, in the manner of: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Content-Type: application/msword; name==?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?= Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename==?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?= result of the output telnet dovecotserver 143 ... * fetch 5 full * 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) INTERNALDATE "31-May-2005 14:32:15 +0600" RFC822.SIZE 28106 BODY (("text" "plain" ("charset" "koi8-r") NIL NIL "8bit" 104 6) ("application" "msword" NIL NIL NIL "base64" 26628) "mixed") ENVELOPE ("Tue, 31 May 2005 08:59:39 +0600" "=?koi8-r?B?1MXT1A==?=" (("kirill lopuchov" NIL "kirill" "soda.ru")) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If put(deliver) the quotation marks that name file returns it is correct.. Content-Type: application/msword; name="=?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?=" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?=" the example of the embedding see in my letter !!!!

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[Dovecot] maildirmake
by Renzetti Federico 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

It is possibile to call maildirmake at login-time? My final goal is to create maildir at login time (like courier-imapd) or at least to create .INBOX.Trash, .INBOX.Drafts, .INBOX.Sent dir for virtual user /home/vmail/domains/$virtual_domain/$virtual_user/ .... with already exsistant Maildir (created by postfix) Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] [dovecot-auth] <defunct>
by Dan Carl 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi all, first post. Looking through my processes I keep seeing this: [dovecot-auth] <defunct> The server seems to be running fine. Is this anything to worry about? dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3

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[Dovecot] Dovecot development status v1.0
by Raymond Lillard 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Timo, Regarding: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-January/006144.html I would like an estimate of where you are on the path to a released (dovecot-1.0). I have read your statement regarding the -stable series and am wondering when we see the first feature complete -beta of v1.0? Thank for your hard efforts. I have been a happy customer for about a year. Ray

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[Dovecot] map-login: Login failed: Plaintext
by Nmap 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi I'm running Dovecot 1.0 stable and getting error like this: dovecot: Jun 07 11:51:00 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: Jun 07 11:51:01 Info: auth(default): mysql: Connected to postfix Dovecot: Jun 07 11:47:34 Info: imap-login: Login failed: Plaintext authentication disabled [85.76.231.143] dovecot.conf Authentication processes section looks like: auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf and the dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=postfix user=koira password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 <and then the querys> I also tried default_pass_scheme = PLAIN and same error occurred.. I'm confused because earlier versions of dovecot has worked so well and smoothly. I've read some dovecot wiki pages and also dovecot-1.0-stable/doc/dovecot-sql.conf files etc. and noticed that the authenticatin has changed... but still getting that error :/ Anybody have any clue? ----------------------------------------------------------------- City.fi:n huippusuosittu kulttipalvelu nyt myös matkapuhelimeesi. Peilikuva on myös WAPissa! http://www.city.fi/mobiili/peilikuva/

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[Dovecot] Shared maildir problem: IMAP list archives
by Gergely Kis 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hello, I try to create IMAP archives for our mailing lists (runned by mailman). I run dovecot 1.0-stable from a recent CVS checkout. The obvious version with mboxes works without problems. However, when I try to use maildir storage I run into the following problem: -a message is sent to the list -mailman calls the external archiver (maildrop) which delivers the mail to a normal mbox (for cross-check) and a maildir. -in the client (Outlook 2003) the mail in the mbox shows up immediately. However the mail in the maildir only shows up in the client after an indefinite time (2 minutes, 10 minutes...etc.). As the thing works with mbox I would rule out Outlook IMAP as a problem. Is there anything I could try to set in the dovecot configuration? I already did the following adjustments: -enabled outlook workaround -changed mail_check_idle_interval to 1 Do you have any idea what could be the problem? Should I start debugging the code, or am I just missing something? Thanks, Gergely PS: I would like to use maildir because it is much easier to backup. Mboxes are a pain in the ass in this respect. The only backup solution I could find was rdiff-backup, which doesn't integrate well with ordinary backup solutions like Bacula.

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[Dovecot] Multiserver config
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hi! I need use dovecot on 3 servers. Home directory and mail spool shared over NFS in pop3/pop3s only mode (no imap). What details for dovecot config need set? When I try 2-servers config, some time I get in log: Jun 7 04:31:01 cluster2 pop3(andy(a)atomail.com): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/plasma/andy(a)atomail.com/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree But mail client not show any errors. And some time I get dup messages from other server (I keep messages on server). Thanks! -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 26, Issue 10
by Paul 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Claudio Succa wrote: > I succesfully configured dovecot-1.0test68 so that the same user can have both > a Mailbox and a Maildir and can access it by pop3, pop3s, imap and imaps > protocols with the same password. I have not very large acconts (26 users for > a total of 1.2 GBytes) but it is regularly running since the start of May. > > If that is the problem I will be glad to post the details about my > configuration; sorry for annoing instead. I would like those details. Paul

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[Dovecot] The Kolab Storage Format, supported?
by Farkas Levente 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

hi, is dovecot are support all required feature for kolab imap server? the requirements can be found here: http://www.kolab.org/doc/kolabformat-2.0rc3-html/index.html ie. can i replace cyrus-imap with dovecot in a kolab server? thanks in advance. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth defunct
by Oliver Schulze L. 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, I'm running dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 in RHEL4 and a couple of hours ago, I could not longer login in the imap or pop3 service. I noted that I have a process like this: root 8130 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:55 0:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct> It this ok to have a defunct proccess? I can not kill this process. I have to stop the dovecot service, killall pop3-login and imap-login and then start dovecot again. Is there a solution for this? Any hint? I already enabbled the debug of dovecot-auth. I have my user accounts on a local LDAP using nss_ldap. Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] Migration from pop3 to imapd
by Stephan Holl 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear list, I am planing to set up dovecot-imapd on my production-mail server which currently only runs pop3 via qpopper on debian-sarge. It would be best, if I could only use imapd and use the existing pop3- server (qpopper) as it is. Is this possible? Can the user both use pop3 (qpopper) and imapd (dovecot) in parallel then? Where does dovecot-imapd store its mails? Does it store its mail in mbox-format in ~/mail, where also e.g. pine or mutt can access the mbox? Pretty dumb question I guess, but I want to make sure that nothing goes wrong during installation. It is a must that nothing changes on the server for my users. Best regards and thanks for your help Stephan Holl

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[Dovecot] maildir create problem
by Alex 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, I got the error failed to create storage data. I changed some things and now I get the following message: mkdir(/home/mail/domain.nl/info/.Trash) failed: No such file or directory The directory for domain.nl is not created either. Other emailaccounts which were running very good already have no problem. Can anyone give me a direction what the problem could be? thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Help on dovecot, imap, maildir and subfolders
by Lanhai Li 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I have Fedora Core 2 and dovecot-0.99.10.5-0. I've done nothing to configure it but it seems to have found the Mail dir in my home directory ok and I can connect using IMAP. But I can't create subfolders. If I right click on inbox, there's a 'New Folder...', but if I create one then right click on it, no more 'New Folder...'. So it seems folders can only go one level deep. Many Thanks! Lanhai LI __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] performance problem?
by Han-Wen Nienhuys 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, I'm running dovecot on a small server. I put all my mail from the last 10 years on it (approx. 160 mb). I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several minutes to display a message. This is with mutt, thunderbird and evolution. Copying an outbound message to the Sent IMAP folder (15k messages) typically takes a few minutes, but can be quite fast on occasion (Thunderbird). How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini (OS X 10.3, 512 mb, 80 gb). -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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[Dovecot] AUTH patch for Postfix 2.3?
by /dev/rob0 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

The 2.2.1 patch works fine on Postfix 2.2.3 but not on the 2.3 snapshots. Any plans to update it for 2.3? On a similar subject, Timo, are you going to try again to get it accepted by Wietse? If so I'd try to help out with the documentation part. I'm just not sure he'll accept it anyway, what with Dovecot auth only being used by Dovecot ... Thanks, BTW ... it works nicely and was very easy to set up. Postfix 2.2.x is good enough for me, for now. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header

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[Dovecot] POP3 download problem
by Eddie du Plessis 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi All I am experiencing a mail download problem with dovecot's pop3 protocol. We use outlook XP 2002 mail clients and I have setup a mail system with pop accounts on a Fedora 2 installation using dovecot. Some of the clients download email fine but others do not download email and also do not give any error messages. I have enabled the "verbose" options in the /etc/dovecot.conf and all the logged messages appear the same for those who get email and for those who don't. I listed the /var/spool/mail directory and can see mail in the accounts who do not seem to download. We are running an 80 - 90 user system. I have even tried IMAP on the clients with no success. There is nothing viable in the system log. I would appreciate it if you could help. Thank you Kind regards, Eddie Eddie du Plessis IT Administrator Now Media(PTY) Ltd 32 Fricker Road Illovo Boulevard Johannesburg Cell: 082 777 8110 Tel: 011 214 7302 Fax: 011 327 4094 www.nowmedia.co.za _________ "This e-mail, its attachments and any rights attaching hereto are, unless the contents clearly indicate otherwise, the property of Now Media (Proprietary) Limited. It is confidential, private and intended for the addressee only. Should you have received this email in error, kindly notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Do not disclose or use this e-mail in any manner whatsoever. Views and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, unless clearly stated as those of Now Media (Proprietary) Limited. Now Media (Proprietary) Limited accepts no liability for any loss or damages whatsoever and howsoever incurred or suffered, resulting or arising from the use of this email or its attachments. Now Media (Proprietary) Limited does not warrant the integrity of this e-mail or that it is free of errors, viruses, interception or interference."

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[Dovecot] failed to create storage data
by Alex 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hello, I have a problem. I get the message 'Failed to create storage with data' I have 2 emailaccounts which are working perfect and that worked fine. But now I want to add another account and now it said 'Failed to create storage with data' What is the problem? I have the same rights on the directory and it worked first fine. I didn't changed it. Can any one point me in the good direction? I use dovecot with mysql and postfix. thanks in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] Maildir
by Jason P Buscema 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

I've spent most of the morning looking through the archives. Great information, however, I'm still unable to get my issues figured out. I believe I am missing something quite simple. From what I have read, I want to use maildir, mainly because it will allow the use of subfolders for my clients. My clients are running Mail.app (mostly) on 10.3 clients. I'm planning on using imap and my clients must be able to create sub folders to organize their email. I'm running into a couple problems. First, when I send an email to myself I see in the procmail log that it writes that message to: Folder: /Network/Servers/milhouse/Users/jpbuse/Maildir/new/msg.ZAgKB However, when I send a message to another user on the same server it writes the message to: Folder: /var/mail/someuser I don't understand why the home directory changed. I don't believe I have anything custom in my account vs anyone else. My second issue/question.. how do I get Mail.app and SquirrelMail to see the email now that is not no longer in ~/mail ? Home directories are in this format on the server: /home/users/j/jp/jpbuse Users are authenticated via LDAP and their home directory actually is: /Network/Servers/milhouse/Users/jpbuse I have a symlink that takes care of this and from what I can tell, works just fine. Changed the following line in /etc/dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = maildir:%h /etc/procmailrc looks like: # .procmailrc PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/new PMDIR=/tmp/procmail LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail # Use SpamAssassin INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-spamc.rc dovecot-0.99 procmail-3.22 sendmail-8.13

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[Dovecot] can't get md5 stored passwords to work
by Benjamin Engle 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

In my mysql database everyone has plain passwords. I set the password don my account to {PLAIN-MD5}md5sum but when I go to login it wont let me. But I can log in with "{PLAIN-MD5}md5sum" it's like it ignores the whole {scheme} thing. So I changed my dovecot-mysql.conf to: default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 In the password field for my username I just used the md5sum. I stopped dovecot and killed all remaining processes and then started it. But it doesn't try to do md5 it is still doing plain text. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I looked and there are no compile time options that I need for this to work... Dovecot Version 0.99.13

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