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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 15 Jun '05

15 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 14 Jun '05

14 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 09 Jun '05

09 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 06 Jun '05

06 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 06 Jun '05

06 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 06 Jun '05

06 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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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf %d problem
by Martins 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, I have got a problem ir dovecod.conf. I would like to use %d in default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u/Maildir but %d seems to be empty. I need it for Postfix virtual domains. If I use default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/DOMAIN.ORG/%u/Maildir mail folders could be accessed. I wonder, where Postfix virtual domains need to be passed to Dovecot? more config info: auth_userdb = static uid=100 gid=100 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/pass Thanks in advance, M.

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[Dovecot] SSL Certificate Chain Support
by Matthew P. Cox 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Greetings. I was wondering if there were any plans to add support for an SSL certificate chain file? This is useful to provide a valid certificate chain for lower cost signing authorities. I'm afraid that I'm not 100% positive of the implementation requirements. Although it does seem that OpenSSL supports this concept. I am aware that Apache HTTPD (via mod_ssl) and Courier-IMAP offer support for this feature. Here's a link to information from the Apache HTTPD manual: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslcertificatechainfile Thank you for the continued development of a great project. Matt

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 26, Issue 5
by Han-Wen Nienhuys 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: >Am Samstag, 4. Juni 2005 01:31 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > >>> I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several> > >(...) > >>> How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini >> (OS X 10.3, 512 mb, 80 gb). > >mbox or maildir? Maildir. Listing or opening the directory via the OS is rather slow, btw, maagd:~/Maildir/.sent$ time du 220240 ./cur 0 ./new 0 ./tmp 234776 . real 1m35.207s user 0m0.060s sys 0m1.850s maagd:~/Maildir/.sent$ >I'm using an Am486DX4-100 with 64 MB to serve my personal mail. (about >650 >MB distributed over about 100 imap folders) indeed, so 160 mb on a beefier machine shouldn't be a problem. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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[Dovecot] pam mysql authentication
by radus＠smartpost.ro 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hello I am trying to use pam to authenticate dovecot again a mysql database. In /etc/pam.d/dovecot i have: auth optional pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 account required pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 I have the same file for smtp and it works ok. However when i try to log in dovecot i get: Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: is Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: NULL Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: and Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: deleted Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: = Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: ''" Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"disabled)' at line 1 I am running dovecot 0.99.14 Thanks, Radu

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[Dovecot] Crash and Assertion Error
by Todd Burroughs 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

I've attached two backtraces, one from a segfault and another from an assertion error in imap. I've seen a couple of the same assertion and this is the only segfault. It looks like they could be related. They both have to do with indexing anyway... The code is from CVS as of May 30. The segfault happened while imap was doing searches for my pine filters. I've also noticed that in pine, if I expunge a lot of mail that is spaced out through my mbox, it usually gets the headers mixed up. What I mean is that I will open one email and get the body from another. Just mentioning this in case it has some bearing. I'll be trying some things out to see if I can figure out why this happens. Can't think of any more useful info, I need sleep. Todd

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[Dovecot] pam mysql authentication
by radus＠smartpost.ro 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hello I am trying to use pam to authenticate dovecot again a mysql database. In /etc/pam.d/dovecot i have: auth optional pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 account required pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 I have the same file for smtp and it works ok. However when i try to log in dovecot i get: Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: is Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: NULL Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: and Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: deleted Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: = Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: ''" Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"disabled)' at line 1 I am running dovecot 0.99.14 Thanks, Radu

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test72
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ I'm not sure if this was test71-specific or if it also happened with test70, but anyway IMAP process was hanging in some situations (I think POP3 hang was fixed though? :). So, fixed that.

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[Dovecot] Virtual users with sendmail ...
by Jordan Hayes 31 May '05

31 May '05

A quick search of the Wiki for the term "sendmail" reveals zero hits. Are all Dovecot users just sufficiently enlightened that they don't use sendmail? :-) Anyone have any tips (other than to not use it)? Thanks, /jordan

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[Dovecot] Script to convert mboxes to maildirs?
by Mark Winslow 31 May '05

31 May '05

Does anybody know of a script of a simple method of converting mbox mail stores to maildirs? I'm moving from an old pop3 system to imap and after installing about half our office with mboxes have found that mbox does not support subfolders which some people like to use. Is there any simple way of converting? I can go to each individual account and "manually" convert swaping data around with Firefox, but I was wondering if there was an easier way. Thanks. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth process died because of Socket operation on non-socket
by Nicolas STRANSKY 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi, I'm having problems setting up a dovecot1.0 stable on a Debian-amd64 server. The process dies with the following message: May 28 15:13:46 rouge dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Socket operation on non-socket May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Socket operation on non-socket May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: auth(default): accept() failed: Socket operation on non-socket May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: child 15116 (auth) returned error 89 May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: child 15117 (login) returned error 89 May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: child 15118 (login) returned error 89 Attached is the strace of the dovecot process, I don't know if this is relevant but I can provide any needed information. The config file is like this: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/pop-imap-zamok.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/pop-imap-zamok.pem disable_plaintext_auth = no login_processes_count = 6 mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam userdb = passwd user = root } Can anybody help me with this issue ? Thank's in advance ! -- Nico Une pierre, deux maisons, trois ruines, quatre fossoyeurs, un jardin, des fleurs, un raton-laveur... -+- Jacques Prévert -+-

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[Dovecot] creating first.last@domain.com as user account
by sam wun 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, Can I create first.las(a)domain.com user account using Dovecot? Sam

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[Dovecot] How to create user account
by sam wun 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi list, I just installed Dovecot and Postfix in FreeBSD 5.4 without installing Openldap. How can I create user account for Dovecot? I compiled Dovecot with Cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd in the system. Thanks Sam

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test71
by Timo Sirainen 28 May '05

28 May '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Nothing big this time: - Added configurable logging for login process. Added configurable pop3 logout string. Based on a patch by Andrey Panin. - mysql auth: dovecot-auth worker processed kill themselves after 10min idle time - fixed auth_cache crashing with sql/ldap backends (or was it only with mysql?) - fixed pop3 hang (finally I hope? :) - fixed mbox assert-crash about the file size being unexpected - Keyword resets were written using sequences to transaction log, which caused keyword breakages. - pop3: RSET command wasn't working right - dovecot-auth was leaking memory if used with Dovecot LDA/deliver

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[Dovecot] Filenames and flags
by Jon 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, Does anyone know how the filnames as created and/or if you can read a mail's flag or status from it? 1 .As you can set i.e. "ToDo" label on a message and then if I open from another thunderbird I can see it is marked there aswell I wonder: Is this read from the filename or some registry? 2 .Can I understand from a filename if a message is read? 3. Sometimes when I try to filter with flags no messages show. Is this a thunderbird bug or a dovecot one, or one in conjunction? Best regards -Jon

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[Dovecot] imaps tls/ssl and stupid clients
by Michael Moritz 28 May '05

28 May '05

We have been using dovecot now as replacement for qpopper for over 2 weeks and it's working nicely. I have now tried to enable ssl/tls for myself and other inhouse users which also works fine. But the problem is that I use an uncertified certificate. Which is not a problem for kmail, as it just pops up a box asking whether I want to accept the certificate or not. But apparently, some stupid email programs used by other people just hang up on an uncertified certificate. I have figured out that ssl_disable = yes is the critical setting. If it's set everything works, if not, then all services allow tls/ssl and the stupid clients choke on it. Since others just use pop3 I wonder whether there is a way I can disable tls support for pop3 but enable it for imap or even only for imaps? Any ideas or am I starting from the wrong side? Thanks and regards, mimo

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[Dovecot] Excessive dovecot-auth proceses
by Andrew Hutchings 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi Guys, I may have missed something in the conf file but while using a standard mysql auth method I'm finding many dovecot-auth processing sitting doing nothing. They grow to the extent that mysql runs out of connections after a week. Any ideas? Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) Linux Guru - Netserve Consultants Ltd. - www.domaincity.co.uk Admin - North Wales Linux User Group - www.nwlug.org.uk BOFH excuse 423: It's not RFC-822 compliant.

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[Dovecot] Assertion Failure in mbox-sync.c
by Todd Burroughs 28 May '05

28 May '05

I've been getting a few of these errors on a couple different mboxes. This is using the CVS version as of May 14. So far, these are the only errors and it looks like most/all of the older ones are gone. (maybe I shouldn't say that ;-) dovecot: May 16 17:41:07 Error: 20973 IMAP(todd.bluegenesis.com): file mbox-sync.c: line 1165 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion failed: (file_size >= sync_ctx->file_input->v_offset) dovecot: May 16 17:41:10 Error: child 20973 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff518 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x000051ed in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809911a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x51ed <Address 0x51ed out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x08099534 in i_panic ( format=0x80a5ccc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x0806ef4b in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c3ba8, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1165 index_sync_ctx = Variable "index_sync_ctx" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff518 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x000051ed in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809911a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x51ed <Address 0x51ed out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x08099534 in i_panic ( format=0x80a5ccc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x0806ef4b in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c3ba8, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1165 #9 0x08068891 in mbox_transaction_commit (_t=0x80cf430, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-transaction.c:56 #10 0x0808d333 in mailbox_transaction_commit (t=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:418 #11 0x08058b56 in cmd_store (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-store.c:122 #12 0x08059685 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #13 0x0809e5da in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #14 0x0809dcf9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #15 0x08060587 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:228 I'm not sure about the variables here, the core file's still here if any other info will help: (gdb) p sync_ctx->input->real_stream->statbuf $5 = {st_dev = 0, __pad1 = 0, __st_ino = 0, st_mode = 0, st_nlink = 0, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, st_rdev = 0, __pad2 = 0, st_size = 4294967295, st_blksize = 0, st_blocks = 0, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1116279667, tv_nsec = 0}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1116279667, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ctim = { tv_sec = 1116279667, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ino = 0} (gdb) p sync_ctx->file_input->v_offset $8 = 142294527 The mbox size is larger than 142294527 I did notice this, but I'm not sure if I'm looking at the correct variable and don't think the size is large enough to matter, anyway. (gdb) pt sync_ctx->input->real_stream->statbuf->st_size type = long long int (gdb) pt sync_ctx->file_input->v_offset type = long long unsigned int Todd

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[Dovecot] Plain Text Auth
by Adam Barrett 28 May '05

28 May '05

I dont know where I went wrong, I have got the Dovecot finally looking for an auth, but it doesnt accept my passwords. Let me know what you need to see and I will post it... THanks! -- Adam Barrett dragen(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Migrating Dovecot 0.99 to 1.0stable
by Nicolas STRANSKY 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, I'm planing to move a big mail server currently under Dovecot 0.99 to Dovecot 1.0 stable. One problem I had once when doing this was that all the UIDL had to change and that all users using pop3 and leaving their messages on the server had to re-download all of them, which is annoying. I'd like to know to the UIDL really have to change when migrating from 0.99 to 1.0stable or if this was a configuration problem on my side. Are there any tips for this to be as transparent as possible for the users ? Thank you. -- Nico L'idée que la science peut et doit être organisée selon des règles à la fois fixes et universelles est utopique et pernicieuse. -+- Paul Feyerabend -+-

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test70
by Timo Sirainen 28 May '05

28 May '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ - vpopmail authentication fix - many mmap_disable=yes fixes and a few optimizations - pop3 hang fix - mbox fix for "last-uid lost" error (hopefully last one) - mbox fix for losing dirty flag, causing lost message flags mmap_disable=yes seems to be finally working pretty well. There should be no more cache file related errors with it enabled. I'm still seeing "UID inserted in the middle of mailbox" error a couple of times in hour (out of ~320000 logins/h), so mbox code is still not perfect but I'd think it's good enough for normal use :)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot as an email proxy
by sam wun 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi list, I m new to Dovecot. I have installed the software in freebsd 5.4 and I m wondering how to setup up a mail proxy gateway that consist of Dovecot, postfix(or qmail), ASSP, Clamav in a box? I m very apprecate for every suggestion. Thanks Sam

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[Dovecot] Transaction log file issue on dovecot-stable
by John and Catherine Allen 28 May '05

28 May '05

Situation: dovecot-stable-20050528 on x86, Linux 2.4.30, ext3, maildir I'm trying to use the imapsync utility (http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/) to copy 1500 messages from a UW-imap server to dovecot. After about 100 messages are successfully appended, I'm seeing this in the server log, following which all APPENDs fail. May 28 09:01:06 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): utime(/home/allen/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock) failed: No such file or directory May 28 09:01:06 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Our dotlock file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock was deleted May 28 09:01:06 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Corrupted transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 3718, but next_uid = 3719 May 28 09:01:06 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 6 May 28 09:01:07 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 6 May 28 09:01:07 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Corrupted transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 3718, but next_uid = 3719 John -- John Allen Bofferdange, Luxembourg allen(a)vo.lu http://www.homepages.lu/allen

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Re: [Dovecot] imap disconnects on my account only
by Mitch Pirtle 28 May '05

28 May '05

Whups, reply-to went to the poster :-/ On 5/27/05, Chris Wakelin <c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk> wrote: > Just a guess, but have you changed your /etc/groups (or equivalent) file > today? I'm not a Fedora expert (or dovecot-0.99), though. I think it's > more likely to be a change in the user/group databases than a change in > Dovecot. I have added myself to another group (for a website directory) but have not changed my default group or anything like that. -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] imap disconnects on my account only
by Mitch Pirtle 28 May '05

28 May '05

Talk about personal problems! I am using dovecot-0.99.13-4.FC2, and everything has been going fine for months. Earlier this afternoon, Thunderbird's status pane would say 'Sending authenticate login information...' and I would no longer receive email. When I checked with others, they were fine and dandy. I tried kmail, evolution, and even tried webmail. All had connection errors. Checking the logs I can see the following: May 27 14:07:58 mongo imap-login: Login: mitchy [162.84.141.200] May 27 14:07:58 mongo imap(mitchy): getgroups() failed: Invalid argument May 27 14:07:58 mongo dovecot: child 3264 (imap) returned error 89 I can see new messages in $Maildir, so it is all about authentication, which I am completely clueless about as it has been working for as long as I have had this server. What steps can I take to debug the situation? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] Index corruption
by Dan Sully 27 May '05

27 May '05

I've been seeing this in my log (test69) for a user who has Thunderbird as a client: Error: IMAP(andrew): Corrupted index file /home/a/andrew/Maildir/dovecot.index: header doesn't end with NUL Thoughts? -D -- <dr.pox> what're the units of the coefficient of agnosticity? I don't knows per hour?

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[Dovecot] Inquiring about status of version 1.x
by Jean-Daniel Beaubien 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi, I've been running dovecot for awhile (about 18 months now) and I am very happy with it. I am currently planning an upgrade for the office server and I am wondering how is 1.0 going? Is it stable enough for production? I read a thread in the list from may 5th talking about the stability, and it seemed pretty decent. Anyways just looking for a bit of feedback on the evolution of 1.0 Thanks, Jean-Daniel

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Re: Core dumps when opening an IMAP folder (Was: Re: [Dovecot] 1.0-test70)
by Tero Ripattila 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hello Timo, I can reproduce this issue even with mmap_disable and mmap_no_write set to yes, please see the following back trace: $ gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap /tmp/imap.core GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd3.6"... Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.34.2 Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.so #0 0x1c03d7f2 in mail_transaction_log_view_set (view=0x3c020500, min_file_seq=8, min_file_offset=7148, max_file_seq=8, max_file_offset=7148, type_mask=8) at mail-transaction-log-view.c:102 102 if (min_file_seq == view->log->tail->hdr.prev_file_seq && (gdb) #0 0x1c03d7f2 in mail_transaction_log_view_set (view=0x3c020500, min_file_seq=8, min_file_offset=7148, max_file_seq=8, max_file_offset=7148, type_mask=8) at mail-transaction-log-view.c:102 file = (struct mail_transaction_log_file *) 0x2b1dbec8 first = (struct mail_transaction_log_file *) 0xb21b372 seq = 0 end_offset = 4324021345303134216 ret = 3932679 #1 0x1c03a17a in view_sync_get_expunges (view=0x3c01f700, expunges_r=0xcfbf97d0) at mail-index-view-sync.c:105 hdr = (const struct mail_transaction_header *) 0xe4e1c00 src = (struct mail_transaction_expunge *) 0xff src_end = (struct mail_transaction_expunge *) 0x3c011020 dest = (struct mail_transaction_expunge *) 0x0 data = (const void *) 0x23ee00 count = 1117130127 ret = 8 #2 0x1c03a366 in mail_index_view_sync_begin (view=0x3c01f700, sync_mask=255, ctx_r=0x8) at mail-index-view-sync.c:176 hdr = (const struct mail_index_header *) 0x3c01f804 ctx = (struct mail_index_view_sync_ctx *) 0x1c039b4d map = (struct mail_index_map *) 0xff mask = 8 want_mask = 0 expunges = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0} #3 0x1c02d6cd in index_mailbox_sync_init (box=0x3c01e840, flags=0, failed=0) at index-sync.c:150 ctx = (struct index_mailbox_sync_context *) 0x3c011020 sync_mask = 1006764673 #4 0x1c019b25 in maildir_storage_sync_init (box=0x3c01e840, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FAST) at maildir-sync.c:991 ctx = (struct maildir_sync_context *) 0x3c0139b0 ret = 0 #5 0x1c040fc4 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x8, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FAST) at mail-storage.c:333 No locals. #6 0x1c015150 in imap_sync_init (client=0x3c020000, box=0x3c01e840, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FAST) at imap-sync.c:43 ctx = (struct imap_sync_context *) 0x3c01d1c0 #7 0x1c01554f in cmd_sync (cmd=0x3c020040, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FAST, tagline=0x3c00056f "OK Search completed.") at imap-sync.c:210 ctx = (struct cmd_sync_context *) 0x3c0230a0 #8 0x1c00eb66 in cmd_search (cmd=0x3c020040) at cmd-search.c:102 client = (struct client *) 0x3c020000 sargs = (struct mail_search_arg *) 0x8 args = (struct imap_arg *) 0x3c021048 args_count = 8 error = 0x0 charset = 0x0 #9 0x1c00fa7d in cmd_uid (cmd=0x3c020040) at cmd-uid.c:19 cmd_name = 0x3c0210f8 "SEARCH" #10 0x1c01023b in client_handle_input (cmd=0x3c020040) at client.c:334 client = (struct client *) 0x3c020000 #11 0x1c010369 in _client_input (context=0x3c020000) at client.c:383 client = (struct client *) 0x3c020000 cmd = (struct client_command_context *) 0x3c020040 #12 0x1c050a68 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x3c01d000) at ioloop-poll.c:184 data = (struct ioloop_handler_data *) 0x3c0110a0 pollfd = (struct pollfd *) 0x3c01e000 tv = {tv_sec = 7, tv_usec = 9219} io = (struct io *) 0x3c0111c0 t_id = 2 msecs = 8 ret = 0 call = 1 #13 0x1c050505 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x3c01d000) at ioloop.c:218 No locals. #14 0x1c016d37 in main (argc=3, argv=0xcfbf9a3c, envp=0xcfbf9a4c) at main.c:228 No locals. (gdb) Any suggestions how to fix these ongoing problems? Thanks, Tero -- Tero Ripattila

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[Dovecot] IMAP Memory Error
by John McAree 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, I recently upgraded dovecot on an OpenBSD server from the 0.99.x series to the 1.0-test series to eliminate a problem. That was fixed, however I am now experiencing issues with IMAP(S) connections. The main IMAPS use to the server is via Squirrelmail (many users login with it), however I typically use Thunderbird. The user mailboxes are stored in Maildir format. Basically, moving, deleting or copying mails tends not to work. I have managed to move mails in Thunderbird if the source mailbox is small, and deleting mails usually works in Thunderbird. However, in Squirrelmail deleting or moving results in: "ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: COPY 5629 "<dest-mailbox>" /var/log/maillog reports: May 24 23:19:03 orca dovecot: IMAP(jmcaree): pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory The Out of memory error appears when moving mails with Thunderbird, also. I had originally upgraded to dovecot1.0-test66 via a patch supplied by an OpenBSD porter. Today I decided to compile -test70 to see if it was any better. Unfortunately, this issue still exists. I tried upgrading Squirrelmail to the latest (1.4.4 from 1.4.3a), but no luck there. Since it's happening with both it and Thunderbird, though, I don't see it being a client issue. Server is: # uname -a OpenBSD my.hostname.com 3.7 GENERIC.RAID#0 amd64 I'd appreciate any assistance or advice on this issue! Obviously, I'd prefer to not have to downgrade to the 0.99.x series. :-) I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me with any replies. TIA, John.

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[Dovecot] Auth Issue
by Adam Barrett 25 May '05

25 May '05

I am so confused. Can someone help me out here? I have set it up so that it is to accept login via PLAIN TEXT. I am using Thunderbird to connect, and it will ask for my password (the username is already in the system) I get a pop-up for Enter the password for Username on Domain.com I enter my password (the same I would use to login to FTP) and it fails. Any thoughts? -- Adam Barrett dragen(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Simply can't figure it out
by Gaby vanhegan 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi, I'm having a hideous problem trying to get the latest stable version to work. I've had no success and simply can't pinpoint the problem. Sorry for the rather long email but I've included as many details as I can to help here. I've been trying to install the latest stable version (as of 23rd May 2005) by downloading the tarball from the site to my OpenBSD 3.6 box, and building with these arguments: # ./configure --localstatedir=/var --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --without-vpopmail - -without-pam --without-shadow Which builds fine. Here are some files from the installation folder: http://vanhegan.net/dovecot/config.log http://vanhegan.net/dovecot/config.status Here's my configuration file. I only really want to server imaps, but I've turned on imap for debuggering purposes: http://vanhegan.net/dovecot/dovecot.conf And it's running from my inetd.conf: # Dovecot IMAP services 144 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login imap-login --group=default/imap imaps stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login imap-login --group=default/imap --ssl (I'm running on port 144 to not clash with the existing IMAP service on port 143). Now, no matter what I try, I simply can't make it login, or start the process: (restart inetd, dovecot, check they're dead) bash-3.00# kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` bash-3.00# kill -TERM `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` bash-3.00# ps auwx | grep dove root 828 0.0 0.1 84 456 p2 S+ 8:39PM 0:00.01 grep dove bash-3.00# /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login --group=default/imap F/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login can be started only through dovecot master process, inetd or equilevant (start dovecot, check it's running, error expected, other imap server already running) bash-3.00# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use bash-3.00# ps auwx | grep dove root 14041 0.0 0.3 212 1012 ?? Ss 8:39PM 0:00.06 dovecot root 3496 0.0 0.2 276 608 ?? S 8:39PM 0:00.02 dovecot-auth root 10928 0.0 0.1 104 456 p2 S+ 8:40PM 0:00.01 grep dove (try and login) bash-3.00# /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login --group=default/imap Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master bash-3.00# tail /var/log/dovecot dovecot: May 23 20:34:19 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:35:06 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:00 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:04 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:38:57 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: May 23 20:39:39 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: May 23 20:40:25 Error: login: Unknown protocol 'imap?W' (try an SSL login) bash-3.00# openssl s_client -connect localhost:993 CONNECTED(00000004) 24195:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:/usr/src/lib/libssl/ssl/../src/ssl/s23_clnt.c:475: bash-3.00# tail /var/log/dovecot dovecot: May 23 20:35:06 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:00 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:04 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:38:57 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: May 23 20:39:39 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: May 23 20:40:25 Error: login: Unknown protocol 'imap?W' dovecot: May 23 20:44:20 Error: login: Unknown protocol 'imap?W' HELP PLEASE!!! I've scoured t'internet and the closest I can find is this: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-February/006284.html Which got me past the "missing protocol from server" problem but hasn't got anywhere. I've since fallen back to the version in ports from OpenBSD 3.6 but really want to get this going. Any ideas? Gaby -- Junkets for bunterish lickspittles since 1998! gaby(a)vanhegan.net http://weblog.vanhegan.net

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[Dovecot] Newbie-ish Questions
by Joe Dauncey 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi, I'm in the process of migrating from local Maildir, to IMAP-enabled Maildir (terms are made up by me). I have my Maildir directories all under $HOME/Mail I have a procmail script that sorts everything into different folders under $HOME/Mail, and leaves the rest in a Maildir folder chosen by me, that I think of as my INBOX. Now, I am assuming that the folder I identify as INBOX is the one that a client will interpret as the INBOX? I really want the INBOX to be one of the folders under $HOME/Mail, but at the moment dovecot only will only consider the folder $HOME/Mail as the INBOX, so I have to send my 'inbox' mail to $HOME/Mail, rather than what I would prefer, which would be $HOME/Mail/INBOX (or something like that). The seting I have in dovecot.conf is: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail Is this is the only way, or am I doing something wrong? Should I be using default_mail_env to define the inbox? e.g. with: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail:INBOX=INBOX (or whatever my inbox mail folder name is) Maybe I've just got my Maildir folder set up completely wrong, and I'm supposed to accept the Maildir folder itself as the inbox? If so, please just send me on my way ;-) Also, since I don't know much about IMAP, where can I find out what the .subscriptions file is, and what it does, and also all the other files created by dovecot, like the .imap files and the .customflags Thanks, Joe -- Joe Dauncey

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[Dovecot] Read-only mail folders
by Chris Wakelin 24 May '05

24 May '05

Is it possible to have folders on read-only partitions in Dovecot 1.0-stable? We have a NetApp fileserver which would probably be accessed via NFS (though iSCSI is possible) and which stores readonly "snapshots" of every directory accessible as .snapshot (but usually hidden from the operating system). It would be very nice to set up a "snapshot" namespace something like :- namespace public { separator = / prefix = "#snapshot/" location = maildir:%h/Maildir/.snapshot/nightly.0 hidden = yes } so that users could recover messages from say yesterday's version of their mailbox. Unfortunately, Dovecot always seems to want to write to the directory, even when indexes are stored elsewhere (as recommended with NFS anyway, I think) using INDEX=whatever in the location line. 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] problem with an howto from the wiki.
by kramer＠freemail.it 24 May '05

24 May '05

hello, i'm reading and trying to configuring my mailserver following this howto on the dovecot wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql but i got always this problem: ERROR: permesso negato per la relazione postfix_virtual in english is "permission denied for the relation postfix_virtual". I dont know where the problem is, but if i send an email from localhost all works good, the problem appear when i try to test my mailserver sending an email from another mta. this is what i got as error: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command) excuse me in advance for my poor and ugly english. thanks! ciao, peppe --------------------------------------------------------------- Scegli il tuo dominio preferito e attiva la tua email! Da oggi l'eMail di superEva e' ancora piu' veloce e ricca di funzioni! http://webmail.supereva.it/new/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Brent Clark 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi all I just compiled Dovecot v1.0-test70 and i tried using the dovecot-example.conf for a quick test to see if the daemon would work. But I keep getting the following error message in me /var/log/messages: May 17 12:33:46 mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test70 starting up May 17 12:33:47 mail dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down May 17 12:33:47 mail dovecot: auth(default): No password databases set May 17 12:33:47 mail dovecot: child 29405 (auth) returned error 89 This is is a section in my conf file. auth default { mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam #auth_userdb = passwd #auth_passdb = pam #userdb = /etc/passwd #passdb = /etc/passwd # passdb pam { # Service name or * as parameter. * means the authenticating service name # is used, eg. pop3 or imap. #args = dovecot # args= /etc/passwd # } # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. # passdb passwd { # args= /etc/passwd # } # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. # passdb shadow { # args= /etc/shadow # } # passwd-like file with specified location #passdb passwd-file { #} userdb passwd { } # passwd-like file with specified location #userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # checkpassword executable authentication #passdb checkpassword { # Path for checkpassword binary #args = #} If anyone has some advice or tips, it would greatfully be appreciated. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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