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[Dovecot] Problem with folder not showing content
by Tom Sommer 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, I'm having some problems with one of my IMAP folders in thunderbird. When creating a new account in thunderbird and importing from my dovecot test51 installation, using maildir - all folders work fine, except one which does not list it's content when I click it When I look on the server, I see all the mails inside the folder, but once I click the folder and ask thunderbird to download the messages - it just doesn't display any mails in it. Is there any way to repair this? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] Invalid BODY[..] - missing '>'
by Tom Sommer 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, Sometimes when I browse messages in my folders, or move messages from one folder to another - I get this error in Thunderbird: http://pub.tsn.dk/screendumps/dovecot.bug.1.jpg -- Tom

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[Dovecot] Dovecot mysql authentication
by Petr Bartel 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Helo, Is somebody able to say me how I can set config files for dovecot to support $subject. Thanx a lot ~ Petr - -- Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds Petr Bartel ICQ 74097173 Irix a.s. e-mail bartel at irix dot cz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBf6j0zO0gscxrtkkRAmbUAJ4hpcStslq1iXIOgowACbQ6T0bNeACfdqIR OLs0ZEwTGMZH2r6oJStbZTI= =W6gq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Maildir unreliability
by Timo Sirainen 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Looks like maildir can't be used very realiably without quite a lot of locking. Writing and scanning the directory would have to be locked, but reading wouldn't (as long as the file hasn't been renamed which would require scanning to find it). So much for "no locks needed".. The problem is that opendir()/readdir() may temporarily not return some files if there has been changes in the directory since the opendir(). That means Dovecot thinks a message is expunged, while in fact it really isn't, and the next scan would usually show it again. Currently when that happens, Dovecot usually prints an error message about it and rebuilds indexes. Of course, in real life clients aren't often bombing the same mailbox with tons of changes in multiple connections, which is usually needed to trigger this. I wrote a test program which tests this: http://dovecot.org/tmp/readdir.c I'd like to hear if you can run it in some system without errors. I tested Linux 2.4 and 2.6 with ext2, ext3, xfs and reiser3, Solaris 8/ufs and OpenBSD 3.5/sparc64. Only OpenBSD passed the test, but I'm not sure if it's only because the computer was so slow and didn't switch between processes hard enough. I'd be especially interested about FreeBSD and various NFS systems. If it actually works properly in some systems, I guess I'll make the extra locking configurable.

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth crash
by Dan Sully 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

#0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 51 if ((io->condition & IO_NOTIFY_MASK) != 0) { (gdb) bt #0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 #1 0x0804fbd8 in auth_client_connection_destroy_wait (conn=0x8083f10) at auth-client-connection.c:494 #2 0x0805093d in auth_callback (request=0x847e0f0, result=134681075, reply=0x0, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:104 #3 0x080507c0 in auth_client_input (context=0x8083f10) at auth-client-connection.c:286 #4 0x0805f042 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #5 0x0805e4e8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop.c:218 #6 0x08052415 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.c:296 This is on Linux 2.6.7 / glibc 2.3.1, dovecot test-51 -D -- Down, not across.

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildir unreliability
by Timo Sirainen 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

On 25.10.2004, at 11:04, Peter Evans wrote: > Are you sure its maildir that is the issue, I am sure God Emperor DJB > would have issues with any such statement maligning the holy grail. > > The issue looks to me like it is attribute caching, and thus not > actually > specific to Maildir, just aggravated by it. Well, it's not maildir issue itself, but maildir more or less relies on readdir() not losing renamed files. I'm not sure what you mean by attribute caching, because it's not just with NFS. I'm sure if you point that out to DJB he just says it's not a real problem, because it doesn't happen hardly ever except with some stress test tools, or mailboxes with _many_ simultaneous users. Or maybe with a heavily loaded server. Or ... In any case, I'd rather make Dovecot resistant to this problem entirely rather than hope that everyone uses maildirs only in optimal conditions.

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[Dovecot] dovecot and new mail notification for subfolders in Mail.app
by Alan Schmitt 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, I am using dovecot as an IMAP server to which Mail.app (Apple Mail) connects. However I do not get any notification of new mails in folders other than the inbox, unless I disconnect and reconnect Mail.app or click on the folder with new mail. I'm pretty sure the problem comes from Mail.app. I have searched on Google for how to go around this issue, and have not yet found a solution. If someone here uses Mail.app and dovecot, I'd be really glad to have some advice as to what to do. (by the way, and this is probably related: new folders created in the maildir structure do not get reflected in Mail.app until I disconnect and reconnect). Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] index files
by Jonathan Salomon 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hi Timo, I am sorry to bug you about this, but I am a bit confused and I have approx 200 users so I don't want to screw this up. I am using the latest FC2 Dovecot RPM: dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. I am using NFS to mount the /home dirs on the fileserver from the mailserver with mbox. In the docs you said that I should probably use :INDEX=MEMORY. However I think this really pushes the server to its limits with large mailboxes (I have sometimes loads of 8+!). Also I want to use mailaccounts that are shared by users (to multiple users acces the same mailbox simulateously). If I write the index file to a location on the filesystem, will this improve performance and still work with simultaneous logins? Should I upgrade to version 1.00.something because I read somewhere you rewrote the mbox functions? Thanks again, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Request for testing: BSD kqueue ioloop handler
by Andrey Panin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, attached patch adds experimental ioloop handler which uses BSD kqueue API. It compiles and survives my small test program, but not thoroughly tested because I have no suitable BSD machine to torture. Brave owners of (Free|Net|Open)BSD please test and report results :) Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] move iolist functions into separate file
by Andrey Panin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, attached patch extracts iolist related functions into separate file and makes it a little more generic. This functions will be used by the new ioloop handler based on the BSD kqueue API. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Period at end of folder in Pine
by doug＠dovecot.con.com 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

When using folder-name completion, Pine sticks a period at the end of dovecot mediated IMAP folder names. This is invalid, of course, and I end up having to backspace the period to use the proper name. Anyone have a clue on a workaround? I'd imagine this is a FAQ type issue.... Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] login with alias
by Gasha 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

Hi all, i'm setting up mail server and here is the question: if, for example "firstname.lastname(a)domain.com" is e-mail address, then how can i setup login as "firstname.lastname" and "password" not only "firstname". Of course, users want all things simple. But i don't want to use login names longer than 8 chars. Any ideas? Or should i try to create users as "firstname.lastname" in /etc/passwd file ?? Gasha

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test51
by Timo Sirainen 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ This release is built with autoconf 2.59 and libtool 1.9. We'll see how it works out :) The required changes were done by Matthias Andree. - The last fix for connection hanging made IDLE use 100% CPU - We don't use Maildir/.INBOX/ directory anymore, indexes are stored in Maildir-root - Don't crash with FETCH BODY[n.MIME] - Changed %p (protocol) -> %s (service) and %P (pid) -> %p. Hopefully people weren't using these much yet :) - Added simple caching for sql passdb requests. Should be implemented soon for sql userdb and ldap passdb/userdb. See auth_cache_size and auth_cache_ttl settings. By default it's disabled.

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[Dovecot] direct access or local IMAP access?
by Alan Schmitt 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

Hello, Thanks to much help from Timo Sirainen, I now have a running dovecot on my Mac, that works great both with mutt and Mail.app. I'm going to have a lot of mail stored there (about 40000 messages for 1.4GB in 30 folders), and I was wondering if it was better (in terms of performance and stability) to directly access the mail using the maildir hierarchy, or access it using local IMAP. Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] assertion failed
by Tom Sommer 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

Using test51: Oct 22 23:37:21 one dovecot: 2657(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): file mail-cache-fields.c: line 338 (mail_cache_header_fields_get): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(dest) == sizeof(hdr) + (sizeof(uint32_t)*2 + 2) * hdr.fields_count) Oct 22 23:37:21 one dovecot: child 2657 (imap) killed with signal 6 What does it mean? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test51 / POP3 broken
by Brad 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

OS: OpenBSD 3.5 -stable/macppc dovecot: Oct 21 01:59:01 Info: pop3-login: Login: wendy [192.168.3.6] dovecot: Oct 21 01:59:02 Error: child 13213 (pop3) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 21 02:03:32 Info: pop3-login: Login: robb [192.168.3.6] dovecot: Oct 21 02:03:32 Error: child 17627 (pop3) killed with signal 11 (gdb) bt #0 0x1813bb8 in maildir_transaction_save_commit_post () #1 0x180f504 in maildir_transaction_commit () #2 0x183aff4 in mailbox_transaction_commit () #3 0x180b204 in clients_deinit () #4 0x180be9c in client_command_execute () #5 0x180a808 in client_send_storage_error () #6 0x184f43c in io_loop_handler_run () #7 0x184eba4 in io_loop_run () #8 0x180c4d4 in main () #9 0x1809c78 in _start ()

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env problems
by Neil Marjoram 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

I am having problems setting the default mail environment.# I am using Fedora Core 2 with version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 My users all have an NFS mounted home directory, and all mail is delivered to ~Mail/.mailbox it is all mbox format. I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}. So I set these parameters for default_mail_env : mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/Mail/.mailbox Which produced the error : imap(test): stat() failed with mbox file ~/Mail/.mailbox: No such file or directory I set the mail environment back to default, linked inbox to .mailbox in the ~/Mail directory and all worked fine. Is there a better way to do this ? I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}, so I decided to set: default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n and got this error: imap(test): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/indexes//test dovecot: child 9142 (imap) returned error 89 I also tried : default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%u And got the same error. I guessed at permissions, so I tried changing the ownership to dovecot and then test and then root and then 777, but I still get this error. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL

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[Dovecot] imap idle on non-inbox?
by Collin Grady 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Can this be done with dovecot? I really like the imap idle feature, but it doesn't work for me because I sort my mail into folders with procmail, so it only notifies me when one drops into inbox and not a subfolder. Is there just an option for this I'm missing, or does support for this not exist yet? Also, I don't think its a client issue as I watched the traffic with tcpdump and it only announced anything for inbox, messages dropping into other folders caused no traffic. -- Collin Grady BOFH excuse #347: The rubber band broke

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[Dovecot] Quick question
by Mark Lidstone 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

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[Dovecot] migration to maildir and arrival time
by Nicolas Kowalski 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hello. I am currently testing dovecot (0.99.10.8, Debian woody from backports), with the maildir storage. I have noticed that when I use the mailutil tool from uw-imap distribution to transfer my IMAP mailboxes from our current server (uw-imap, mbx format) to the dovecot one, the mails arrival time are apparently lost. I can see this in Pine, using the Arrival sort: the mailboxes on the originating server and dovecot server are not ordered the same. If I use the mb2md perl script to transfer the same mailbox, I see the same behaviour. Is this normal ? Thanks. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] support OEM encoding in NTLM messages
by Andrey Panin 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hello, after I started to use dovecot as a backend for exim4 SMTP authentication on my main mailserver, I noticed that some clients don't advertise unicode support and so they can't log in. To fix the problem the attached patch allows use of OEM encoding in NTLM messages. Please consider applying. Best regards. P.S. I want to release exim4 patch in the near future, probably when Timo will stop making incompatible protocol changes ;) -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format - error
by Götz Reinicke 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

HI, I recently upgraded an wu-imap server to dovecot dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.3 without big trouble (the subscribed mailboxes had to be added by hand...) But today users told me that there where some problems; e.g. a user tried to delete a message and got this error: Oct 19 09:43:13 mail imap(jmeinken): File isn't in mbox format: /home/mitarbeiter/jmeinken//Trash This didn't happen before; also after the migration. My questions: - Whats wrong? - Why is there the "//" a "more Trash" failed. After deleting this file and "touching" a new one, the user can delete files. The quota is 150 MB, the usere uses 100 MB at the moment. Any ideas? Regards Götz Reinicke -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env %d var problem
by pythonic 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hello, I am new to Dovecot and trying to setup on my Fedora Core 1 mail servers (actually migrating from uw to dovecot ;-) ). In my setup I use pam to authenticate virtual users. All the usernames include @domainname in their usernames like 'jane(a)somevhost.com'. Now path to user's home and INBOX includes /home/vhosts/<domainname>/home/<username>. I have added following to dovecot.conf. ------------------------ auth_passdb = pam auth_verbose = yes auth_username_chars = default_mail_env = mbox:/home/vhosts/%d/%h/:INBOX=/home/vhosts/%d/var/spool/mail/%n -------------------------- Now if I try to connect imap I get foll. error. -- imap(jane): May 19 01:58:08 Error: mkdir_parents(/home/vhosts///home/jane//.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied -- So %h and %u looks working but not %d :(. My pam module works right as if I use actual domain path in dovecot.conf everything works fine. Auth works correctly with uw. Any pointers ? TIA, Pythonic

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Fix on Cyrus SASL support for Rel 0.99.11
by ITO Nobuaki 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Code which supports cyrus SASL library (src/auth/mech-cyrus-sasl2.c) is broken. Following is the workaround patch for Dovecot Rel 0.99.11, and it worked fine on FreeBSD 4.10 BOX. It will not work with current development version. Application for that version might not be so difficult. Recently I found the CVS log which appeals that cyrus SASL support is discontinued. It's very sad. Regards Nobuaki ITO : banb(a)j-link.ne.jp --- src/auth/mech-cyrus-sasl2.c.orig Wed Jun 25 08:26:43 2003 +++ src/auth/mech-cyrus-sasl2.c Tue Oct 19 21:07:03 2004 @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct auth_login_reply reply; const char *serverout; unsigned int serveroutlen; + const char *authenid, *default_realm; int ret; ret = sasl_server_step(cyrus_request->conn, data, request->data_size, @@ -55,6 +56,12 @@ reply.result = AUTH_LOGIN_RESULT_SUCCESS; cyrus_request->success = TRUE; + ret = sasl_getprop(cyrus_request->conn, SASL_USERNAME, (const void **) &authenid); + if (ret != SASL_OK || ! authenid) { + i_warning("sasl_getprop() failed: %s", sasl_errstring(ret, NULL, NULL)); + return FALSE; + } + serverout = mech_auth_success(&reply, auth_request, serverout, serveroutlen); } else { @@ -200,6 +217,8 @@ cyrus_sasl_auth_continue; cyrus_request->auth_request.auth_free = cyrus_sasl_auth_free; + + cyrus_request->conn = sasl_conn; reply.result = AUTH_LOGIN_RESULT_CONTINUE;

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[Dovecot] Folders with . in them
by Tom Sommer 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Hey guys, When I create a IMAP folder called "php.net" in Thunderbird, a folder called "php" is created with a subfolder called "net", is this a bug in Thunderbird or is it something that I or you can fix? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] Hooking postfix into dovecot
by Tom Sommer 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Cyrus has to be added to master.cf and transport_maps has to be set to "cyrus:localhost". So my question is how do I get the mails from postfix to dovecot? Hope it's okay to submit these type of questions here :) Thanks -- Tom Sommer

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[Dovecot] test51 dumping core
by jross＠wykids.org 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

OpenBSD 3.6 -current (i386) dovecot-1.0-test51 I'm now getting this error message as soon as I start dovecot: "Authentication client 0 not compatible with this server (mixed old and new binaries?)" Here's the process I'm using: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-pam=NO \ --with-ldap=no \ --with-vpopmail=no \ --with-rawlog make svc -d /service/dovecot make install mv /etc/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.conf.49 mv /etc/dovecot.conf.51 /etc/dovecot.conf svc -u /service/dovecot dovecot throws a dovecot-auth.core. Here's the backtrace from it: gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth /etc/dovecot/dovecot-auth.core GNU gdb 6.1 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"... warning: exec file is newer than core file. Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1 Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.so #0 0x1c00573a in auth_client_input_auth (conn=0x0, args=0x3c014080 "À@\001<") at auth-client-connection.c:204 204 request->id = id; (gdb) bt full #0 0x1c00573a in auth_client_input_auth (conn=0x0, args=0x3c014080 "À@\001<") at auth-client-connection.c:204 mech = (struct mech_module *) 0x0 request = (struct auth_request *) 0xffffffff list = (char **) 0x3c006414 name = 0x0 arg = 0x0 initial_resp = 0xcfbefe38 "Xþ¾Ï8ü\036\n\001" initial_resp_data = (void *) 0xcfbefecc initial_resp_len = 0 id = 1006715072 buf = (buffer_t *) 0x3c014080 valid_client_cert = 0 #1 0x1c00570f in auth_client_input_auth (conn=0x0, args=0x8b824024 "") at auth-client-connection.c:196 mech = (struct mech_module *) 0x5 request = (struct auth_request *) 0x1 list = (char **) 0xa1efc38 name = 0x0 arg = 0xd0bd985 "\203Äüj" initial_resp = 0xcfbefe58 "hþ¾Ïó¾" initial_resp_data = (void *) 0x1000 initial_resp_len = 218880389 id = 3485400780 buf = (buffer_t *) 0x3c006000 valid_client_cert = 1 #2 0x1c00bda0 in passwd_file_init (args=0x3c0140c0 "ðt") at userdb-passwd-file.c:39 args = 0xffffffff <Address 0xffffffff out of bounds> #3 0x1c00b986 in checkpassword_verify_plain (request=0x1, password=0xcfbeff18 "`", callback=0xcfbefeb8) at passdb-checkpassword.c:277 request = (struct auth_request *) 0x0 chkpw_auth_request = (struct chkpw_auth_request *) 0x0 fd_in = {1006715072, -809566572} fd_out = {-809566600, 469809542} pid = -809566648 #4 0x1c007eae in mech_init () at mech.c:313 mechanisms = (char **) 0x0 env = 0x1 "" #5 0x1c007f3a in mech_init () at mech.c:336 mechanisms = (char **) 0x1 env = 0x1c00555f "E\bÿp\020è¿\b" #6 0x1c005491 in auth_callback (request=0x1, result=3485400856, reply=0xcfbeff20, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:71 result = 3485401184 reply_size = 3485400780 str = (string_t *) 0xcfbeff18 ret = 0 #7 0x1c005407 in auth_callback (request=0x0, result=3485401197, reply=0xcfbf007d, reply_size=3485401232) at auth-client-connection.c:62 result = 0 reply_size = 4096 str = (string_t *) 0xcfbeff14 ret = 0 #8 0xcfbf0060 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #9 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #10 0xcfbf006d in ?? () No symbol table info available. #11 0xcfbf007d in ?? () No symbol table info available. #12 0xcfbf0090 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #13 0xcfbf00a2 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #14 0xcfbf00b4 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #15 0xcfbf00c7 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #16 0xcfbf00d8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #17 0xcfbf00e0 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #18 0xcfbf00ef in ?? () No symbol table info available. #19 0xcfbf00fd in ?? () No symbol table info available. #20 0xcfbf010b in ?? () No symbol table info available. #21 0xcfbf015e in ?? () No symbol table info available. #22 0xcfbf0174 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #23 0xcfbf0191 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #24 0xcfbf019e in ?? () No symbol table info available. #25 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #26 0x00000003 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #27 0x1c000034 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #28 0x00000004 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #29 0x00000020 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #30 0x00000005 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #31 0x00000009 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #32 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #33 0x00001000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #34 0x00000007 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #35 0x0d0ba000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #36 0x00000008 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #37 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #38 0x00000009 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #39 0x1c0053f0 in auth_callback (request=0x0, result=0, reply=0x18cfbefe, reply_size=2161098494) at auth-client-connection.c:57 result = AUTH_CLIENT_RESULT_CONTINUE reply_size = 3485400864 str = (string_t *) 0xcfbeff18 ret = 0 Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) -- http://wykids.org/

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[Dovecot] ./configure --with-mysql --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl
by Tom Sommer 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Hi, I installed dovecot from dovecot-1.0-test51 with this configure line: ./configure --with-mysql --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl When I add this to my dovecot.conf: passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf I get this in /var/log/maillog when I run "dovecot -c /etc/dovecot.conf": Oct 21 13:59:16 one dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test51 starting up Oct 21 13:59:17 one dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Oct 21 13:59:17 one dovecot: auth(default): Unknown userdb type 'mysql' Oct 21 13:59:17 one dovecot: child 13203 (auth) returned error 89 After my ./configure was complete it was also noted that mysql would be built into dovecot as passwd and userdb, so MySQL should be in there. Any ideas? I use MySQL 4.0.17. Thanks -- Tom Sommer

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[Dovecot] RE: build errors on cvs
by Alex S Moore 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Building on Solaris 8 with Sun's compiler, I get the following error. Would you fix this? Using gcc is not really a good option for me. /opt/forte8/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/opt/csw/inclu\de -fast -xarch=v8 -I/opt/csw/include -c buffer.c "buffer.c", line 159: void function cannot return value "buffer.c", line 205: void function cannot return value cc: acomp failed for buffer.c *** Error code 2 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `buffer.o' Current working directory /export/medusa/asmoore/build/dovecot-sparc/src/lib Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Problems with thunderbird
by Jonas Lundgren 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

I'm running dovecot-1.0-test50 on openbsd 3.4 and it's working great, exept with thunderbird. Everything works fine with squirrelmail. The instant i log in with thunderbird the imap process goes up to 100% cpu, and instantly goes back down to 0 when i log out. I configured dovecot with the following arguments: --with-vpopmail --with-storages=maildir --without-passwd --without-passwd-file --without-static --without-pop3d --with-mysql --disable-ipv6 --with-ssl=openssl --without-checkpassword --without-bsdauth --without-static-userdb I'm usig the sql as auth, with vpopmail. I've also tried 1.0-test19, test46, 47, 48 and 49. Going to try 0.9.11 now, but in the 0.9-series i've had huge problems with indexes becoming fucked up every couple of hours. (The last 0.9 I tried is 0.9.10.6) Am i doing something wrong or what? -- Best regards, Jonas Lundgren ICQ: #52064961 IRC: neonman @ EFnet, Undernet, Quakenet Mail: jonas.lundgren(a)local.se

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[Dovecot] Unable to compile dovecot with Solaris 9 and Forte C
by Toni Viemero 21 Oct '04

21 Oct '04

Just a "heads up". I tried to search mailinglist archives and wiki, but found no similar configurations. Dovecot is unbuildable with the following configuration: SunOS mail 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 cc: Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09 config.log output from ./configure is at: http://iso.ego.fi/misc/dovecot_1.0-test50.log I guess I'll have to bend over for GCC :) -- Toni Viemerö | http://selfdestruct.net "It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself."

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[Dovecot] procmail, mutt, and Mac OS X
by Alan Schmitt 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm using procmail to deliver my mail to my maildir boxes, that are watched by dovecot, and I configured mutt to use imap to access these boxes. After installing a more recent procmail (the default one from Apple has a bug with "/" in the filenames, so I used the one from Fink), I sent myself a message, which was delivered correctly to Maildir/.INBOK/new (I can see the file there). However, I cannot see this file from mutt. I think it is dovecot that is not seeing it, as I tried quitting and restarting mutt. So my question is: how can I tell dovecot that it should check the mailboxes, and is there a way to make it do so regularly? Or is my problem from somewhere else? Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] installing dovecot on Mac OS X
by Alan Schmitt 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm trying to install dovecot on Mac OS X, and I'm having trouble to make it run. If someone could point me to what I'm doing wrong or suggest some documentation to read, I'd be very glad (I've search the wiki for Mac OS X specific documentation, but could not find any). I installed dovecot using darwinports. The version installed is 0.99.10.5. (It's running well enough to tell me that when I do a: sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot --version ;-) Before trying to tweak the configuration file, I wanted first to get dovecot to run. When I first launched it, it told me that there was no dovecot user. After searching for a while, I finally found how to create one (and a dovecot group as well), doing the following: sudo niutil -create / /groups/dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /groups/dovecot gid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /groups/dovecot passwd '*' sudo niutil -create / /users/dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot uid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot gid 300 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot name dovecot sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot passwd '*' sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot _writers_passwd root sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot change 0 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot shell /dev/null sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot home /var/empty sudo niutil -deleteprop / /users/dovecot realname sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot realname 'Dovecot user' sudo niutil -createprop / /users/dovecot expire 0 This seems to create the correct thing, and looking in NetInfo it looks like the other users and groups used for daemons. I then launched dovecot and I got (trying to run it as a normal user, then as root): top% /opt/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: fchown() failed for /opt/local/var/run/dovecot: Operation not permitted top% sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for base directory /opt/local/var/run/dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login zsh: bus error sudo /opt/local/sbin/dovecot and it seems that this happens every time I try to launch dovecot. Could someone point me at what I'm doing wrong? The setting I'm aiming for is the following: - being able to read local mail in maildir format using mutt - being able to read local mail using Mail.app and IMAP access - being able to use ssh to connect to the machine and locally run the IMAP server (in order to synchronize mail maybe using isync.sf.net) Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] Subscription problem with various clients
by Lucky U 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi, I'm a newbie with dovecot but i managed to install it and it's running great except i have this weird problem when trying to subscribe folders. I can subscribe to one folder at the time (for example inbox + sent), but if i try to subscribe an other directory client (tried with outlook express 6, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8, Iloha Webmail) automaticly unsubscribes other directories. I've tried to search a solution for this problem without success. Please help. I'm using Dovecot 0.99.10.2 on FreeBSD 5.0

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test50
by Timo Sirainen 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Support for LOGIN-REFERRALS (see wiki) - IMAP and POP3 proxies (see wiki) - disable_plaintext_auth = yes works correctly again - Don't leak fds in IDLE with non-Linuxes - Fixes connection hanging in certain situations - Added tb-negative-fetch workaround

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[Dovecot] test49 "killed with signal 6" errors...
by jross＠wykids.org 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

I upgraded yesterday from 1.0test46 to 1.0test49 in an attempt to eliminate an error that a couple of my users were getting. Both users were using Thunderbird 0.6 over imaps, and were getting errors that said: "The current command didn't succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid Body [..] Parameter: Missing '>'in'<14336-13057>'. When the user would click the Okay button on the e-mail client error message, the message would be delivered as normal. There wasn't any entry in the system logs about this that I could find. Googling didn't turn up anything concrete. I decided to upgrade to the latest test49 version. Now the same users are getting occasional e-mails that will not display, and I'm getting the follwing in the logs: 2004-10-20 09:48:51.854386500 mail.info: Oct 20 09:48:51 dovecot: imap-login: Login: jgarcia [69.146.158.154] 2004-10-20 09:49:13.195974500 mail.err: Oct 20 09:49:13 dovecot: IMAP(jgarcia): Trying to allocate 0 bytes 2004-10-20 09:49:13.197151500 mail.err: Oct 20 09:49:13 dovecot: child 14738 (imap) killed with signal 6 I upgraded one of the users to the latest Thunderbird with no change. But, if I have them go through our web interface (horde/imp) the same message displays just fine. The mail server is OpenBSD 3.6 -current. Dovecot is built with the following configuration: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-pam=NO \ --with-ldap=no \ --with-vpopmail=no \ --with-rawlog I added the --with-rawlog switch yesterday and created a dovecot.rawlog folder in the Maildirs but nothing seems to be logged. Any other information I can provide please let me know. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- http://wykids.org/

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[Dovecot] dovecot failing to chdir in home
by Stefano Maffulli 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Hi all, I have been fiddling with dovecot and things seem to be stuck on this problem: Oct 20 11:21:35 mail dovecot: chdir(studiosala.net/federico/) failed with uid 1001: Permission denied Oct 20 11:21:35 mail dovecot: child 22150 (pop3) returned error 89 This is the telnet session that generates it: mail:~# telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user federico(a)studiosala.net +OK pass XXXXXX +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. I am stuck: the UID/GID that postfix uses for dropping the mail in /varm/mail/domains/ is 1001/1001. The query string to mysql (the backend where I have stored the users) is (from mysql log, so it is executed): 682 Query SELECT 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid, '/var/mail/domains/' AS mail, maildir AS home FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'ale(a)studiosala.net' mail:/etc# ls -lad /var/mail drwxrwsr-t 3 root mail 4096 2004-10-19 23:49 /var/mail mail:/etc# ls -lad /var/mail/domains/ drwxr-sr-t 4 vmail vmail 4096 2004-10-20 07:03 /var/mail/domains/ I am not sure of how to proceed from here, any hint appreciated. thanks stef

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env problems
by Neil Marjoram 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

sorry if this mail is a duplicate - I am testing the new mail system! I am having problems setting the default mail environment.# I am using Fedora Core 2 with version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 My users all have an NFS mounted home directory, and all mail is delivered to ~Mail/.mailbox it is all mbox format. I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}. So I set these parameters for default_mail_env : mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/Mail/.mailbox Which produced the error : imap(test): stat() failed with mbox file ~/Mail/.mailbox: No such file or directory I set the mail environment back to default, linked inbox to .mailbox in the ~/Mail directory and all worked fine. Is there a better way to do this ? I would like to put the indexes on the local system in /var/indexes/{username}, so I decided to set: default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n and got this error: imap(test): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/indexes//test dovecot: child 9142 (imap) returned error 89 I also tried : default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/indexes/%u And got the same error. I guessed at permissions, so I tried changing the ownership to dovecot and then test and then root and then 777, but I still get this error. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL 01473 663711

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[Dovecot] Occasional error msgs from 1.0-test49
by Gregory Bond 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

I'm running 1.0-test49 on Solaris 2.8. MUA is Thunderbird (or mutt) running on FreeBSD. I'm using Maildir boxes. Occasionally, when browsing new mail in INBOX, I get an error back from the imapd, displayed in Thunderbird as the following popup msg: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in '<36864,-34800>'. >From this point, nothing much works reliably until I quit the MUA and start again. Sometimes, if I keep working, the email that was being fetched is shown but is corrupted and the msg body contains another copy of the whole email (header & body), sometimes 2 extra copies. Nothing is in the maillog. This _didn't_ happen with 0.99.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test49 FD leak
by Gregory Bond 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

I'm running 1.0-test49 on Solaris 2.8. The good news is that this version fixes my problem with corrupted index files (so far). The bad news is it seems to be leaking FDs to do with inbox: imap 10198 gnb 156r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 157r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 158r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 159r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 160r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 161r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 162r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 163r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur imap 10198 gnb 164r VDIR 255,7032 8192 5784160 /home/gnb/Maildir/new imap 10198 gnb 165r VDIR 255,7032 1093632 2917923 /home/gnb/Maildir/cur (seems to be a new pair of FDs leaked each time my MUA checks for new mail).

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[Dovecot] 49-latest compile problem and CVS method
by Kim Culhan 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

--- Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On 17.10.2004, at 21:02, Kim Culhan wrote: > > > The connection is being made with ssl so it looks like > > the plaintext auth preventer is broken. > > Fixed in CVS now (and in next nightly snapshot). Very good, this compile problem though on test49-latest from nightly: ar cru libpassword.a mycrypt.o password-scheme.o password-scheme-md5crypt.o password-scheme-cram-md5.o password-scheme-ntlm.o password-scheme-rpa.o ranlib libpassword.a make: don't know how to make auth-master-interface.h. Stop Also, tried getting the cvs tree with: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dovecot.org:/home/cvs co dovecot It doesn't populate the directory with all the files; does not include the build files such as Makefile.in, configure etc Any way to get cvs to do that ? -kim _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Index corruption
by Gregory Bond 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

I'm getting pretty constant index corruption on (admittedly large) Maildir folders. I'm running Thunderbird 0.7.3 and Mutt as my IMAP clients (on FreeBSD). Server is Dovecot 0.99.10.9 configured thusly: ./configure --disable-ipv6 CC=gcc-3.3 CXX=g++-3.3 --prefix=/opt/dovecot --without-pop3d on a Solaris 2.8 box. Maildirs are NFS-mounted, but the index files are on local UFS filesystem: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/export/01/imapd/%u MTA is Postfix, LDA is procmail delivering to several Maildir folders. There will be 2 (or more) dovecot instances running for this user (me) - several from Thunderbird and one from the BIFF client (icewm). Turning off the BIFF client doesn't seem to help. Symptoms: when using Thunderbird, and deleting a msg or moving it to another folder, Thunderbird will sometimes not display the next unread message, but just sit there. Changing folders works, but changing back to the previous folder (or quitting/restarting Thunderbird) only shows the first N messages (N is about 500, in a Maildir of about 6000, and it is the SAME email that is "last" every time.) This happens with multiple folders, but (usually) only folders that are delivered to by procmail (this may be related to the problem or a coincidence in that only those folders have unread email!) Accessing the mailboxes using MUTT via IMAP shows the same truncated message list. (I'm the only user using dovecot as I want Maildir, the other users have uw-imap, so dovecot is listening on port 4343) Closing all imap clients, then removing the .index.* files from the appropriate /export/01/imapd/ directory, then restarting the imap client causes the missing messages to reappear (after a suitable wait for the index files to be recreated). It really looks like locking or truncation issues in the index files.... Any clues? Debugging hints? This is happening several times per day so I can get lots o' debug data! Greg.

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[Dovecot] test49 Authenticate PLAIN disabled stops pop3s
by Kim Culhan 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Unlike test47, test49 refuses to authenticate pop3s if disable_plaintext_auth = yes Checked the crypto with: snort -vde tcp port 995 The connection is being made with ssl so it looks like the plaintext auth preventer is broken. -kim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] UIDL bug
by dovecot＠spam.turbolink.net 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

I noticed a problem with handling UIDL msgnumber in test46. If you do "UIDL 1" on a POP3 connection it returns the UID of the message followed by a dot and an error message. I made 2 changes: I added the following line to line 527 of src/pop3/commands.c ctx->message = message; I changed line 559 from: if (list_uids_iter(client, ctx)) to: if (!list_uids_iter(client, ctx)) Next time I'll submit an actual diff, I've made lots of other changes and comments in my source though so it's harder. - Mike

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test49
by Timo Sirainen 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixes the extra data appearing in POP3 mails (and possibly some other random problems). Created lib-sql API with asynchronous PostgreSQL and synchronous MySQL implementations. Also means I dropped mysql and pgsql userdb and passdb and replaced them with one generic sql userdb and passdb. If you were using the old ones, you'll have to fix your configuration. See included doc/dovecot-sql.conf for more information. Note that the password_query must now return "password" named column, before it was assumed that the first returned column was password.

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[Dovecot] errors in logfile
by Dan Sully 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

I just upgraded to -test47 from 0.99.11-test4, and am getting a bunch of these messages in the logfile: dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:21 Info: imap-login: Login: andrew [64.36.1.74] dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): sigaction(SIGRTMIN) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): fcntl(F_SETSIG) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: IMAP(andrew): read(event_pipe) failed: Is a directory dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: child 7047 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Oct 14 07:30:22 Error: child 6631 (auth) killed with signal 11 Any ideas? How can I get more information about what's happening there? Thanks. -D -- <Nigel> Please refrain from fearing the reaper.

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[Dovecot] LDAP with Unix Sockets
by Paolo Basenghi 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Is it possible tu specify a LDAP URL like ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi/ in the dovecot-ldap.conf file instead host:port? Best regards -- ___________________________________________________________________ Ing. PAOLO BASENGHI :::: Systems & Networking Engineer p.basenghi (at) netribe.it ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ NETRIBE srl :: Collaborative E-Business 42100 :: Reggio Emilia :: Italy :: Via della Costituzione, 27/4 ph. +39 0522 232378 :: fax +39 0522 232386 :: http://www.netribe.it ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

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[Dovecot] source rpm compile
by kakula 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hi, I was compiling the source rpm but had a problem. rpm -bb dovecot-xxx.spec The process stoped and showed: File must begin with "/": %{_initrddir}/dovecot

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test48
by Timo Sirainen 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - dovecot-auth talks now ASCII based protocol. this makes it easy to write complete replacement auth server if someone wants to do something weird. I also thought maybe Postfix could be made to talk that (or similiar) protocol as well, but no-one has answered my mail about it so far. Perhaps I should just write binary compatible libsasl2 which actually talks to dovecot-auth. - other authentication code cleanups - don't insert extra spaces at the beginning of FETCH replies (I guess most clients ignored them) - mbox fixes - some index fixes - Hopefully fixes _send_istream() assert crash with FreeBSD (sendfile() was used wrong) The authentication code changes haven't been tested too much. I only tried that PLAIN authentication works. Others might not.

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[Dovecot] mbox and maildir
by Shane Kerschtien 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this? Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail? Cheers, Shane

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[Dovecot] my future with dovecot (?any recipe?)
by NORA CENTRAL 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Hallo I am very impressed from this howto's: 1) Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO (mysql) http://www.delouw.ch/linux/postfix.phtml 2) Pop-Toaster using Qmail-Vmailmgr-Courier-SquirrelMail http://qvcs-guide.sourceforge.net/ (this work for me) I hope to build anything like above, but with Dovecot: [Postfix-tls-smtpauth-Dovecot-Mailadmin*-MySQL-SquirrelMail-https] Postgresql is ok for me with email-admin must be exist. I dos not like qmail & Co, ldap... and cyrus is to big for me. I found tousand mosaiks in internet to build any email server... mostly bound to debian, suse, redhat what i not use and i prefer all piece self compile and package for Archlinux or Slackware. My problem is the choice of ingredients and later to assemble it. Community need howto's like above two and some working full complete recipe to self build. I hope to find a recipe for dovecot+postfix+tls+ssl+smtpauth and [postgresql|mysql|firebird|metakit|any.other.db] nora

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[Dovecot] not enough information in the syslog
by Mikhail Teterin 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Although I set `auth_debug = yes' in the dovecot.conf, the line about my uid being too low was never logged by the server. Neither KMail nor Mozilla showed me the rejection message, that dovecot was giving them. I had to ktrace the process to see it and adjust first_valid_uid down. Yours, -mi

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[Dovecot] painfully slow uploads
by Mikhail Teterin 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

I have several mail accounts, but collect all spam e-mail in the spam mailbox on one of them. After switching to dovecot (from imap-uw) I notice a very slow speed of bulk transfers and a very high CPU utilization by the dovecot's imap process during it -- sustained 62% of my server's Pentium2 @266MHz. Never saw such effects under imap-uw... My client is KMail (despite the awfull quality of its latest release). Hope, this helps. Yours, -mi

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[Dovecot] assertion failed and debugging dovecot
by Doug Luce 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

I'm getting this error on a particular message in my Maildir: Oct 11 21:59:48 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): file ostream-file.c: line 646 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) To me, more import than the question "why is this happening" is "how can I debug this?" Attaching gdb to the running imap process doesn't give me access to the proper function names to set up breakpoints and get a stack trace. Can someone with the experience give a quick how-to on debugging functions deep in dovecot? Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] what exactly does outlook-idle workaround?
by Jonathan Salomon 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Hi, Can anyone tell me what the 'client_workarounds = outlook-idle' directive exactly does? I have enabled it in my /etc/dovecot.conf, but the problem that I think it should solve still exsits. That is that after being IDLE for more than half an hour Dovecot will disconnect Outlook but Outlook never connects back. Therefore users receive new mail, but they don't get notified unless they press send/receive. So what does the workaround do? And how can I solve the problem? Thanks! Jonathan

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[Dovecot] SASL
by alan premselaar 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I've been browsing the wiki and thru my mail-list archives but haven't found an answer. does/can dovecot 0.99.x support authenticating with a SASL database? I'll be setting up a new mail server for my offices using Sendmail/MIMEDefang/ClamAV/etc with dovecot as the IMAP server. I'm not familiar at all with LDAP. I know that sendmail will authenticate to a SASL database and it's fairly easy to setup. My goal is that I can support "real" users (actual user accounts) but allow their mail passwords to be different than their login passwords, and changeable via some sort of CGI interface. (I also have 2 weeks to accomplish this) any assistance is appreciated alan

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[Dovecot] Does dovecot support subfolders in Outlook (and in general)
by AWC Maillists 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Ok, I am playing around with dovecot and things are running relatively smoothly. I am using Outlook as that is what the client uses for Email. I can copy messages to and from the IMAP folder. I can create folders from the root directory fine. My question is this. I have folders like this: IMAPServer --Inbox --Trash --WorkToDo Now when I try and create a subfolder in "WordToDo" I get an error message "Unable to create the folder. The server responded: 'Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes' When I try to create a subfolder in "Inbox" I get an error message "Unable to create the folder. The folder 'Inbox' cannot contains subfolders..." So is this a limitation of Dovecot? Another problem with Outlook? Or do I have some configuration problem on my end? Thanks. --- Charles PS: My first impressions of dovecot are very positive. It is a much cleaner and, so far, easier to handle IMAP server than the heavyweight UW & Cyrus IMAP servers. Congrats on a impressive program.

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RE: [Dovecot] Power user
by Debreu, Alexis 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Thanks for answer, The config I have is very small (for now) All of my user have an account on the machine. Very soon I plan to switch to LDAP. For my needs, a PowerUser for all domains is enough. Alexis -----Message d'origine----- De : Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Envoyé : lundi 11 octobre 2004 19:33 À : Debreu, Alexis Cc : 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' Objet : Re: [Dovecot] Power user On 11.10.2004, at 16:24, Debreu, Alexis wrote: > I am very new to dovecot and I would like to know if there is a way to > configure a user with all the read/write right on all mailbox. > > I would like to have a power user (PowerUser) able to reach USER1 > mailbox > using the following login > PowerUser@domain/USER1@domain and the password will be the PowerUser > password. Not yet. But I guess I should one day add support for it. Most SASL mechanisms support it directly without a kludgy username. I'm not sure about the configuration though. For passwd-file I guess there could be just one global flag which means that the user has access to everyone's mails. For LDAP and SQL I guess the pass_filter/password_query could have a few new %vars to describe the other user. Or maybe there needs to be a separate filter/query for that case. Hmm. Do you want the poweruser to have access to all mailboxes, or just for the one domain? What passdb are you using?

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[Dovecot] Detecting unused accounts
by Ben Beuchler 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

I'm looking for a way to figure out which accounts have not been logged in to in over n days. It occurs to me that, perhaps, the way to do this would be to look at the mtime on one of the dovecot-maintained files, like 'dovecot-uidlist'. Is there a particular file that would be modified on (almost) every login, whether it be via POP or IMAP? -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte(a)emt-p.org -- The Matrix

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[Dovecot] Power user
by Debreu, Alexis 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hi all, I am very new to dovecot and I would like to know if there is a way to configure a user with all the read/write right on all mailbox. I would like to have a power user (PowerUser) able to reach USER1 mailbox using the following login PowerUser@domain/USER1@domain and the password will be the PowerUser password. Thanks for help, Alexis

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[Dovecot] Enable outlook-idle workaround.
by AWC Maillists 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

I just recently discovered dovecot. I am evaluating the program and several clients uses Outlook/Outlook Express. In the clients issues section of dovecot.org is says "You should enable outlook-idle workaround" Ok, maybe I am missing something very obvious here but I can not find any documentation on how to implement the outlook-idle workaround. Can anyone point me to an article or something with more details on this issue? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test47
by Timo Sirainen 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Been a while since last release. Still seems there are some mbox problems, but I haven't been able to break anything for last few days. I guess it's stable enough. At least more stable than test46 which crashed quite often when expunging. - pretty much rewrote "index extension" support. it's now possible to add extensions to headers and to message records. it's possible to resize them. I'll probably use it soon to change mbox code to use 32bit offsets and automatically grow to 64bit offsets once mbox grows over 4GB (well, yes, rare, but.. :) - login_greeting and login_greeting_capability settings - auth_verbose is even more verbose - mbox fixes/optimizations - other fixes/additions

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[Dovecot] Error in IMAP command UID
by Jan Kuipers 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

I get this error with some messages in my inbox: The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in <102400.-100124> The <102400.-100124> at the end depends on the message. Client is Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 using imaps. Server is Dovecot 1.0-test47. Is this a bug or did I configure something wrong? Jan Kuipers Systemadministrator Lauwers College

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[Dovecot] cvs build broken in auth/db-mysql.c?
by Tom Brown 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

After running ./configure --with-ldap --with-ssl=openssl --with-pgsql --with-mysql --without-cyrus-sasl2 --sysconfdir=/etc (Settings taken from the debian/rules of debian package version 0.99.11-3) of the cvs HEAD or test46 I get the following error during make: db-mysql.o(.text+0x116): In function `db_mysql_query': /tmp/dovecot-1.0-test46/src/auth/db-mysql.c:82: undefined reference to `mysql_conn_open' The following trivial change seems to let the build finish: RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/db-mysql.c,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -r1.11 db-mysql.c 82c82 < if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) --- > if (!db_mysql_connect(conn)) This little error snuck in between -r1.10 and -r1.11 of src/auth/db-mysql.c . Tom -- 28 70 20 71 2C 65 29 61 9C B1 36 3D D4 69 CE 62 4A 22 8B 0E DC 3E mailto:mail@thecap.org http://thecap.org/

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[Dovecot] dovecot and (no) new incomming mail - migration from wu-imapd
by Götz Reinicke 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Hi, I recently installed dovecot 0.99 on a fedora core 1 Server which used the wu-imap-server. dovecot starts and I can subscribe to my old imapfolders, but if I send mails to my account, this new mail arent downloaded. If I quit Mozilla and restart Mozilla, the recently send mails are in my inbox. We use also a webmailsystem, so I could verify that the mails are in the inbox without relogging in. This phenome is not showing up by all my imap accounts. I'm testing with mozilla 1.7.3 and 1.8a4 on a mac os x 10.3.5 Client. The Inbox-folder for the "defect" account is showing in italic and grey ghosted (in the folder list), the folder in the working account is normal. A user using Netscape 7.1 on a Windows XP Client has also no Problems.... Any Ideas? regards Götz Reinicke -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] ldap SMD5 vs. CRYPT
by Adam Pordzik 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Hello, am I right, that dovecot can't cope with ldap so authentification is handled by ldap itself? And, for that I have to use {CRYPT} and cannot use other mechanisms as {SMD5} Are there any other possibilities? A --

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] change old style SASL discovery code
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hello, this patch reworks old-style SASL discovery code. With this patch applied it advertises all configured SASL mechanisms. It makes possible for MS Outlook to use all installed security service providers (SSP), so if someone crazy enough will write CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 SSP we'll support it readily :) Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] add missing error check in epoll code
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hello, this patch adds missing epoll_create() error check. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] fix NTLM2 endianness buglet
by Andrey Panin 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hi, this patch fixes endianness problem in NTLM2 code. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] how to backup inboxes in dovecot ?
by Faisal 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

I upgraded my server from Mandrake 9.2 (Imapd , postfix & SQ mail) to Fedora core 2 (dovecot, postfix & SQ mail) i backed up /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow files & all home directories of users account on my server .. after resotration & configuration of the servers everything seems to work , except users email they had on the server saved :( man this is embaracing .. can u tell me wat i did wrong ? where were the mails stored .. & wat is the right way to do it ? thanks

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[Dovecot] Spaces removed from subjects in FETCH response
by Kenneth Porter 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

I'm using SpamAssassin to tag spam and prefix the spam score to the subject line. To make the scores sort properly in the client's message list, I pad the score with spaces to right-align it. It looks like dovecot-0.99.10.9-1.FC3.2 is frustrating this by stripping the excess spaces from the subject before reporting it in FETCH responses. Here's an actual subject line: Subject: (SPAM? 6.9) Urgent Response !! Note the multiple spaces before the "6.9". Here's the matching FETCH command and reply, as reported in Mulberry's IMAP.log (just the relevant message is shown here): A00035 FETCH 1507:1524 (FLAGS RFC822.SIZE UID INTERNALDATE ENVELOPE BODYSTRUCTURE) * 1517 FETCH (UID 1557 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "02-Oct-2004 12:24:40 -0700" RFC822.SIZE 6263 BODYSTRUCTURE (("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "8bit" 1168 24 NIL ("inline" NIL) NIL)("message" "rfc822" ("x-spam-type" "original") NIL "original message before SpamAssassin" "8bit" 3855 ("Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:52:28 -0400" "Urgent Response !!" (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) NIL NIL NIL NIL "<E1CDo3Y-0002FZ-9f(a)host.cell04.com>") ("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 2731 35 NIL NIL NIL) 63 NIL ("inline" NIL) NIL) "mixed" ("boundary" "----------=_415F007A.0DECCC93") NIL NIL) ENVELOPE ("Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:52:28 -0400" "(SPAM? 6.9) Urgent Response !!" (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) (("Dr. Price" NIL "pkprice2i" "netscape.net")) NIL NIL NIL NIL "<E1CDo3Y-0002FZ-9f(a)host.cell04.com>"))

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth
by Piviul 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

Thank you very much for your prompt reply and I hope you can forgive me to have erroneusly send the previous message directly to your address instead of the ML address. Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 5.10.2004, at 18:46, Piviul wrote: > It probably means that the dn you gave in dovecot-ldap.conf doesn't have > read access to everyone's userPassword field. This is required by > Dovecot's current implementation. As far as I know the *dn* I've inserted in the dovecot-ldap.conf have read access to the userPassword field. In effect I've setted it in slapd.conf and if I run > ldapsearch -x -D *dn inserted in dovecot-ldap.conf* -w password I can read the userPassword field of every user in the tree. But if the problem is in the password field can be connected to the crypted password stored in userPassword? I wrong to set *pass_attrs = uid,{SSHA}userPassword* in dovecot-ldap.conf? Piviul

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[Dovecot] 'Connection dropped by imap-server' when doing searches in
by Mike Jakubik 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, It seems that on larger folders (32k emails) searching fails with the following error under squirrelmail 1.4.3a. (The server continues to work, as the hard drive stays on for a bit after the error is displayed) --- Search Results ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL SUBJECT {9} 5.3-BETA7 SUBJECT {9} available --- Oddly enough, when searching for just '5.3-BETA7' instead of '5.3-BETA7 available' the search completes OK. I can search with multiple strings on smaller (3k) folders however. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] >From escaping
by Dean Earley 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi all Is there an option in dovecot to remove the >From escaping in the body of mbox mails? Thanks -- Dean Earley AKA Dee (dean(a)earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk phone: +44 (0)780 8369596

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth
by Piviul 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, I'm a new list member, I’m a not an English native speaking (so, please forgive any error you can find in this mail) and I'm trying to install Dovecot in Debian Woody. I've installed the Dovecot package from backports and I’m trying to configure it to get the credential authentication from an LDAP backend. This is the configuration process summary I’ve done; if you need some configuration file I can post it with great pleasure. In LDAP I’ve created the user cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org, I’ve configured this user to have read access to the userPassword field in slapd.conf (the other parameter such as uid, directoryHome… can be read as anonymous), I’ve configured the dovecot-ldap.conf to bind using the “cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org” and I set the *auth_userdb* and *auth_passdb* of dovecot.conf to *ldap /path/to/dovecot-ldap.conf*. When I’m trying to start dovecot in the mail.err log file I can find > Oct 5 11:13:29 PDC-SMB dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed (dn cn=dovecot,ou=DSA,dc=flanet,dc=org): Invalid credentials Is the problem that the ldap-password is stored in SSHA crypted mode and in *dnpass* I've inserted it in plaintext? Or more in general, someone can help me to find where I wrong and how can I try to solve it? Piviul

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[Dovecot] timeout when retrieving folder list w/ Evolution 2.0?
by leon breedt 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

hi, i have a problem with some maildir folders, where Evolution times out when retrieving the header list. It only happens with one particular folder, but i can't seem to find a pattern behind it. The amount of headers it does manage to retrieve varies, from between 3% to 50%. Its not a particularly large folder either (only 520 messages). The error message I get from Evolution is "Server response ended too soon". I did an Ethereal trace, and the closest IMAP command before the failure is: FLAGS (\Answered \Seen) RFC822.SIZE xxx INTERNALDATE "xxx" UID nnn)\r\n its a different UID value that fails each time though. after this response from the server, it seems to get through the message header (not sure if the entire message header was sent back). i'll keep this folder around as a test case. any ideas on where to start debugging? i'm fairly familiar with C and gdb. leon

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and fcntl errors
by Eric Joe 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hello, I am new to the list and after searching the net for a solution to this problem, I have yet to find it. Maybe someone here can help. I had been using Dovecot that came with FC2 for about 1200 POP3 and IMAP mail accounts. At random times (1-5 days) an imap process would run the cpu usage up to 99% on one of my cpus (Running SMP P3-866) and hang. That process was unkillable and only a reboot would fix the problem. If I let it go, eventually it would lock up the server completely. I am seeing this error in my /var/log/maillog <snip> Oct 4 08:23:21 ns2 imap(editorial): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/editorial/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:00:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:02:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Oct 4 23:04:10 ns2 imap(jimar5573): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/jimar5573/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index </snip> I have since upgrade (built from source) Dovecot 0.99.11 and have been running for 2 days without a hung process or lockup, but I still see these errors in the maillog. Can anyone suggest a fix? Regards Eric

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL setup ?
by Marius Stan 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 1.10.2004, at 18:25, Marius Stan wrote: > >>> --ssl, not -ssl >> >> >> damn. I'm tired... anyway, I swear I've RTFM but I didn'n find this >> switch. > > > Well, preferred way to start Dovecot is to run it via dovecot master > binary, not via inetd. I should write some page about it to wiki I > guess.. >> What's tho switch for debug ? now I've got this: >> pop3-login: Oct 01 16:49:56 Fatal: SSL initialization failed >> and some more verbosity would prevent me from bothering you again > > > The error messages are usually quite good I think. This is one > exception, I'll fix it. Anyway, two possibilities: > > a) Dovecot wasn't compiled with SSL support at all. Install prefix ...................... : /usr File offsets ........................ : 64bit Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with user database modules . : static passwd passwd-file ldap pgsql mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam ldap pgsql mysql (modules) > > b) ssl_disable = yes it's not disabled... Marius

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[Dovecot] Dovecot/IMP Bug with RFC822.SIZE and BODYSTRUCTURE
by Ryan Hulsker 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Ok, I have narrowed my IMP/Dovecot attachment problem down to what I think is a bug in Dovecot. The test that follow are performed on 0.99.11. When you download an attachment in IMP it uses the php function imap_fetchbody() which contacts the IMAP server and retrieves just the mime chunk you are looking for. It does this by first fetching some information about the email, and then grabs the specific chunk you are looking for in a second request. The first request looks like this. "FETCH 258 (ENVELOPE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Path Message-ID Newsgroups Followup-To References)] BODYSTRUCTURE INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE FLAGS)" Dovecot responds properly on all parts of this request except for the BODYSTRUCTURE portion which gets returned as this. "BODYSTRUCTURE ("text" "plain" NIL NIL NIL "7bit" 0 0 NIL NIL NIL)" This causes the imap_fetchbody() funtion to freak out and not do the 2nd request, and it returns 0 bytes. If I manually try "FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE)" Dovecot returns the expected data properly. I figured there must be an interaction between the BODYSTRUCTURE fetch and one of the other items that are requested, so I tried them all and narrowed it down to this. FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE) <- works OK FETCH 258 (BODYSTRUCTURE RFC822.SIZE) <- BODYSTRUCTURE reply is wrong. I have been surfing through the dovecot source looking for a way to fix or work around this, but I am only a mediocre C coder. Can anyone enlighten me? Ryan Hulsker

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test46: Assertion failed
by dovecot 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hi, I'm experiencing there assertions in the mail log (about 8 times during the last 2 days): Oct 5 11:20:51 web dovecot: POP3(xxxxx): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) What is it? I'm running 1.0-test46 and sendmail on FC2. This is in dovecot.conf: #fcntl_locks_disable = no #mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl Thanks. Martin

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[Dovecot] trouble accessing mbox folders with simultaneous logins
by 2 m＠le / Jonathan Salomon 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Hi all! I have setup dovecot (RPM) on a Fedora Core 2 machine using LDAP for authentication. It all seems to work pretty well, except for simultaneous logins. I am using mbox files to store the mail as follows (from /etc/dovecot.conf): default_mail_env = mbox:~/.mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY So the INBOX file is stored in /var/mail, other mailfolders are stored in the users home directory in the .mail folder. Because the /home directory of this machine is mounted from fileserver through NFS, I have set the INDEX=MEMORY options (see http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt) As said before I am getting some problems when using simultaneous logins for the same mail account (for instance when multiple users that work on a specific project want to share a mail account containing all the mail about the project in addition to their private account). The client used is Microsoft Outlook and besides some outlook specific problems, it also gives these errors (translated from Dutch) when many users are simultaneously logged in to the same account: 'Your server reported that a UID does not comply with the IMAP standard, which signifies an error on the server.' 'The UID of a message is unexpectedly deleted. This signifies an error on the server.' I am not sure where to look... I assume a problem with the index files? Does NFS cause the problem? Will this be fixed if I switch to maildirs? I would be grateful for any tips on the subject! Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------- Dit E-mail bericht met eventuele attachments is gescanned op virussen ----------------------------------------------------- Dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Indien de e-mail bij vergissing bij u terecht is gekomen, wilt u ons dan direct bellen? Wij verzoeken u in dit geval de e-mail te vernietigen, de inhoud ervan niet te gebruiken en niet onder derden te verspreiden, omdat het bericht vertrouwelijke informatie kan bevatten. Telefoon: + 31 20 494 24 24 This is an e-mail from 2 m@le Computer Services. This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or privileged legal or sensitive business data . This e-mail is intended for the addresse(s) stated above only. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please delete this e-mail. Thank you.

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Re: [Dovecot] trouble accessing mbox folders with simultaneous logins
by Michael Cosby 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

I can help you narrow the problem down a bit. I'm assuming you're using 1.0-test45 or 46, in which case I see the same problem using mbox, index files stored on disk and no NFS. I access my mail via pine and chatter email (an imap client for the palm). While I've not seen any errors that specifically say UID, the client for the palm will occasionally reload messages from a few days back thinking they're new, which eventually crashes the client when the count of mail it should be loading doesn't match what it actually got (the palm client's in beta, too :) ). I solved the problem by moving back to the 0.99 series, which other than performance issues works just fine for me. - Michael ------------------- In response to: Hi all! I have setup dovecot (RPM) on a Fedora Core 2 machine using LDAP for authentication. It all seems to work pretty well, except for simultaneous logins. I am using mbox files to store the mail as follows (from /etc/dovecot.conf): default_mail_env = mbox:~/.mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY So the INBOX file is stored in /var/mail, other mailfolders are stored in the users home directory in the .mail folder. Because the /home directory of this machine is mounted from fileserver through NFS, I have set the INDEX=MEMORY options (see http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt) As said before I am getting some problems when using simultaneous logins for the same mail account (for instance when multiple users that work on a specific project want to share a mail account containing all the mail about the project in addition to their private account). The client used is Microsoft Outlook and besides some outlook specific problems, it also gives these errors (translated from Dutch) when many users are simultaneously logged in to the same account: 'Your server reported that a UID does not comply with the IMAP standard, which signifies an error on the server.' 'The UID of a message is unexpectedly deleted. This signifies an error on the server.' I am not sure where to look... I assume a problem with the index files? Does NFS cause the problem? Will this be fixed if I switch to maildirs? I would be grateful for any tips on the subject! Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------- Dit E-mail bericht met eventuele attachments is gescanned op virussen ----------------------------------------------------- Dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Indien de e-mail bij vergissing bij u terecht is gekomen, wilt u ons dan direct bellen? Wij verzoeken u in dit geval de e-mail te vernietigen, de inhoud ervan niet te gebruiken en niet onder derden te verspreiden, omdat het bericht vertrouwelijke informatie kan bevatten. Telefoon: + 31 20 494 24 24 This is an e-mail from 2 m@le Computer Services. This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or privileged legal or sensitive business data . This e-mail is intended for the addresse(s) stated above only. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please delete this e-mail. Thank you. )

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[Dovecot] Slow squirrelmail login/IMAP CPU 80%
by rusecure＠rogers.com 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

I've been having a problem with Dovecot on Fedora Core 2 with SquirrelMail on the same system. When ever I login through SquirrelMail the imap process consumes around 80% of my CPU and the login takes forever (about 10 minutes). 1 Once I do manage to login, everything is fine and can even log out and back in without issue. Has anyone encountered this? Thanks, Nelson

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[Dovecot] Public folders / namespace documentation
by Keith Edmunds 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Does Dovecot support public folders? I thought it may do via namespaces, but having searched the Wiki and the documentation, I can't find how namespaces are defined. I've probably not looked in the right place - any pointers? Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] using %d in passdb
by leon breedt 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

hi, i'd like to seperate the password file for seperate virtual domains into seperate files. i tried specifying: passdb = passwd-file /etc/exim_incoming/local/accounts/pwdb/%d but i get an error message that it couldn't open the particular file, and then Dovecot shuts down. is there a way to do lazy-lookups? or, would i be required to write a little helper program and have Dovecot connect to its socket to do auth? leon

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[Dovecot] evolution and received by header
by Dan Stromberg 03 Oct '04

03 Oct '04

Evolution has a nice feature where it can sort messages by the most recent received-by date, instead of the Date: header. This is nice, because then if something gets stuck on a server somewhere in the world for a couple of days, it shows up at the end of your mail list, instead of way back where you might miss it. However, when using dovecot with evo, if I sort of received by instead of date, it takes forever. I assume this is because date is indexed, and received by is not. So the natural question becomes, is there a way of getting dovecot to index received by? TIA.

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[Dovecot] Wiki documentation again
by Timo Sirainen 03 Oct '04

03 Oct '04

Please update this page to include whatever you think is useful: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/PrebuiltBinaries

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[Dovecot] child <pid> (imap) killed with signal 6
by Per-Stian Vatne 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

Linux <hostname> 2.6.8-1.541 #1 Wed Sep 1 18:01:46 EDT 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.3 I'm struggling with some new problems after an update from the devel tree of Fedora. Have been using dovecot since FC1 test-something, and latest working was couple of updates after FC3t2 (2.91 + devel updates). Tried downgrading with no luck, and can't figure out what's wrong. Setup is very standard Fedora, all defaults I guess, using postfix and Maildirs, and dovecot for imap access. What happens is when logging in and authenticated ok, the connection is dropped. To illustrate I've connected directly and showing the (verbose) output: (commands) [xxx@xxxxxxx ~]$ telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. x login imtest <password> x OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. [xxx@xxxxxxx ~]$ (log) dovecot-auth: Oct 02 14:59:32 Info: Login process 7 connected dovecot-auth: Oct 02 14:59:32 Info: Login process 7 sent handshake: PID 10816 imap(imtest): Oct 02 14:59:40 Panic: Trying to allocate 0 bytes imap-login: Oct 02 14:59:40 Info: Login: imtest [::ffff:127.0.0.1] dovecot-auth: Oct 02 14:59:40 Info: Login process 6 disconnected dovecot: Oct 02 14:59:40 Error: child 10818 (imap) killed with signal 6 I've looked around on the web for this error, can't find anything except problems reading index files, so the imtest user is a newly created user which have received one single text message, Maildir is created ok and can be read using mutt or something. So problem is for all accounts, both new, old and empty. Would be guessing some sort of permissions problem but should be running mostly as root in default mode? And the dovecot user seems to be ok and working, directory permissions are corrected at startup if it's wrong, and so on... I'm not an expert, might be something trivial, but cannot figure it out by myself or Google so mailinglists are next. Let me know if I should send some more information about the system. Thanks, Per-Stian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Cygwin
by espino＠infomed.sld.cu 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

Sorry guys I have to ask this one more time. I really need an answer. Have any of you been able to make Dovecot work on Cygwin? Do any of you know about anybody who have had any success on it? I repeat, I'm eager searching for an answer. If it is possible I'll contact the person who achieved it. If it is not possible yet, I'm gonna have to switch. Thanks once more. Andy ------------------------------------------------- Este mensaje fue enviado usando el servicio de correo en web de Infomed http://webmail.sld.cu

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[Dovecot] Dovecot/IMP attachment problem
by Ryan Hulsker 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

I recently installed dovecot in my production environment. This comprises about 60k mailboxes. The system was initially set up with dovecot 0.99.10.7 using maildirs. I have been using perdition to handle redirection during the process of converting from wu-imap. Last week it was brought to my attention that our webmail interface (horde/imp) is no longer allowing people to download attachments. Everything appears to work fine, however the downloaded files are 0 bytes in size. I built a test box with the latest horde/imp/php combination and that failed to solve the problem. Today I upgraded dovecot on one of our mail servers to 0.99.11 and that seems to have had no effect. I was hoping that the BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE changes from 99.10.8 would have fixed this. I am wondering if anyone has encountered these problems? Is this a dovecot bug? Due to the fact that I am still in transition mode using perdition I am in the unique position where I can basically hit two identical mailboxes, one in wu-imap and the other in dovecot just by using a different username. I have done this, and have ethereal traces if anyone is interested in helping me out with this. Ryan Hulsker

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: Dovecot/IMP attachment problem
by Ryan Hulsker 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 01:11, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote: > Le 10/01/2004 01:33 AM, Ryan Hulsker a écrit : > > > I am wondering if anyone has encountered these problems? Is this a > > dovecot bug? > > No, this is a horde/imp bug. The outgoing mail has no attachement, test > it by sending it to an external address. Well, the attachments do exist in the mailbox, and sending attachments is no problem. Retrieving attachments through OE->dovecot works, OE->wu-imap works, IMP->wu-imap works, however the combination of IMP->dovecot seems to cause a problem. I have a feeling that IMP is using a different method of retrieving the attachments than OE does, and there is probably something IMP does not like about dovecots responses. I will go through my ethereal traces and see if I can piece together what is going on in more detail. Ryan Hulsker

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[Dovecot] SSL setup ?
by Marius Stan 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hello, I'm having treuble setting up a ssl dovecot; here's some info: /etc/xinetd.d/pop3s: service pop3s { disable = no flags = REUSE socket_type = stream wait = no user = root group = root instances = UNLIMITED server = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login log_type = SYSLOG daemon info } I've setup the certificates, ssl_disable = no, protocols = imap pop3 pop3s ,but if I telnet on my server's port 995, I get the dovecot banner in clear-text. I'm for sure missing something here... Marius

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] NTLM2 support
by Andrey Panin 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Hello, as pointed by Andrew Bartlett NTLM2 authentication support is missing in dovecot. Attached patch adds it. Tested and works for me. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Cygwin
by espino＠infomed.sld.cu 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Sorry, guys for the second message. But I forgot something that may be useful. The first dialog, the one who says "cygcrypt-0.dll" is missing, has "dovecot-auth.exe" as title. And the second one, which says "cygwin1.dll" is missing, has "imap-login.exe" as title. Sorry again. ------------------------------------------------- Este mensaje fue enviado usando el servicio de correo en web de Infomed http://webmail.sld.cu

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[Dovecot] dovecot not working with some vpopmail passwords
by radus＠smartpost.ro 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

Hello. I tried installing dovecot on a server that relies on vpopmail authentication using $1$ MD5 algorithm and it didn't work. Please fix this for the next release. Attached is a patch, please be carefull with the line wrapping. Radu --- passdb-vpopmail.c.old Thu Feb 20 00:46:51 2003 +++ passdb-vpopmail.c Thu Sep 30 18:58:56 2004 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Timo Sirainen */ +/* Copyright (C) 2002-2003 cTimo Sirainen */ /* Thanks to Courier-IMAP for showing how the vpopmail API should be used */ @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ { char vpop_user[VPOPMAIL_LIMIT], vpop_domain[VPOPMAIL_LIMIT]; struct vqpasswd *vpw; + char *password_crypt; int result; vpw = vpopmail_lookup_vqp(request->user, @@ -44,7 +45,12 @@ } /* verify password */ - result = strcmp(mycrypt(password, vpw->pw_passwd), vpw->pw_passwd) == 0; + + if (strncmp(vpw->pw_passwd, "$1$", 3) == 0) + password_crypt = md5_crypt(password, vpw->pw_passwd); + else password_crypt = crypt(password, vpw->pw_passwd); + + result = strcmp(password_crypt, vpw->pw_passwd) == 0; safe_memset(vpw->pw_passwd, 0, strlen(vpw->pw_passwd)); if (!result) {

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Cygwin
by espino＠infomed.sld.cu 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

I'mt trying to make Dovecot run on Cygwin. I managed to make it compile and register as a service on Windows XP. I had a problem with setrlimit, but I disabled the process size limitation in the config file. Now, when I start the process, either by clicking the start button on the MS Managemente Console or by cygrunsrv -S dovecot, i get to error dialogs saying that the program needs cygcrypt-0.dll and cygwin1.dll. I have both of those libraries on the system but the program doesn't seem to see them. Do any of you have a clue about this? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------- Este mensaje fue enviado usando el servicio de correo en web de Infomed http://webmail.sld.cu

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[Dovecot] Documentation
by Timo Sirainen 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

I just wrote two "new user documentation" pages to wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/CompilingSource http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/BasicInstall Do you think they are easy enough to understand? Did I miss something? Feel free to edit them directly :) Next should probably come: - Mailbox formats fully explained - Performance tuning

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Re: [Dovecot] Concerned about Dovecot's new NTLM code
by Andrey Panin 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

> I'm pleased to see another project increasing compatibility with windows > clients, by the addition of NTLM login support, but I'm a bit worried > about a few implementation details, and hope to offer an alternate > approach. > > I mean no disrespect to those who have implemented to the code so far, > but I feel that the idea of 'everybody re-implement NTLM' is prone to > failure. > > Firstly, to bugs I've noticed by casual inspection of your > implementation: > > - Unicode support is by 'null padding' - there is no real support for > non-ascii characters. Does it really matter ? Do you know many people who use non-ascii characters in their email addresses and passwords ? :) > - NTLM2 (a negotiated scheme to avoid sending the LM response) is > unsupported Did you RTFS ? Or may be I missed something ? > - NTLMSSP is NDR, not 'C struct pushed to the wire', it needs to be > correctly marshaled and unmarshaled. Yes, it's not a C struct, so what ? Where is the actual bug ? > There are other missing features, some of which are rumoured to become > mandatory flags in future, but more importantly, because the > implementation is standalone, it has no ability to integrate into an > NT/Win2k/Samba domain. It can be directly integrated with password backends using NTLM password scheme. > As part of the Samba team, I have worked with other projects - Squid in > particular, to deliver server-side (and client-side) NTLMSSP > authentication, without the need to re-implement the NTLMSSP protocol. > > This is done by a callout to 'ntlm_auth', a Samba 3.0 utility designed > for this purpose, which in turn can contact domain controllers, allowing > for seamless single sign on. > > http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/ntlm_auth.1.html So you'll need Samba to run POP3/IMAP server. Doesn't look convinent to me. Many people have no windows domain infrastructure, but want to provide secure authentication for poor MS Outlook users. > I have recently completed reworking mod_ntlm_winbind for a similar > purpose, and have patches for cyrus-sasl in my 'lorikeet' subversion > repository. These should serve as good examples for the simple > fork()/exec() modal that is used, and also show the support for > GSS-SPNEGO (aka HTTP Negotiate) that ntlm_auth also provides. > > http://download.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/lorikeet/trunk/ > > My hope is that I can tempt a Dovecot developer to take on the challenge > of modifying the dovecot to use ntlm_auth, and am most willing to answer > any questions (here, by private mail or on the samba-technical list) > that you may have on the issue.

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Re: [Dovecot] Concerned about Dovecot's new NTLM code (Modified by Timo Sirainen)
by Timo Sirainen 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

(resend) On 29.9.2004, at 20:37, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Have you considered also separating the Mailbox access routines? They are more or less separated already, but I don't know how useful it would be to create a separate library distribution from them. That is what takes most of the space in Dovecot distribution anyway.. Oh, and after v1.0 I'll probably start fixing the mailbox APIs too. lib-index and lib-storage needs to have different kind of relationship. > It would be marvelous if at some point being able to replace c-client > library to your optimized one for PHP, mailsync, postman, aolserver and > others - even if it means loosing support for odd mailbox formats. I'm not sure what kind of API PHP provides for c-client. I know it's commonly used for building IMAP webmails, but Dovecot doesn't have any IMAP client code and maybe never will.

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[Dovecot] pgsql and default_pass_scheme
by eL gino 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

Hello list, I am running Dovecot 1.0-test46 on FreeBSD with PostgreSQL as backend, runs _very_ nice, but i can not set "default_pass_scheme = CRYPT" (only PLAIN) for PostgreSQL Auth in dovecot-pgsql.conf. I have a valid entry in pg_hba.conf (and reloaded/restarted): "local mail mail crypt" If i replace crypt in pg_hba.conf with md5 it works also with plain in dovecot-pgsql.conf? -- Christian. PS: sorry for my poore english.

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