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[Dovecot] Thinking about switching from courier-imap to Dovecot: 2 simple questions
by kadafax 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hi, I'm using RHEL4 and since the dovecot RPM is present in the main repository, I'm thinking about switching from courier-imap (with whom I've got trouble to update) to Dovecot. Here are two questions about Dovecot (google didn't answer me): 1. Is it possible for dovecot to use the bind mecanism against ldap for authentification purpose. My main concern is to avoid the clear-text password in the dovecot-ldap.conf file. With courier-imap, the process simply bind to the ldap tree with the users's supplied login/password. No need for a special authentification purpose user. 2. Does imap's dovecot implementation support folders imbrication (more than one level folders) ? Thanks, kfx.

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RE: [Dovecot] Vacation Message HOWTO
by Joshua Goodall 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

John Peacock wrote: > It's probably possible to use with any LDA which support delivery > scripts (e.g. .forward files). The CVS version of dovecot-lda has Sieve script support, and it works well. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/LDA - Joshua.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot & pam_mkhomedir
by Stroller 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi there, Does anyone have Dovecot working correctly with pam_mkhomedir, please? I seem to be going through quite a number of IMAP servers this week, trying to find one that will not only authenticate against a Windows domain but which will also create home directories for users the first time they log in. I'm using winbind to do the authentication & that seems to be doing the trick in the first instance - if I log in using Squirrelmail I see entries written to the system log saying: Dec 16 11:58:35 baby pam_winbind[9319]: user 'ned' granted access I have set Dovecot to log to /var/log/mail and in that I see only three entries saying: imap-login: Dec 16 11:58:36 Info: Login: ned [127.0.0.1] But Squirrelmail gives: ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "INBOX" Reason Given: /etc/pam.d/imap says: #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so account required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so session required /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0022 If I use the same configuration for SSH then the user's home directory is created upon authenticaton, but not with Dovecot. I chose to try Dovecot because I understood it handled PAM session wossisnames, which Courier-IMAP doesn't. My dovecot.conf is attached - I'm wondering if the problem could be with the "auth_userdb" setting, but `getent passwd` does show an entry for the user: # grep ned /etc/passwd # getent passwd | grep ned ned:x:10012:10000:Ned Nedbody:/home/DOMAIN/ned:/bin/false # Many thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions - I'd really like to understand what's going on here. I believe I can authenticate against the domain using LDAP / Active Directory, but since I don't know if that'll help I'd rather not go that route yet. If I first try to log in using ssh with pam_mkhomedir enabled then the users' home directory is created successfully & I can subsequently log on in Squirrelmail. But it's important to me that I shouldn't have to create users' home dirs for them - I should be able to add them on the Windows domain controller & just tell them to log in to their email - the home dir on the mailserver should be created automagically when they authenticate against the domain. Stroller.

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[Dovecot] Authentication trouble.
by Michael Peters 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

I am not having much luck with resolving my authentication issue. The environment is "SunOS 5.10 Generic_118822-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine". dovecot-1.0.alpha5 ./configure --with-passwd --with-shadow --with-pam --with-checkpassword --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir # telnet 172.16.0.40 143 Trying 172.16.0.40... Connected to 172.16.0.40. Escape character is '^]'. * OK mailhub is for business purposes only. Usage is monitored. A01 login username mypassword * BAD [ALERT] Plaintext authentication is disabled, but your client sent password in plaintext anyway. If anyone was listening, the password was exposed. A01 NO Plaintext authentication disabled. A04 Logout * BYE Logging out A04 OK Logout completed. Connection to 172.16.0.40 closed by foreign host. *I have tried adding digest-md5 cram-md5 and shadow but Dovecot will not start.* auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain *Dovecot will not start when I tried these options. Maybe I am entering this wrong?* passdb shadow { /etc/shadow } passdb passwd { /etc/passwd } Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Best regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] dovecot -CVS and epoll and cvs not building
by Reuben Farrelly 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi, After reviewing my dovecot ./configure options I thought I'd give --with-ioloop=epoll a go again (as opposed to just using =poll) but I'm seeing some errors appearing in the maillog that aren't there with standard poll: Dec 23 02:34:47 tornado dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<reuben>, auth-method=plain, remote=220.237.24.149, TLS Dec 23 02:34:48 tornado dovecot: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(3, 9): No such file or directory Dec 23 02:34:48 tornado dovecot: child 16524 (login) returned error 89 They're appearing fairly frequently, ie within a few mins of starting up and then the message won't go away until the client is restarted. So it's easy to reproduce but I'm not sure how to go about debugging it. Can anyone help with this? It's a very recent Linux-2.6 system so epoll support should not be an issue. Additionally -CVS won't compile for me right now, it bails out when compiling the 'quota' plugin. Workaround is to manually edit the dovecot/src/plugins/Makefile and not build this plugin.. Timo - is there a file/commit missing from -CVS at the moment for this plugin? I see no other reference anywhere for dqb_curblocks in the code. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o quota-fs.c: In function 'fs_quota_get_resource': quota-fs.c:208: error: 'struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks' make[1]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 reuben

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[Dovecot] Migrating from mbox to maildir, which converter is compatible with dovecot
by Oliver Schulze L. 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi, I'm testing/debuging the migration from mbox to maildir in a mailserver running Dovecot 1.0alpha5. I migrated all 472715 emails(in a test server) and later noted that dovecot could not get the same flags/status of the emails as in the mbox. I was using perfect_maildir.pl and I think its not dovecot fault. Seems to me that perfect_maildir.pl convert the emails in a way that dovecot could not understand completelly. So, my cuestion is, which mbox to maildir converter can I use that is compatible with dovecot 1.0alpha5 ? Thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] mailbox from ldap and indexes
by Stian Jordet 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, because of quota, I would like to have indexes on another filesystem then user's maildir. This I can do with "default_mail_env= maildir:/% h/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u" or something. But when I get the users mailbox location from ldap, there is no way to set the index? I guess I can make the ldap entry contain the INDEX as well, but I would like to use the ldap entry in the exim conf as well, to tell exim where to write the mails... Is there a way I haven't thought of yet? I have this in dovecot-ldap.conf now: user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,mailbox,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber If I could do something like: user_attrs = uid,..,"maildir:" . mailbox . ":INDEX=var/indexes/%u",... that would have been awesome. Best regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] Another "Too many files open" post
by Andy Cravens 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

I'm running Solaris 9 Sparc with Dovecot alpha 5 and using maildir format.. I noticed in the log file the following error: dovecot: Dec 20 15:54:18 Error: imap(xxxxxxxx): open(/export/home/xxxxxxxx/mail/.Sent Messages/cur/1135013649.002916.mbox:2,Sab) failed: Too many open files I called the guy and asked him what he was doing... synching his folders. It hung for a while but finally finished. I searched the archives and found some related info from Jeff Ballard: >Actually on Solaris 9 you want to put something like this in >/etc/system: > >set rlim_fd_cur = 32768 >set rlim_fd_max = 65536 > >That sets the current fd's to 32k and max to 64k. Unfortunately, to >take effect you'll need to reboot. After the reboot, ulimit -a should >show that nofiles(descriptors) is 32768. > >-Jeff And I found this from Jeff Earickson: >I ran into this problem with alpha4 on Solaris 9. I doubled the >following dovecot settings: > >login_max_processes_count = 256 (was 128) >login_max_logging_users = 512 (was 256) > >and the problem went away. I carried these numbers forward intoalpha5, >and it has been working fine. I changed my /etc/system file but have not rebooted yet. Also, on Jeff Earickson's post, I looked at my dovecot.conf settings and they're basically default which means everything in the "Login processes" section is commented out. I have 10 users on this system and will hold off migrating any more until I can resolve this problem. By the way, my "ulimit -a" shows "open files" at 256 which seems low. # ulimit -a core file size (blocks) 0 data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks) unlimited open files 256 pipe size (512 bytes) 10 stack size (kbytes) 8192 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 29995 virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited Any advice would be appreciated. I can't reboot for a few more days.

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[Dovecot] 1.0 alpha5: Plugin woes: quota/trash
by Jan-Piet Mens 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello, I'm running Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 and I'm trying to get the quota plugins to work. I've enabled modules in dovecot.conf, but when the IMAP connection is opened, the log shows undefined symbols. : Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap : dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libtrash_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libtrash_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota : dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libimap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libimap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota : dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libquota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libquota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: dict_transaction_commit The source shows that the modules are read by reading the module directory and loading each of the found .so files. Supposing that the ordering of the files in the directory is wrong, I've even recreated the module directory manually, copying the libs into it in different orders; no change. It seems to me as though there are cross-dependencies in the shared libs that cannot be resolved. Has anybody found it to work or could anyone give me a hint on how to get it working? Thanks & regards, -JP

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Re: [Dovecot] Quota usage
by Robin Breathe 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

> Stewart Dean wrote: > (from someone other than the original appender) > I'm looking to report the O/S (Berkeley BSD-originated, though on AIX) > derived quota > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 20:23 -0200, Clovis Tristão wrote: >>> How I enable the quota using in Dovecot. >>> Necessary to have access the quota of the users through the >>> SquirrelMail checkquota plugin. Thanks a lot, >> >> Currently not possible, but I just added the quota plugin to CVS, >> so it >> comes to alpha5 release. But that doesn't mean it necessarily works >> exactly how you want it, since there is no standard way to do quota.. >> Did you want it to show user's filesystem quota or something else? I wrote a filesystem quota plugin for use with dovecot-0.99.x some time ago. It's been tested with both Solaris and FreeBSD, and is currently used on a production Solaris server with 20k users for exactly the purpose you describe - SquirrelMail quota display. If anyone's interested in looking at the code with an eye to extending OS support or accelerating conversion to the 1.0-alpha codebase, let me know and I'll get around to making it available somewhere. On the other hand, Timo made some noises about committing something similar to CVS, so it may be worth waiting. Robin

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Re: [Dovecot] Quota usage
by Robin Breathe 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

> Stewart Dean wrote: > (from someone other than the original appender) > I'm looking to report the O/S (Berkeley BSD-originated, though on AIX) > derived quota > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 20:23 -0200, Clovis Tristão wrote: >>> How I enable the quota using in Dovecot. >>> Necessary to have access the quota of the users through the >>> SquirrelMail checkquota plugin. Thanks a lot, >> >> Currently not possible, but I just added the quota plugin to CVS, >> so it >> comes to alpha5 release. But that doesn't mean it necessarily works >> exactly how you want it, since there is no standard way to do quota.. >> Did you want it to show user's filesystem quota or something else? I wrote a filesystem quota plugin for use with dovecot-0.99.x some time ago. It's been tested with both Solaris and FreeBSD, and is currently used on a production Solaris server with 20k users for exactly the purpose you describe - SquirrelMail quota display. If anyone's interested in looking at the code with an eye to extending OS support or accelerating conversion to the 1.0-alpha codebase, let me know and I'll get around to making it available somewhere. On the other hand, Timo made some noises about committing something similar to CVS, so it may be worth waiting. Robin

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[Dovecot] LDAP schema for mailLocation?
by Jason Pepas 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, I would like to try implementing user specific default_mail_env's as described here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MailLocation using the LDAP attribute 'mailLocation'. However, I have been unable to find any LDAP schema which contains mailLocation. What schema is this attribute part of? Thanks, Jason Pepas

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[Dovecot] Feature Request - Different SQL queries to retrieve pop and imap auth tokens
by Max CtRiX 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi! I world like to have different queries to let a user use pop only or imap only (webmail) accounts. It would really be very useful. I have not found any workaround get it working with dovecot. Could it be possible ? It should not be too difficult, I suppose. Max

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[Dovecot] messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Help!
by Rob Frohne 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, I'm having trouble as of about noon today. I noticed I wasn't getting any new messages in Thunderbird. I restarted it and still nothing. I looked at the log, and found nothing from dovecot for a long time (since perhaps noon today). I restarted dovecot, but still it didn't get me new mail. I finally removed dovecot.* in my Maildir folder and restarted dovecot. I'm using 1.0alpha4. Now I'm still not able to get the new mail, and I get the following messages: Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<frohro>, method=plain, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Effective uid=501, gid=20 Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: data=/Users/frohro/Maildir Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: root=/Users/frohro/Maildir, index=/Users/frohro/Maildir, control=, inbox= Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Nov 20 20:50:08 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<frohro>, method=plain, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Effective uid=501, gid=20 Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: data=/Users/frohro/Maildir Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: root=/Users/frohro/Maildir, index=/Users/frohro/Maildir, control=, inbox= Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:26 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) I guess I won't be able to read any answers to this in my mailbox, but I should be able to read the archive on the web. Please help! Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro

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[Dovecot] Auto-expunge
by John Newman 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, For some time we've been intermittently experiencing a problem whereby dovecot often automatically expunges "deleted" messages. This has happened across several mailboxes. The problem is proving difficult to isolate as it's seemingly non-deterministic in nature. One commonality, however, is that the "auto-expunge" seems to occur with greater frequency on mailboxes with a larger of deleted messages. First off, does this sound any alarm bells for anybody else? Perhaps others have encountered this in the past? I've trolled the mailing list (and web) but cannot find any references to this occurring elsewhere. Additional Information: We have experienced this "bug" in 1.0-alpha3 and alpha4. Underlying dovecot we have a maildir, populated via Perl's Mail::Box::Maildir module. Many thanks for any assistance that can be offered. John.

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[Dovecot] dovecot as3
by Ammad Shah 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

i am using redhat as3, sendmail, xinetd ipop3 and imap, i installed dovecot and configured, when i stop xinetd and start dovecot , after successful startup , and using web to access it getting authenticaion errors, user/password unknown __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] alpha5: assert and core
by Jeff A. Earickson 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

My setup: Solaris 9, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.2. Mailboxes on remote NFS file mount from another S9 box (mbox format), index files local disk. IMAP usage only. Dovecot build like so: VERSION=1.0.alpha5 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include \ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.$VERSION --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl > configure.out The assertion: Dec 16 14:59:54 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(user): file message-body-search.c: line 414 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset == part->physical_pos + part->header_size.physical_size) Dec 16 14:59:58 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(user): file message-body-search.c: line 414 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset == part->physical_pos + part->header_size.physical_size) (twice in four seconds). The gdb traceback and core dump analysis is attached. This is the only core from alpha5 in about a week's worth of production usage. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] pam_authenticate() failed:
by Michael Peters 18 Dec '05

18 Dec '05

Obviously I have an account. This is Solaris 10. I have been tinkering with the /etc/pam.conf without success. Does anyone have a solution? I have this currently in the pam.conf. dovecot auth required pam_passwd_auth.so.1 try_first_pass dovecot account required pam_unix_account.so.1 I have tried: dovecot auth required pam_unix_account.so.1 nullok dovecot account required pam_unix_account.so.1 And this: dovecot auth required pam_unix_auth.so.1 nullok dovecot account required pam_unix_account.so.1 When trying an IMAP attempt at the command line, this is the log extract. dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:13 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:33 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=172.16.0.41 rip=172.16.0.41 resp=AG1kcGV0ZXJzAEhhY2tlcmphYzY3QA== dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:33 Info: auth(default): pam(myname(a)mydomain.com,172.16.0.41): pam_authenticate() failed: No account present for user dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:35 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=myname(a)mydomain.com dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:39 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<myname(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=172.16.0.41, lip=172.16.0.41 -- Best regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 32, Issue 42
by Daniel 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

If its too hard for them to setup the pop3 catch all, we can probably put some mapping in place to smtp froward mail to their server. This is more complex on our part so would prefer not to do it that way, but its an option and will require not setup on their part other than make sure their server does not accept mail for anyone other than our server. dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Send dovecot mailing list submissions to > dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dovecot-owner(a)dovecot.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of dovecot digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? (Marc Perkel) > 2. Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks > (Bob Gustafson) > 3. Re: Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named > 'dqb_curblocks (Bob Gustafson) > 4. Re: Dovecot & pam_mkhomedir (Stroller) > 5. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? (Andy Cravens) > 6. Re: LDAP schema for mailLocation? (Aiko Barz) > 7. Authentication trouble. (Michael Peters) > 8. Re: LDAP schema for mailLocation? (Karl Latiss) > 9. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? > (Erik Petersen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:26:11 -0800 > From: Marc Perkel <marc(a)perkel.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? > To: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick(a)colby.edu> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <43A2F8B3.8080405(a)perkel.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I'm sure some of my customers would also freak if they knew I was using > "Alpha" code. Besides, who expects a 1.0 version to be perfect? > > Jeff A. Earickson wrote: > >> For political reasons, I would like to see alphaX promoted to "1.0". >> My boss had a cow the other day when I told her we are running alpha >> code in production. My defense was "you hadn't noticed because it >> works." Or at least call alpha6 something like "beta1" instead. >> >> Jeff Earickson >> Colby College >> >> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >>> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:42:09 -0800 >>> From: Marc Perkel <marc(a)perkel.com> >>> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org >>> Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? >>> >>> I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and come out with >>> an official version 1.0. >>> >>> Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people should be >>> using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the >>> previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and stable as >>> all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0. >>> >>> The "Alpha" label scares people off and with the 0.9x version being >>> obsolete I think it creates confusion for new users. It created >>> confusion for me when I converted to dovecot, and distros are less >>> ,ikely to include versions with the Alpha label. >>> >>> Once you go to 1.0 you can start a 1.1 alpha series and finish it up. >>> I know Timo has high standards but as a marketing issue I think that >>> the Alpha label needs to go to get people to accept and use 1.0 in >>> production. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> -- >>> Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com >>> >>> Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com >>> My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com >>> >

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[Dovecot] Two-phase delete/expunge ?
by Jan-Piet Mens 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Is it possible to have messages which have been marked for deletion or which are to be expunged, moved into a "secret" directory on the IMAP server? The IMAP client would consider the message as deleted, but an administrator could easily restore single messages (without having to retrieve tapes) by moving the message back into inbox. I understand there are patches floating around somewhere enabling that for Cyrus, but I'd love to see Dovecot do that as well. Is anyone aware of such functionality? Thanks, -JP

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[Dovecot] strange connection NG
by Yi Xuan 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Dear all, I have a devocot server based on fedora core 3 in Japan. When my users are in Japan, there is no any problem reported.Devocot works very well. But when my users are in China, sometimes the following problem occured. Sometimes the user can not download mails, after that all connections attempt to server(e.g http/ssh) failed. the user has to close OutLook, and wait for about 10 minutes, then access the webmail to read mail. Maybe the POP NG is due to the network , but what is the possible reason of 10-minute other connection NG? Is there any solution? Because users in China share the same outside IP, when one user occures POP NG, all users occures server access NG, that is a big puzzle. Thanks in advance. Best regards,

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[Dovecot] Patch: ioloop using kqueue/kevent for FreeBSD
by Vaclav Haisman 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hi, I would like to submit the attached patch. It implements IO loop using FreeBSD's kqueue/kevent syscalls. It is based on snapshot of CVS HEAD as of 2005-12-12. I could only give it limited testing on FreeBSD 5.4 but it works fine so far. Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha5 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

We have now some new big features: - Beginnings of dbox mailbox format. It should work, but if you happen to delete/break index files, the mails aren't found again. So really not a good idea to use it for more than testing. - GSSAPI (Kerberos 5) support by Jelmer Vernooij with some fixes by pod(a)herald.ox.ac.uk - Added dictionary API to Dovecot, similar to what Postfix has. It can be used for getting/setting key=value pairs, which can be useful for many different purposes. For example it could be used to store mailbox metadata for ANNOTATEMORE extension. Implemented SQL backend for it. In future there should be berkeley DB backend at least. Also there could be some kind of proxy backend which would use UNIX socket to connect to dictionary server doing the actual work. This way each imap/lda process wouldn't have to connect to SQL server themself. - Quota plugin is now included. We also have now dictionary based quota support, which means the quota limits and values can be stored in SQL. However I haven't actually tested these changes yet, so there's a good chance the quota plugin doesn't actually work at all. - Created a new trash plugin which works only together with quota plugin. The point of it is to expunge mails from a list of configurable mailboxes whenever saving new mails would cause the account to go over quota. The oldest mails are expunged first, and only as many mails are expunged as is needed to save the new mail. For configuration it first looks up for ~/.dovecot.trash.conf, and then fallbacks to /etc/dovecot-trash.conf. The file format is "<priority> <mailbox name>". It's possible to have multiple mailboxes with same priority. Lower number = higher priority. This plugin is also currently untested. The plugins are currently installed as shared libraries to plugin directory. At some point I'll add a configure option to select which plugins to compile directly into binaries. Possibly even do it by default for some plugins (quota). And smaller new features: - If LDAP lookup fails because connection gets closed, try retrying it again after reconnect. This is however untested, hopefully didn't break LDAP code completely.. - %w variable in dovecot-auth contains password. Can be used to do eg.: password_query = select null as password from users where userid = '%u' and password = password('%w') - syslog_facility setting And fixes: - auth_cache was quite broken - adding keywords caused sometimes assert-crash - If login_greeting_capability = yes we could have sent the capability before dovecot-auth returned what auth mechanisms were available, forcing clients to use plaintext authentication - Lots of mbox fixes again.. - userdb prefetch wasn't supposed to be uncommented in dovecot-example.conf in alpha4. Comment it out if you don't need it. - Don't crash with "out of memory" in 64bit systems - IDLE command might have crashed when finishing itself if there were lots of external changes - pop3_reuse_xuidl setting wasn't actually working

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[Dovecot] Logging IMAP deletions
by Jan-Piet Mens 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I'm using dovecot-1.0.alpha5 and I'd like to be able to log the fact that a message has been deleted (or marked for deletion) in order to prove to end-users that they actually deleted a message. Is that possible? -JP

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[Dovecot] messages_count too large (1121 > 1115)
by Moritz Willers 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I've seen this was mentioned before but remains unsolved. I upgraded Dovecot from 0.99 to v1.0.alpha4 yesterday and it rendered my inbox inaccessible: Dec 15 00:09:07 sand dovecot: imap(willers): Corrupted index file /home/willers/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (1121 > 1115) I've since moved that inbox away so I can view my new mail again. The error has moved with the mbox file: Dec 15 00:27:41 sand dovecot: imap(willers): Corrupted index file /home/willers/mail/old-inbox/.imap/200407-200512/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (1121 > 1115) Dec 15 00:27:41 sand dovecot: child 83886 (imap) killed with signal 11 This is on FreeBSD 4.8 (yes, yes ... but: "up 687 days" which is quite nice) all running on local disk. So earlier suspicions about NFS or MacOS X are out of the window. One day I'll move move from mbox to dir format and the problem will go away, in the meanwhile, I thought it would be good to resolve this issue. Let me know how I can help to get to the bottom of this. - mo

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